Epsom Gallery

In 1848 the Old Watch House and stocks were pulled down and it was proposed that that the town centre should have a clock tower similar to that in Newmarket.  Plans were drawn up and in 1850 this design was added to a print of the town centre. So very

All these photographs were taken by Caroine Baldock on Epsom Downs. They have not been photoshoped, or altered in any way from the moment the camera clicked. They sow the fibre sand gallop, the road to Downs house, the grass valley gallop, and the 9 furlong gallop. they are all

A short history of the Oaks to follow.

The first recorded history of Epsom dates back to the earliest Saxon period when it was variably known as Ebbisham, Ebesham or Epsham. Its name derives from the presence of a spring in the chalk hills known as the Earthbourn from whence the Princess Ebba, in time to become the

Brown Jack was a very popular horse in the 1930’s. He was mostly ridden by Steve Donoghue. He adored the horse. Here they are in the Rosebery Memorial Plate, Epsom, 30th May 1933, won by Brown Jack from Fox Earth, ridden by champion jockey, Sir Gordon Richards.  His skeleton is