On Sunday 14 July starting at 3pm our chairman Stephen Van Dulken will be re-running the well received walk around the former public house sites of St Leonards. The walk lasts around one hour with a planned final stop at the Horse and Groom (for anyone actually requiring refreshments by that point). Well behaved dogs […]
Monthly Archives: June 2024
On Thursday the UK has a general election. We cannot take the right to vote for granted, as it was only in 1928 that women gained full equality with men. Women had won the right to vote in 1918 but were more limited in their rights than men. They had to be aged 30 or […]
The next ‘turn up & go’ (no booking necessary) guided walk of Burtons’ St Leonards will be on the Bank Holiday, Monday 26th August, 2024 at 11am. Meet promptly for 11am on the St Leonards seafront (high level) opposite the Royal Victoria Hotel, Marina, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0BD for a 90 minute walk around Burtons’ […]
The title of this posting is that of an illustration in the Illustrated London News, 30 January 1869, page 113. It accompanies an article titled ‘St Leonard’s British and Infant Schools.’ Below is the image. I was aware of the former building’s site opposite Christ Church, but not of its appearance or other details. The […]
2 June 1834, Sussex Advertiser On Thursday morning, the Bishop [of Chichester] consecrated St Leonard’s Church, before several of the clergy, and a respectable assemblage of individuals, according to the usual forms and ceremonies of consecrations [The day before he had carried out confirmations at St Clement’s in Hastings]. 16 June 1834, Sussex Advertiser SEA […]
Our late summer members’ garden party will be on Sunday 1 September, 2024, weather allowing, 3pm-6.30pm. Details will be emailed to members closer to the event.
The following account is from the Brighton Gazette, 19 February 1863. On Sunday morning a fire occurred in this town, and although, fortunately, unattended with no loss of life or personal injury, it resulted in considerable destruction of property, and but for the energy displayed in extinguishing it, would doubtless have been of a far […]
Volunteers at the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery are transcribing details of typed reports about damage suffered in raids in World War II onto a spreadsheet. The reports consist of lists by street of houses damaged in each raid. I am one of those volunteers. The information is intriguing, partly because of the details of […]