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EPSOM BUSINESSES 1911

22 South Street, Epsom
Current Occupier (2013) The Money Shop
Short-Term Loans
Occupier in 1911 Frank Harry Trower
Corn and coal stores and shop
Details of 1911 Proprietor Mr Trower had three business premises in Epsom, the others being at 99 High Street and Station Road; he lived at Bayham in Alexandra Road.

Born 1857 Shipley, Sussex; married 1892 Mary Elizabeth Woolnough (c.1863-1930, then living Sutton). In 1911 Mrs Trower was a boarder at the Charity Lodge, Guildford, which appeared to be a kind of nursing home; daughter Kathleen was a boarder at Seaford Ladies’ College in Sussex.

Children (all born Epsom) – Margaret Lucy (1893-1971 Swindon), married Robert Francis Bruce Morrison; lived Ceylon where Robert was a tea planter; Ella Mary (1894-1938), married George Edwin Marshall; Kathleen (1896-1987?), married Roy Cuthbert Ruscoe; Ralph Frank (1898-1967), corn merchant, married Madeleine Louise Wilson (divorced) and Winifred May Norman; Barbara Helen (1900-73), unmarried.

Died 20 September 1925, still living at Bayham.

Trower
FH Trower
Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum

Go to the 1913 Map of Epsom South Street