Bourne Hall Museum tells the story of life in the Borough of Epsom and Ewell, a community on the divide between rural Surrey and suburban London. Paintings form a small proportion of the visual archive, which contains some 3,000 prints, views, photos and local ephemera. The Museum was founded in 1969 to promote and support the study of local history. Paintings in the collection come from families of importance in the neighbourhood – mostly the Glyns and Stones; these were people whose houses still exist locally, and whose story can be traced through photographs, reminiscences and documents.