Epsom & Ewell History

& Archaeology Society

Newsletter Excerpts - 1968-1999

The following are a series of articles taken from past EEHAS newsletters when the Society was Nonsuch and Ewell Antiquarian Society and then Nonsuch Antiquarian Society. They are reproduced as originally printed, representing the view of the time rather than being currently accurate.

The Early Iron Age in Ewell - 1968 May pp1-2
The Mesolithic period in Ewell - 1968 May pp3–5
Roman buildings in Ewell - 1968 October p.2
Ewell of ‘Ancient Demesne’ - 1968 December p.2
Epsom Wells - 1969 July p.2
Parish Registers - 1969 December p.3
18th-century Churchwardens’ Accounts, Ewell Parish - 1970/2 pp2–3
The Century of Persecution - 1971/5 pp2–3
Excavations in Ewell - 1971/5 pp3
Crazy Sally - 1972/4 pp1
Notes and Queries - 1972/4 pp4
Hop Pole Inn - 1973/1 p.4
Local churches - 1973/3 pp5–6
19th-century Ewell: documentary studies - 1973/4 pp2–3
Archaeology of Epsom - 1974/1 pp4–5
Fire mark at Ewell - 1974/3 pp3–4
Road transport - 1974/3 pp4–5
Rail transport - 1974/3 p.6
Epsom ‘Spa Period’: new evidence - 1974/4 p.4
Extracts from the Parish Magazine of St. Mary’s Church, Ewell - 1975/6 p.4
The Lower Mill, Ewell - 1976/1 p.4
Woodgate, London Road, Ewell - 1976/3 p.3
The Shrubbery, South Street, Epsom: I - 1977/1 pp2–3
The Shrubbery, South Street, Epsom: II - 1977/2 p.2
Ewell Tower Preservation Trust - 1977/3 pp2–3
The intaglio from Ewell - 1978/5 pp1–2
As it was in the beginning: I - 1979/1 p.6
As it was in the beginning: II - 1979/4 pp3–4
Ewell and the Pre-Raphaelites - 1979/2 p.3
Epsom Wells: I - 1979/6 pp5–6
Epsom Wells: II - 1981/2 pp5–6
Epsom Wells: III
Save our mill: 1980/3 pp5–8
Ventnor Road covered reservoir, Sutton: loss of an interesting monument: 1980/5 p2
Extract from Surrey County Record Office’s archives: 1981/1 pp4–5
Epsom Railways: 1981/2 p2
Sir George Glyn (2nd Baronet):1982/1 pp3–5

Old Wells in Ewell: 1982/2 p4
A late nineteenth-century household’s butcher’s bills: 1982/4 pp3–6
46 South Street, Epsom: 1983/5 p2
Sutton: 1984/5 pp4–6
A dated Dutch slipware bowl from Epsom: 1985/3 p2
David Livingstone and The Cedars: 1986/1 p2
The Cedars: 1986/2 pp2–3
Epsom well water: 1987/1 p2
Nineteenth century clay pipes from Ewell, Surrey: 1987/2 p3
A doctor’s prescription book, 1893: 1987/3 p3
59 South Street, Epsom: 1987/5 p3

A lady’s personal accounts, 1751–1770: 1988/1 pp2–3
Fitznells, Chessington Road, Ewell: I :1988/6 pp2–4
Fitznell's, Chessington Road, Ewell: II : 1989/1 pp2–3
Fitznells, Chessington Road, Ewell: III: 1989/2 pp3-4
Fitznell's, Chessington Road, Ewell: IV:1989/3 pp3–4
London Road, Ewell: 1989/2 pp5–8
New book – Old Views of Epsom : 1989/3 pp5–6
The history of Bourne Hall, Ewell: I : 1990/1 pp2–4
The history of Bourne Hall, Ewell: II :1990/2 p4
The history of Bourne Hall, Ewell: III : 1990/3 pp2–3
The history of Bourne Hall, Ewell: IV: 1990/4 pp3–4
Clay roof tiles in the Epsom and Ewell area: 1990/4 pp2–3
A preliminary note on 73 South Street, Epsom: 1990/5 pp3–4
Bourne Hall Lake, Ewell: I: 1992/1 p4–6
Bourne Hall Lake, Ewell: II: 1992/1 p4–6
Some notes on 11 West Street, Epsom: 1990/6 pp2–3
Some notes on 128/30 High Street, Epsom: 1991/1 p4
A note on 9 High Street, Ewell: 1991/2 p2
Epsom, the races and the railways: 1991/3 pp3–4
A recent discovery at Spring House: 1992/1 p3
West Hill Cottage, Epsom:a nineteenth-century reclamation: 1992/4 p2

