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EPSOM BUSINESSES 1911

29 High Street, Epsom
Current Occupier (2013) Rush
Hairdressers
Occupier in 1911 Holland & Barrett Grocers
Henry Butler Laundryman (Lived upstairs)
Details of 1911 Proprietor Holland & Barrett

This is the same Holland & Barrett that is now an international health food chain. In 1870 Alfred Slapps Barrett (died 1933) and Major William Holland (died 1915) bought a shop in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, from which they sold groceries and clothing; they then opened more branches and spun off the clothing operation. In the 1920s the grocery business was bought by Alfred Button & Sons (which used to own Budgens), but the name of Holland & Barrett was retained. After several mergers/takeovers Holland & Barrett is now owned by a private equity firm.

Henry Butler

Born c.1881 Clifton, Bristol; married 1907 Emma Amelia Hook c.1879-1936?

Children – Ada Eleanor Kate 1911 Epsom, married Terence Abbott Boys; Phyllis M c.1914?

This looks to have been a business, as both Mr and Mrs Butler were described as launderers and they had a live-in assistant.

29 High Street
29 High Street at a later date,
by then named ‘Turner’s Stores’
Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum.

Go to the 1913 Map of Epsom High Street