10 August 1842, The Morning Herald:
THE QUEEN’S ST LEONARD’S ARCHERS. – The ANNUAL PRIZE presented by her Majesty will be SHOT FOR on the 17th August (the grand target day); likewise the Royal Victoria Challenge Prizes, the Society’s Annual Prize, and Prizes for Visitors.
There will be an ordinary, and a ball in the evening.
ALFRED BURTON, Treasurer and Secretary.
St Leonard’s on Sea
23 August 1842, Sussex Advertiser:
HASTINGS AND ST LEONARDS. Our town, with St Leonards, has been filling very fast with visitants of late. The trade of the place, hitherto dull enough, is now growing brisk; and hopes are entertained of a prosperous season. Houses which have long been “to let” are now occupied, and lodgings go off rapidly.
30 September 1842, Morning Herald:
ST LEONARD’S-ON-SEA. – To be SOLD, by PRIVATE CONTRACT, a valuable LEASEHOLD RESIDENCE, No. 2, Undercliff, containing a dining-room with folding doors, drawing-room, six bed-rooms, water-closet, convenient kitchen, yard, and offices; held for about 90 years, at a ground-rent of 15l. per annum. The premises are highly desirable, and let to Lady-day, 1843. – Refer for every particular to Henry Bishop, Esq., High-street, Hastings.
5 November 1842, The English Chronicle
CROXTETH PARK. – The Earl and Countess of Sefton are passing the autumn here with a few select friends. The dowager countess and the Ladies Molyneux have arrived on the Marina, St Leonard’s on Sea, where they intend to pass the winter [The dowager countess was née the Hon. Maria Craven, daughter of William Craven, 6th Baron Craven. She had married, 1792, William Philip Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton, who died in 1838. She died in 1851].
8 November 1842, Sussex Advertiser:
On Wednesday, a man named Prendergast was held to bail to appear before the Magistrates on Thursday next, for an assault on a man named Coyle, and throwing him into a well, at the Roman Catholic establishment between this town [Hastings] and St. Leonards.
22 November 1842, Morning Herald:
On the 20th instant, of apoplexy, Septimus Burton, Esq., at his residence, Chiswick Grove, Middlesex [Son of James Burton, and the family solicitor for their estate. He stayed at 36 Marina when in St Leonards. In 1867 his remaining goods following the death of his son Arthur Burton were administered by Septimus’ brother Decimus Burton and his brother in law Francis Fearon].
2 December 1842, The Hull Packet:
Lord and Lady Feversham, who have been passing some months at Duncombe-park, near Helmsley, Yorkshire, went to town the week before last, and have since gone to St Leonard’s on Sea for the winter [Lord Feversham was William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham (1798-1867), Conservative MP for the North Riding, 1832-41, who succeeded his father as Baron in July 1841].
25 February 1843, The Kentish Mercury:
HASTINGS, SUSSEX. FREEHOLD BUILDING GROUND. MR SINGLE WILL SELL BY AUCTION, AT THE MART, ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, important PLOTS OF FREEHOLD BUILDING GROUND, land tax redeemed, at St Leonard’s on Sea, Hastings, situate in the Norman-road, near the intended splendid square, and being highly valuable for shops and residences for the fashionable visitors, a fortune may be rapidly realized by judiciously building upon it.
Particulars of Mr Austin, Builder, Warrior’s-gate, Hastings; and of Mr Single, surveyor, &c., 54, Coleman-street, Bank, London, at whose offices a plan can be seen.
10 March 1843, London Gazette:
Whereas a Fiat in Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against Henry Hughes and William Hunter, of Saint Leonards on Sea, in the county of Sussex, Builders and Copartners, and they being declared bankrupt are hereby required to surrender themselves…on the 21st March [In the 1841 census Henry Hughes, builder, 30, was at Undercliff; William Hunter, builder, 35, was at East Ascent].
16 March 1843, Brighton Gazette:
ST LEONARDS. Since our last, we have ascertained that the proceeds of the Fancy Fair, held in the St Leonards Assembly Rooms, for the benefit of the Infirmary, more than realized the expectations of its zealous promoters. £454 was collected, £80 being from donations, the remainder from the fancy works, &c., &c., &c., and Dissolving Views and Cosmorama which were erected in the rooms [The 9 March issue says that the fair was held on Monday and Tuesday and that over 600 of the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood attended on the Monday].
29 June 1843, Brighton Gazette:
ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA. The Right Hon. J. Plants has removed from the Double Villa, Marina, to his delightful residence at Fairlight [Joseph Planta (1787-1847) was a diplomat and later Conservative MP for Hastings, 1827-35 and 1837-44. A ‘double villa’ was the original name for a pair of semi-detached houses. It was probably either 1-2 West Ascent or 1-2 East Ascent].
13 July 1843, Brighton Gazette:
ST LEONARDS ON SEA. NARROW ESCAPE. On Monday afternoon a traveller stepped out of his gig into Mr Chester’s shop, on the East Ascent, without asking anyone to take care of his horse. In his absence, the horse took fright from hearing the noise of a hand cart behind him, and galloped off as far as the church, where some men fortunately stopped him without any damage [The church was presumably St Leonards parish church. Samuel Chester was a grocer at 12 East Ascent].
MUSICAL MICE. A cottage piano belonging to Mr Southall’s establishment, after a long “let,” was brought home with the silk front apparently pricked with pins or needles in numberless holes, very much torn, and some of it gone. Mr Elford, who tunes and repairs the whole of Mr Southall’s instruments, was sent for, as usual, to clean, tune, and do anything he thought necessary to the instrument. He proceeded to take out the keys, when he was not a little amused to find that the silk had been conveyed between the keys and key-frame by mice, and a silk nest built with the shreds directly under middle C. Evident trace of the little intruders were visible, and plenty of proof that they had not long absconded from their truly novel residence. The case is the more remarkable, on account of the instrument having of late been constantly in use [Charles Heywood Southall, of 6 Maze Hill, was owner of Southall’s Royal Library, on the seaward side of the Royal Victoria Hotel; it also rented out pianos. Edward Elford was an organist living in St Michael’s Hastings].