This week, we’re looking at how you can help an emergency vehicle reach the scene of an urgent situation quickly and safely. Here’s IAM RoadSmart’s head of driving and riding Richard Gladman, to guide you through.
- Whenever you hear the sound of an emergency siren mute your music so you can work out where the noise is coming from. Be prepared to plan your next manoeuvre if the emergency vehicle requires your help to get past.
- Be sure to pull over and stop where it is safe to do so, giving the emergency vehicle a wide enough berth. Make your intentions clear and certainly avoid blocking any major junctions or stopping in the middle of the road, on the brow of a hill or before a bend.
- Avoid stopping on kerbs, pavements and verges as they may mask hazards, damage your vehicle or put pedestrians at risk.
- The vehicle trying to pass may be a plain looking car with emergency warning equipment such as lights fitted to it – be prepared to assist in the same way.
- Going through a red light or using a bus lane to make way for an emergency vehicle is in fact breaking the law and cameras have no discretion. Avoid this at all costs and be sure to stop only where it is legal and safe to do so.
Richard said: “Emergency lights are not always easily visible and the sirens can be heard from different directions so be as vigilant as possible. Motorcycles are also used by all emergency services and they may be hard to see – be prepared to respond and plan your route before acting.
“To find out more about our advanced driving and riding courses take a look here: https://www.iamroadsmart.com/courses.”
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F-TYPE, Jaguar’s definitive full-size sports car, receives new powertrain and driveline options to broaden the range from six to 14 models
Torque on demand all-wheel drive (AWD) extends the F-TYPE’s performance and dynamic capability on all road surfaces and in all conditions
In AWD form, the 550PS F-TYPE R Coupé will accelerate from 0-60mph in 3.9 seconds, with a limited top speed of 186mph
Intelligent Driveline Dynamics (IDD) control strategy developed in-house to exploit maximum performance potential of AWD traction while retaining rear-wheel drive character
AWD F-TYPE models gain a unique bonnet design featuring a deeper power bulge and distinctive new vents
Six-speed manual transmission option for rear-wheel drive supercharged V6 models delivers the purest sports car driving experience
Jaguar’s 550PS supercharged V8 comes to the F-TYPE R Convertible – available in both rear- and all-wheel drive configurations
Electric Power Assisted Steering enables even greater precision and feel and reduces CO2 emissions by up to 4g/km on the EU combined cycle
Torque Vectoring by Braking improves agility and – standard on R derivatives – is now available on V6 models
Sport Design Packs for Coupé and Convertible models enhance exterior styling and enable greater personalisation
New InControl Touch and InControl Touch Plus infotainment systems feature fast, intuitive operation and support Apple and Android smartphone connectivity – and even remote engine starts
The new 2016 model year F-TYPE range goes on sale from Spring 2015
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Despite the chaos and excitement of the festive period, almost a third (32%) of the British public have remembered vulnerable people in need by generously donating food to those in need across the country, according to a new survey published today.
The survey also reveals the generosity across the Britain, as the North West comes out on top as the most generous region (39%), ahead of Wales (38%), South East (37%) and Scotland (37%).
The survey goes on to show that more females (38%) have donated than their male counterparts (26%), while the youngest 18-24 age group is the most generous (38%) when it comes to food donations in the lead up to Christmas.
Food poverty continues to be a serious issue across the UK despite the economic recovery, as figures published by the Trussell Trust last week showed the number of people helped by food banks in the first half of the 2014-15 financial year is 38% higher than numbers helped during the same period last year.
The survey of 2,030 people, by YouGov*, commissioned by Tesco, comes as the latest Neighbourhood Food Collection is launched, where customers are encouraged to donate food to those in need at Tesco stores right across the country. This is the fifth Neighbourhood Food Collection since 2012.
Food donations to the Neighbourhood Food Collection benefit a range of people across the country, with donations going to either FareShare, a food redistribution charity, or food banks charity The Trussell Trust. Tesco provides a 30% top up to the charities based on the collective weight of donated goods.
To date, the campaign has collected 15.3million meals for people in need since 2012, and the target this year is to provide more than 20million meals. The 15.3 million meals includes the 30% top-up, permanent & local collections, plus surplus food provisions. Neighbourhood Food Collection relies on and is bolstered by volunteers.
Tesco is calling for customers to go instore to donate food to designated food collection points. Follow @Tesco for the latest news and use #everycanhelps to find out more about the initiative. Tesco will also be raising money for the FareShare and the Trussell Trust through the sale of special Christmas hats and cards this year.
Lindsay Boswell, CEO of FareShare, said: “Sadly food poverty affects a large number of people across the UK and we are now providing food to 32% more charities than we did six months ago. From homeless hostels to breakfast clubs, women’s refuges to luncheon clubs for older people, these frontline organisations need food more than ever, so we’re thrilled to partner with Tesco on the Neighbourhood Food Collection again this year. This campaign enables us all to help in a simple practical way, as every item of food donated will make a difference to vulnerable people in our community”
David McAuley, Trussell Trust Chief Executive, says: “In just six months Trussell Trust foodbanks have given 3 days’ food to almost 500,000 people, including over 175,000 children. Redundancy, illness, benefit problems and family breakdown are some of the reasons why people go hungry. Increasingly, people on low-incomes are living on a financial knife edge where even a small crisis can lead families to face hunger. As winter begins to bite, many will be forced to make tough choices between eating and heating, and thousands will struggle to put any food on the table on Christmas Day. Foodbanks are gearing up to meet the growing need over the festive season and we’re excited to team up with Tesco once again to work on Neighbourhood Food Collection for a fifth time. Over 90 percent of food given out by foodbanks is donated by the public, so we’re reliant on people’s generosity. It’s incredible to see over a third of the UK now supporting their local food charity, and we’d urge people to keep giving.”
Greg Sage, Community Director at Tesco, commented: “It’s encouraging that people still think food poverty is a serious issue that needs to be tackled, and so many have donated to food banks as a result. This our fifth Neighbourhood Food Collection, and it’s hugely important that we dig deep and do what we can to help people who are in need this Christmas.
“This year we want to break records and provide more meals for people in need than ever before. Our customers can donate food at Tesco stores right across the UK all this week and weekend.”
Leather Clad Beckham & Celebrity Guests Celebrate Belstaff Bond Street Flagship Store
I read that a child laughs 400 times a day on the average, while an adult laughs only 15 times. Which puzzles me – what do you think the children are laughing at?
During one particularly dark period of my life I didn’t laugh even 15 times a day. Not nearly. For a variety of reasons, ranging from anxiety in my personal life to overwork and exhaustion, I was depressed. I may not yet have recognized it as depression (later I did), but now I can see that the signs were there.
My self-loathing surfaced once when I found myself driving alone on a cold Spring afternoon to spend a couple of days with colleagues on a work-related planning session. “I don’t have time for this!” I said out loud, and berated myself for not saying no. I was leaving my spouse to contend with children by herself while my daily work piled up in my absence. I felt submerged by an ocean of problems, professional and personal, with no chance of finding any way out. Everything looked bleak.
I met my colleagues for supper the first evening. To my surprise, we sat around the dinner table telling funny stories. We related real-life incidents that had happened to each of us. I had to admit, even in my despondency, that it was good to laugh. And those turned out to be some of the funniest stories I had ever heard! My anxiety melted as I relaxed and I found myself laughing hard – harder than I’d laughed for years.
The next day we worked, but we also played. We invented games using whatever recreational equipment we could lay our hands on. The sheer fun of playing, something else I hadn’t done for far too long, awakened something within me I thought I might never feel again.
The following day I returned home and I felt better than I had in months. Though it eventually took a lifestyle change to lift the depression for good, laughter became a key ingredient of that change. I determined then and there that a therapy of laughter would become a permanent part of my life. I’ve held to it, and have found that regular and hearty laughter is essential if I want to maintain inner peace and good health.
I had discovered a great truth about laughter – it is good for the body, the mind and the spirit. It’s a natural stress reliever. Have you ever laughed so hard that you doubled over, fell off your chair, spit out your food or wet your pants? (Yes, I’m not proud to say, I have.) You just cannot maintain muscle tension when you are laughing.
Author Norman Cousins used to say that laughter is so beneficial for your body that it is like “inner jogging.” Numerous studies have shown that laughter is good for your heart, it boosts your immune system and promotes overall good health.
The good news is that you are not limited to 15 laughs a day. You’re allowed hundreds of laughs. What might happen if you doubled the usual adult rate and tried to laugh 30 times today? Can you do it? You’ll probably notice an immediate difference in how you feel.
Then try to laugh 50 times a day. By this time you will begin to notice an improvement in your relationships.
But don’t stop there. What if you could find 100 reasons to laugh every day? You can do it by surrounding yourself with people you feel good around, looking for humor in daily life, taking a minute to remember what’s funny and even keeping a journal of whatever makes you happy.
Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you.
Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?
— Steve Goodier
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Did you know that Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old and did not read until he was seven? His parents and teachers worried about his mental ability.
Or that Beethoven’s music teacher said about him, “As a composer he is hopeless”? What if young Ludwig believed it?
When Thomas Edison was a young boy, his teachers said he was so stupid he could never learn anything. He once said, “I remember I used to never be able to get along at school. I was always at the foot of my class…my father thought I was stupid, and I almost decided that I was a dunce.” What if young Thomas believed what they said about him?
When F. W. Woolworth was 21, he got a job in a store, but was not allowed to wait on customers because, according to his boss, he “didn’t have enough sense.” I wonder if the boss was around when Woolworth became one of the most successful retailers of his day.
When the sculptor Auguste Rodin was young he had difficulty learning to read and write. Today, we may say he had a learning disability, but his father said of him, “I have an idiot for a son.” His uncle agreed. “He’s uneducable,” he said. What if the boy had doubted his ability to excel?
A newspaper editor once fired Walt Disney because he was thought to have no “good ideas.” The great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso was told by one music teacher, “You can’t sing. You have no voice at all.” And an editor told Louisa May Alcott, just a few years before she wrote the classic novel Little Women, that she was incapable of writing anything that would have popular appeal.
But what if these young people had listened to those critical voices and became discouraged? Where would our world be without the music of Beethoven and Caruso, the art of Rodin, the ideas of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, the imagination of Walt Disney or the literary contributions of Louisa May Alcott? As it was so accurately put, “It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.” (That from Oscar Levant.) What if these people had not become what they were capable becoming, had not done what they actually could have accomplished, just because they were discouraged by people who couldn’t see them for what they were?
We all have potential and, whether you realize it or not, your desire to do or be more than you are is your best indicator of future success. Others may discourage you, but the most important voice to listen to is your own. Do you believe in you?
What is the link between Worthing, Eton College, a north London tattoo parlour, Geoffrey Chaucer and Nigeria? The answer is Patience Agbabi, a Welsh-Nigerian international performance poet and recently Canterbury Poet Laureate, who is performing live at the Lime Café in Worthing on national Poetry Day. Her previous venues include The Royal Albert Hall and Soho Jazz Festival as well as Eton and that tattoo parlour. Now, having spent much of the year recasting Canterbury Tales into modern vernacular, including hip-hop, she is bringing her lively combination of stage and page to our local celebration of all things poetic.
National Poetry Day occurs on the first Thursday in October, in this case 4th, and its purpose is to get people involved. It starts with a poetry competition, open free to anyone with a connection to Worthing, and the short list will be published in the Worthing Herald so readers can vote for a winner, to be printed and performed on day. Kim’s bookshop have provided prizes for each of three age groups – under 16, 16-19 and over 19.
