The talk will begin at 3pm sharp on Friday March 21st, 2025, at Crown House, 60 Marina, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN38 0BE. Members free entry, non members £5 entry. A talk given by David Clarke on ‘Green St Leonards’. Doors open 2.30pm. Previously advertised start at 4pm was in error.
Monthly Archives: February 2025
This is the story of three confectioner families in St Leonards, all linked by living at one time or another at 43 Marina. Evidence is at first fragmentary, and we can only speculate about motivations. The address is presently that of a four-floored carpet store, presumably with housing above the ground level, next door to […]
23 March 1839, Morning Advertiser [Lent Assizes. Lewes]. Charles Lee the younger, labourer, aged 22, Charles Lee, the elder, chimney sweep, and John Henbury, were charged with the manslaughter of John Bean, at St Leonards, Hastings, in November last. An old grudge had existed between the parties, who had fought some time before the fatal […]
It is well known to locals that St Leonards on Sea, with a population of about 40,000, has not a single bank left. It had, in the 1950s, about a dozen. The only places where you can have an account are, I believe, the post office and the nearby branch of the Nationwide Building Society, […]
These are notes on a convalescent home for children which for many years was the most westerly of the several convalescent homes on West Hill Road, St Leonards on Sea, specifically at 125 West Hill Road. The now grassy site, together with that of another care home, is the subject of a planning application to […]