EPSOM BUSINESSES 1911
| 141 High Street, Epsom (Grade II Listed) |
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| Current Occupier (2013) | Hair For Man And Boy Hairdressers |
| Occupier in 1911 | Thomas Hersey Cycle and motor engineer |
| Details of 1911 Proprietor | Mr Hersey will reappear shortly at Numbers 155-163 High Street in his more normal guise of garage proprietor, but Number 141 was his home in 1911 and curiously he was running a hairdressing business there (probably not doing the cutting and styling personally, as there was a young male hairdresser named Rudolph Messon living in his ménage – this man does not seem to exist otherwise and I suspect that this first name was adopted for trade purposes). Born c.1858 Shere, Surrey; married 1879 Ellen (or Helen) Rogers (c.1860-1938).
Children (all born Leatherhead) – Thomas (1881-1958?), married Selina Lily Louisa Pickard; Mary Ann R (1884-1944), married John Hugh Doune; William Henry (1888); Florence Hilda G (1889-1956),married Alfred Rivers; Arthur Clifford (c.1891-1963), married Sybil Calderbank (died 1971), emigrated to Western Australia; Bessie Alice May (1894-1973), married William Gocher. Something appears to have gone wrong in the Hersey marriage as in 1911 Mrs Hersey was living at Griffith Cottages, Epsom with Bessie, stating that she had an ‘allowance from husband’, and Mr Hersey was over the shop describing himself as a widower. Died 15 April 1934, then living in St Martin’s Avenue. Mr Hersey has a number of mentions on this website for being a man of strong opinions, owning Controversy Cottages in South Street, founding Woodcote Motors, selling Studebaker cars and re-establishing Epsom Market. Formerly a blacksmith in South Street.  An example of a newly-invented permanent wave machine (1920), which would revolutionise hairdressing. Image source: Wikimedia Commons. |
Go to the 1913 Map of Epsom High Street (West)