All day on that Thursday the Lime Café will open up a long wall to be filled with poems, so local residents can bring in their favourite – one they found or one they wrote – and display it to be enjoyed by everyone.
Then, in the evening, the winners in each age group and a selection of from the all will be performed, before Patience, described as a mesmerising performer, shows how to bridge that gap between stage and page.
Further details on how to get involved are all on – http://poetryinworthing.com/ or 01903 529084
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The Storm Junior Basketball club has achieved a grant from Sport England encouraging 14 – 18 year olds to take up and play Basketball. The Storm Junior Basketball Club is now able to offer any 14 – 18 year olds an 8 week programme while only paying £1.00 per training session and on top of this 1 talented youngster will be selected & offered a scholarship at the club of 1 year FREE training which will also includes insurances, FREE Hoodie, T Shirt and match & training fees all paid for. Contact admin@stormjuniorbasketball.com or www.stormjuniorbasketball.com Jon Fletcher Head of Basketball Operations said ‘This is a fantastic opportunity for all youngsters to come along and just try the game. The first session at the club is always FREE anyway so that means 9 sessions at an incredible cost of £8. So we encourage all youngsters to come along and have some fun’.
About THE STORM:
THE STORM Junior Basketball Club, is a volunteer, non-profit organisation serving children from 5 through to 18. Based in Lancing, West Sussex at The Sir Robert Woodards brand new Sports Hall. There are no tryouts or skills assessments, just fun, fun and more FUN!. Our coaches are dedicated to providing a safe environment in which kids can learn and enjoy the game of basketball. They gain progression, through the leagues and age groups. We encourage and emphasise good sportsmanship, the development of individual skills and the importance of teamwork.
About: The Sportivate programme is part of the Play strand of Sport England’s mass participation legacy programme ‘Places, People, Play’. Sportivate is a 4 year programme that will be delivered from 1st April 2011 – 31st March 2015.
The overall aim of the programme is to get 300,000 participants aged 14-25 years to complete weekly coaching sessions over the 4 years, with two in five (120,000) to carry on playing sport regularly.
Further information:
]]>Holistic Therapies, massage, ear candling as well as help with meditation,
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I am based in Broadwater , but also operate on a mobile basis. I give workshops
to companies and groups on mindfulness, relaxation and meditation for stress
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Corporate massage (seated) available
Joanneturnermassagetherapies.co.uk
massagetherapies@virginmedia.com
07878968789
61 Hadley Avenue
Broadwater
Worthing
West Sussex
BN14 9HB
]]>Get an exclusive behind the scenes insight into preparations for the 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.
In this week’s instalment of Inside Track, the two British drivers and former World Champions look ahead to 2011’s final race at the Interlagos Circuit, discuss how they feel the rule changes have worked throughout the season and talk about how a win in Sao Paulo would set them up for 2012.
Get behind the wheel with Lewis and Jenson as they give us the inside track ahead of the 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix.
Now you can find all the latest posts and pages on the UKviews worthing online newspaper.
This online publication is published daily at http://paper.li/f-1320055837.
100 Dominion Road
Worthing
BN14 8JP
Tel: 01903200948
www.alfsmotorcycles.co.uk/
For all your biking needs from Novice to expert and racing, we provide an excellent service given by motorbike enthusiasts.
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Worthing
BN14 8JE
Tel: 01903 212550
sussexpartyshop.co.uk
info@sussexpartyshop.co.uk
Sussex Party shop stock and supply an extensive range of Balloons, party and event accessories for Weddings, Birthdays, anniversary’s, Christenings, stag & hen nights and much more all under one roof.
]]>9 Leeds Close
Worthing
BN13 3QP
Tel: 01903695194
www.markwild.co.uk
Mark started performing magic in 1979 and has performed shows for both adults and children on many occasions. In 1994, Mark successfully became a full time professional entertainer fulfilling engagements throughout the country
]]>9 Chute Way
Worthing
BN13 3EA
Tel: 01903694202
Good Scents. Essential Oils, Natural Therapies, Aromatherapy, Natural Remedies, Aromatherapy Products, Massage and Therapy Supplies.
]]>21 Salvington Gardens
Worthing
BN13 2BH
Tel: 01903692178
We are members of the National Inspection Council For Electrical Installation and Contracting. We offer a service for all of your electrical needs. Contact us for more details.
]]>1 Selden Parade
Worthing
BN13 2HL
Tel: 01903263783
Choosing the right salon is extremely important for everyone. We are members of The Good Salon Guide – an excellent way of ensuring that you are visiting a professional salon. Professional salons should always provide free consultations and hair care advice and if possible this should be done prior to your appointment. Contact us for further details.
]]>9 Welland Close
Worthing
BN13 3NR
Tel: 01903 265346
Professional carpet Rug and Upholstery cleaning services using Eco-Friendly products covering Worthing, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Chichester, Shoreham, Southwick, Ashington, Pulborough, Storrington, Billingshurst, Southwater, Horsham, areas of West Sussex.We are members of The National Carpet Cleaners Association and West Sussex Trading Standards’ Buy With Confidence Scheme.
]]>76 Edmonton Road
Worthing
BN13 2TB
Tel: 01903 535209
Hi, I am a mobile Beauty Therapist and a Makeup Artist. I am fully qualified with over 8 years experience within the beauty industry. I provide many treatments all within the comfort of your own home! Please contact me for more information or visit my website.
]]>7 Chesley Close
Worthing
BN13 2TN
Tel: 0845 644 3808
We aim to provide the best quality Chauffeur Driven Wedding Cars throughout Sussex. We cover Arundel, Brighton & Hove, Burgess Hill, Chichester, Eastbourne, Hastings, Haywards Heath, Horsham, Lewes, Littlehampton, Worthing and all places in between. Our range of Cars include Saloons, Limousines & Convertibles from famous names such as Beauford, Bentley, Cadillac, Chrysler, Daimler, Ford, Jaguar, Lincoln, Mercedes, Rolls Royce and Volkswagen
]]>Wild Waters
19 Squadron Drive
Worthing
BN13 3SL
Tel: 01903537426
A well-established company with over 35 years’ experience in lake and pond construction, restoration and creative landscaping.
Just Pianos
4 Greyfriars Close
Worthing
BN13 2DR
Tel: 01903261804
Just Pianos specialises in just pianos. Based in Worthing West Sussex we import, sell, hire, repair, repolish, and recondition a large range of pianos. We can also help with piano removals. Eastablished for 23 years we offer a friendly and effecient service.
Anicare Veterinary Group Gorin
Tel: 01903503898
46 Parklands Avenue
Worthing
BN12 4NH
Tel: 01903246480
Color Me Beautiful (CMB) Image Consultants work with millions of women around the world: women on large and small budgets; mothers whether at home or working; students, executives and politicians; nuns and actresses; artists, athletes and the handicapped. The last two decades have taught all women that they need not take second place to anyone, that they matter in their own right – and that their image is important. It is thrilling to see what transformations can be achieved.
]]>123 Childcare Ltd
37 Alinora Avenue
Worthing
BN12 4LZ
Tel: 01903603183
Looking for a nanny in Sussex? Then call us on 01903 603183 or 01403 713770. 123 Childcare Ltd, the service and support you deserve!
Goring Hall Hospital
Worthing
BN12 5AT
Tel: 0845 912 1000
Experienced Hip Surgeons, Physiotherapists, Muskuloskeltal Radiologists. Restoring the enjoyment of walking
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Worthing
BN12 6NZ
Tel: 01903 506715
Goring Hall Hospital
Worthing
BN12 5AT
Tel:
Recommended Worthing Physiotherapists, Osteopaths and Alternative Therapies
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Worthing
BN12 6AY
Tel: 01903 533479
Cheeky Chops Toys is a new business set up to sell quality educational and most of all fun toys for children from birth to pre-school. They are a small family run business that prides themselves on offering environmentally friendly and ethical toys including wooden toys from sustainable forests, fair trade dolls and organic comforters.
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BN12 4BS
Tel:
At Your Fashion Jewellery we hand pick Jewellery & Accessories from around the world to provide you with the best contemporary Style at very affordable prices. From Bracelets to Handbags, Your Fashion Jewellery has a fantastic selection of eye catching Fashion Accessories, which will transform any outfit in to looking a million dollars! Visit us at www.yourfashionjewellery.com
]]>284 Goring Road
Worthing
BN12 4PE
Tel: 01903 367323
Shop selling wide range of cake decorating and sugar craft products, helium balloons and party ware, beads na findings, bakeware and lots more…
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19-21 Chapel Road
Worthing
BN11 1EG
Tel: 01903238040
Fludes Carpets are the longest established retailer in Sussex. Specialists in fitted carpets of a high standard. Stockists of 100% wool carpets, hand made & machine made oriental rugs, wood laminates & vinyls.
Flat Line
50 Crescent Road
Worthing
BN11 1RQ
Tel: 01903239525
F W Shaw & Sons Ltd
82 Teville Road
Worthing
BN11 1UY
Tel: 01903237174
13 Liverpool Gardens
Worthing
BN11 1RY
Tel: 01903216999
Established in 1994 we are a strong international team consisting of people who have successfully worked together on a number of high-tech projects, creating a technical excellence with a common cause. We encourage intellectual exchange to produce a new higher level of thinking, required in the application of technology today.
]]>12 Montague Place
Worthing
BN11 3BG
Tel: 01903215999
Edward Hayes Solicitors have been protecting the rights of individuals for over forty years. We are proud of our reputation as a ‘strong’ law firm, and specialise in the defence of major crime and serious fraud throughout the UK. Ideally placed at key locations on the South Coast with excellent links to London and all major centres. We are members of the Serious Fraud Panel and are cited in The Legal 500.
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St Georges Clinic
Worthing
BN11 2DS
Tel: 01903200748
We are members of the General Osteopathic Council. Osteopathy is an established recognised system of diagnosis and treatment, which lays its main emphasis on the structural and functional integrity of the body. It is distinctive by the fact that it recognises that much of the pain and disability from which we suffer stems from abnormalities in the function of the body structure as well as damage caused to it by disease. Contact us for more details.
Wortax Co
65 Victoria Road
Worthing
BN11 1UN
Tel: 01903235522
PO Box 4253
Worthing
BN11 1BH
Tel: 08000926348
If You Are Looking For A Mobile Disco, Band, Karaoke Or Any Form Of Entertainment, Then look no further. We can provide most forms of entertainment, many of which appear on our website. Entertainment can be provided for all types of event anywhere in the UK.
]]>Dr R Sale
33 Mill Road
Worthing
BN11 5DS
Tel: 01903247257
We support the Denplan Care Programme. It is the only programme to have been fully accredited by the British Dental Association. All Denplan member dentists must take part in the Denplan Practice Quality Programme every 3 years. It enables Denplan practice teams to stay abreast of current legislation and accepted good practice. Contact us for your dental requirements.
1A Ambrose Place
Worthing
BN11 1PZ
Tel: 01903235026
DMH is a full service firm offering commercial services structured around clients’ markets primarily in: the technology, media and telecoms; land development; arts and leisure; retail and public service sectors. In addition a wide range of private client services are offered.
]]>Sussex Chambers
Worthing
BN11 1TA
Tel: 01903823232
We are members of the Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors. For all of your surveying needs contact us.
