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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100 Years of Elstree Studios - Part Twelve
Ribbon of Dreams
Elstree Studios has always promoted itself in any way possible. After all it needs the business to keep on coming through the stages, and to keep its name in the forefront for any aspiring producers and directors. Here are a couple of examples of adverts and flyers - one from ...
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100 Years of Elstree Studios - Part Eleven
Ribbon of Dreams
In Part Four of this series we showed the results of the devastating fire of 1936 which changed the direction of the film industry in Borehamwood. But did you know there was another serious studio fire not that long ago? Thanks to the Paul Welsh Archive we find out that ...
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100 Years of Elstree Studios - Part Ten
In 1937 Charles Laughton was filming I, Claudius at Denham for Alexander Korda when the filming was cancelled, and he was free to explore a new venture with producer Eric Pommer. Laughton and Korda had had a huge worldwide hit in 1933 with The Private Life Of Henry VIII which was filmed in the B & D studios at Elstree, and Laughton won the Oscar for his performance. But now, ...
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Elstree & Borehamwood Museum
96 Shenley Road
Borehamwood
Herts
WD6 1EB
Tel: 01442 454888
Admission: Free
Opening times:
Opening times:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
12pm - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm
Registered Charity No.1157770
