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The Vintage Trail
Sussex, England
Midhurst
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MIDHURST, SUSSEX

Midhurst
Market Square looking up West Street
c.1900
postcard dated 1903, published by
CT Burchnall, stationer & newsagent
[note newsagent spelling on enlargement]
Taylor's Shoes, HG Stedman and
The Swan Inn.
Hovis cart on corner by the Market Hall, then a 'Temperance Hotel'

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Midhurst
Looking up West Street
c.1904 - 10

postcard
in house

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Midhurst
The Market Hall
Being used as a Temperance Hotel
1908

photograph

The building extended southwards.
The hotel & sweet shop shown was ran by the Glazier Family. The sign advertises their 'Boats for hire' [Teas provided] kept at the Wharf - see enlargement
Humber cycles sign is for Maides, on West Street.
more info here

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Midhurst
The Market Hall
c.1920 - 1922

postcard - donated: Carol Twite

Buildings to the rear demolished and a new entrance, the sweet shop has also gone. Almost the whole Glazier family have emigrated to Canada.
In the upper rooms of this building the
Grammar School was founded in 1672.

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Midhurst
Market House
29 May 1952

photograph by Leslie A. Whitcomb
Whitcomb collection

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Midhurst
The Market Square
c.1955-57

photograph
WSCC Libraries

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Midhurst
The Market Hall
c.1960

photograph
note that the doorway has yet again been moved

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The Market Hall in use as a Labour Exchange and National Service office - click to enlarge

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	*Market Hall*
	This building, at the junction of West street and South street was built c1551-52 with an open ground floor to provide covered space for market stalls. There have been many changes made over time and the hall has had a number of uses incuding as a Temperance hotel, shops, cafe even as a 'Labour Exchange'. In the 1670s the lofts of this building were the first Grammar School. It is now part of the Spread Eagle Hotel.

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