Schools, Churches
Roads, Bridges, Canals
Politics
Military
Coastguards & Smugglers
Crime, Punishment and Police
Newspapers 18th /19th Century Introduction
Life in Shoreham as Reported in 18th & 19th Century Newspapers
The British Library Newspaper Archive is a massive and absolutely fascinating resource and thanks must go them for their permission in allowing these images to be reproduced (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk). Please also note that in copyright images belong to Northcliffe Media Limited and out of copyright images belong to The British Library.
Not every Shoreham related article or report has been recorded and do not include those:-
– with a reference to Shoreham but with a subject that does not relate to a Shoreham event or person,
– the same article repeated in other newspapers.
This has been a considerably time consuming job and the sheer size of the work has meant we haven’t been able to be as precise as we would have wished as regards quality of the images. So apologies in advance now for:-
- untidy snapshots, often unavoidable to include parts of adjoining, non-related articles without spending even more time editing,
- mis-placed articles in wrong order or section,
- unclear, difficult to read articles sometimes due to poor original print but sometimes screen shots in too small a size
- articles that we’ve missed (hopefully few) altogether.
The majority of these articles are gathered from the Sussex Advertiser but that newspaper ceased publication in the 1870’s and the British Library’s archives do not yet have a suitable replacement newspaper that covers Shoreham matters sufficiently. The West Sussex Library Service does however have microfilm copies of complete West Sussex Gazette issues from 1860 so 1859 seems to be a logical point at which to terminate this project
Articles have been split into categories:-
1. Crime, Punishment, Police
2. Harbour
3. HM Customs, Blockades, Coastguards and Smuggling
4. Military
5. Politics
6. Railways
7. Roads & Bridges
8. Schools and the Church
9a. Ships
9b. HMS Shoreham
10. Sport
11. Swiss Gardens
12. War
13. Workhouse
14. Miscellanous (Part 1)
15. Miscellaneous (Part 2)
Roger Bateman, Shoreham, February 2014
Joseph Ripley – a selection of the photographer’s WW1 images
Compiled and coloured from his own collection of Joseph Ripley’s photographs of soldiers at Shoreham and Southwick during WW1 by local historian Neil De Ville ©2016
Little Buckingham Farm
Old Market House and Election Stones
The Market House
Shoreham historian Henry Cheal tells us that following the great storm of 1703 that blew down the town’s original market house another was built in its stead in 1711 on 10 columns and stood opposite the Crown and Anchor pub.The new market house was described as having consisted of ‘an oblong canopy of freestone (a fine grained stone, usually sandstone or limestone) embellished with gothic ornaments, supported by ten columns’ and was ‘a fine piece of architecture.’ Was it merely a canopy or roof supported on columns – maybe not as Cheal refers to the new building as a market house? It was itself later removed and replaced by another market house contemptuously described as ‘a mean building of brick,’ in East Street near the New Road junction in 1823. From there we are told it was taken to the island at the bottom of Southdown Road where it would have been a landmark seen by the crowds on their way from the station to the popular Swiss Gardens.