Lost Buildings
Part I – Public Buildings
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.
Epsom’s original Police Station in Ashley Road began life as a private house.
It was here that the great 1919 riot took place, with Canadian soldiers breaking into the cells.
Links to our Policing and Sergeant Green pages
The almshouses in East Street were supported by charities dating back to the Spa period. They were rebuilt – as above – in 1871.
(See the article on Livingstone’s Almshouses for their original incarnation.)
Soon after the 1834 New Poor Law established Epsom as the centre of a Union, the old workhouse off
Dorking Road was rebuilt. Later it formed the core of Epsom Hospital.
Links to our Workhouse pages
Ewell National School opened in 1811 in this cottage in Old Schools Lane, moving to West Street fifty years later.
After reorganisation in 1971, West Street School was moved to Longmead as Bishopsmead School.
The 70s buildings were too flimsy to maintain and it closed in 1994.
The Baths House was built by the Borough in 1939,
part of a social campaign by the Council’s Labour members.
Epsom Library moved into this temporary accommodation in Waterloo Road in 1947.
It was to stay there for fifty years, until the redevelopment of the Ebbisham Centre which also replaced the building on the left of this picture. The 17th Century 16 Waterloo Road – between them – survived .