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Welcome to Elstree & Borehamwood Museum

Elstree and Borehamwood Museum is an independent local history museum which opened its doors in 2000. It evolved out of a community history project with a small collection of objects and photographs. Run entirely by volunteers, the museum has acquired a large collection of items leading to the production of themed displays, talks, workshops for schools and local community groups and answering a busy enquiry service.

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Latest News

ToysRUs

Our most recent Going Down The Village reminiscence session proved to be quite a lively activity due to the topic of Toys and Games and we had a variety of vintage toys which sparked many fond memories. Among them were Diabolo, Marbles, Skipping Rope, YoYo, Sooty & Sweep Hand Puppets, and a Kaleidoscope. Cheryl proved to be expert level at Jacks as you can see. We were treated to a vintage game of SCOOP! ...

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Reel Streets On Tour

Those of you who love to know where your favourite film was shot - " That location looks familiar" - must visit the website reelstreets.com.  This site will guide you to where the location was, and, sometimes, how it looks these days. So a couple of times a year friends and contributors to the website visit an area to check out the locations and find more. Their trip this time was to Borehamwood and ...

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The Friends Meet The Stunt Man

To highlight our latest Exhibition Ribbon Of Dreams - Celebrating 100 Years of Elstree Studios, The Friends of the Museum were invited last night to meet and hear the stories of Paul Weston, Stuntman extraordinary.  After a 60 year career as an actor, stuntman, and director, his fund of stories about the stars he knew and the films in which he created many daring stunts was amazing. Starting at Elstree Studios in 1965 ...

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