South Harting

Familiar to many, the church nestles in the shelter of the South Downs. Large horse chestnuts now break the roof line but the cottages still lie tranquil within the church’s reach. H G Wells walked from Portsmouth to Harting to meet his mother coming from this church.
An extract from from"Petersfield Then and Now Photographic Memories".

E J Beach, Proprietor, boldly announces the board above the pony and trap, apparently hired for a drive during one of those Edwardian summers that never seemed to end.
An extract from from"Petersfield Then and Now Photographic Memories".

Is the woman in the top window cleaning it or simply determined to be in the photograph? The one-time butcher’s shop was, at the time of this photograph, an antiques shop. It would have been known to H G Wells when he was a boy at the nearby stately home, Uppark.
An extract from from"Petersfield Then and Now Photographic Memories".

The buildings on the corner of High Street and The Broadway were named Warwick Mansions. This commemorated the fact that in 1901, they were erected on the site of old Warwick House, which had been demolished a few years earlier. The trees and flint wall in the photograph marked the southern boundary of the Warwick estate. These were retained as a feature when part of the Brighton Road was widened on either side and renamed The Broadway. A Worthing Directory for 1919 records the three visible shops at ground level (on the left of photograph 68989) as Colin Moore, a perambulator depot (behind the balustrade), Ivens, Kelletts and Childs, chemists and F C Whittington, bootmaker. Although the buildings remain virtually unchanged today, the trees and wall were removed in 1928.
An extract from from"Worthing Town and City Memories".

During the 1920s and 30s, Worthing continued to rapidly expand. By 1937 the town was being promoted as both a summer and winter resort, and hotels now occupied much of the sea front and the area behind it. The Beach Hotel had opened at 4 Marine Parade in 1915, expanding into the whole parade by 1936, when the original red-brick houses that had, in part, comprised The Prince Albert Convalescent Home were remodelled in cement Deco-style. Many of the Victorian boarding houses had been converted into hotels, and most of the modern hotels illustrated date from this period, albeit trading under different names. Although Worthing initially benefited from an increase in the number of holidaymakers after the Second World War, the town continued to lack any large hotels. By the early 1970s, Worthing, like most English seaside resorts, was having to compete with package holidays abroad. Many of the town’s hotels tried to fill their rooms by becoming conference venues.
An extract from from"Worthing Town and City Memories".