St Leonards used to have the Warrior Square Concert Hall, later the Royal Concert Hall. Its location was on a block that is now entirely occupied by an apartment building, with Terrace Road to its south and Warrior Gardens to its north. The Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 18 October 1879, describes in detail the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2024
By chance I came across a photo of a man using old railway carriages at St Leonards as bathing machines. This was in the Sunday Mirror, 30 May 1920, with the headline ‘Demobilised Major as bathing machine proprietor’. There is a picture of the gallant Major smiling at a lady customer about to enter the […]
What is well established is who built Stanhope Place in St Leonards on Sea. What, I suspect, is not known is why the road has that name, and who actually owned the freeholds of its 14 terrace houses in its first decades. These houses are Grade II listed, and their official description at the Historic […]
Undercliff is a road in St Leonards which at present is numbered 1 to 14, going from east to west. It used to be numbered 1 to 18, but four houses were destroyed in World War II. This post will mainly show how some information on those lost houses, and proposals to rebuild them or […]