WHAT WAS NEW?
Our “What’s New” feature was launched in late 2019 when the original website was transferred to the present server.
The current What’s New page of course lists only the more recently added articles, but it may be helpful to see the timing of other additions since late 2019. Lists of “What was new” in the years back to late 2019 may be found below.
As for the What’s New page, these lists are in reverse date order, with the most recent at the top. Clicking the following links will take you direct to the December entries for the relevant year.
2023 / 2022 / 2121 / 2020 / 2019
What was new in 2023
21 December 2023
Skywriting – a first for Epsom
28 November 2023
Peter Reed (1952-2023), EEHE founder and webmaster
21 November 2023
06 November 2023
03 November 2023
WW2 casualties Blanche & Frederick Jones (New)
WW2 casualty Anthony Jones (major update)
WW2 casualty Dennis Panting (major update)
01 November 2023
WW2 casualty Jack Richmond (major update)
30 October 2023
The 1930 Derby (with nearly a sting in the tail!)
28 October 2023
WW2 casualty W A Skelton (major update)
22 October 2023
The Assembly Rooms, Epsom (in four parts)
21 October 2023
WW2 casualty J A Smith (major update)
13 October 2023
30 September 2023
28 September 2023
25 September 2023
24 September 2023
Added new section What day was the Derby run each year? to Epsom Derby Winners
22 September 2023
18 September 2023
13 September 2023
Frank Hampson – creator of Dan Dare (major update)
11 September 2023
Walpole, Brian Owen (Captain Concorde)
06 September 2023
Dillon, Michael Patrick (Mick)
28 August 2023
Horton Cemetery – History (major update)
Horton Cemetery – Burials (major update)
27 August 2023
25 August 2023
Caroline Woodhead and her schools
03 August 2023
Charles Collier Jones & family (major update)
31 July 2023
29 July 2023
25 July 2023
“The Woodcote” (the development of Woodcote Grove)
23 July 2023
22 July 2023
The Durdans – Lord Rosebery’s changes
17 July 2023
13 July 2023
12 July 2023
05 July 2023
21 June 2023
Stoneleigh West or the Stoneleigh Hill Estate
(Plus 2 Westways, and Memories of Stoneleigh)
15 June 2023
WW2 Casualty William John White (major update)
04 June 2023
Added New APPENDIX 2: to Furniss Family Part 2
29 May 2023
24 May 2023
The Story of Horton War Hospital
23 May 2023
19 May 2023
Royal Jubilees (EIIR Platinum update)
18 May 2023
15 May 2023
Coronation Celebrations (Charles III update)
12 May 2023
08 May 2023
25 April 2023
The oldest Scout Group in Epsom and Ewell
24 April 2023
WW2 casualty Reginald Matthews (major revision)
25 March 2023
Diary – Ashtead Pottery Centenary – New Event
18 March 2023
Martins Bank – Epsom’s Drive-In Branch
10 March 2023
08 March 2023
28 February 2023
Epsom Heritage Trails (new introductory page)
13 February 2023
Monastery (major revision)
The Elms, Ewell. Later renamed The Grange
09 February 2023
Lives & Times (February 2023 Issue)
04 February 2023
Ewell Heritage Trail (update and expansion of the 2005 original)
29 January 2023
James Chuter Ede’s two memorial plaques
23 January 2023
WW2 casualty James Kitts (major revision)
22 January 2023
21 January 2023
Martyrs/Marters in Ewell and Epsom
20 January 2023
17 January 2023
16 January 2023
15 January 2023
11 January 2023
08 January 2023
07 January 2023
