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Please bookmark us and come again! The Bourne Hall MuseumBourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell, KT17 1UF 020 8394 1734 Take a trip into the past!The MuseumHow to find us The Bourne Hall Museum Outreach Programme NEW PAGES - NOVEMBER 2006 The Coronation in 1953 - Gypsies - Epsom Common A Desirable Residence - Emily Davison and the Suffragettes If you visit Ewell village, you will soon find Bourne Hall. Overshadowed by the trees of a Victorian park, it is not an old mansion, as the name might suggest, but a low-lying, circular modern building. For the 1960s, when it was built, this was a revolutionary design. Entering Bourne Hall, you look up to the mezzanine floor to see a museum. The galleries, which are open plan, lie underneath the transparent dome which crowns the building. Displays draw on a collection of over five thousand items acquired over the years through the generosity of local people. The museum is run by the Borough of Epsom and Ewell, and was set up to promote the understanding of history in the area - a history which has many links with the wider world. Henry VIII had a palace at Nonsuch, the well on Epsom Common was the site of the first English Spa, and Epsom Downs have seen two hundred years of the Derby, the most famous horse race in the world. The museum has a hansom cab used by a Prime Minister, and a primitive fire engine worked by teams of sweating volunteers. Collections of toys, cameras, old costume and medical items will be of interest to anyone looking back on the old days. After your visit, you can enjoy lunch or a coffee in the newly refurbished restaurant next to the museum. You may want to buy a souvenir in the museum shop, on the ground floor of Bourne Hall. Local history books are available here, as well as background material for school projects. You can make your way to the library, one of the largest in Surrey. There is always an art exhibition on display at Bourne Hall, and many other services. You can work out in the gym, or hire rooms for a function. The park around Bourne Hall is an oasis of tranquillity in a busy world. Stay for a while to watch the swans glide on the lake, while children play on the grass and under the branches of the old cedar tree. How to find usDo you want to come and see us? Ewell is just off the A24 and A240, and Bourne Hall has extensive car parking. It can get crowded on a popular day, though, and you may prefer to come by train - Ewell West, on the Waterloo line via Wimbledon, is only five minutes' walk away, and Ewell East is nearby for people coming on the line from Victoria via Sutton. There are bus stops just outside the Dog Gate at Bourne Hall for services coming from Reigate, Kingston, Sutton and Croydon.Click here to see our exact location indicated by the circle Then change the scale to 20000 if you need a larger scale map centred on the Bourne Hall Museum The Bourne Hall Museum Outreach Programme
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