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The Theatre Royal was opened in Ann Street
in 1807 and had been built for a Thomas Trotter, who lived next
door in Omega Cottage. The theatre closed in 1855 and was then used
as a warehouse for a local grocer among other things until it was
demolished. It's understood that Ann Street was named after Thomas
Trotters wife.
Ann Street was also the location of the old
market, which opened in 1810 and was closed in about 1860.
The dispensary was on the west side of the theatre; It was opened
in 1829 and moved to a larger building on the east side of Chapel
Road between Ann Street and Market Street in 1845.
This also closed in 1882 when the present hospital in Lyndhurst
Road was built.
The Royal George public house was sited on
the east corner of Market Street and George Street from 1810 to
1969. The Town commissioners used to meet here in the inns early
years.
Worthing's first proper police station was
sited on the north side of Ann Street, opening in 1859 and closing
in 1922 when it moved to Thurloe House, near the south corner of
High Street and Union Place. A purpose built station in was built
in 1939 and has just closed in 2002 when the police relocated to
New Century House in Durrington.
Worthing's early post offices occupied three
sites on the north side of Warwick Street - two sites near the south
end of Chapel Road and one in nearby South Street, before moving
to the present Chapel Road offices.
The old fire station site, now Crown House,
had been Worthing's first purpose-built fire station and had opened
in 1904. It closed when the present one was built by Broadwater
Green in 1962 and had was finally demolished in 1969.
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