The Sussex Border Walk - Part Two: To West Worthing and its Glasshouses

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I am working my way around the border of the county of Sussex, starting from Worthing and walking westwards. In this episode, I explore the Holy Trinity Church, in Shelley Road, old maps and the Victorian hotels that have long gone, and the market garden growing and the copious glasshouses that once peppered both East and West Worthing.
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@takisgalati7270 3 года назад

This series is going to become addictive

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Oh fabulous! Thanks very much.

@joangilday1298 3 года назад

Richard, I so enjoy your walks every morning -- first thing when I get up -- I sit with my coffee and watch your video. I wish they were longer. You do such a great job of showing your villages and towns and explaining the highlights. I hope you never stop taking your walks. Thank you!

@acerone10 3 года назад

Very well said, Joan. Happy Holidays from Ohio.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Wow, thank you. Making the longer each day would be too much work. I love the old adage, leave them wanting more. :) Thanks so much for watching.

@sisyphus9252 3 года назад

I think you have stumbled across something great with this series.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

I do hope so - the comments have been favourable so far. Thank you

@katherinekinnaird4408 3 года назад

Such beautiful buildings. I'm a little sad when the video comes to an end. Thanks again.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Sorry that you are sad when it comes to the end. Thanks so much for watching.

@katherinekinnaird4408 3 года назад

@@RichardVobes no worries Sir. I look forward to your next video. God bless you all.

@tallpojjy 3 года назад

Very interesting, nicely presented and full of facts. Thanks!

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Thanks very much - some days I do better than others.

@barryrice4957 3 года назад

That was very interesting, all the years I have worked in and around Worthing I had no idea what any of those big buildings used to be. The pink paving bricks you mentioned can still be found down some roads just under the tarmac.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

I love those pink slaps - very distinctive. Thanks, Barry!

@zoeschofield 3 года назад

I'm enjoying this series of walks along with the history very much. Looking forward to the next one!

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

I am so pleased. Thanks for watching.

@denniskavanagh3075 3 года назад

Thanks Richard for bringing back some lovely memories of when my mum lived in a flat on Heene Road and I would go for walks beside her on her mobility scooter around the local roads. By the way, I have always enjoyed your choice of music to accompany your videos, and I particularly noticed today the violin music playing when looking at, and discussing the possible future fate of Holy Trinity Church and then the subtle change of tempo after talking about the Worthing Bridge Club.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Music for me, Dennis is just as essential to get right in the videos. In the early days I didn't have access to the range of library music as I have now.

@rainbowcolours6361 3 года назад

I am an Indian, I enjoy the videos you post and to hear the English history. Holy Trinity looks magnificient from outside. its a great shame to loose such a beautiful church and its history behind :( My heart aches when churches are beign sold to other religions and the structures are changed. I just say a little prayer to save this church.

@michaelwhite8031 3 года назад

I am really enjoying these walks. I love to see how buildings change within particular areas. I think this will be a very successful venture.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

I do enjoy walking with one foot in the past and one in the present. Thanks, Michael.

@CharlieCooper3101 3 года назад

Lovely little walk Richard, I also like looking at old maps, it's nice to see what used to be there and look at what its turned into and looks like now. It's a shame the Victorian houses and glass houses arnt there anymore.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

So much has gone. It's a real shame.

@Stringtrees 3 года назад

I was unable to watch this until the evening ( I normally watch first thing before I start work) and I am looking forward to this. I did a google search of the Cranleigh Court Hotel and saw an image of an old post card and you are right, it did look like those other buildings that still exist.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Oooh I must see if I can find it. :)

@doodlesparklecleaning 3 года назад

Loving this series, learning the history is fascinating thanks!

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Thanks so much. It is great appreciated and encouraging.

@shirleylynch4420 3 года назад

You took me back in time talking about Market Gardens. The housing scheme I am in now was once a famous Market Garden up here in Scotland. Now it is all gone. I think my house used to be the leek and potato field. Ah such memories. Thank you.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

I suppose if ever your roof dribs with water you can blame the leeks! Sorry, couldn't help myself :) Thanks for watching.

@davidmills636 3 года назад

Very interesting - I too love looking at maps and find the National Library of Scotland side by side maps fascinating

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

I use those maps all the time.

@tensils 3 года назад

Good concept Richard. Looking forward to this series

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Thanks so much.

@caveweta 3 года назад

Richard, what about the Heane Rd underground pools. We were bused there every week from Lancing to learn to swim until the primary school built their own pool. That was pre 1967.......can you uncover the fate of the pools?

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Never heard of that - I wonder where they were.

@leighlawson4854 3 года назад

@@RichardVobes Presumably Heene Baths which were at the south end of Heene Road. Closed 1968. Demolished c1973, and offices built there which in turn were demolished recently. It is now Triton House retirement apartments.

