I have just come back from a very pleasant garden party at Ford Bank, together with many others from the Society. Many thanks to our generous hosts ! Enough to say it is an interesting example of, in effect, a forerunner of the English arts and crafts style. Below is a photo of the south, […]
Monthly Archives: June 2026
A letter was published in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer in its 23 December 1911 issue. It included this passage: Many more visitors come to the town now than did during what we call the palmy days, but they come at a different part of the year, and mainly do not occupy the same […]
The Bird-in-Hand beerhouse was at 1, often numbered 1 and 2, South Street from before 1855 until 1921. Its exact location is however something of a mystery. It is well established that the Plasterers’ Arms, later the Prince Alfred, was at the corner of South and Cross streets, as 12 South Street. In other words, […]
Hastings and St Leonards News, 23 April 1852: DEPARTURES. Lady Wallscourt, 42, Marina, on Monday. Lady Williams, Upland Views, on Monday, after six weeks sojourn. Lady Hay, 25, Marina, on Tuesday. Hon. Mrs Edgcumbe and family, 16, Grand Parade, on Monday. Mr Hollond, M.P., and Mrs Hollond, Allegria, for London, on Monday. A SERIOUS CHARGE […]