Lost Buildings
Part C – Spa Period
In 2009 Bourne Hall Museum put together an exhibition of photos in Bourne Hall foyer, bringing back to life long-gone buildings of character that many argue should never have been demolished. Jeremy Harte, the museum curator, very kindly gave us access to the images which we have put on these pages.
The first house at Hookfield, one of the late 17th-century mansions built for London
merchants, was captured by the camera just in time before being demolished in the 1870s.
Silver Birches stood where Epsom’s Police Station is now, and was demolished by the Council
so that public services could have premises in its garden along Church Street.
NOTE: The police ceased using the ‘Police Station’ building in 2020.
Links to our Policing and Sergeant Green pages
The Shrubbery in South Street, built in the 1680s, was demolished after vandalism;
the site is now a roundabout.
A back view of the Shrubbery. Its half-sunk basement made it one of the few three-storey buildings in old Epsom.
The 17th-century Cromwell Lodge (at No 8 Church Street) being demolished in 1974 in preparation for an unrealised relief road.
The site now forms part of the Hope Lodge car park.
This old house (called, confusingly, the Old House) faced down Worple Road, opposite the Cedars in Church Street.
Woodcote Green Road