06 January 2023
Derek Potter’s memories of Langley Vale
St Michael’s Church and Sanctuary, Ewell
03 January 2023
What was new in 2022
27 December 2022
25 December 2022
16 December 2022
08 December 2022
07 December 2022
06 December 2022
Epsom Choral Society – Centenary update
02 December 2022
12 November 2012
Road names on the old Manor Hospital site
11 November 2022
Matt Monro and his Ewell connection
01 November 2022
WW2 casualty Woodhouse, Geoffrey Clayton Rance
31 October 2022
Blanchet, Susannah – A Transported Convict
30 October 2022
Crime In Tudor and Stuart Epsom and Ewell (New Addendum)
29 October 2022
27 October 2022
16 October 2022
Epsom College War Memorials – main page
14 October 2022
Photos of the new memorial to Josef František
12 October 2022
War Memorials – Epsom College – Boer War
10 October 2022
WW2 casualty Alexander, Sidney Walter
09 October 2022
08 October 2022
Robbery with violence by a soldier
04 October 2022
Murray, Ellison Blair McMinn Murray
27 September 2022
Owen Cunningham – London’s “Oyster King”
26 September 2022
Adams, Capt. Edward Sydney Royston
24 September 2022
George Formby and his Epsom connection
19 September 2022
14 September 2022
07 September 2022
06 September 2022
Station Sergeant Thomas Green and the 1919 Epsom riot (major revision)
14 August 2022
Bramshott House and its royal connection
12 August 2022
Scenes on the way to the 1843 Derby
The Borough’s memorial plaques
08 August 2022
Emily Davison memorials (update)
30 July 2022
22 July 2022
Derby, Earl of (Update with 1900s photos of house)
Lives & Times (July 2022 Issue)
21 July 2022
15 July 2022
29 June 2022
Revised Old Maps to include A Clickable Map with links to the relevant maps at NLS
19 June 2022
14 June 2022
06 June 2022
30 May 2022
‘Hendford’ and the Adams Family
24 May 2022
22 May 2022
15 May 2022
10 May 2022
WW2 casualty Douglas George Franck (major revision)
06 May 2022
WW1 casualty William Norman Gardiner (major revision)
and his brother
WW2 casualty Edward Ambrose Norman Gardiner (major revision)
04 May 2022
03 May 2022
Diary – War Graves Week Starts 21st May
30 April 2022
WW2 casualty Gordon Leonard Platfoot (major revision)
WW2 casualties Charles & Stanley Olney (major revision)
27 April 2022
Tragic Deaths of Two Friends by Drowning – Part 1 – Arden Avery Shapland
Tragic Deaths of Two Friends by Drowning – Part 2 – Thomas Brown Westwick
26 April 2022
Ancient Epsom by Reginald White 1928
24 April 2022
14 April 2022
WW2 casualty Edward Frank Petherick (major revision)
10 April 2022
WW2 casualty Reginald Carpenter (major revision)
6 April 2022
4 April 2022
3 April 2022
Epsom Cycling Club: the early years
30 March 2022
28 March 2022
Keeling’s Sewer Gas Exhausters and Destructors
24 March 2022
15 March 2022
Electric Spark And The Derby, The
14 March 2022
Kidnapping (Major update)
13 March 2022
08 March 2022
Extraordinary Attempt At Suicide
07 March 2022
Batch of Derby Day Charges – 1883
“Surprise Packet” Under The Bed
06 March 2022
21 February 2022
12 February 2022
30 January 2022
24 January 2022
Lives & Times (January 2022 Issue)
Woodcocks, George & Laura (major update)
17 January 2022
WW2 casualty Lt Harry Wood (major update)
12 January 2022
The Langlands family (in 6 parts)
06 January 2022
05 January 2022
Ruth Belville – She Sold Time!
