100 years ago - the ‘Invasion of Horsham’
The paper also recorded that on Wednesday morning magistrates met and agreed to close all public-houses and clubs at nine o’clock as they were told soldiers retired at 9.30pm. Entertainments were laid on at the Y.M.C.A. rooms, Mr. Lynes’s in West Street and music was performed on the Bandstand in the Carfax.
As almost a footnote to the billeting of troops, not all was sweetness and light, as Jane Bowen found when she read the Minutes of a report on East Parade School, for February 1915 the school was described after the troops left as “disgustingly dirty and untidy condition ... littered with broken food tins, etc. Many of the W.C.s were left in a foul state.”
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Hide Ad- Springfield Park Heavy artillery Water laid on from hydrants in the park
- Horsham Park Field artillery Water laid on from hydrants in the park
- Old Brewery, Worthing Road, 1,500 men. The premises was about to be turned into a motor and cycle stores for Messrs Rice Bros. Mr. Renwick Town surveyor had connected up a water supply here
- Urban District Council yard, 500 men
- The Olympia skating rink, 500 men
- Horsham Grammar School (Collyer’s), 400 men
- Tanyard Barn and buildings, 350 men
- Wesley Hall. A large number of visitors entertained with refreshments and music
- Drill Hall, Park Street. Troops didn’t arrive here till 8.30