]]>The Steyne
Worthing
BN11 3DU
Tel: 01903236103
Chatsworth has an attractive Georgian Frontage and is situated in a terrace overlooking Steyne Gardens and the sea, near the town centre of Worthing. The interior retains its early charm yet has all the features expected in a modern first class hotel, and our guests are assured of a high standard of comfort and facilities and most importantly a friendly efficient service.
]]>153 Tarring Road
Worthing
BN11 4HE
Tel: 01903216141
Antique dealers specialising in Victorian and Edwardian household furniture, available restored or in original condition. Reasonable prices
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Worthing
BN11 5QT
Tel: 0704 401 6622
Providing attractive websites that get the results you want. Plus affordable email, domain registration and website hosting solutions. The complete package for small businesses with big ideas!
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70A Brighton Road
Worthing
BN11 2EN
Tel: 01903234343
We are members of the Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors. For all of your surveying needs contact us.
Burt Brill & Cardens
Ridgeworth House
Worthing
BN11 1SF
Tel: 01903 235196
Our offices at Brighton and Worthing serve a wide range of clients, including private individuals, companies, schools, charities, churches, trusts and a university.
Bunce’s Home Hardware
112 Chapel Road
Worthing
BN11 1BX
Tel: 01903235321
Boundary Networks Ltd
Unit 45
Worthing
BN11 4LL
Tel: 019036056595
Our aim is to provide high quality telecommunication solutions for the IT industry. With access to many manufacturers around the UK we are able to meet your networking criteria with expertise in the right approach from design to implementation.
48-52 Montague Street
Worthing
BN11 3HE
Tel: 01903217316
The UK’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer Boots UK is a member of Alliance Boots, an international pharmacy-led health and beauty group.
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Worthing
BN11 3DF
Tel: 01903229999
We at Bennett Griffin & Partners Solicitors specialise in commercial law, conveyancing, licensing, criminal law, landlord, wills, debt, injury, child care, trusts, probate, civil, employment and family law.
]]>1 Liverpool Terrace
Worthing
BN11 1TA
Tel: 01903217712
We assist companies, creditors, financial institutions and individuals on all aspects of financial restructuring and corporate recovery.
]]>73 Chapel Rd
Worthing
BN11 1HU
Tel: 01903239658
2 The Broadway
Worthing
BN11 3EG
Tel: 01903206672
11 The Manor
Worthing
BN11 4SJ
Tel: 08000560125
We have 14 years experience in sanitary ware renovation, both commercially and domestically, as well as solving energy-saving problems. All work carried out by BRMS is undertaken by skilled technicians on-site, whether in the UK or abroad, to the high specifications that have established us as a leading supplier in our field. BRMS is an approved member of the Fair Trades regulatory body, having been independently assessed for quality and service.
]]>Tarring Osteopathic Practice
Worthing
BN11 4HE
Tel: 01903235018
We are members of the General Osteopathic Council. Osteopathy is an established recognised system of diagnosis and treatment, which lays its main emphasis on the structural and functional integrity of the body. It is distinctive by the fact that it recognises that much of the pain and disability from which we suffer stems from abnormalities in the function of the body structure as well as damage caused to it by disease. Contact us for more details.
]]>Ayres Bright & Vickers
Bishopstone 36 Crescent Road
Worthing
BN11 1RL
Tel: 01903234552
Ayres Bright Vickers is a progressive firm of Chartered Accountants based in Worthing on the South Coast. The firm is committed to providing a high quality and personal service to both growing businesses and individuals. It possesses two main strengths in commercial advice and thorough tax planning
29 Pembroke Avenue
Worthing
BN11 5QS
Tel: 01903526385
Atlas Trade Finance provide International Trade Finance and Credit Protection solutions to companies worldwide who are shipping to buyers in North America and Europe. We also work with UK importers who require Letter of Credit and Post Shipment finance.
]]>110 Montague Street
Worthing
BN11 3HG
Tel: 01903238523
Specialist Suppliers of Exclusive Lighting
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7 Malvern Close
Worthing
BN11 2HE
Tel: 01903208131
We are members of the National Inspection Council For Electrical Installation and Contracting. We offer a service for all of your electrical needs. Contact us for more details.
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5 Treveor Close
Worthing
BN11 4AD
Tel: 01903823377
Ace of Spades offers various garden maintenance and landscaping services
]]>34 Railway Approach
Worthing
BN11 1UR
Tel: 01903530624
Your Local Ukviews Agent for Worthing is Dave McPherson.
My name is Dave McPherson and I have lived in Worthing for over 40 years.
I am married to Viv and have two children, Kim and Nicola . I also have a granddaughter Alicia Marie and a grandson Alfie David.
My working background has mostly been in Sales, Marketing and Finance and now currently run Worthing UK Views which is the Local Community Website for the Worthing Area.
I have several Hobbies and Interests which includes Personal Fitness, Football, Swimming and Music. I also do Voluntary work for St. Symphorian’s Church, Durrington where I am also their Publicity Officer and Deputy Warden. Some of my time is also devoted to fundraising for a Heart Charity.
I do hope you find this website of interest and that you can get involved in some way by placing content such as Local Events, writing articles on almost any subject you like or if you have a business receive a Free Listing. We also have a Forum. Share your business ideas and views with others, keep up to date with local news and views and also use the Forum to place notices or chat.
If you need to contact me about any of the above please use the ‘contact us’ page.
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The Gangsters are a 4 piece band comprising of:
Andy: Guitar & Vocals—–Mark: Saxophone
Micky: Drums—–Mick: Bass
Their style of music suits every occasion with music covering a wide blend of SKA, SOUL, and ROCK N ROLL, and include hits from Madness, The Specials, Bad Manners, The Blues Brothers,
and popular and well known rock n roll and soul classics.
LET THE BOYS PAY YOU A VISIT AND YOU’LL BE BLOWN AWAY.
This versatile, professional band provides their audience with a great visual and musical performance dressed in their smart, stylish black suit and shades.
Their energy on stage is contagious, and having performed at both European and UK venues their popularity continues to grow.
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The gangsters are on the wanted list, and are highly sought after. They are available for:
Business Functions, Corporate Entertainment, Dinner Dances, Weddings, Birthdays, Pubs or Clubs
Early booking is recommended for any date to avoid disappointment.
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26 – THE COB & PEN PUB (LITTLEHAMPTON)
FRIDAY MARCH 11 – THE BLACK HORSE PUB (ROTTINGDEAN)
SATURDAY MARCH 12 – NEW ELTON SOCIAL CLUB (LONDON)
FRIDAY MARCH 18 – THE JOYFULL WHIPPET PUB (LANCING)
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Dates may be subject to change so please contact us or the venue to confirm.
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For any more information about THE GANGSTERS please call or email us.
Tel: 01903 241748
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]]>I have been a carpenter and joiner now for about 27 years, and have a city and guilds certificate, which I passed with distinction. I have always been interested in woodwork as far back as I can remember I made boxes and things to play with using my Dad’s old tools. I take great pride in my work and always strive for quality and perfection. My priority is to ensure complete satisfaction for the customer, to give you what you want, not what I want, offering the benefit of my experience to ensure practicality and quality, bringing your ideas to life.
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Worthing
West Sussex
BN14 8BX
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Communities in Worthing
The borough of Worthing has about 50 active Christian places of worship. There is also a mosque, which follows the Sunni tradition. There are also 16 former church buildings which are either disused or in secular use.
Worthing’s first Anglican church, St Paul’s, was built in 1812; previously, worshippers had to travel to the ancient parish church of Broadwater. John Rebecca‘s classical-style building became structurally unsound and closed in 1995. The austere design was well regarded at first, but architectural writers have since criticised it. Its importance derives from its status as “the spiritual and social centre around which the town developed”. Residential growth in the 19th century growth led to several other Anglican churches opening in the town centre: Christ Church was started in 1840 and survived a closure threat in 2006; Arthur Blomfield‘s St Andrew’s Church brought the controversial “High Church“ form of worship to the town in the 1880s—its “Worthing Madonna” icon was particularly notorious; and Holy Trinity church opened at the same time but with less dispute. Other Anglican churches were built in the 20th century to serve new residential areas such as High Salvington and Maybridge; and the ancient villages which were absorbed into Worthing Borough between 1890 and 1929 each had their own church: Broadwater’s had Saxon origins, St Mary’s at Goring-by-Sea was Norman (although it was rebuilt in 1837) St Andrew’s at West Tarring was 13th century, and St Botolph‘s at Heene and St Symphorian’s at Durrington were rebuilt from medieval ruins. All of the borough’s churches are in the Rural Deanery of Worthing and the Diocese of Chichester.
The first Roman Catholic church in Worthing opened in 1864; the centrally located St Mary of the Angels Church has since been joined by others at East Worthing, Goring-by-Sea and High Salvington. All are in Worthing Deanery in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton. Protestant Nonconformism has a long history in Worthing: the town’s first place of worship was an Independent chapel. Methodists, Baptists, the United Reformed Church and Evangelical Christian groups each have several churches in the borough, and other denominations represented include Christadelphians, Christian Scientists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons and Plymouth Brethren. The Salvation Army have been established for more than a century, but their arrival in Worthing prompted large-scale riots involving a group called the Skeleton Army. These continued intermittently for several years in the 1880s.
Worthing’s Churches Together organisation, currently chaired by Nigel O’Dwyer, encourages ecumenical work and links between the town’s churches. Church leaders meet regularly to pray for the town and to organise events together through PrayerNet. A townwide youth service, CrossRoads, brings together young people from all denominations. New Song Cafe performs a similar function for the town’s church musicians. Other Christian organisations include Worthing Churches Homeless Projects and Street Pastors. In October 2009, a Mission Festival Weekend was held to celebrate the range of mission agencies based in Worthing; the centrepiece was a parade from Worthing Pier to St Paul’s Church.
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The borough of Worthing has five railway stations. From east to west, these are East Worthing, Worthing, West Worthing, Durrington-on-Sea and Goring-by-Sea. All are on the West Coastway Line, which takes a straight east–west route through the area, and all are managed and operated by the Southern train operating company.
East Worthing opened in September 1905 as Ham Bridge Halt and was renamed in 1949. It retained a ticket office until the 1990s, but is now unstaffed. The town’s main station, Worthing (formerly Worthing Central), is 0.9 miles (1.4 km) west. It was opened on 24 November 1845, but the present structure dates from 1909. The old station building, further east, was preserved and is now listed at Grade II. West Worthing station, a further 0.8 miles (1.3 km) on, opened in 1889 to serve new residential development north of Heene. The main building is Italianate. Before Durrington-on-Sea, another 0.8 miles (1.3 km) west, are train carriage stabling facilities, sheds and sidings. Durrington-on-Sea, which was almost renamed Field Place in 1947 in reference to an 18th-century house nearby, opened in 1937. Goring-by-Sea is 0.9 miles (1.4 km) further west and dates from 1846. All stations have frequent daily services provided by Southern, to destinations such as London, Croydon, Gatwick Airport, Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton. Worthing station also receives occasional long-distance trains operated by First Great Western.
Rail travel became quicker and more convenient from 1 January 1933, when the route between West Worthing and Brighton was electrified. Electric trains reached Durrington and Goring in 1938. Freight traffic has declined in importance, but Worthing, West Worthing and Goring had goods yards until the 1960s; West Worthing’s supported the town’s market gardening industry for many years.
