Worthing Pubs

Bull
Goring Street


		Not strictly a Worthing pub, but close enough. Thought to date back to around 1770 and called the Bulls Head Inn, the name was changed to the Bull in 1904. The pub has been used more than once as a mortuary as the building had particularly thick walls. The extension was built in 1888 and may have been used as a butchers shop for a while. Unusually it was never a coaching inn. The outside remains identical today.

		The funeral of Sidney Orchard & Frederick Wadey leaving the Bull Inn in June 1907. Both young men, 19 and 22 respectively, had been killed by a bolt of lightening whilst sheltering under a tree near the entrance to Highdown Towers during a storm. It has been said that the copper coins in one of their pockets had been fused together by the intense heat. Two other men with them survived with minor injuries. They were buried in Goring Churchyard.

		Using an overlaid map of 1899, we can see that the post office used to be in what is now the car park of the present property. We note also that the property boundary to the west and north of the pub, remains almost identical to that of the earlier period. However, almost all of the other buildings have been replaced.

Known Landlords 1851 - Charles Knight 1855 - Mrs Ann Syers 1859 - Mrs A Syers 1866 - Mrs A Syers 1874 - John Higham 1878 - Henry Tulett 1890 - Henry Tulett 1899 - George Potter 1967 - Roy & Edwina Sanders