What was new in 2021
27 December 2021
21 December 2021
Shelvoke and Drewry Dustcart BPL 73
19 December 2021
Pleasure Trips of Brown et al 1850
15 December 2021
Fatal Armed Robbery – Unigate Depot
07 December 2021
29 November 2021
Epsom Baths – Addendum – Gymnastics at the Baths
18 November 2021
17 November 2021
Gordon Home and his 1901/02 Epsom guides (major update)
Goymer, Hugh (WW1 linked Casualty)
14 November 2021
Kelly’s Street Directory 1940 – Epsom (Large File 53MB)
Kelly’s Street Directory 1940 – Ewell (Large File 70 MB)
12 November 2021
11 November 2021
Tragedy on the Home Front – Correction
Upland House School – Addendum
04 November 2021
Kelly’s Street Directory 1956 (Large File 121B)
03 November 2021
Kelly’s Street Directory 1952 (Large File 105MB)
02 November 2021
Cuddington Street Directory 1922
31 October 2021
25 October 2021
Cuddington Directory 1913-1914
Ewell Street Directory 1913-14
23 October 2021
Dr Lehmann’s The Residential Copyholds of Epsom now online (Caution large file 99MB)
Epsom Street Directory 1913-14
21 October 2021
St Martin’s internal monuments – now illustrated and with a new appendix
19 October 2021
Ewell Poor Rate – Introduction
18 October 2021
17 October 2021
Missionaries at the Derby (Appendix added – A Report from 1869)
16 October 2021
15 October 2021
12 October 2021
Brathwaite, John (major update)
29 September 2021
Teather, Victor William (major update)
27 September 2021
Frank Northey (new postscript)
23 September 2021
Epsom Playhouse and its sculpture
12 September 2021
Lives & Times (September 2021 Issue)
27 August 2021
History Centre reopened 2 Sept 2021
22 August 2021
“Stop me & buy one!” – Wall’s ice cream in Epsom & Ewell
08 August 2021
29 July 2021
24 July 2021
23 July 2021
Child’s Play – Part 1 – Games, toys, puzzles
Child’s Play – Part 2 – Pastimes from the past
18 July 2021
09 July 2021
Diary – Guided Tours of the Military Graves in Epsom Cemetery
30 June 2021
27 June 2021
Sculpture – “Evocation of Speed“
09 June 2021
Emily Davison, Suffragette – local memorials
06 June 2021
25 May 2021
Buzz Bomb Attack on West Ewell
10 May 2021
Sir Charles and Lady Frances Holroyd
09 May 2021
16 Waterloo Road, Epsom & its royal connection
04 May 2021
Lives & Times (May 2021 Issue)
02 May 2021
26 April 2021
Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton Hylton-Foster M.P. (new Appendix)
23 April 2021
22 April 2021
21 April 2021
Trotter: Thirty Miles Round London
15 April 2021
13 April 2021
Violent Robbery on Mr & Mrs Bellamy
9 April 2021
5 April 2021
Heath Family – Part 1
Heath Family – Part 2
2 April 2021
26 March 2021
Sir Ernest John Hutchings Lemon (1884-1954)
23 March 2021
21 March 2021
Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton Hylton-Foster M.P.
17 March 2021
Sir Robert Henry Davis. Inventor
16 March 2021
15 March 2021
09 March 2021
Bennie, George and his Railplane system
07 March 2021
17 February 2021
12 February 2021
10 February 2021
09 February 2021
The Story of The Stone House Epsom
05 February 2021
21 January 2021
23 January 2021
Lives & Times (January 2021 Issue)
21 January 2021
“THE TOUT” – Epsom’s caricaturist
18 January 2021
Thirtles of Cuddington (and Elsewhere)
17 January 2021
14 January 2021
Ewell Grove (Major Update)
09 January 2021
Simpson, Peter James & his 1940 forced landing at Woodcote Park (Major update)
05 January 2021
E & E in the 1911 Victoria County History of Surrey
04 January 2021
St Michael’s, Woodlands Road, Epsom
What was new in 2020
31 December 2020
Four ships called “Ewell” (Update and consolidation of earlier articles)
30 December 2020
