On Sunday 14 July starting at 3pm our chairman Stephen Van Dulken will be re-running the well received walk around the former public house sites of St Leonards. The walk lasts around one hour with a planned final stop at the Horse and Groom (for anyone actually requiring refreshments by that point). Well behaved dogs […]
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Our late summer members’ garden party will be on Sunday 1 September, 2024, weather allowing, 3pm-6.30pm. Details will be emailed to members closer to the event.
This talk will be given by our Chair, Stephen van Dulken, but mainly based on research by Christopher Maxwell-Stewart. The dairy was a family business which migrated from Hastings to the corner of Gensing Road and North Street and involved reconstructing two houses from the America Ground. The talk will include some very rarely seen […]
On Sunday May 5 our Chairman Stephen Van Dulken will lead a historic walk around the sites of St Leonards public houses that have now sadly disappeared. The walk will start at 3pm, it is expected to take around 1 hour, and will conclude at a pub that is actually still in operation. This walk […]
This will be at a new venue, in the grounds of a Decimus Burton house. Details will be sent to members closer to the event.
Tucked away in a secret underground location known only to committee members (and the people who ask them) are the Society archives. The hefty files are a fascinating collection of the history of the local town and the history of the members who strived to maintain it. In a recent visit, I took a risk […]