@jeanblemings5352 3 года назад

Loving the creepy gothic church with the atmospheric backing track. The heritage trails look very interesting think I will download some of them to try if the lockdown eases sufficiently in times to come.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Let me know what you think of them, Jean, if you do them.

@oliverjh1281 3 года назад

Great video full of interesting facts Richard nice to see your local area

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Thanks, Oliver. Much appreciated.

@OriginalPoppinus 3 года назад

Loved this walk, really interesting to learn about the old nursery as a keen plants person, ideal conditions as you say, what a shame it doesn’t continue, it’s what’s needed still, love the piece of Bach, it suits the fine architecture 😊x

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

You can imagine the rows upon rows of glasshouses that would exist now if a large company was doing it nowadays

@OriginalPoppinus 3 года назад

@@RichardVobes yes I can imagine, sensitivity to the environment of every kind seems to have been lost far too often 😞x

@turbostream7925 3 года назад

Another enjoyable vid Richard. Interesting history just minutes from your front door. You are a fabulous film maker, it takes skill to make such an interesting video just walking along the street!

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

And you are a fine complimenter, Adrian. Thank you.

@marcintime 3 года назад

Great stuff: really engrossing and very well researched.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Thanks so much

@meijiturtle3814 3 года назад

Agree with previous comment. Very addictive series. May I compliment Richard on his choice of background music,always understated but in keeping with the mood.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

I do try - some times I get it wrong, but I do my best give the limited time I have.

@lorraineowen682 3 года назад

Hi Richard I stumbled on your video whilst researching an old building at the bottom of my garden in Lansdowne Road Worthing. It turns out its an old bothy that would have sheltered the workers in the market garden and heated the glass houses via the boiler in the basement. I am still ongoing with my research so if anyone has an info or old photos maps of Mill nursery or the vineyard at the west end of Lansdowne Road i would be very interested to see. Thank you for your great videos.

@cogidubnus1953 3 года назад

Worthing must've still been renowned for it's veg by the mid twentieth century...I recall from my very early years, (in Brighton), after a trip to the Open Market, being shown by my Grandma how to twist off a tomato's "topknot" and smell the freshness..."if it's a strong fruity smell that means it's a Worthing tomato and they're the best"...there must be something in the soil and water in the area, or else why would the government place it's, (now long gone), Glasshouse Crops Research establishment just along the road at Rustington?

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

How interesting. Sadly the houses have supplanted the tomatoes and that delight will not return. :( Cheers, Dave.

@ramibu239 3 года назад

Holy Trinity Church is just a stunning Victorian Church. It saddens me so much to hear that it's condemned & falling apart!😢 You can tell that this area once had to be very affluential in Victorian society. I can just imagine how lovely it had to be w/ their grand hotels , gardens & beautiful big houses (before they were turned into flats!😏).😍 Btw....glass nursery houses? This must be the same area from the Ivy Arch video???

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

It's west of Worthing town - the glass houses were all over the Worthing area. Ivy Arch is very central - slightly north of railway line.

@PortsladeBySea 3 года назад

Worthing has some stunningly beautiful architecture. I just hope that developers don’t ruin it over the next 20-30 years. With our modern God being GDP growth and consumerism, and cathedrals now being marble and stainless steel clad shopping centres, we witness the closure of Victorian and Edwardian churches. Hopefully these lovely old buildings can be sensitively converted in to residential accommodation, or community workshops/IT hubs.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Who will walk around the streets in 100 years praising the glass and steel of modern buildings?

@imranzazai7404 3 года назад

Very interesting place.

@fastsetinthewest 3 года назад

Intrigued by the amazing Brits that live in those places. Where do they work? Do they have happy lives? Eaglegards...

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

So many of those grand houses are flats and apartments now, as well as care homes.

@fastsetinthewest 3 года назад

@Rob Scovell Thank you Rob. Hearing from someone living there is great. My family emigrated from near Headcorn, Kent County in 1870 to Bristol Road, Genesee County, Michigan. They established a farm which went on for 5 generations. There are many families in the USA having ties to England.

@richm2835 3 года назад

That was very interesting , I notice some of the roads are named after writers/poets like Shelley and Byron , is there a connection with Worthing ?

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

A few writers have lived here - Shelley for sure, Pinter, also, although no road after him I don't believe. I don't think Shakespeare came to Worthing, but he has a road too.

@hmq9052 2 года назад

Really interesting - thanks

@RichardVobes 2 года назад

My pleasure!

@christineconstable6024 3 года назад

In Byron Road, the Worthing Bridge Club is set back from the houses which you referred to, and has an interesting architecture, somewhat akin to a religious building. The houses adjacent to the road are not the Bridge Club.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Is the bridge club still there then?

