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.

Parr, High Street, Epsom (Site Of)
Occupier in 1911	Philip Parr Hairdresser and tobacconist
Details of 1911 Proprietor	Lived in Miles Road. Born c.1883 Croydon; married 1 August 1910 St Martin’s Elizabeth Alice Bullen(1884-1929) and then in 1931 Winifred May Moxham (1898-1983). Children (all born Epsom) – Philip (1911-63, then living Hazon Way), electrician, married Clara Lilian May Mason; Herbert Edwin (1917-67), newsagent and tobacconist, married Olive J Marlow; Elaine A (born 1921), married Robert C Brown. Son of a hairdresser. Died 17 August 1944, then living at 3 East Street. Mr Parr had a tobacconist’s shop on the ground floor and a ladies’ hairdressing salon on top, as shown in the photo. Parr on the left. Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum.

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