EPSOM BUSINESSES 1911

This is one of the properties on the North Side of the East End of the High Street. These were all demolished by the start of World War 11 to enable the road to be widened – for more details see Epsom Heritage Page 5. The new properties were built in a completely different position so unlike the rest of this project it has been decided that it is pointless attempting to give a ‘Current Occupier’ as this would not be applicable.

A further complication is that the buildings were not numbered at the time and have therefore been presented under the owner’s name and as far as possible in sequential order from west to east in line with the 1911 Census and photographic evidence.

Southdown House, High Street, Epsom (Site Of)
Occupier in 1911	William Francis Skilton Butcher
Details of 1911 Proprietor	Although this seems to have been Mr Skilton’s business, he probably was not running it personally in 1911, since he had moved to Bromley, Kent and seems to have remained there. The occupant of this building in the 1911 census was Miss Ethel May Harding, butcher’s book-keeper. Skilton’s can be glimpsed beside the parked car. Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum.

Go to the 1913 Map of Epsom High Street (East)