Houses with a name may sound easy to research. They can, however, cause problems, as in the case of James Farish Danvers’ devotion to the name of Swithland. He lived in four houses named Swithland, three of them in St Leonards. The name probably comes from Swithland Hall, Leicestershire, which was lived in by a […]
I was looking for someone in the 1901 census when I came across an unusual household at 37 Pevensey Road, St Leonards on Sea. Matthew Makalua, age 35, surgeon, born Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian subject, was married to wife Annie, 39, born Oxfordshire, with his son James, 10, born London. There was also a visitor and […]
This is the first posting of the Society’s new blog, which is an exciting development. While I will be the blog editor, I hope that other members will also write postings. These may cover history or modern conservation efforts – really anything about the heritage of St Leonards on Sea. My own interest in house […]
Illustrated Talk by Stephen Gray: Sunday 27th March 20224 p.m. Burton Room, Royal Victoria Hotel Admission: Non-members £5.00 – Members £2.50 Of the twelve children of James and Elizabeth Burton, ten survived infancy: William Ford, Eliza, James, Jane, Septimus, Octavia, Henry, Decimus, Alfred, Jessy (Jessica) – a remarkable family. One of the most remarkable is […]
Their cultural & architectural contributions to St Leonards & Hastings Talk by Christopher Maxwell-Stewart Vandeleur Benjamin Crake (1816 – 1894) was the foremost member of the Crake family who made major contributions to the architectural and cultural heritage of St Leonards in the later decades of the 19th Century. The Scottish baronial ‘Highlands Gardens’ are […]
Sunday 23rd February : Talk by Helena Wojtczak Helena Wojtczak is a local author and historian specialising in the lives of women in the Victorian era. She has written four books about the subject and one on the history of female railway workers. After discovering that a serial poisoner and Jack the Ripper suspect once […]
A talk by Steven Gray Sunday 27th October 2019 – 4 pm Royal Victoria Hotel, St Leonards From the aftermath of the Great Fire of London and into the Victorian era, one house type was ubiquitous from London to Bath, Liverpool to Dublin and Boston to St Leonard’s-on-Sea. Danish architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen described the […]
March 31 2019 @ 4:00 pm. The Royal Victoria Hotel click here for details Visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Tuesday 30 April 2019 click here for details Please find the current newsletter on our home pageOr click here to download
The Burtons’ St Leonards Society present: Modernism-on-Sea A context for the concrete architecture of Sidney Little A talk by Stephen Gray at the Royal Victoria Hotel Sunday 28th October 2018 at 4 pm (£2.50 members, £5 non-members, at the door) Click to download flyer and information
February 24 2019 @ 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm Future of the Harold & Edith Swan-Neck Statue– A Panel Discussion click here to download details