Many locals are unaware of the fact that on the promenade in front of the Royal Victoria Hotel, Marina, St Leonards on Sea, there was a row of shops for many years. Previously there was a library and a bathhouse, both built in Greek style. At some point the baths took over, and the land […]
Monthly Archives: August 2026
On the 2 July 1880, Hastings Council planning application DH/C/6/1/2509 was approved for what the Discovery catalogue describes as a ‘new road from Pevensey Road West to the borough boundary, on the Eversfield Estate, Rosamond Road’. It was later renamed Albany Road. This is an L-shaped road, with the long arm gently rising north from […]
The talk will begin at 3pm sharp on Sunday 29th March, 2026, at Crown House, Marina, Hastings, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN38. Members free, non-members £5 entry. Doors open 2.30pm. No reservations: ‘First come, First serve’ A presentation of Sir Henry Rider Haggard, a popular author seen in Victorian St Leonards, given by Jude Montague. By the […]
Padgham and Hutchinson were an important building partnership in St Leonards and Bexhill in the 1890s and early 1900s. A great deal of information is in the useful Discovery database that includes archives for East Sussex at The Keep, plus of course mentions in the newspapers. In Discovery, putting in say a street or an […]
The Coach and Horses public house on Mews Road closed in 1950 and is now a private house, 3 Mews Road. The house below it is no. 1 and there is no sign of a no. 2 (the map below suggests it was incorporated into either no. 1 or the adjacent East Ascent house, while […]
25 April 1854, Sussex Advertiser: 2 May 1854, Sussex Advertiser: 30 May 1854, Sussex Advertiser: [Auction by Mr Vosey [Voysey ?] at the South Saxon Hotel, 1 June 1854. Now the site of Bonjour’s in rebuilt premises. Under the will of Edward Bassett, of St Leonards, builder, who had his Canterbury will proven 4 April […]
2026 WALK ‘St Leonard’s PUBS – Then & Now START: 4pm sharp on Wednesdays, 8th July & 12 August, 2026 from outside St Leonards Warrior Square rail station on its Kings Road side. Please book via the form or reply email Taking sustenance from its 2025 popularity, our roving researcher Stephen will visit the FORMER […]