This Victorian photochrom image shows The Town Hall from South Street, Worthing.

In 1818 Michael Morrah, one Worthing’s doctors, proposed that a clock-tower should be erected in the town, using funds to be raised by public subscription. In the event, so much money was raised that it was decided to build a town hall as well. The construction of the Town Hall did not, however, begin until 1834. The building was completed the following year, and the Town Commissioners – who from 1812 onwards had met at the Royal Oak in Market Street, held their first meeting there on June 24, 1835.

The old Town Hall remained in use until it was superseded in 1933 by the new building in Chapel Road. Eventually falling into disrepair, it was demolished in 1966. It once stood where the steps and concourse leading to the Guildbourne Shopping Centre are now situated.

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