Cannon - Chatsworth Road - 1866 to 1934
Built as a retail beer shop in 1866, run by J. Feest, it was soon to become a brewery.
In 1886 to great pomp and ceremony which included a dancing bear and a brass band from Littlehampton, it opened as the Cannon Brewery Museum and Assembly Rooms. This was in Cook's Row, later to become Chatsworth Road.
Cooks Row was a very rundown area of the town, it joined Chapel Road to the High Street and consisted of some very ramshackle buildings that might hold two or three generations of one family in one small building, and best avoided.
In 1886 to great pomp and ceremony which included a dancing bear and a brass band from Littlehampton, it opened as the Cannon Brewery Museum and Assembly Rooms. This was in Cook's Row, later to become Chatsworth Road.
Cooks Row was a very rundown area of the town, it joined Chapel Road to the High Street and consisted of some very ramshackle buildings that might hold two or three generations of one family in one small building, and best avoided.
The Cannon Inn was rebuilt in a slightly different position in 1894 when the road was straightened and redeveloped.
It is believed to have closed in the mid-1930's. Since then it had become a meat market, restaurant and lastly, a munitions factory, before being bought by the owners of the Worthing Gazette in 1949, for conversion into a photo-engraving plant.
It was demolished in 1974. The Worthing Herald Office now stands on the site. The new building was named Cannon House in recognition of its past history.
The Cannon's original position is roughly now the car park of Connon House on the felf-hand side.
It is believed to have closed in the mid-1930's. Since then it had become a meat market, restaurant and lastly, a munitions factory, before being bought by the owners of the Worthing Gazette in 1949, for conversion into a photo-engraving plant.
It was demolished in 1974. The Worthing Herald Office now stands on the site. The new building was named Cannon House in recognition of its past history.
The Cannon's original position is roughly now the car park of Connon House on the felf-hand side.
From the Worthing Gazette news item 1974:
The Cannon in Chatsworth Road, where Worthing folk could once get a 'bucket of beer for twopence and a stab in the eye for nothing at all,' is to be demolished to make way for 25 car parking spaces.
The Cannon has had a long history. no-one knows for certain when it was built but it was there in 1879. It has been used for an inn, a meat market and a restaurant and munitions factory, before being bought by the owners of the Worthing Gazette, in 1949, for conversion into a photo-engraving plant.
A 'Gazette' of 1949 featured an interview with Mr Harry Short, of Market Street, who had been stabbed in the eye in a fight there 50 years before, when the inn was flourishing.
Some of the other outbuildings will also be demolished. it will ease the situation as far as staff is concerned. Parking will be more of a problem when the precinct opens and the offices there are in use with the meters functioning.
The Cannon in Chatsworth Road, where Worthing folk could once get a 'bucket of beer for twopence and a stab in the eye for nothing at all,' is to be demolished to make way for 25 car parking spaces.
The Cannon has had a long history. no-one knows for certain when it was built but it was there in 1879. It has been used for an inn, a meat market and a restaurant and munitions factory, before being bought by the owners of the Worthing Gazette, in 1949, for conversion into a photo-engraving plant.
A 'Gazette' of 1949 featured an interview with Mr Harry Short, of Market Street, who had been stabbed in the eye in a fight there 50 years before, when the inn was flourishing.
Some of the other outbuildings will also be demolished. it will ease the situation as far as staff is concerned. Parking will be more of a problem when the precinct opens and the offices there are in use with the meters functioning.
Known landlords
1866 - J Feest Beer retailer
1931 - GC Sidwell
1866 - J Feest Beer retailer
1931 - GC Sidwell