There are plans for Worthing to have a direct hourly link to the international station at London St Pancras and on to Cambridge as part of the £5 billion Thameslink Programme. Originally envisaged to be completed in 2000, the project is now provisionally scheduled to be completed in 2015
via Transport in Worthing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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The closest airport to Worthing is Shoreham Airport, about 5 miles (8.0 km) to the east in the district of Adur. It was the first licenced airfield in Britain when it opened in 1911. In 1933 it was bought by a committee, redesignated the Brighton, Hove and Worthing Municipal Airport, and opened under this name on 13 June 1936. London Gatwick Airport is about 28 miles (45 km) away. Seaplanes often took off from Worthing beach in the early 20th century
via Transport in Worthing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Worthing is served by several major roads. The A24 runs to Horsham, Dorking, Leatherhead and London; the A27 serves Brighton and Portsmouth; and the A259 runs along the coast to Littlehampton, Chichester, Brighton, Hastings and Folkestone. The A27’s predecessor was the Roman road between Chichester and Brighton. The present route, south of this ancient road, became established in the 17th century. The borough has a road network of more than 180 miles (290 km).
Worthing’s remoteness from London and the major roads and coach routes of Sussex was alleviated in 1803, when a turnpike was opened between the seafront and West Grinstead via Findon. A tollgate stood near the present Teville Gate shopping centre between 1804 and 1845. Other tollgates in Goring, Heene and East Worthing served later turnpikes in those areas.
Until 1803, the nearest boarding point for stagecoaches was Steyning, but coaches ran regularly to London soon after the turnpike opened. The initial service of three per week in summer only was upgraded to a daily service all year, leaving at 7.00am. The journey took about seven hours and cost 11/- (£40 as of 2011) for an uncovered seat. Coaches also ran to Brighton and Arundel, and by 1832 there were 24 departures and arrivals daily, serving destinations all over the south of England.
James Town, who was closely involved with the early 19th-century coaching industry, became Worthing’s leading horse-bus operator in the late 19th century, after the success of the railway caused coaching to decline. Other businessmen provided competition, and by 1900 horse-drawn buses served all parts of the town. From 1904, motorised buses superseded these: the Sussex Motor Road Car Company and its successor the Worthing Motor Omnibus Company ran local and long-distance from garages near the railway station. By 1909, Worthing Motor Services Ltd had formed; their fleet was 15 strong. Southdown Motor Services, formed in 1915 and later nationalised, survived with that identity until deregulation in 1986, after which Stagecoach Group acquired its routes and fleet.
Worthing’s local bus services, and longer-distance routes to Midhurst, Brighton and Portsmouth, are still run by Stagecoach’s South Downs division. Metrobus operate a route to Crawley; Worthing-based Compass Bus have routes to Angmering, Chichester, Henfield and Lancing; and Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company operates evening and night services from Brighton.
West Sussex County Council and the South East England Regional Transport Board have proposed a rapid bus corridor with frequent services along the Sussex coast. The Coastal Expressway will have a priority section between Worthing and Brighton. If successful, the route would be extended westwards towards Portsmouth. Buses would have priority at traffic lights and major junctions.
Worthing Coaches, a division of haulage and travel company Lucketts Travel Group, is based in West Worthing. Day trips and longer holidays by coach, and private hire of vehicles, are offered.
An experimental “tramocar” service was started in 1924. This used small single-decker vehicles manufactured by Shelvoke and Drewry. The first tramocars had solid wheels, open sides and a tiller instead of a conventional steering wheel; later models were fully enclosed and had pneumatic tyres. The initial service along the promenade was provided by two vehicles, but by the time Southdown Motor Services took over Tramocars Ltd’s operations in 1938 there were 15 tramocars and a network of routes across Worthing. The last vehicle was withdrawn from service in 1942.
A bureaucratic oversight meant that the borough council passed a bill to allow the development of a tramway network in Worthing. Between 1901 and 1903, The British Electric Traction Company sought permission to open tram routes between Hove, Worthing and Littlehampton. The council passed a bill to prevent this by ensuring that only they could authorise such a development, although they had no intention of doing so. The bill was never repealed
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]]>People who drink beer or spirits moderately – which is less than every day – or who drink only wine, do not run the same risks.
Researchers say they were shocked by the findings, which show a direct link between heavy drinking and an increased risk for esophageal, stomach, colon, liver, pancreatic, lung and prostate cancers. The greatest risk was for esophageal cancer, with a sevenfold increase, but heavy drinkers also face an 80 per cent increased risk for colon cancer, and 50 per cent for lung cancer.
The researchers, from the University of Montreal, used data originally collected in the 1980s for a cancer study in the city.
(Source: Cancer Detection and Prevention, 2009; 32: 352-62).
via Daily beer and spirits drinking increases cancer risk sevenfold | What Doctors Don’t Tell You.
]]>The sweetener causes liver and lung cancers, and, not surprisingly, the risk increases with the amount of aspartame you consume, say researchers from the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Centre, in Bologna, Italy.
They made the discovery when they fed laboratory mice and rats with aspartame from pre-birth and until their death.
(Source: American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2010; 53: 1197-1206).
via Aspartame sweetener causes cancer, researchers confirm | What Doctors Don’t Tell You.
]]>The sweetener causes liver and lung cancers, and, not surprisingly, the risk increases with the amount of aspartame you consume, say researchers from the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Centre, in Bologna, Italy.
They made the discovery when they fed laboratory mice and rats with aspartame from pre-birth and until their death.
(Source: American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2010; 53: 1197-1206).
via Aspartame sweetener causes cancer, researchers confirm | What Doctors Don’t Tell You.
]]>Research earlier this year showed that the juice extended exercise time among athletes by 16 per cent – but the same researchers have discovered that the elderly or those with a health problem can enjoy similar benefits.
In a new study, researchers at the University of Exeter discovered that the juice helped people use less oxygen when walking, reducing the effort by 12 per cent.
The juice widens the blood vessels, which lowers blood pressure and allows more blood to flow, and also reduces the amount of oxygen needed by muscles.
(Source: Journal of Applied Physiology, 2010; doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01070.2010).
via Beetroot juice helps ill and elderly enjoy a more active life | What Doctors Don’t Tell You.
]]>Researchers made the discovery when they researched the ‘placebo effect’, a standard procedure in drugs research where the patient is given a ‘sugar pill’ instead of the drug, but is not told what he’s been given. The placebo is supposed to eliminate the possibility of positive thinking, and so any beneficial effect beyond that must be down to the drug itself.
But researchers from Harvard Medical School wanted to know if the placebo effect still worked when the patient knows he is taking a useless sugar pill. To find out, they gave placebo pills to 40 IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) patients, while another 40 were given nothing at all. The placebo group was told the tablets were sugar pills, and even the container had the word ‘placebo’ printed on it.
Yet after three weeks, 59 per cent of the placebo reported a significant improvement in their symptoms compared with 35 per cent of those who were not given the placebo. In other words, nearly double the number who took a placebo improved – and to an extent that was equivalent to that expected from a powerful IBS drug.
Researcher Ted Kaptchuk was baffled by the results, but thinks the placebo effect has more to do with medical ritual than merely positive thinking – even when the brain knows it is being deceived.
(Source: PLoS ONE, 2010; 5: e15591).
via Placebo research discovers our mind is more powerful than drugs | What Doctors Don’t Tell You.
]]>The faster you walk, the longer you live, researchers have found after studying the walking speeds of 34,485 people aged 65 years and older.
The difference in walking speed becomes especially significant once you reach the age of 75, say researchers from the University of Pittsburgh. While the average walking speed is around 0.8 meters (2.6 feet) a second, those who walked at the faster tempo of 1 meter (3.3 feet) a second were up to 87 per cent more likely to be alive 10 years later if male, and 91 per cent if female.
The researchers say that walking speed is as good a predictor of longevity as medical history – such as blood pressure, obesity and chronic disease – and lifestyle choices, such as smoking.
(Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2011; 305: 93).
via The faster you walk, the longer you live, say researchers | What Doctors Don’t Tell You.
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Worthing, a town with borough status in the English county of West Sussex, has 212 buildings with listed status. The Borough of Worthing covers an area of 8,030 acres (3,250 ha) on the south coast of England, facing the English Channel. The town’s development in the early 19th century coincided with nearby Brighton’s rise as a famous, fashionable resort, and Worthing became a quiet seaside town with a large stock of Victorian buildings. Residential growth in the 20th century absorbed nearby villages, and older houses, churches and mansions became part of the borough. The Town and Country Planning Act 1947, an act of Parliament effective from 1948, introduced the concept of “listing” buildings of architectural and historical interest, and Worthing Borough Council nominated 90 buildings at that time. More have since been added, but others have been demolished. As of 2009, Worthing has three buildings of Grade I status, 11 listed at Grade II*, 196 of Grade II status and three at the equivalent Grade C.In England, a building or structure is defined as “listed” when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of “special architectural or historic interest” by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (a successor to the 1947 act). English Heritage, a non-departmental public body, acts as an agency of this department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. There are three grades of listing status. Grade I, the highest, is defined as being of “exceptional interest”; Grade II* is used for “particularly important buildings of more than special interest”; and Grade II, the lowest, is used for buildings of “special interest”. Some Anglican churches are still graded according to an old system in which Grades A, B and C were equivalent to I, II* and II respectively.
History of listed buildings and conservation in Worthing
From its origins as a fishing village, Worthing grew into a seaside resort in the early 19th century on the strength of royal patronage, the positive effect of nearby Brighton, the excellent climate and new road links to London. Land was quickly sold for speculative developments such as Liverpool Terrace and Park Crescent individual residences such as Beach House and Warwick House, attractions like the Theatre Royal and churches such as St Paul’s and Christ Church. Until the postwar Labour government passed the Town and Country Planning Act in 1947, there was no official system governing the preservation of historically significant buildings, and the rapid expansion of the town from the late 19th century onwards resulted in urban decay affecting the old town centre and demands to allow the clearance of buildings considered “obsolete and derelict”.
Historically, despite the limited protection offered by listed status, the borough has had a poor record on conserving buildings of historic interest; architectural historian Ian Nairn described it as an “exasperating town … full of [architecturally] ignoble endings”. A 1947 plan by Charles Cowles-Voysey proposing the complete demolition and redevelopment of central Worthing was never implemented, but piecemeal changes since then (especially during the 1960s) have had a similar effect in removing many historically significant buildings. Indifference on the part of residents has been suggested: the demolition in 1970 of the old Theatre Royal—described as a “very precious survival” five years earlier—went ahead with no opposition. A conservation society was formed in 1973—much later than in similar towns; despite low levels of public support, it successfully saved Beach House from demolition in the late 1970s.
Listed buildings demolished or lost to redevelopment in Worthing include the old rectory at Broadwater, West Tarring’s original Church House, most of the Humphrys Almshouses, the old Theatre Royal and the adjacent Omega Cottage.
Houses and commercial buildings—in some cases converted to other uses—make up many of Worthing’s listed buildings, and several churches also feature. Other structures with listed status include an ornate cast-iron lamp-post—the only survivor of more than 100 installed when Worthing first received electricity, and saved from demolition in 1975; a K6 telephone kiosk in the Steyne, a seafront square; an 18th-century dovecote on a site where one has existed since the 13th century; and a recent addition: a 1989 sculpture by Elisabeth Frink consisting of four gigantic male heads cast in bronze and set on a stuccoed loggia.