The Cedars, Church Street, Epsom: 1992/5 p4
Observations on the shape of Bourne Hall Lake: 1993/4 p3
Actual find spot of the British Museum Saxon jewel said to have come from Epsom: 1994/2 p3
Parkside School: 1994/2 p4
The Epsom Advertiser in 1930: 1994/3 p6
Merton Priory: 1994/5 p9
Ice house at the Convent Of The Sacred Hearts, Dorking Road: 1995/5 pp10–11
Cloudesley Willis: 1995/2 p4
Men, money and music:1995/2 pp4–6
Chertsey Abbey:1995/2 pp6–7
Glyn Hall and the Ewell Adult School: 1995/2 pp7–8
The Light Of The World: 1995/4 pp5–6
Sex, slavery and a dark secret: 1996/1 pp6–7
Epsom Wells by Thomas Shadwell: 1996/1 pp7–8
The miserable state of Ewell vicarage in 1585: 1996/2 pp8–9
Epsom: A Pictorial History: 1996/3 p6
Brick and tile taxes: 1996/3 pp7–8
Tom Fuller and the worthies of Surrey: 1996/3 pp9–10
Some thoughts inspired by recent grave-digging finds in Ewell graveyard: 1996/4 p6

A family tragedy: 1996/4 pp7–9
Ewell’s Henry Kitchen in Australia: 1996/4 pp9–10
From the parish registers: 1996/4 p12
The Margaret Glyn memorial concert on 5th October 1996: 1996/5 p7.
The Prince’s Coverts and Jessop’s Well: 1997/1 p4
Mrs. Dorothy Jordan; did she ever live in Ewell?: 1997/4 pp8–9
Ewell Sainsburys: 1997/5 pp3–4
A conventicle in Ewell in 1669: 1997/5 p9
Woodcote Hall, Epsom: 1998/1 pp3–5
Epsom and the railways: 1998/5 pp5–6
Roman Ewell and modern technology: a follow-up1999/1 pp3–4
The Manor of Fitznells, Ewell, in the fourteenth century: 1999/2 pp4–6
Remembering Hans Leo Lehmann and his family in Epsom: I : 1999/3 pp4–5
Remembering Hans Leo Lehmann and his family in Epsom: II: 1999/5 pp6–7
Our grand old man of letters :1999/5 pp5–6
St. Mary’s ‘blackboard’ and the 1999 afternoon sermon: 1999/5 pp2–4
Epsom Market: 2000/01 p5

Edward Henry Williams, the Parish Clerk: 2000/03 p6
Rabbit and hare warrens: 2000/04 pp7–8
The Census for Cuddington from 1841 to 1891: 2000/5 pp4–5 Scroll down for more articles
The Glyns and Mr. Gladstone: 2001/02 p4

The Ewell bank manager and the roads: 2001/02 pp4–5
Sir Percival Perry: 2001/03 pp3–4
Sir Richard Bulkeley: 2001/03 p6
Ewell in the Bishops’ Visitations of 1725 and 1788: 2001/04 pp7–8
A case of identity: 2002/02 pp3–4
Two mystery cats from Worcester Park: 2002/03 pp4–5
The lantern in The Light of the World: 2002/04 p6
An incident at Epsom Races in 1824: 2002/05 pp4–5
Epsom Salts after Epsom Spa: 2003/05 p5

Sarah Mapp, the bone-setter: 2003/02 p6