Worthing, South Street 1899
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An 1821 Act of Parliament specified financial limits within which Worthing Town Commissioners could purchase land to erect a building to hold their meetings and provide and maintain a town clock. A Town Hall with a clock was built at a cost of £1,215 8s 10d on land at the northern end of South Street and opened without ceremony in 1835. Beneath the building were cells for accommodating prisoners and a space for housing the hand-operated fire engine and ladder that were gifts to the town. The Incorporation Ceremony of the Borough of Worthing was conducted from its steps on 3 September 1890. Although it remained the focal point of municipal administration for many years, it was finally replaced in 1933 by a Town Hall built further to the north in Chapel Road. The old Town Hall building was finally demolished in 1966 and its site covered by the entrance to the modern Guildbourne shopping precinct.
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