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A History of the County of Sussex
… leading north from the north end of the modern High Street. The line of the latter was still followed by roads … through Sompting. A road following the line of Montague Street led towards Heene, and another following that of … by 1851. 85 The coaching centre of Worthing was South Street; 86 the adjacent area served a similar rôle in 1978 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… only a side line, partly because early fruit-growing left little time for growing flowers in winter, but chrysanthemums … and Steyning, 13 later Henty's bank was founded in Warwick Street in 1808. It was amalgamated with the Capital and … including Potter, Bailey, and Co., grocers in High Street between 1837 and 1963, 17 and Bentalls department …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was established in 1812 in the former barracks in the High Street. It was financed by subscriptions, and strongly … school by c. 1823. 17 It stood at the corner of North Street and Chapel Road in 1824 when needlework and … modern school under Education Act, 1944. Moved to Little High Street 1959, to Sackville Road 1965. Became …
A History of the County of Sussex
… evidence for a settlement at the south end of High Street between the 13th and 16th centuries. 35 One building … 1762, of flint with brick dressings, survived in High Street in 1945, 36 but in 1978 the earliest surviving houses … and Alfred Place was built between 1826 and 1843. 71 A little further east Beach House was built in 1820, with …
A History of the County of Sussex
… town commissioners first met at the Nelson inn in South Street, and after 1812 at the Royal George in Market Street. 71 A site for a town hall, at the junction of Chapel … town, which had to be emptied frequently because there was little soakage; to prevent the flooding of basements in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 64 No manor-house has been traced. A house east of High Street opposite Union Place was called the Manor House c. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 84 The Independent, later Congregational, chapel in Chapel Street, later Portland Road, was built in 1804. 85 It had … 1976, and demolished in 1978. The Tabernacle in Montague Street was opened in the late 1830s 92 as an 'Independent … was registered in 1912, 8 and the St. James's Hall in High Street was registered as an evangelical free church in 1926. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Dame de Sion established a temporary convent in North Street whose chapel became the main place of Roman Catholic …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Sea House and afterwards the Royal, Hotel, were in South Street. 13 Both were rebuilt in the 1820s. 14 The Royal … a travelling actor-manager, started a barn theatre in High Street; five years later he replaced it with the New Theatre, later the Theatre Royal, in Ann Street. Performances were held only during the season, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1350 acres. The living is a rectory, with that of Little Wratting annexed, valued in the king's books at 8; net … remains of Roman antiquity have been dug up. Wratting, Little WRATTING, LITTLE, a parish, in the union and hundred of Risbridge, W. …