In 1955 a little group of students - under the leadership of teacher László Neogrády - began to collect relics of local history in Újpest. The devoted company at first collected materials from their friends and relatives. At this time the collection was only large enough to be used for presentations and school activities. The real work started in 1957. From this date on the task of László Nógrády was "merely" to keep and file the items and documents collected. As the collection work grew out of the frames of a school activity.