@john07973 Год назад

Good video thanks

@TheVintageNews 3 года назад

Very interesting, I look forward to kingston gorse - its always been 'off limits' when as grew up in Littlehampton, i dropped soemone off there once and there a 'guard' at the entrance with manual barrier, strange

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Golly - I did manage a walk around there a while ago with my GoPro camera. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SAkkEG8OEYg.html

@koont666 3 года назад

Excellent 👍

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@kezzaba1 3 года назад

Just wondering and I don’t know if you would know the answer. Was Worthing bombed much during WW2 and did it lose many buildings? That was an interesting video, thank you.

@MrNas42 3 года назад

Yes, but not heavily Kerry. It wasn't a strategic target, but could get confused with nearby Shoreham Harbour (which was), or was used as a convenient location to drop any unused bombs on the way home to Germany. There is plenty of information and pictures on line if you care to look for them.

@kezzaba1 3 года назад

@@MrNas42 thanks that’s interesting. My brother recently lent me some books on bombing in Eastbourne which was quite heavy. It’s interesting to trace the modern buildings and what was there before.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Looks like people more qualified than I have answered. :)

@stephenagger5565 3 года назад

Hi Richard I use to live in Shelley road many years ago at the Worthing foyer and I find it very fascinating when you show old os maps from 100 years ago and compare with the changes of today I live in tarring where I live there used to be allotments before flats got built in the 1960s. Looking forward to seeing more of them videos all the best.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Thanks very much Stephen. It is fascinating to see how quickly a place changes.

@davidkeel 3 года назад

My friend lives across the road from that church so I've sent him the video. Yes it is sad that a lot of people have come into the church that have never had an Epithany with Jesus. So it's a lot of man's thinking that entered in and in the Victorian era there was a lot of non Christian strict ways in these Religious organizations. For example the Salvation Army homes for unmarried mother's. They never treated the mother's very nice in lots of them. My mum went to one.. The real Jesus is what most people never experience in a church. He came to me when I tried to end my life aged 17.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

You make a lot of sense, David. Sounds like Jesus did a great thing for you. Keep smiling.

@davidkeel 3 года назад

Thanks Richard.

@davidkeel 3 года назад

@Rob Scovell Yes I am sure he would have done. I got saved in Liverpool city centre after hearing a street preacher. That was a few months after hearing God audibly speak to me when trying to take a handful of tablets.

@johnbyrne2756 3 года назад

AS BELLS FADE (verse 6 of 6) Chalice, cross and candlestick safe under lock and key Long shafts of dusty sunlight there impossible to see Bindweed and nettle prosper in the lush green chestnut shade Old iron bell falling silent as sweet resonations fade. JB09

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

John you must write poems all day long - thank you for your lovely words and phrases.

@johnbyrne2756 3 года назад

It could of course be many places, but all in the mind in this case.

@johnbyrne2756 3 года назад

Rob thanks. Just looked up 'Dover Beach' and read with interest, very nice. Do read GK Chesterton's Rolling English Road sometine --a real gem

@Lastseensomewhere 3 года назад

The holy trinity church is a really grand structure...what would you say has been your favourite church on your travels in England??

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

I couldn't pick out a favourite, but I prefer the older humbler downs land Churches, the more Saxon/early Norman the better.

@dcarbs2979 3 года назад

@@RichardVobes Sompting (St Mary) and Broadwater are some of the oldest locally. St James The Less (North Lancing) isn't far behind, 12th century but you've explored that.

@aabb55777 3 года назад

Nice

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Thanks

@juniajosh3858 3 года назад

Such a shame about Holy Trinjty.. A beautiful church. I would imagine workshops would be a compromise now that church goers have declined..keeping as much of the integrity of the interior, somethings flats could not do.

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

It would be good to keep the external structure at the very least!

@juniajosh3858 3 года назад

@@RichardVobes at the least!

@juniajosh3858 3 года назад

My grandparents used to come to Worthing to see the osteopath. I would tag along and we would have hot marmite drinks in their little camper van while parked outside..

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

oooh, I love hot Marmite drinks

@juniajosh3858 3 года назад

@@RichardVobes marmite, there's no compromise!

@sarahannebrindley 3 года назад

This was recently on the market for £750k I believe

@hollyco.9609 3 года назад

The Venturesome Vobes 😁

@RichardVobes 3 года назад

Indeedy!

@janerobertson8950 3 года назад

Another brilliant video, thank you!

@henryharesdene4164 3 года назад

Ah! - See Worthing and -D... umm - well perhaps not Add: Grade II listed -in Sussex what isn't - Are you Grade II listed yet (methinks you're a bit younger than I, but I'dbe pleased to be listed (on erflection perhaps not, I'd have to get my glasses = windows by the LA, and that would be a hassle....