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.

Keeling & Dyer, The Old Literary Institute, High Street, Epsom (Site Of)
Occupier in 1911	Keeling & Dyer Cabinet makers, upholsterers and house furnishers
Details of 1911 Proprietor	Mr Keeling lived over or next door to the shop and Mr Dyer lived in Miles Road. William James Keeling Cabinet maker Born c.1874 Brixton; married 1898 Rose Jarman (c.1875-1955). Children (both born Epsom) – Alfred James (1899-1977), married Ethel Isabel Lock-Smith or Lock (1893-1987 – see Frederick Lock at 39-41 High Street), Harold Robert (1901-71), married Mary J Doyle? Both sons were furniture dealers. Died 19 February 1960, then living East Street. See here (Number 3 – cabinet maker) Ernest Edward Dyer Upholsterer and cabinet maker Born 1878 Shaftesbury, Dorset; married 1903 Florence Susan Davey (c.1876-1946). Died 27 November 1947, then living in Maidenshaw Road. Formerly site of the Literary Institute. The Keelings were an old-established Epsom family. A receipt from April 1934 Courtesy of  Linda Jackson.

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