Delistings and anomalies
One of Worthing’s earliest and most important hotels was Warne’s Hotel. It was built as a five-house block called York Terrace in the 1820s, reputedly by John Rebecca. It was listed at Grade II on 11 October 1949. In the 1870s, the hotel was enlarged when an adjacent terrace of houses was taken over. This was listed separately, also at Grade II, on 21 May 1976. The hotel closed in 1985, and efforts to conserve it were thwarted when it was gutted by fire in 1987. Both parts of the building were demolished in 1992. The 1870s corner block was delisted (removed from the statutory list) on 19 October 1998, but the main block has not been officially delisted.
Most of the houses in Warwick Place, a short street leading off the Brighton Road, are listed, but No. 3 Warwick Place has lost its status. The three-storey cobbled flint building’s structural features include a bay window and a cornice supported by a modillion. It was listed at Grade II on 21 May 1976 and delisted on 1 August 2000.
The town had an Odeon cinema between 1934 and 1988, when it was demolished. It stood at the head of Liverpool Terrace, and was built in the Art Deco style with a prominent belvedere. The 1,600-capacity building cost £40,700. It was listed at Grade II on 26 March 1987, after its closure, but was removed from the statutory list on 27 July 1987.
On Marine Parade, numbers 66 and 67—part of the former Trafalgar Terrace—were listed in 1974. The four-storey houses dated from the early 19th century, and were bow-fronted and stuccoed. They were subsequently demolished, and a modern block of flats now stands on the site. They have not been officially delisted.
St Mary’s Farmhouse in Durrington had two attendant barns, which were listed separately from the house (along with its front garden wall) to reflect their architectural value as a group. After the farmhouse was damaged by arsonists in 1978, it was saved from threatened demolition, but the barns were knocked down. One lay diagonally across the southwest corner of the farmhouse grounds; it was built mainly of flint and had a hipped roof of thatch. The other, of similar materials but with a partly gabled roof with a weatherboarded exterior, stood south of the house. An adjacent outbuilding, with a pentice roof, was included in its listing. Despite their demolition, they have not been officially delisted.
English Heritage’s former listing system for Anglican churches, in which Grades A, B and C were used instead of I, II* and II respectively, has not been eliminated completely. St Andrew’s (central Worthing), St Botolph’s and St George’s Churches are graded C instead of II. St Mary’s Church at Broadwater was originally listed at Grade B, but has since been upgraded to Grade I.
Castle Goring and its associated buildings are very close to the border with the neighbouring district of Arun. Castle Goring Lodge was incorrectly classified by English Heritage as being in the civil parish of Clapham in Arun, but Worthing Borough Council’s more recently updated listed building register correctly identifies its location as Worthing.
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Durrington is a neighbourhood of the Borough of Worthing in West Sussex, England. It is situated near the A27 road, 2.3 miles (3.7 km) northwest of the town centre.
Durrington means ‘Deora’s farmstead’, Deora presumably being the name of a Saxon settler. In common with many neighbouring settlements during the Saxon era, the local people also had land in the Weald, which would have been used for seasonal pasture for animals. Their land was at ‘Deoringa wic’ (modern-day Drungewick, in the parish of Loxwood).
Durrington was first recorded in 934 as a Saxon estate. In that year, King Athelstan granted some of the land to one of his thegns. By the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Robert le Sauvage—lord of the manor of nearby Broadwater—held the land. The civil and ecclesiastical parish was smaller than the Saxon estate: it extended for about 2 miles (3.2 km) from north to south and 0.7 miles (1.1 km) from east to west.
The Domesday survey recorded that Durrington had “a church, eight acres of meadow and a wood of ten hogs”. The church had existed since Saxon times, no later than the 11th century, but little is known of it: the structure was probably built of plaster, wattle and daub and thatch, in common with other churches of the era. It was dedicated to St Nicholas. In about 1265, the church was rebuilt and rededicated to Thomas à Becket. this defines it as a “nationally important” building of “special interest”. The new design, a simple two-cell building, had a 56 by 29 feet (17 × 8.8 m) nave and a 23 by 19 feet (7.0 × 5.8 m) chancel separated by a rood screen, above which was a crucifix. There was also a wall-mounted stone pulpit, a stone altar, a series of tall, pointed windows high in the walls, an unadorned stone font and a short wooden steeple—little more than an extended belfry—extending from the nave roof. The new church was still a chapelry of St Andrew’s Church at nearby West Tarring: this meant that it was served and administered by clergy from that church, and most of the parish’s tithes were paid to St Andrew’s. It was not an independent parish church.
In 1643, during the English Civil War, St Symphorian’s Church—Durrington’s Anglican church—was partially destroyed by Roundhead soldiers after the Royalist vicar had supposedly tried to gain support for the Royalist cause amongst his parishioners. The church remained ruined until 1915 when a new church was built, which included some of the original stones.
Durrington was also the location of the first civil partnership formed under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, taking place on the 5th December 2005 between Matthew Roche and Christopher Cramp at St Barnabas’ Hospice.
Durrington today
In 1992, the annual Durrington festival was founded by residents Dave Butler and Dave Collard. The festival is “a week long celebration of what Durrington has to offer”. The festival committee, composed of local residents and lead by Peter Bloxham, aims to “provide opportunities for a diverse range of performers, groups, charities and business to promote what is good about living and working in Durrington”. The latest festival (June 2009) featured “music, theatre, flowers and faith”. It was one week long and culminated in a carnival, fayre and fireworks display at Pond Lane Recreation Park.
via Durrington, West Sussex – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
]]>Park Crescent is an example of Georgian architecture in Worthing, England, designed in 1829 by Amon Henry Wilds, son of the architect Amon Wilds and constructed between 1831 and 1833. AH Wilds had previously worked on other large projects including the Kemp Town estate in nearby Brighton.
Arranged in a serpentine shape, the terrace overlooks thickly planted grounds of Amelia Park, in the manner of Bath. It is built on a slight ridge close to what was in the 1830s the edge of the town by the boundary with the neighbouring parish of Heene and would have overlooked fields, with views extending to the parish churches of Tarring and Goring. There are two cottages ornés, originally called north and south Swiss Cottages, and now a hotel. It is likely that Wilds intended the ‘alpine-style’ cottages to be a discovery on walks into the woods of Amelia Park.
Park Crescent comprises 14 houses, each originally having three floors together with servants’ quarters in the basement.
Initially planned to be given the name Royal Park Crescent, the Royal was dropped, perhaps when UK-wide recession stopped building in the 1830s. It had originally been intended to extend the building further to the west to line up with the Swiss cottages and take the terrace to 22 houses.
Park Crescent has given its name to Crescent Road, which runs southwards to the sea. Richmond Road, which runs east-west close to Park Crescent, was formerly known as Park Lane or Park Crescent Lane until it was renamed after the 6th Duke of Richmond.
Close to Park Crescent lies the site of some Roman burials from the 4th century, identified by coins of Diocletian (reigned 284–305) and Constantine I (reigned 306–337) which were found with them.
The building was given grade II* listed building status in 1949.
Triumphal arch
The triumphal arch at Park Crescent
Park Crescent is reached through a triumphal arch. The main archway, designed for carriages, contains the busts of four bearded men as atlantes. The two side arches, designed for pedestrians, each contain the busts of four young ladies as caryatids.
The busts were originally supplied by William Croggan of London, the cousin and successor to Eleanor Coade of the famous Coade Stone factory in Lambeth. They are not actually stone but are cast from moulds, using the special formula and process that Eleanor Coade perfected over her years as the working owner of Coade stone. Examples her architectural adornments can be found at key landmarks throughout the UK, including Buckingham Palace and Windsor castle.[citation needed]
Notable residents
* Vera Arlett, playwright and poet
* Anthony Copley Fielding, watercolour painter
* Thomas Dyer Edwardes, a passenger of the Titanic
via Park Crescent, Worthing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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(01903) 237978
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(01903) 233167
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(01903) 206088
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(01903) 232923
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(01903) 228070
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(01903) 238888
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(01903) 201623
]]>5 Bath Place
(01903) 216032
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(01903) 216677
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(01903) 235284
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(01903) 203011
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(01903) 236427
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(01903) 201541
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(01903) 239527
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(01903) 820972
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(01903) 238392
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(01903) 207099
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(01903) 529367
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]]>There is a good selection of traditional Fish and Chip shops in Worthing.
Blue Ocean Fish Restaurant
3 Arcade Buildings South Street
(01903) 523033
Chipwick
94 Brighton Road
(01903) 205060
Fish and Chips
74 Heene Road
(01903) 212455
Macari’s
4-7 Arcade Buildings
South Street
(01903) 520009
Silverthornes Fish Restaurant
113 Montague Street
(01903) 233998
The Tasty Plaice
63 Rowlands Road
(01903) 238678
10-11 Arcade Buildings
South Street
(01903) 239040
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(01903) 204397
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Beach House Park is a formal garden in Worthing, a town and local government district in West Sussex, England. Opened by Worthing Borough Council in 1924, the 9.57-acre (3.87 ha) park has formal lawns and flowerbeds, bowling greens of international standard, and a war memorial commemorating war pigeons. A café in the grounds was destroyed by fire in 2009.
History and facilities
Beach House, a Grade II*-listed Regency-style villa, was built in about 1820 by John Rebecca. It faced the beach on the English Channel coast, and its grounds extended northwards as far as the east–west Lyndhurst Road. In December 1922, Worthing Borough Council bought a section of these grounds (covering 9.57 acres (3.87 ha) between Brighton Road to the south and Lyndhurst Road to the north) for the benefit of the public. Formal gardens were laid out, and the park opened in early 1924.
The south (Brighton Road) end of the park is planted with shrubs, flowers and trees, while the northern section is given over to bowling greens, tennis courts and associated buildings. Trees run down the eastern and western boundaries, and surround the war pigeon memorial in the centre. The London Plane tree (Platanus × hispanica) is the predominant species; many were planted in 1992. There are also Cappadocian Maples (Acer cappadocicum). A herbaceous border runs along the north side of the formal gardens, separating them from the bowling greens. Formal flowerbeds line the pathways in the ornamental gardens and the central pathway from there through the bowling greens.
The park originally had two bowling greens. More were laid out in 1926, 1934 and 1967. Three tennis courts, toilets, a park attendant’s office, changing rooms and extra-large outdoor chessboards are also available
For many years, there was a café in the park. In July 2009, it was severely damaged in an arson attack, but reopened—only to be destroyed by another fire three months later.
Bowls
Bowls England’s headquarters face Lyndhurst Road.
Worthing Bowling Club was established in 1907 and was originally based at Homefield Park—the site of the town’s only bowling green. In 1924, when Beach House Park’s first two greens opened, the club moved there. By 1938, eight clubs had been founded in the park, and a pavilion had been built. In 1972, the second men’s Bowls World Championship was staged at Beach House Park, at which time another pavilion was added. Five years later, the third women’s World Championship was also held, and in 1979 the Masters Tournament took place. The men’s World Championship returned in 1992. All five greens have automatic irrigation facilities. As of 2011, four clubs are based at the park.
Bowls England, formerly the English Bowls Association, moved to the park in 1987 when it built its headquarters on the Lyndhurst Road side. Each summer, it organises the National Championships—an event which has taken place at Beach House Park every year since 1974.
Pigeon memorial
The war pigeon memorial was sculpted in 1949 and unveiled two years later.
