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A History of the County of Sussex
… for its large number of elderly residents, and as the centre of what was formerly one of the chief market-gardening …
A History of the County of Sussex
… soup kitchen by 1880. A permanent kitchen and distribution centre for coal, soup, and bread was built c. 1893 in Grafton …
A History of the County of Sussex
… through the town had ceased by 1851. 85 The coaching centre of Worthing was South Street; 86 the adjacent area …
A History of the County of Sussex
… to reduce the acreage under glass, especially round the centre of the town. 72 Worthing's early produce was still … it was estimated to contain 175,000 people. 31 The town centre then had a mixture of large shops, including … each side of a paved quadrangle, which had a pump in the centre. 84 After 1810 a weekly corn market was held in a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… In 1948 the county council established an adult education centre in Union Place, which was enlarged in 1964 23 and … C.C. Except where otherwise stated this acct. is based on information supplied by the Southern Area Educ. Officer, W. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Chapel Road with South and Warwick streets had become the centre of the town when the town hall was built there in … and the pier, built in 1862, became the entertainment centre of the town, while the area north of Warwick Street … westwards after c. 1900, absorbing the old village centre of Heene and the resort of West Worthing, which had …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and entertainment. 64 There was a borough publicity and information bureau by 1913, and a borough entertainments … from the clock-tower had been placed in the Guildbourne centre near by in 1974. 77 Public services The wells and … 206-7. Kelly's Dir. Worthing (1935). Ex inf. Assistant Information Officer, SEGAS. Munic. Yr. Bk. (1909), 593; …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1807, 18 with an assembly room which became the social centre of the resort; there was an orchestra and an organ by … Mechanics Institution was founded in 1838 to provide cheap information about literature, science, and art. 43 It was at … orchestra played between 1891 and c. 1909. 76 In 1913 the centre of the pier was destroyed in a storm, but it was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the parishioners, at an expense of 3500; it stands in the centre of the town. There is a place of worship for …