The Village of Boreham Wood grew rapidly following the construction of the Midland Railway and the subsequent building of factories in the area in the late Victoria and Edwardian eras. The rise in population led to the need for a much larger school, and it was in 1912 that Furzehill School opened to meet local needs. For ninety years the school was responsible for the education of a large proportion of children who were either born locally or who came here as their families settled to seek employment in a prosperous part of the country.

When it was known that the school was to be demolished, the priority was to capture the many memories of ex-pupils and staff and to record the history from available data.  The Museum has produced two large albums filled with the recollections of Former Furzehill scholars, the earliest dating from the 1920s.

There is a photographic exhibition depicting school life from 1912 to the final days of the school.

Some reminiscences are very amusing, such as that of the five-year old boy who had bother with a stray dog in the outside ablutions. Some are poignant; children of the 1930s, absent through illness, found they could never catch up as there was no remedial teaching.

A pupil of the 1940s remembered the original school burning down in 1949, and a boy ran home shouting "No more school!".  Others recall going to other schools while the rebuilding took place. Some classes were housed in "Stately Homes" or in Shenley Hospital, or were squeezed into church halls for teaching, but being marched back to the Furzehill canteen for lunch, which had escaped the fire.

We continue to compile the school's history and require further contributions, particularly from people who attended the school from the 1980s until its closure in 2001.