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FISHERMAN - PARAGON STREET |
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It was with some reluctance that
we've added the 'Fisherman' to the history of Worthing pubs. There had always been some confusion with this pub and the running Horse in the same street, a distance of perhaps a hundred feet or less. Until the discovery of this hand-drawn map by local amateur historian Tony Jenkins of Durrington in the 1960s we had presumed that the Running Horse and the Fisherman were one and the same, just a past name change. Since then we discovered a text that mentions both at the same time. |
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| The X marks where Paragon Street originally emerged. The Fisherman would have been to its left and the Running Horse behind on the same alinement. | |
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1837 or before |
In the book 'Glimpses of old Worthing' by Edward Snewin and Henfrey Smail' we discover the text: The Fisherman at Paragon Buildings, where in 1837 an inquest was held on Mrs. Frances Smith, a druggist aged 101, at which the verdict was returned 'Died by the visitation of God'. |
