From May 2010 until mid 2016, volunteers from Elstree Screen Heritage worked with staff and students from the University of Hertfordshire to create a remarkable archive of interviews with veterans of film and television at the studios of Elstree...
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What Is It? Following the disruption faced by Thameslink passengers after new timetables were introduced in May last year, the Secretary of State for Transport has announced that GTR (Govia Thameslink Railways) will contribute £15 million towards...
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150 years ago last year, the Midland Railway Company decided to build a station at Elstree & Borehamwood when it opened its new line from Bedford to St. Pancras in July 1868. Without a passenger rail service, the small rural village would not...
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If ever there was a ‘Rolls Royce’ of British film studios, it was MGM British, which stood on 114 acres off Elstree Way from 1936 until 1970. For over three decades it produced world-famous films, attracting many of Hollywood’s most legendary...
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Until MGM British Studios closed in 1968, much of its 114 acre site was a backlot, where films could be shot without having to go on location. Over more than 25 years, this space was home to a castle (for ‘Ivanhoe’ and many other films), a...
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Home to “Star Wars”, “Indiana Jones” and so much more iconic film and TV, Elstree & Borehamwood has been a prime production site for over a century. But the studios would likely never have settled here but for an event in July 1868, when a...
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“You have to be in it to win it!”, and this year Thameslink’s Elstree & Borehamwood station was shortlisted for the “It’s Your Station” category of the Association of Community Rail (ACORP) Awards. ACoRP is a national body which...
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On Sunday 29th May an intrepid group of adventurers set off on a tour of the local Film &TV Heritage Trail. Perhaps the weather wasn’t the kindest but as soon as the group assembled at Elstree & Borehamwood train station Paul Welsh soon...
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