EBW Museum

Our museum tells the story of Elstree and Borehamwood, through exhibitions, events and learning programmes. Supported by Hertsmere Borough Council

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It's Christmas! Well, nearly. It's coming up fast, so make sure you have your local Christmas Cards ready to send out. Get them from us - the Museum has over 35 designs featuring local snow scenes and paintings. Still only £1 for the large and 50p. for the small.

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Cheers to Ten Years🎉
We celebrated turning 10 & got a quick pic of some volunteers who keep our museum running!
Do you recognise any, they may have greeted you when you visited us before?
Our exhibition celebrates turning 10 so make sure you come & visit us to see our best bits!

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Half-term may be over, but
here's a photo for #MemoriesMonday of the start of a brand new term at a brand
new school. The opening ceremony at Borehamwood
Grammar School on 31st
October 1956, nearly 70 years ago. Is that you in your new blazer or tunic?

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and a working model of the station as it was in 1900 among many other delights.  Our photos show the team hard at work with the new railway layout, and you might spot the Village Hall in the background.  Opening this Saturday at 10 am. See you there!

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Our new Exhibition is called Your Museum At 10 and is a
sort of 'greatest hits'. It features many of the best items from our previous 15 exhibitions and lots of your favourite memories of Elstree and Borehamwood.  So we will have Hansons, the Village Hall, the Lynx Club

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A while back we posted 3 clues for 3 different stories in the Murder Mayhem & Mystery Exhibition.

Whilst the museum is closed, we thought it would be a great time to reveal the answers.

1) The First Trail by Newspaper
2) Murder of Tunnel Navy in 1867
3) The Elstree Murder 1882

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Been to our current exhibition all ready? Can you guess which image goes with each story told in our exhibition?
If you haven’t been yet, make sure you go before 26thAugust! We’ll post the answers then so make sure to keep to a look out.

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Been to our current exhibition all ready? Can you guess which image goes with each story told in our exhibition?
If you haven’t been yet, make sure you go before 26thAugust! We’ll post the answers then so make sure to keep to a look out.

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The Museum will be closed this Thursday afternoon at 5.15pm. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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#MemoriesMonday - Shenley Road : here
is a shot of Double Vision next to Hansons in 2000. And on the other side was Khaled
Balti House. Anyone got any reviews for us? 
Before Tripadviser of course, so we'd love any Memories of the curries
and videos.

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Crime doesn't pay and neither will you to see this Exhibition :

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Some of our young visitors dress up in the Police Box to show us how to deal with the Mayhem of the current exhibition Murder, Mayhem and Mystery. Complete with helmets and squeaky truncheons! Come and visit us and wear
a mustache as well if you fancy.

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Here's a photo of Shenley Road
featuring All Saints and the trees surrounding the Village Hall.  Next week we get to the Hall itself, long before 96 was built. #MemoriesMonday

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This is your last chance to visit Off The Rails, our very popular exhibition about the cancelled Edgware to Bushey Heath tube extension.
We are open today, Thursday and Saturday, when we will close. We reopen on Tuesday 31st January with Murder, Mayhem & Mystery
Don't miss out!

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#MemoriesMonday A long running store in Borehamwood since the mid 1950's, and much missed. When it first opened most products were only 6d. A bit like the pound shops now, but with better pick'n'mix. And don't forget their own record label Embassy Records with cover versions.

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On #MemoriesMonday we have a new Christmas Card for you. A super drawing by Alan
Lawrence that shows the old Village Hall with a queue waiting to enter the 'Xmas Bazzar'. On sale now in the Museum for only 50p. What memories do you have of seeing Santa in the Village Hall?

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Today's timely photo for
#MemoriesMonday is another from the Mary Hanson Collection.  Showing Shenley Road with a lovely rainbow and probably taken from Hanson's shop. Note the garage and Green Shield stamps sign in the foreground and the red phone box over the road. Date?

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...man’s head and shoulders in the dark. The image disappeared when she switched the light
on.  Sometime later, her husband Raymond
heard the stairs creaking and the bedroom door open but when he switched the light on, there was nobody there...

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Spooky Stories For Samhain : The Holly Bush on Elstree Hill
The oldest building in the area is bound to have the odd ghost or two, and so there is one well-known story from The Holly Bush on Elstree Hill.  Trixie Cadle, landlady in 1970, awoke one night to see the outline of a..

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Most of the buildings on the left have been replaced now, and judging by the lack of traffic Mary must have been out on a Sunday!
#MemoriesMonday

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Here's a photo taken by Mary Hanson in the 70s. It shows Theobald Street in the rain stretching up through the original 'village'. Past The original Crown on the right, then The Wellington (just visible), towards Robinson's Folly which is out of sight.

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