Lost Buildings
Part D – Shops
In 2009 Bourne Hall Museum put together an exhibition of photos in Bourne Hall foyer, bringing back to life long-gone buildings of character that many argue should never have been demolished. Jeremy Harte, the museum curator, very kindly gave us access to the images which we have put on these pages.
In 1937 the whole north-east section of Epsom High Street was pulled down for traffic, and a new façade built behind.
Lloyds Bank wanted to redevelop their Epsom branch in 1933.
They had heard that the High Street was to be widened,
but they thought this was just a sham. It wasn’t.
The new bank had to be pulled down four years later.
Andrews, printers and stationers, were based at the central crossroads of Epsom. Lloyds Bank redeveloped the site.
The Indoor Market occupied the old builders’ yard of William Chase Morrish Andrews, later Pages Motors.
The Keelings were an old-established Epsom family.
Reids department store was the height of 1930s elegance.
After the Odeon site had been left empty for ten years, Sainsburys built their store in 1982.
It closed down when their Kiln Lane branch took over most of the business.
Chamberlains Bakery contained early wooden panelling.