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    4 - 5 Ice cubes
25ml/1fl oz Dry Vermouth
3 5 drops Angostura bitters
75ml/3fl oz Dry White wine

Put the ice cubes into a shaker, shake the Angostura bitters over the ice, and add the vermouth & wine. Shake vigorously and pour into a chilled martini glass and serve with a slice of cucumber.

Ann  Street with Theatre Royal on the left  
    Today's Ann Street is a far cry from its early importance in the town, now a service road to the Guildbourne Centre; it once was a major road in Worthing. It housed the town's first proper police station as well as the first Hospital/Dispensary. It's demise was complete in 1970 when the Theatre Royal and Omega cottage were demolished as part of the town's "modernisation" programme.  
   

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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Ann Street

 

Ivy Arch

 

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