In the centre of the formal gardens, there is a memorial to war pigeons: birds used during World War II to carry messages, explosives and other items, in some cases on secret missions. Described as “splendidly conceived and charming”, it is thought to be the only such memorial in Britain. The “Warrior Birds” memorial was promoted and commissioned by actress Nancy Price and members of the People’s Theatre in London. Local sculptor Leslie Sharp started work on the memorial in 1949, and it was unveiled on 27 July 1951 by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton.
As originally designed, the memorial consisted of a circular mound planted with shrubs and a rockery with streams and pools of water, two boulders with carved wording, and two stone pigeons. The pigeon sculptures have since been stolen and not replaced, and a fence has been added around the mound. One stone bears the words in memory of warrior birds who gave their lives on active service 1939–45 and for the use and pleasure of living birds; the other reads a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. this memorial is presented by Nancy Price and members of the people’s theatre, london. The line A bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter is a quote from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament (Ecc 10:20). A metal panel next to the entrance gate in the fence repeats most of the details from the first stone. The stones, which were quarried in the Forest of Dean, were refurbished and repainted in 1999, and Worthing Borough Council continues to maintain the memorial.
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Worthing has over 400 shops in the central shopping areas of Montague Street and South Streetthis makes Worthing the perfect venue for a great day out shopping.
On Wednesdays there is a vibrant market situated in Montague Street with many stalls offering a wide range of goods to add to the already large selection available from the High Street stores.
All the major High Street stores have a presence with Montague street a pedestrian only area which makes your shopping trip a safe and pleasurable experience.
Alongside the well known stores Worthing also hosts many local owned stores that offer excellent value and service.
There are also numerous cafes, restaurantes and bars to give you that well earned break from your shopping expedition with a vast selection of snacks, meals and drinks to cater for all tastes.
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Brooklands boating lake: By Bob Embleton
Brooklands Pleasure park and lake is situated at the Eastern end of Worthing on the Brighton coast road.
It has various facilities from play areas for the kids to a Golf course and Go-Kart track for the adults.
There is ample car parking and the park area has a total area of 45 acres including the 8 acre boating lake.
Brooklands is a great day out for all the family and there are also cafe facilities adjacent to the car park.
The beach is just over the road from Brooklands with another Park/ play area just a few hundred yards East at Lancing.
“Diddlyland”
Brooklands Pleasure Park
A259 Brighton Road, Worthing, West
Sussex, BN11 2HP
Tel: 07967 361847
Opening hours: 10.30am – 5pm All
year (Some facilities are seasonal or
weather permitting)
Travel the unique 1 mile “Diddlys” miniature train ride (the only one
in the U.K.) around the beautiful boating lake with its natural wild
fowl. Attractions include paddling pool, trike ride, trampolines,
bouncy castles, indoor ball pool, children’s play park, pony rides and
to finish the perfect day take a ride on the pirate motor boats. Fun
for all the family with parking available.
Brooklands Go-Karts
Brooklands Pleasure Park
A259 Brighton Road, Worthing, West
Sussex, BN11 2HP
Tel: 07867 762106
Website: www.brooklandsgokarts.co.uk
Opening hours: Weekends, School
Holidays and Bank Holidays throughout
the year (Weather permitting)
We are situated at Brooklands Pleasure Park between Lancing and
Worthing. The 280 metre track can be altered for all standards of
driving. We have a choice of 2 circuits, either the oval (this is less
demanding for beginners) or the full track for the advanced driver. We
also have 2 Kart sizes – Junior or Adult. We run Go Kart and Mini Moto
clubs throughout the year, these training clubs are an ideal way to train
and meet new people. There is also a Go-Kart party booking service.
Brooklands Golf Centre
Brooklands Pleasure Park
A259 Brighton Road, Worthing, West
Sussex, BN11 2HP
Tel: 01903 232270
Website: www.continental-landscapes.
co.uk/brooklands
Opening hours: 9am – Dusk
A superb 1152 yard, Par 3 course,
designed by former Ryder Cup star Dave Thomas that offers a
challenging round of golf. We have a separate pitch & putt course,
putting and training area, and are open all year to all.
The Connaught Theatre is an Streamline Moderne theatre in the centre of Worthing, in West Sussex, England. Built as the Picturedrome cinema in 1914, the venue was extended in 1935 and became the new home of the Connaught Theatre (established nearby in 1931). The theatre houses touring West End theatre productions, musicals, thrillers, dramas and children’s productions. Since 1987 it has been a dual use cinema/theatre with two screens, and has a seating capacity of 512. When it opened, it was a rare example of a conversion from a cinema to a theatre: the reverse was much more common in 1930s Britain, when many theatres became cinemas. The Ritz cinema (also known as Screen 2) at the Connaught is a venue for The End of the Pier International Film Festival.
History
The Connaught Theatre occupies the former Picturedrome cinema, which was built in 1914 on the site of Stanmore Lodge and opened in July of that year. Its seating capacity was 850 in a single tier, with four boxes at the rear, and the auditorium was octagonal. In 1926, Swiss impresario Carl Adolf Seebold, who owned other cinemas in Worthing and who had been the Picturedrome’s musical director since it opened, bought it.
In 1916, Connaught Buildings were built next to the cinema, and an entrance passageway was built from the street to the Picturedrome through the new building. The Connaught Buildings (and later Connaught Hall and Theatre) seem to have taken its name from Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathern and Earl of Sussex. The new premises housed the Connaught Hall, which in 1917 became a venue for vaudeville entertainment. It was licensed as a theatre in April 1931 by Walter Lindsay, formerly a theatre director in London; the first full season of theatre began in the autumn of 1932. Terence De Marney became director of Connaught and Bill Fraser became involved in the theatre.
The two venues coexisted until 1935; in that year the Worthing Repertory Company, which had been outgrowing the Connaught Buildings, moved next door to the Picturedrome, renamed the building the Connaught Theatre and commissioned an architect to extend the façade of the building in an Art Deco style. Carl Seebold contributed £60,000 (£3,088,000 as of 2011) towards the cost of the work. The first production, a play called Theatre Royal, was given on 30 September 1935; it formed the centrepiece of a special opening week programme, and was very successful.
The establishment of the Connaught in former cinema premises represented an unusual reversal of the contemporary tendency for theatres to be converted into cinemas—a trend seen throughout Britain in the 1930s.
A temporary closure during World War II was followed by a period in which the theatre was managed on Seebold’s behalf by a group associated with the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, who pursued a policy of blooding young actors who later became important figures in film, television and theatre. Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Charles Morgan and several others appeared at the theatre during this period. In the 1950s, Alan Ayckbourn appeared in several plays at the Connaught. In 1956 Winston Churchill visited the theatre to see his daughter Sarah perform in Terrence Rattigan‘s play Variation on a Theme. Harold Pinter acted at the Connaught under the stage name David Baron, moving to a house just a few yards from the theatre in Ambrose Place in the 1960s. Pinter’s first wife, actress Vivien Merchant acted at the Connaught during this period. Giles Cooper worked with Pinter at the Connaught. Robin Maugham wrote several plays which he directed and premiered at the Connaught, including The Claimant (1962) and Winter in Ischia (1964). Actress Marina Sirtis, perhaps best known for her role in Star Trek: The Next Generation, began her career in rep at the Connaught in 1976. Actor Robert Blythe has also worked in repertory theatre at the Connaught.
Ownership passed from Seebold to other commercial interests in April 1950, when he sold the lease for £35,000 (£894,000 as of 2011). The theatre began to struggle, and closed in 1966, but campaigners successfully petitioned Worthing Borough Council to buy and run it instead. Productions began again in 1967 one of the first performances was The Beggar’s Opera, the first opera seen in Worthing for 136 years and the capacity was increased to its present 512 seats when the auditorium was revamped in 1972. The council agreed to provide more funding for the theatre after it was forced to close temporarily on two more occasions in the 1970s. The remodelling in 1972 introduced film projection facilities, which have been used regularly since 1987.
Architecture
Originally designed by Eastbourne architect Peter Dulvey Stonham, the building was refurbished in 1933 to the plans of A.T. Goldsmith. His design added a new first-floor cocktail bar and lounge area to the original Picturedrome auditorium. Two years later the entrance foyer on Union Place was rebuilt in Moderne style, with two rendered storeys, parapeted, in three bays.
Facilities
The theatre has a licensed bar, cloakroom facilities, disabled facilities and parking.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Schools in Worthing are provided by West Sussex County Council and by a number of independent providers. Both Non-denominational and Church of England maintained schools are organised along three tier lines, with students transferring from a First school at age 8 to a Middle school, and then starting Secondary school at age 12. This system was introduced in 1973 as part of a move to reorganise schools to provide comprehensive education across West Sussex.
The local authority provides 22 primary schools (through a combination of first, middle and combined schools) and five secondary schools, alongside a primary and a secondary special school.
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Worthing’s residents are known as Worthingites, and it is situated at the foot of the South Down in West Sussex, Worthing is a seaside town on the south coast of England. It’s nearly fifty miles south of London, and ten miles west of the city of Brighton and Hove. With ancient origins in mining, it thrived as an agricultural and fishing hamlet until it began to receive wealthy visitors in the eighteenth century. It became a town in 1803 as the town was expanded with decadent developments like Liverpool Terrace and Park Crescent.Worthing today has a big service industry, particularly financial services. Large employers in the area include Glaxo Smith Kline, HM Revenue & Customs, Aviva and Southern Water. There is a busy centre of town with a number of retail outlets, restaurants and public houses.
There are three theatres and one of the country’s oldest cinemas. It is the most densely populated area in Sussex. There are over fifty Christian places of worship in Worthing, as well as a Sunni mosque and several disused churches. Worthing is a popular place for young families, thanks to 23 primary schools, six secondary schools and two colleges being located in the area.
Transport Links are good, commuters can take the A24 to London via Horsham, or the A27 running East-West to Brighton, Chichester and Portsmouth. There are five train stations in the area; East Worthing, West Worthing, Worthing, Durrington-on-Sea and Goring-by-Sea.
There are regular train service to London, Gatwick (the closest international airport), Portsmouth, Brighton and Southampton. Worthing is definitely one of the larger and well-facilitated towns on the south coast of England.
Worthing boasts an impressive two hundred and thirteen listed buildings including Castle Goring, St Mary’s Church, Archbishops Palace which are classified Grade I. There’s also Worthing Pier, Park Crescent, Beach House and many listed churches. Many structures use pale yellow bricks which have been made in the area since 1780, as well as local flint.
Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Ernest in Worthing, and there are many famous former residents, including many famous sportsmen and women. If you’re considering making the move to Worthing then perhaps you should try to get hold of a copy of the Worthing Herald and find a job in the local area. If you’re looking for a job in the services industry and appreciate the area’s rich cultural heritage, you could be in luck.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/real-estate-articles/worthing-in-west-sussex-3704832.html
Jack D Richardson
About the Author
Jack D Richardson writes on a number of subjects including BN11 flats, BN11 houses and BN11 estate agents.
Lying on the south coast of England, Worthing is situated on a mix of two beds of sedimentary rock. The large part of the town, including the town centre is built upon chalk (part of the Southern England Chalk Formation), with a bed of London clay found in a band heading west from Lancing through Broadwater and Durrington. There are no major rivers within the borough, however the culverted Teville Stream begins as a spring in what is now allotments in Tarring, runs along Tarring Road and Teville Road north of the town centre, passing to the east through Homefield Park and Davison High School before meeting the sea at Brooklands where the Broadwater Brook meets the sea. To the west and also in parts culverted, Ferring Rife rises in Durrington near Littlehampton Road, passing through Maybridge, then west of Ferring into the sea.
