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Lent by Mr. J . Foster.

 

Marine Parade and Baths 1812.

 

Powell's Library and Marine Boarding House, East Parade, and Fort, 1817.

The Marine Boarding House had previously been the Bank, under the style of Messrs. Mitchell, Mills, Ward & Co., also of Hailsham, the first Bank which had opened so far westward. The other Banks were Messrs. Tilden, Shadwell, Hilder, Harvey & Gill, at 90, High Street, and Messrs. Breeds, Farncombe, Breeds & Wenham, 85, High Street. All these Banks existed from the latter part of the 18th century. While Powell's Library, after its close, became the Bell Vue Hotel.