Five ships called “Epsom” (Update and consolidation of earlier articles)
29 December 2020
Prefabs in the Borough – Main Page
28 December 2020
23 December 2020
Epsom’s Lecture Hall, 1883-1990 (Major Update)
11 December 2020
28 November 2020
Parks and Open Spaces – Main Page
Rembrandt The – Pearl’s photo album
23 November 2020
20 November 2020
17 November 2020
Gordon Home and his 1901 “Epsom: its history and surroundings”
15 November 2020
Swete, C. J. and his 1860 “Handbook of Epsom“
14 November 2020
13 November 2020
06 November 2020
29 October 2020
26 October 2020
The Organ of Christ Church Epsom Common
24 October 2020
Horse Racing at Epsom —– Main Page
21 October 2020
18 October 2020
07 September 2020
05 September 2020
Lives & Times (September 2020 Issue)
01 September 2020
25 August 2020
Ebbisham Hall & The Epsom Brotherhood
06 August 2020
22 July 2020
13 July 2020
The Times Clock Tower – Epsom Downs
02 July 2020
29 June 2020
1936 Street Directories (Post Office)
26 June 2020
Cemetery – Horton – Researchers Needed
19 June 2020
19 May 2020
Horton Hospital Chapel Baptisms
12 May 2020
Newsletters (May 2020 issue added)
04 May 2020
Sherwood School, Epsom (Major Update)
02 May 2020
28 April 2020
VE Day – 75th Anniversary (2020)
18 April 2020
15 April 2020
14 April 2020
Tower House, Ashley Road, Epsom
13 April 2020
03 April 2020
02 April 2020
26 March 2020
O’Tierney, Eamon (Edward Douglas Turnley)
23 March 2020
22 March 2020
Recollections of Epsom and the Derby (1892)
16 March 2020
02 March 2020
Ewell County Technical College / Nescot
26 February 2020
25 February 2020
Epsom Races – A French Perspective
22 February 2020
Fabian, Robert Honey (Fabian of the Yard)
19 February 2020
Newsletters (Feb 2020 issue added)
12 February 2020
10 February 2020
War Memorials – St Stephen-on-the-Downs, Langley Vale (Updated)
4 February 2020
Baron Russell of Killowen & family
30 January 2020
Contact Page (Updated – improved anti-spam and security)
27 January 2020
24 January 2020
22 January 2020
The Bristows Of Epsom And Ewell (Updated)
21 January 2020
If Only Hitler Could Read This Girl’s Letter
Mounthill Gardens – a tale of two estates
18 January 2020
Welchman, Elizabeth – and her Gardens (Updated)
17 January 2020
16 January 2020
01 January 2020
St John, Henry
Shadbolt, Ernest – and his Park (a major revision of the 2010 article on Shadbolt Park)
Whistler, Henry (Updated)
What was new in 2019
27 December 2019
26 December 2019
Hospital Cluster (this multi-page topic has been revised and re-organised)
24 December 2019
20 December 2019
18 December 2019
Welchman, Elizabeth – and her Gardens
16 December 2019
15 December 2019
13 December 2019
12 December 2019
10 December 2019
07 December 2019
The Spencers, the Carlines and Mrs Harter
05 December 2019
04 December 2019
03 December 2019
02 December 2019
Bosworth, Sir John
Hospital Cluster – Horton
26 November 2019
A Terrier Tank Engine called Ewell
Christ Church – some historic images
24 November 2019 (the backlog that had stacked up while the present site was being set up)
2nd Ewell (Rainsters) Scouts
Barker, Rev. Thomas Burgess
Battersby, Captain James
Dane Law in Ewell
Empire Day
Hospital Cluster – Manor
Nicholls, Dr Francis (Frank)
Pownall – Some Particulars Relating To The History of Epsom
Rosebery Cottage, 14 The Parade
St Martin of Tours, Epsom – main page
St Martin’s – a selection from Registers & Minutes
St Martin’s – a summary of its external features
St Martin’s – a summary of its internal features
St Martin’s – internal monuments
St Martin’s, Epsom – Historic images
Two locomotives called Epsom
War Memorials – St Stephen-on-the-Downs, Langley Vale
Worple Lodge