It You would have been hard pressed to realise the structure that stands on the corner of Montague street and Prospect Place today was once the Victoria Inn. It was one of three that stood almost shoulder to shoulder with each other. Those being the Kings Arms (next door) and the Buckingham Arms almost opposite

The front of the building has features reminiscent of a public house, but the sides seem to be a part modern rebuild making this building a bit of a hybrid - certainly confusing to the eye.

I've never known this building as a pub. Unfortunately it never seems to last very long as a retail unit either. I do believe it was once an Athena Poster shop when they were all the rage back in the day.

Its most notable feature is perhaps how much it juts out into the street. I'm led to believe that as an attempt to straighten and widen Montague street, then a road,  it was required that all new builds were to adhere to a line drawn further back. Not sure of the validity of this but it does seem to hold water.

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1883 - James Cobby to Joseph Fletcher
1890 - John Cutler
1892 - F Marshall
1899 - Thomas Butcher
1901 - Thomas Butcher as the Victoria Inn
1914 - M Colins
1931 - AE Blanks
 

1890: William Fuller, a labouring man, living at Clump-square, Heene, was brought up in custody on a charge of being drunk and refusing to quit licensed premises, the Victoria Arms, Montague Street. To this he pleaded guilty, and further charges of assorting two police constables were then preferred against him.  These latter offences he denied. PC. Collins stated that about nine o'clock on Saturday night he was called to the Victoria beerhouse, in Montague street, to eject the defendant, who had refused to leave. The licence of the house was held by John Cutler.  Defendant was requested several time, both by witnesses and the landlord, to quit the premises, but he refused to go saying "it would take all the ******* policemen in Worthing to put him out"