Fire destroys the Southern Pavilion on Worthing Pier
Worthing Timeline
The Connaught reopened after refurbishment, still with the Picturedrome name, on 31st of July 1933
Worthing Town Hall opened
Town Hall war memorial unveiled
Worthing Borough Council purchased the Pier on 23rd March 1921 for the sum of £18,978/15s.
Woolworths opens first Worthing store in Rowlands Road on 28th August 1920
SS Eden, a Norwegian cargo ship, was sunk by German torpedo 8 to 10 miles SW of Worthing Pier
Worthing Pier was reopened on 29th May 1914 by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir T. Vansittart Bowater Bart.
Gale force seas battered and destroyed the Worthing Pier promenade, leaving the Pavilion isolated in the water. Local people renamed the Pavilion “Easter Island”.
The Dome opens. Originally named as “The Kursaal”
Worthing library, museum and art gallery, designed by the architects Crouch, Butler and Savage, the library funded by Andrew Carnegie, opened on 14th December 1908
West Tarring parish was abolished and merged with Worthing, Durrington and Goring by Sea
New Worthing Pier grand opening, attended by Henry Brand, Viscount Hampden and Lord-Lieutenant of Sussex
Borough status was granted for Worthing by HM Queen Victoria
West Worthing Railway Station opens
Worthing Pier opens