From the 1880s onwards, planning applications were typically, though not consistently, reported in the local papers a day or two after either being allowed or rejected. Here we have some St Leonards applications from the Hastings and St Leonards Times, 6 December 1890, as an example: …bakers’ oven at No. 30 Western-road, St Leonards, for […]
Monthly Archives: December 2025
It may be thought that little documentation can be found on relatively modern roads, but I found a great deal on a pre World War II road. As it happens, it is also a good example of what is common today but used to be rare: a single builder purchasing and developing a large piece […]
The talk will begin at 3pm sharp on Sunday 18th January, 2026, at Crown House, Marina, Hastings, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN38 l, l £5. Members free, non-members £5 entry. Doors open 2pm. Talk is 45 minutes. ‘The Hawkhurst Gang’ by Capt. James Bollinger. ‘My talk on the Hawkhurst gang tells the story of England’s first organised […]
18 August 1846, Sussex Advertiser: Samuel Brown, of St Leonards, was committed for three months, in default of payment, under an order of affiliation made by the bench towards the maintenance of an illegitimate child. Defendant, who is apprenticed to a bricklayer, said he was not in receipt of any wages, and consequently was unable […]