Maze Hill Terrace, an attractive row of four houses, is numbered 1 to 4 from left to right. The two end houses are slightly grander in style and have their own front porches, unlike the pair in the middle. They also have, as end houses, two extra windows on each floor. There are four floors […]
Monthly Archives: September 2024
The talk will begin at 4pm sharp on Sunday 6 October, 2024, in the Burton Room of the Royal Victoria Hotel, TN38 0BD. Members free, non members £5. This event will be an illustrated talk given by the Burtons’ St Leonards Society Member, Prue Maxwell-Stewart, on ‘The Amsterdam‘: the extraordinary story of the laden Dutch […]
The deaths of both James Burton, founder of the town, and of his wife are recorded in this post. 7 June 1836, Morning Herald Livery and posting stables at St Leonards on Sea. To be let for 3, 5 or 7 years, standings for 90 horses… Apply to Mr Kaye, St Leonards on Sea. 22 […]
Many members of this society enjoyed a garden party at Glanymor, 3 Highlands Gardens today. This post is about the early history of that house. The name, by the way, is Welsh for ‘seaside’. It is Grade II listed, and Historic England describes it and the neighbouring houses: HIGHLAND GARDENS 1. 5204 St Leonards Nos […]
The priced Ancestry database has UK naturalisation certificates and declarations, 1870-1916, from the National Archives’ class HO334. It can only be searched by name. I have searched for “St Leonards on Sea” or “Saint Leonards on Sea” in the National Archives’ Discovery catalogue, which indexes a broader time period, 1870 to 1987. For that longer […]
I have posted before about a bombing raid on The Lawn, taken from bomb reports kept at the Hastings Museum. This post is about a raid on the 19 February 1943 which caused much damage across a large area of St Leonards. I have selected another short road affected in that raid, Cumberland Gardens, to […]