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.

Railway Inn, High Street, Epsom (Site Of)
Occupier in 1911	Archibald Leopold de Fraine Peake Manager
Details of 1911 Proprietor	Born c.1886 London; married 1909 Minnie Gertrude Marley (1881-1959), hotel manageress. Child – Winifred Gertrude (1910 Epsom-1997), married Edward George Cawston. Became a taxi driver. Died 2 May 1960, then living Greenford, Middlesex. The Railway Inn is the tall building in the distance. The Railway Inn is on the right. The High Street in the process of being widened with the Railway Inn still in place. Images courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum.

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