Being located in the South Coast Plain at the foot of the South Downs, some of the undeveloped land in the north of the borough is proposed to form part of the South Downs National Park. The west of the borough contains some ancient woodland at Titnore Wood. The development along the coastal strip is interrupted by strategic gaps at the borough boundaries in the east and west, each gap falling largely outside the borough boundaries. The southwest of the borough contains part of the Goring Gap, a protected area of fields and woodland between Goring and Ferring. To the east of Worthing lies the Sompting Gap, a protected area that lies between Worthing and Sompting. This area was formerly an inlet of the sea and it is here that the Broadwater Brook (also known as Sompting Brook) flows into Brooklands Park and on into the sea. Some of the reedbeds in the Sompting Gap at Lower Cokeham have been designated a Site of Nature Conservation Importance. The borough of Worthing contains no nature reserves: the nearest is Widewater Lagoon in Lancing.
]]>Broadwater is centred around a large triangular grassy area known as ‘Broadwater Green’. It is used during the year for various events and activities. A fair visits the Green every year in the early summer, and the Broadwater Festival, held in July, is centred on the green. Cricket is played throughout the summer, with a small cricket pavilion on the southern edge of the Green.
Broadwater Road runs south from the south east corner of the Green. There is a parade of shops including a traditional sweet shop, a cake decorating and party supplies shop, a florist, a small supermarket, a convenience store, a furniture shop, two hairdressers, a pharmacy, a pet shop, a few charity shops, a gun shop and a doctors surgery. An independent continues to trade despite competition from large local supermarkets. Broadwater is also home to some fast food outlets and two contemporary Indian restaurants. Two pubs are also located in the main parade of shops: a traditional pub, The Cricketers and a more contemporary style bar, The Broadwater.
At the southern end of the parade of shops is Broadwater Church. Two well known authors and naturalists, William Henry Hudson and Richard Jefferies are buried in Worthing and Broadwater Cemetery off of South Farm Road.
At this point, Broadwater Road continues southwards towards Worthing town centre and Broadwater Street East branches off to connect to Sompting Road. Another pub, Ye Olde House At Home is in the road along with another small row of shops and The Elms pub at the eastern end. The land to the north, as far as the A27, is residential. South Broadwater stretches in the opposite direction, also mainly residential.
There are seven schools in Broadwater, Broadwater Cofe First and Middle School, Downsbrook Middle School, Springfield First School, Whytemead First School, Bramber First School, Broadwater Manor private school and St Andrew’s C of E High School for boys.
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The Dome is an Edwardian building and one of the oldest working cinemas in England, and was opened in 1911 (Brighton’s Duke of York’s Picture House was opened in 1910). It was opened by a Swiss impresario named Carl Adolf Seebold. It was originally named The Kursaal — a German word translating as “cure hall”. The Kursaal was used as a health centre and entertainment complex by visitors to the seaside town. At the time it contained the Coronation Hall, which was used to for roller skating, exhibitions, concerts and events, and the Electric Theatre, the first cinema run for paying audiences in West Sussex.
Following the outbreak of World War I leading residents of the town objected to the German name and after a competition with a prize of £1.00, the Cinema was renamed “The Dome”.
Design and creation
Establishment of the Kursaal
Carl Adolf Seebold moved to Worthing in 1904, from Southend where his family had lived for several years. Seebold acquired the site of the future Dome in 1906.
Seebold began construction of the Kursaal in 1910, after he hired Theophilus Arthur Allen as architect for the sum of £4000. Similar businesses enterprises that functioned as both health spars and entertainment complexes existed on the Continent that were also named Kursaal and Seebold, originally Swiss, was presumably aware of these and used them as a road map for his enterprise.
Seebold’s Kursaal opened in 1911. At this time the site retained the extensive gardens of the previous site. Seebold’s additions were the Coronation Hall, a skating rink and the Electric Theatre, which displayed short, silent cartoons. The following year Seebold added an awning to cover the garden for all weather use.
The films Seebold showed in the Electric Theatre were sufficiently profitable that he converted the Coronation Hall so that it could serve as a second cinema screen in 1913.
The change of name
World War I broke out on 28 July 1914 and after casualties began to mount the residents became increasingly anti-German. To save his successful business, Seebold held a competition in 1915 for a new name. The grand prize was £1.00. In a retrospective published by The Argus (Brighton) on 4 September 2003 it is stated:
| The £1 prize was divided among the first four people to write in: Miss Mary Summers, of Church Walk; Mr W Tedder, of Lyndhurst Road; Miss F C Philpott, of York Road, and Thomas Chandler, of London Street. — From the archive http://www.theargus.co.uk © Newsquest Media Group 2003 |
The Dome
It was not until long after World War I had drawn to a close in 1918 that the Dome was converted into a proper, full time cinema. Seebold had arranged for a ranked floor to be added to the Coronation Hall as a temporary measure in 1914 but it was not until 1921 that the change was made permanent when the Dome was re-modelled by architect R. Kirksby for a sum of £8000. This area was to remain in continuous use as a cinema until the Dome was closed for refurbishment on 5 January 1999.
During the remodelling carried out by Mr Kirksby a plaster ceiling was added to the main theatre, along with a large, wood-panelled foyer and a polygonal ticket booth that remained in the building as of 2004. It was also at this time that the Electric Theatre was converted into a ballroom.
For some years the Dome had been the centre of a controversy in that Seebold showed films on Sunday, which was considered a violation of the Sabbath. Local clergymen and town councillors had been attempting to stop this practice for some time, but Magistrates upheld Seebold’s application to carry on.
Competition
It was during the 1920s that the Dome saw competition in the form of the Picturedrome, which is today known as the Connaught Theatre, Worthing. Seebold retaliated to his rival by opening the Rivoli cinema in 1924. By 1926 he owned the Picturedrome.
Seebold continued to enjoy a monopoly in the area until more cinemas opened in the 1930s. The Plaza opened in 1933 and the Odeon in 1934. In the days before television, cinema was extremely popular and the town could sustain five theatres.
Second World War
The Dome carried on, albeit in reduced circumstances, with essentially few changes until fear of German invasion in World War II caused it to briefly close. It reopened under a strict curfew and continued business, though not without incident.
A resident of Worthing recalled the following case of enemy action for a BBC history project.
| I was 14 and allowed to start work. I started working as a projectionist in the cinema, as a rewind boy, like an apprentice projectionist. I was working in the Dome Cinema, right on the sea front at Worthing. On the sea front there were anti aircraft guns manned by male soldiers. Also there were ATS women that worked the telescope. It was a long horizontal one. You looked into the middle of it and could see any aircraft that was coming in. If the gunners couldn’t see the planes then the ATS used to direct them.Also I used to fire watch. I wasn’t on watch every night, about every 3rd night. I was on watch one night and a bomb was dropped but it didn’t explode. It went underground and partly under the cinema. Everywhere was quickly evacuated. The bomb disposal people had a job getting down to it because Worthing beach is all shingles and every time they dug down it just filled back in. They had a hell of a job shoring it up, it took them a good 2 weeks to get to the bomb and at any time it may have gone off! I didn’t get 2 weeks off work though. The owner had another cinema up in the town and I went to work there.
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Jacci Phillips of the CSV Action Desk at BBC Hereford and Worcester on behalf of Fred Stamp and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions. |
Post war years
After the end of World War II the Dome went into a steady decline due to heavy competition. In 1949 Seebold restructured his company and remarried. He continued to run the new business, The Rivoli and Dome Ltd, until his death in 1951. By 1955 the Dome was badly out of date and required a refit. The new owners hired architects Goldsmith and Pennells to install a new cinemascope screen. Although the rise of television and sharing the area with four other cinemas must have added financial pressure, the Dome survived to see its sister cinema, The Rivoli, burn down in 1960. One of the Dome’s competitors, The Plaza, closed down in 1968.
At some point the Picturedrome had changed its name to the Connaught and served chiefly as a theatre for live performances, a role it continues today, so the Dome and the Odeon were the only full time cinemas in Worthing by this point.
The Odeon was a multi-screen cinema and was considerably larger and more modern than either the Dome or the Connaught. It seemed inevitable that the Dome would fade into history.
The redevelopment scheme
In 1969 Worthing Borough Council purchased the Dome as part of a much larger redevelopment scheme. Their intention was to rebuild most of the east half of Worthing town centre, starting with the north. The redevelopment scheme itself dated back to the 1940s and 1950s.
Worthing’s original town hall and the Georgian Royal Theatre were amongst the buildings torn down in the first phase of this project, which cleared the way for the construction of the Guildbourne Centre .
Unfortunately for the council’s plans, the Guildbourne Centre was poorly received and its design heavily criticised. The redevelopment scheme apparently stalled shortly thereafter, leaving the Dome cinema in the hands of the borough council that had declared the intention to demolish it.
The cinema remained open during this time, however, with the original building split into three parts and leased to three separate business people on a short-term basis .
Garrick House Ltd, a company based in Crewe which ran two other cinemas and one theatre elsewhere in Sussex, leased the Dome cinema itself and continued operating it. Unfortunately the terms of the lease permitted by the council made any long-term investment in the cinema unappealing. With no-one protecting the Dome’s long term interests, the cinema went into decline.
Unexpectedly, the Dome’s larger, more modern rival shut down first. In 1987 the Odeon chain of cinemas had decided their Worthing theatre was no longer viable. The multi-screen Odeon was demolished so that the site could be rebuilt as a shopping arcade. The Dome was suddenly the only purpose build cinema in town again, just as it had been when it started.
The Dome also received some welcome publicity in 1987 when Director David Leland decided to use the cinema as a location in his film Wish You Were Here, starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell.
In 1988 a structural survey commissioned by the council estimated that the Dome required £1,900,000 worth of repairs and the borough council’s long dormant redevelopment scheme seemed to be underway again. However, the situation had greatly changed since the council’s redevelopment plans had been redrawn at the end of the 1970s. When redevelopment had first been suggested after World War II the Dome was forty years old. By the time of the survey it was seventy-seven years old and, in the eyes of local people, the concept of redeveloping the town centre had been discredited by the unpopular Guildbourne Centre project. Additionally the fact that the Connaught was primarily a theatre meant that pulling down the Dome would have left Worthing, a seaside resort with approximately 100,000 residents, without a cinema. These factors lead to a grass-roots campaign to save the Dome that ran through the rest of 1988 and much of 1989.
On 27 April 1989 the borough council approved the plans of Burton Property Trust to redevelop the town centre. The Dome was one of many old buildings to be torn down, including some Grade II listed buildings. There was a public outcry at the developer’s plans .
In spite of the widespread local opposition to the redevelopment, the council proceeded with their plans. In response, campaigners sent an application to the Department of the Environment to have the Dome registered as a listed building. This application was successful and the Dome became a grade II listed building on 31 May 1989 .
The campaign against redevelopment continued, with stories appearing in the national press and at least one European newspaper, until Burton Property Trust announced it was withdrawing from the scheme in September 1989.
The campaign to save the Dome
With the departure of Burton Property Trust from the situation, the question of what would happen to the Dome was again open. Several proposals were put forward but ran into planning difficulties, including some that were intended to help improve the cinema by overhauling the front and interior of the building.
