These are extracts from a dissertation. In these recession-hit times, a traveller to Hastings, walking from the railway station past boarded-up shop fronts towards the fire-damaged pier and on to St. Leonards, might be surprised to discover the town’s elegant and fashionable history. It was the fourth largest resort in England and Wales in the […]
Monthly Archives: January 2024
Although many schools put adverts in local newspapers, they nearly always give details of their teachers, and the subjects covered, rather than how much they charged. By chance I came across an exception. The Sussex Advertiser, 25 July 1865, provided many details for a school at 26 Gensing Station Road (now Kings Road). The school […]
Happy New year to all members, or to step back briefly to the earlier days of the Burtons’ St Leonards:‘Opening rosebuds fair as ye, may the coming New Year be’ Our next Society event is a talk on the St Leonards Bathing Pool by Andre Palfrey-Martin @ 16.00 on Sunday 28th January in the Burton […]