Worthing, Marine Parade 1890

Photo ref: 22680

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This tobacconist's shop (far left on above photograph) was originally Murray's English and Foreign Bazaar, which is first shown on Wallis' street map of Worthing dated 1826. By 1890 it had become a tobac- conist's shop run by a Mr Goldsmith. In Kelly's directory for 1960 it is still listed as a tobacconist, newsagent and confectioners. Other than the addition of a modern sunblind and signage, nothing had really changed for over 75 years. Little Terrace (centre on above photograph) was built as a terrace of fashionable lodging houses by a Brighton bricklayer named William Hall circa 1794. It was a typical Regency seaside terrace, built of brick, faced in stucco or painted plaster, with an ironwork balcony that had a curved tiled roof like a Chinese pagoda. When this picture was taken in 1890 it was still a lodging house, but by 1931 it had been converted into the Southdown Restaurant. By 1894 the two smaller lodging houses, inappropriately named Great Terrace (right on above photograph), had been constructed at the southern end of Bedford Row. These were also lodging houses in 1890, but had become the offices of the Southdown Motor Company by 1931. In 1965 the building was Macari's Ice Cream Parlour.