In 2018 and 2019, The Horton Chapel Project arranged heritage research skills training for local volunteers, supported by the National Heritage Lottery Fund.
A full-day of bespoke training took place at Surrey History Centre in Woking, led by director Julian Pooley. Each person then selected a different area of the Epsom Hospital Cluster’s history to find out about, looking at original documents that were rescued from the site, as developers moved in.
Some of our history hunters also visited London Metropolitan Archives and have been supported by Jeremy Harte, curator of Bourne Hall Museum and Epsom & Ewell History Explorer online.
Thanks to researchers:
Roger Cayzer, Sheila Cumming, Jane Derrick, Jill Duffin, Georgia Kitty Harris, Lara Kirkland, Kevin McDonnell, Roger Miller, Ian Mole, John Mumford, David Shand, Amanda Spavins, Louise Taylor and Katherine Wood.
Their contributions have helped to shape the permanent exhibition at The Horton.
- Epilepsy, History and Ewell by Sheila Cumming
- Shell Shock by Amanda Spavins
- Sport and Recreation by Katherine Wood
- The Mott Clinic and Malaria Therapy by David Shand
- Portraits of the Unremembered by Georgia Kitty Harris
- Work and Occupational Therapy by John Mumford
- Leisure and Entertainment by John Mumford
- The Register of Baptisms for Horton Chapel by Roger Miller
