This is about as close as we can get to the recent discovery of the Augusta Arms, whose address was Augusta Place.

We know it was behind Heasman's Bakery which was listed as 95 to 97 Montague Street. It was also a Beer House rather than a full blown pub. You've probably noticed the PH on the map, that was Edlins, a much later edition.

1877, The annual Brewster Sessions were held at the Town Hall for reviewing the licences and mentioned Mr Thomas George for the Augusta Beer house in Augusta Place. The police offered no reason for him not to continue trading.

1919. An article was written in the Worthing Gazette dated May 28th. It recalls the death of Mr George Heasman, founder of the bakery in Montague Street that bore his name. The article continues. . .

'It may not be generally known that he reduced the number of licensed houses in the town by one, not in the spirit of fanaticism, but as a simpler matter of commercial expansion. At the rear of his bakery was a beer house in Augusta Place, known as the Augusta Arms, at which the business done was extremely meagre; and Mr Heasman, securing possession of the premises, converted them into a flour store.

Suffice to say, given such limited information its impossible to say when the Augusta Arm's started or finished, nor can we precisely position it other than being somewhere within the red box on the map.

Its interesting to note that it was as close to the Kings Arms as it could possibly be, which may account for its 'meagre sales'

Right, the beer house and the bakery would have been inline with the back of 'The works' and part of what used to be Argos.

 Time Line

 A little bit extra

1877 - Thomas George