Between 1989 and 1991 there were a series of planning battles between the council and conservationists, which ended when a government inspector overturned a council decision that applications to develop the area around the Dome on a piece by piece basis were premature.
On 10 March 1991 the Dome played host to the AGM of the Cinema Theatre Association. Then, in May of that year, local council elections were held resulting in the election of Ian Stuart, a former joint chairman of the Save the Dome Campaign. That month a council planning officer stated that there was no longer any intention of demolishing the Dome. Later in 1991 the Dome Preservation Trust was established to look after the long term interests of the building.
The following year trouble struck. Garrick House Ltd, the operator of the cinema, was subjected to a winding up order by the High Court on the 29 January 1992. Neville Russell, a Brighton based firm of chartered accountants, were appointed liquidators.
In February, the council put forward £110,000 towards building work that would keep the Dome watertight for the next five years. The Dome Preservation Trust was expected raise an equal amount so that the work could go ahead. At the same time, the liquidators installed Robins Cinemas as temporary managers of the Dome. Robins Cinemas operated a small chain of nine cinemas at the time and continued to run the cinema while a legal battle between the council and the liquidator over the rights to the leasehold of the Dome ran on until December 1992.
Control of the Dome was returned to the Borough Council on 25 March 1992. The council immediately closed the cinema over safety concerns, to the shock of local residents. Council officers estimated £100,000 would be needed to make safe the electrical wiring in the Dome, though Seeboard eventually carried out the work for £26,500, completing the work in May 1993.
Even though Robins Cinemas had been appointed to run the cinema by the liquidator, the borough council re-let the Dome to the cinema chain on a short-term lease. On 13 July 1993 the Dome held a charity showing of Jurassic Park to raise funds for the Dome Preservation Trust.
In 1994 urgent repairs were carried out the Dome tower itself at an eventual cost of £300,000 to the council. Some of the more ornate architectural features of the Dome had been removed in the 1950s and the Dome Preservation Trust ran a campaign to raise funds so that these features could be replaced. The campaign included the creation of a new group called “Friends of the Dome”, of which Professor Anthony Field CBE was the president. The campaign eventually raised over £10,000.
Even after this extensive restoration, it was estimated that work costing a further £600,000 was needed and in 1995 Worthing Borough Council decided it was time to put the freehold of the cinema on the market. The Chapman Group put in a bid with the intention of turning the Dome into a nightclub, which the council approved. In February 1996 there was a public demonstration in front of the town hall and on 4 March 1996 The Times newspaper carried a page three article under the headline “Last Reel for Britain’s longest running cinema” with the byline of Marcus Binney. The magazine Private Eye also carried an article about the Dome’s situation.
The publicity seemed to attract other bidders for the Dome, amongst them Eugene Chaplin (the son of Charlie Chaplin) and an unnamed consortium. In spite of the competition Chapman’s bid was successful. Then it was discovered that the then Department of National Heritage had upgraded the Dome’s status from grade II listed to grade II*, a status only four other cinemas in Britain shared. The Electric Cinema in Portobello Road, the Scala Cinema in Ilkeston (now the Scala (club)), the Torbay Picture House in Paignton, and the Elite Cinema in Nottingham. The addition of the star to the grade II listing meant that any future application for building work had to be considered by the Secretary of State for National Heritage.
This may have been a factor in Chapman Group’s decision to announce that it was pulling out of the redevelopment of the Dome in October 1996.
In November 1997 the borough council decided to put the Dome Cinema up for sale again. The Dome Preservation Trust renamed itself the Worthing Dome and Regeneration Trust at this time and began work on a bid to buy the Dome from the council. At this time the cost of renovating the Dome was estimated at £1,000,000.
In October 1998 with the Dome still on the market, a developer proposed building a nine screen multiplex cinema in Worthing on the site of the Teville Gate shopping centre. The trust continued with its own plans to buy the Dome and renovate it. Before the end of the year the bingo hall and the café that operated in the other two parts of the original Dome complex vacated the premises, allowing them to be reunited with the Dome itself.
By January 1999 there were four bids for the Dome Cinema. On 5 March 1999 the borough council accepted the bid from the Worthing Dome and Regeneration Trust on the condition that their applications for funding from English Heritage and the National Lottery were successful, but on 5 April 1999 the council closed the Dome for reasons of health and safety. After eighty-eight years the Dome was the longest continuously running cinema in United Kingdom and the only full-time cinema in Worthing.
The restoration of the Dome
The Heritage Lottery Fund approved the Worthing Dome and Regeneration Trust’s application in Early October. The story was carried in the local press and allowed the purchase of the freehold from the borough council to go ahead. On the 9 November 1999 the trust paid the council a nominal fee of £10 and took possession of the cinema.
A grant of £20,000 was made to carry out preliminary work on the building, much of which was done by unpaid volunteers. This allowed the Dome Cinema to reopen on 17 December 1999 with a special showing of the 1957 film The Smallest Show on Earth, appropriately a comedy about the owner of a troubled small cinema. The reopening was covered by the local press .
The Heritage Lottery Fund was willing to put up £1,750,000 for the complete restoration of the Dome but only on the condition that the trust raised £500,000 itself first to demonstrate sufficient local interest to make the project worthwhile. The trust launched an appeal to raise the money. The appeal continued to run while the Dome Cinema was open for business but in September 2001 the local press reported that the completion date for the £2.5 million pound renovation had been put back by two years from 31 December 2003 to 31 December 2005 . By February 2002 it was reported that the Worthing Dome and Regeneration Trust only needed to raise £250,000 to unlock the £2.5 million available from the Heritage Lottery Fund. However on 27 November 2002 it was reported that the trust in fact needed £300,000 but had only managed to raise £75,000. The deadline for raising it had been extended from 31 December 2002 to 31 December 2004.
On 20 November 2002 the trust opened a second theatre in the area that had housed the original cinema screen when the Carl Seebold originally opened the Kursaal in 1911. In honour of the original Electric Theatre, the new theatre retains its name.
The Heritage Lottery Fund eventually released the money to the Worthing Dome and Regeneration Trust in October 2003.
The cinema continued to remain open while restoration work was carried out for as long as possible, continuing to show films throughout 2004. On 23 January 2005 Griffin, an independent film by a local director , premiered at the Dome in a gala night that was covered by the local press .
The cinema continued normal business until December 2005 when the major work of restoration began and the Dome was closed again. It reopened on 6 July 2007 after extensive building work.
]]>Worthing Museum and Art Gallery is in the centre of Worthing near the grade II* listed St Paul’s and is the largest museum in West Sussex. It celebrated its centenary in 2008.
Collections & Displays
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery has one of the largest costume and textile collections in the UK. The 19th century and 20th century galleries display just a tiny fraction of the museum’s contents. The current display in the 19th century gallery looks at the changing shape of women during the century. The 20th century gallery concentrates on women’s fashions including pictures of local residents through the ages. There is also a small menswear display.
The museum also holds records for all archaeological finds between the rivers Adur and Arun. This includes the John Pull Collection of neolithic flint mines, featured on the television series Time Team, the Patching hoard of gold coins, an Anglo-Saxon long boat, and the Highdown Goblet – an Ancient Egyptian glass vase with an Ancient Greek inscription, found at the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Highdown.
The museum has over 900 dolls and a collection of toys from the Georgian period to the present day, in its Juvenilia collection, along with the Colin Mears Collection – 2000 objects documenting the history of 20th Century Childhood. It also has social history, numismatics, and fine and decorative art collections.
Art collection
Most of the works collected in the Museum’s early years were by artists that had strong Sussex links. However there were exceptions include Nicholas Roerich, Hobbema, Wynants and a piece from the School of Bassano. The collection diversified to include the main movements in Bristish painting and includes Bianca (1869), a painting by William Holman Hunt. There are also works by Lucien Pissarro and Ivon Hitchens.
Sculpture is represented through works by John Skelton, Philip Jackson, Dora Gordine and Anthony Stevens who are all nationally recognised but have links to the region. The Museum acquired Skelton’s The Diver (1970), a carving in walnut wood, in 2008. This was made possible through the V&A Purchase Fund and the Friends of the Worthing Museum.
The Art Gallery regularly hosts visiting exhibitions such as Jon Edgar in 2010.
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Worthing Pier is a pier in Worthing, West Sussex, England. Designed by Sir Robert Rawlinson, it was opened on 12 April 1862 and remains open. The pier originally was a simple promenade deck 960ft (291m) long and 15ft (4.6m) wide. In 1888 the pier was upgraded with the width increased to 30ft (9.2m) and the pier head increased to 105ft (32m) for a 650-seat pavilion to be built. It is a Grade II listed building.
The first moving picture show in Worthing was seen on the pier on 31 August 1896 and is commemorated today by a blue plaque. In 1897 a steam ship began operation between Worthing Pier and the Chain Pier in Brighton, twelve miles to the east.
In March 1913 the pier was damaged in a storm, with only the southern end remaining, completely cut off from land. A rebuilt pier was opened on 29 May 1914.
In September 1933 the pier and all but the northern pavilion were destroyed by fire. In 1935 the remodelled Streamline Modern pier was opened, and it is this that remains today.
Worthing Pier was sectioned in 1940 for fear of German invasion after the retreat at Dunkirk. A large hole was also blown in the pier to prevent it being used as a possible landing stage in the event of invasion.
The pier is owned by Worthing Borough Council (formerly the Worthing Corporation).
The Pavilion Theatre and Denton Cafe is situated at the northern, land end of the pier; at the middle is the 1935 amusement arcade, which from 1956 – 2006 carried a distinctive ‘New Amusements’ sign that was featured on the cover of the album To See the Lights (1996) by Britpop band Gene. Since 2006 the sign has changed from ‘New Amusements’ to ‘Pier Amusements’.
The Southern Pavilion (the sea end) is currently home to a nightclub named The Pier, which opened on 20 December 2007. It has previously been used as a cafe, dance hall and to house a model railway layout.
Since 2008, Worthing Pier has been the home of the annual International Birdman competition, which moved to the pier after it could no longer safely be held on the pier at Bognor Regis, some 15 miles (24 km) to the west.
In November 2009 during strong winds, two Worthing kite surfers became the first people to kitesurf over the pier.
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Worthing is a large seaside town with borough status in West Sussex, forming part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. It is situated at the foot of the South Downs, 10 miles (16 km) west of Brighton, and 18 miles (29 km) east of the county town of Chichester. The borough covers an area of 12.5 square miles (32.37 km2) and has an estimated population of 102,100.
The area around Worthing has been populated for at least 6,000 years and contains Britain’s greatest concentration of Stone Age flint mines, which are some of the earliest mines in Europe. Lying within the borough, the Iron Age hill fort of Cissbury Ring is one of Britain’s largest. Worthing means “(place of) Worth/Wor?’s people”, from the Old English personal name Worth/Wor? (the name means “valiant one, one who is noble”), and -ingas “people of” (reduced to -ing in the modern name). For many centuries Worthing was a small mackerel fishing hamlet until in the late 18th century it developed into an elegant Georgian seaside resort and attracted the well-known and wealthy of the day. In the 19th and 20th centuries the area was one of Britain’s chief market gardening centres.
Modern Worthing has a large service industry, particularly in financial services. It has three theatres and one of Britain’s oldest cinemas. From literature, significantly Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter lived and worked in the town
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