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Royal Coach

Built in 1958 at the Saltings on the Coast Road alongside the new road to Shoreham Beach. The new pub was designed by Tiltman and Howard – the same architects for the Shoreham Airport Terminal (1935) and the Tudor House pub (1936) in Ferry Road. They were commissioned by Brickwoods. The pub was part of the expanding development of Shoreham & Lancing Beaches Estate scheme, initiated by W Sussex CC. soon after the war. It featured a function room, basement and kitchens.

It was clearly designed to cater for coach visitors using the A259. It even boasted a separate kitchen for coach drivers. Within 9 years the A259 had been downgraded by the opening of the A27 Dover to Honiton Trunk Road and the new flyover effectively bypassed the Royal Coach.

The Royal Coach was latterly re-opened as The Longshore.

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Ham Road School

Ham Road School ghost montage c1905 / 2000 ©Roger Bateman

The school was built in 1875 as a Board School in Ham Road for an estimated attendance of 240. It was later enlarged in 1896 and 1907. By 1904 attendance was 557, in three departments, to which a junior mixed department was added in 1913. The school was reorganized, in partly new buildings, in 1915, the older children going to Victoria Upper Council school. The Headmaster from 1901 until 1915, Oswald Ball (1871-1954) moved to become headmaster at Victoria Road. Ham Road School ceased to be a school in 1938, when there was an attendance of 551 in junior mixed and infant departments, to be replaced by schools in the newly enlarged Victoria Road Schools.

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