Arts and Culture
The BBC comedy sitcom Open All Hours is claimed to be based on a shop in Norfolk Road near to where Ronnie Barker lived, although the series was not written by Barker, and had finished airing before he moved to the town. There was also speculation that one of his characters in the sitcom, Granville could have been inspired by Granville Road nearby.
An annual event is the bonfire procession, bonfire and firework display which are organised by the Littlehampton Bonfire Society.
Littlehampton supports a range of performance groups including Stagedoor Theatre Company, the Musical Comedy Society and Players Operatic Society who perform throughout the year. It also holds a popular 'Last Night of the Proms' concert performed annually by the Littlehampton Concert Band.
Littlehampton is the home town of British Christian rock band Delirious?, who all still live there.
LA Pebbles On The Beach is an annual charity music festival held on Beach Green. It features local acts that cross the musical spectrum so that there is something for all tastes during the course of the day. A sequence of monthly fund-raising events ae held in the town prior to the festival itself.
Character actor Stanley Holloway (1890—1982) died in The Nightingale Nursing Home, Littlehampton, in 1982 aged 91.
Littlehampton is the setting for an important episode in British author Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel Never Let Me Go.
Littlehampton was the backdrop for Swanage for the first episode of series 2 of the comedy drama series, The Inbetweeners, with filming taking place on the promenade and River Arun. Also the fifth episode of series 2, when Simon goes to see his dad, was filmed at the Travelodge by the Body Shop.
Littlehampton is also used as the town centre in Ever Decreasing Circles.
Littlehampton was in an episode of The Hungry Sailors on ITV.
Odd Man Out a comdey TV series from 1977 Staring John Inman was based in Littlehampton about a man who leaves the safety of his Blackpool fish and chip shop to take over his deceased father's seaside rock factory in Littlehampton with his step-sister Dorothy. The program only lasted one series.
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