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Acton Building c1905

As the pupils return to Elstree for face-to-face teaching today, here is a story of a previous shutdown because of a measles epidemic. More...

Miss Layton (left) at her retirement party with Miss Harold

Miss Layton taught at Haberdashers' Aske's School in Acton for 38 years. She was also the school orchestra's first violinist from its inception. More...

An interesting and amusing piece in the 1974 School Magazine

It is a little known fact that between 1901 and 1944 the school was permitted to educate boys up to the age of 8 years old. More...

The School WWI Memorial

Approximately 50 former boy pupils from the school in Acton were eligible to fight in WWI. Three of those pupils lost their lives. More...

The new art room in 1954

The history of the art room at Acton 1901-1974 More...

Aerial Photograph of the school in 1984

What changed at Elstree between 1984 and 2016? More...

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