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Newspapers 18th /19th Century Introduction

Life in Shoreham as Reported in 18th & 19th Century Newspapers

The British Library Newspaper Archive is a massive and absolutely fascinating resource and thanks must go them for their permission in allowing these images to be reproduced (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk). Please also note that in copyright images belong to Northcliffe Media Limited and out of copyright images belong to The British Library.

Not every Shoreham related article or report has been recorded and do not include those:-

– with a reference to Shoreham but with a subject that does not relate to a Shoreham event or person,
– the same article repeated in other newspapers.

This has been a considerably time consuming job and the sheer size of the work has meant we haven’t been able to be as precise as we would have wished as regards quality of the images. So apologies in advance now for:-

  • untidy snapshots, often unavoidable to include parts of adjoining, non-related articles without spending even more time editing,
  • mis-placed articles in wrong order or section,
  • unclear, difficult to read articles sometimes due to poor original print but sometimes screen shots in too small a size
  • articles that we’ve missed (hopefully few) altogether.

The majority of these articles are gathered from the Sussex Advertiser but that newspaper ceased publication in the 1870’s and the British Library’s archives do not yet have a suitable replacement newspaper that covers Shoreham matters sufficiently. The West Sussex Library Service does however have microfilm copies of complete West Sussex Gazette issues from 1860 so 1859 seems to be a logical point at which to terminate this project

Articles have been split into categories:-

1. Crime, Punishment, Police 
2. Harbour
3. HM Customs, Blockades, Coastguards and Smuggling
4. Military
5. Politics
6. Railways
7. Roads & Bridges
8. Schools and the Church 
9a. Ships
9b. HMS Shoreham
10. Sport
11. Swiss Gardens
12. War
13. Workhouse
14. Miscellanous (Part 1)
15. Miscellaneous (Part 2)

 Roger Bateman, Shoreham, February 2014

High Street

This is a snapshot of the High Street in 2009. The photographs are ordered West to East, and starts at the junction of Victoria Road.  All properties are numbered.  Many thanks to Old Bean for archiving his photographs  to enable us to republish them now.

High Street  – North Side:

High Street – South Side:

1964:

As a comparison, here is the Kelly’s Directory listings for the High Street in 1964.

1964-Kellys-HIGH-STREET

1958:

As a comparison, here is the Kelly’s Directory listings for the High Street in 1958.

1958-Kellys-Shoreham-High-Street
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Bungalow Town Properties 1901 & Lancing Beach 1912-1914

1901 and 1912 to 1914 Properties on the Beach (from Census Returns)

Bungalow Town was then under the control of Lancing Council – no road names are mentioned. The bungalow details are listed in the same order as shown in the census and from the names of some of the properties that survived to the 1930’s it would appear that the list works generally (with some exceptions) from the east to the west. Where the names did survive or locations are known through other research (e.g., ‘Along the Beach at Bungalow Town ‘article) these have been included using the 1935 street names – if they appear on the 1935 property list the numbers are also included. Un-named bungalows appear as ‘bungalow’ and ‘bungalow buildings’ may perhaps be brick built as opposed to all wood construction. The census was carried out in March of 1901 out of the holiday season which is why very few residents are shown. The few residents’ names that are mentioned have been included:-

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Bungalow Town Directory 1914 (Directories for 1917 onwards are included with the directories for Shoreham)

Extract from The Worthing and District Local Directory 1914-15

BUNGALOW TOWN

LANCING BEACH.

Shopsdam, ·West End of Widewater

Postal District, Lancing; nearest Post &. Telegraph Office is Lancing

From Lancing to Shoreham

(Vigo) Chandler, Wm. bungalow agent

(Lancing Point) Croshaw, G. S.

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