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Worthing maps
Historic maps of Worthing and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Worthing maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of West Sussex
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Worthing books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Worthing and the local area. View all Worthing books
Worthing Town and City Memories
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Sussex County Memories
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Hastings and Bexhill Photographic Memories
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11 Worthing photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Worthing
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In about 1935, when I was 5 years old, my Grandfather used to take us all on gentle rides into the South Downs from his home at 11 Gaisford Road in his circa 1930 Hillman Minx. The beloved Minx was not turbo-charged and could probably manage to reach 50mph downhill following a scintillating acceleration to 40mph in about 5 minutes. My... [more]
Shared on 15 July 2006
My great-grandad, George Stent, ran the livery stables in Ann Street, shown on the right-hand side of the Town Hall, until the motor car put him out of business. His brother, John Stent, operated as a 'fly proprietor' from 4 Alfred Place, Worthing. When motor cars came along he sold his business to Wortax.
Shared on 04 May 2009
Beach House Park in Worthing is the home of the EBA and I first went there in 1983 to watch a tournament featuring the legendary David Bryant. It was and still is very popular with the locals and tourists to come and watch a few ends of bowls and to enjoy the wonderful floral displays.
I now live within walking... [more]
Shared on 29 June 2009
West Sussex memories
The Sompting General Supply Stores.
I have a photocopy of a photograph of the General Supply Stores, Sompting, dated around 1913, showing the owners, J and A White, proudly standing outside, one with a little dog at his feet, the other holding his bicycle. They were my grandfather, Walter John White and his brother, Alfred. My father, John Alfred Kelsey White, was born at... [more]
Shared on 12 September 2006
Going to the Post Office, Atterburries and Salvation Army on Sunday
My memories are of going to Mr Atturberries (the spelling of name may be wrong) to buy sweets and also just next door I think was the Salvation Army Hall, which a lot of the village children attended on a Sunday afternoon. Also in the picture is the Smugglers restaurant which is where I gained my first employment after leaving school... [more]
Shared on 16 July 2006
I visited Clapham and the Church in the summer of 1999. At different periods during the 1800's my Collins family lived and worked there. Thomas Collins of Burpham was buried at Clapham on September 13th, 1855 at 55. His first wife Charlotte Ayling is also buried there 1822 and his second wife who remarried and known as Sarah Mills Collins TUESLEY... [more]
Shared on 13 July 2006
I was born in Worthing in 1938 and lived in Sompting so grew up in the area until I was conscripted in 1958, and subsequently stayed in the Army but removed to Andover in Hampshire on leaving the Military, although I still have family in Lancing.
I spent a very happy teenage from leaving school until call up, in Lancing.
My... [more]
Shared on 26 May 2008
The Second World War c/w training for RNVR commission
My time at Lancing was during the Second World War. Royal Navy, HMS 'King Alfred'. The final several weeks before commissioning to RNVR. I was then transferred to the Indian Army with 12 colleagues. I served with the Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles until partition in India.
Thank you Lancing College for a lovely return visit about a year ago... [more]
Shared on 05 June 2009
Extracts From Worthing & West Sussex books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Worthing, inspired by Frith photos.
Sussex A Century Ago Photographic Memories
As in so many views taken of seaside resorts, Frith's photographer pointed his camera along the sea front from the vantage point of the pier. Here he looked westwards along the row of breakwaters that were installed to reduce the coastal erosion that had bedevilled Worthing's development as a seaside resort until the 19th century. The resort developed in a rather piece-meal way from... [more]
This is an extract from Sussex A Century Ago Photographic Memories.
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Sussex Revisited Photographic Memories
The architecture captured in late Victorian and early Edwardian photographs often provides an indication of the resort's origins. In 1890, visitors looking westwards from Worthing's pier would have seen terraces of Georgian lodging houses interspersed with a few newly erected Victorian buildings, such as the Clear View Hotel shown on the right.
This is an extract from Sussex Revisited Photographic Memories.
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West Sussex Photographic Memories
The largest seaside town in West Sussex, Worthing began to grow as a fashionable resort towards the end of the 18th century. Prior to that it had been little more than a settlement of fishing cottages down by the beach, below the village of Broadwater. It was Princess Amelia who helped put the place on the map by taking a holiday here in 1797. ... [more]
This is an extract from West Sussex Photographic Memories.
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