A trip down to Worthing for a walk around, a bit windy and
dull so not ideal for photography. Quite a busy shopping centre with a few buildings
of interest, the one thing that really struck me was the number of charity
shops ‘dozens’ of them, although it’s good to see that there are still a good
number of small independent shops still surviving.
A stroll down the pier and a few photos then a visit to the
Museum, typical local museum with the usual collection of miscellaneous things
some lacking interpretation or even labels. Spotted a couple of model locos in
glass cases, nice one of a Stirling Single and a Great Western – neither having
any connection with Worthing as far as I could see? Probably donated to the
museum at some time.
Next door to the Museum the Town Hall a reasonable example
of Neo-Georgian 1930’s municipal architecture with a Ionic portico and bronze
doors. Light was not good so will have to go back another time to photograph it
to go with my collection of Town Hall photos.
One unlisted but interesting building in the centre of the
town is W H Smith’s, unusual pictorial stained glass and upstairs stone fireplaces and a coloured relief panel
of a Tudor/Elizabethan scene (still trying to find some information about the
building) I suspect that it dates from the 1920’s. Worth a look upstairs.
Worthing has some dreadful and expensive car parks – try to
avoid them, park for free at the West end of Worthing and walk into the centre
observing the typical seaside architecture.
