I am not sure how much of this long, satirical article is accurate. The simple illustrations are in my opinion rather bizarre. It was printed in the Illustrated Times, 24 October 1857. BY THE SEA-SIDE. – NO. XI ST LEONARD’S-ON-THE-SEA Is the West End or Belgravia of Hastings. St Leonard’s proper begins at the archway […]
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Maze Hill Terrace, an attractive row of four houses, is numbered 1 to 4 from left to right. The two end houses are slightly grander in style and have their own front porches, unlike the pair in the middle. They also have, as end houses, two extra windows on each floor. There are four floors […]
The deaths of both James Burton, founder of the town, and of his wife are recorded in this post. 7 June 1836, Morning Herald Livery and posting stables at St Leonards on Sea. To be let for 3, 5 or 7 years, standings for 90 horses… Apply to Mr Kaye, St Leonards on Sea. 22 […]
Many members of this society enjoyed a garden party at Glanymor, 3 Highlands Gardens today. This post is about the early history of that house. The name, by the way, is Welsh for ‘seaside’. It is Grade II listed, and Historic England describes it and the neighbouring houses: HIGHLAND GARDENS 1. 5204 St Leonards Nos […]
The priced Ancestry database has UK naturalisation certificates and declarations, 1870-1916, from the National Archives’ class HO334. It can only be searched by name. I have searched for “St Leonards on Sea” or “Saint Leonards on Sea” in the National Archives’ Discovery catalogue, which indexes a broader time period, 1870 to 1987. For that longer […]
St Leonards used to have the Warrior Square Concert Hall, later the Royal Concert Hall. Its location was on a block that is now entirely occupied by an apartment building, with Terrace Road to its south and Warrior Gardens to its north. The Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 18 October 1879, describes in detail the […]
By chance I came across a photo of a man using old railway carriages at St Leonards as bathing machines. This was in the Sunday Mirror, 30 May 1920, with the headline ‘Demobilised Major as bathing machine proprietor’. There is a picture of the gallant Major smiling at a lady customer about to enter the […]
What is well established is who built Stanhope Place in St Leonards on Sea. What, I suspect, is not known is why the road has that name, and who actually owned the freeholds of its 14 terrace houses in its first decades. These houses are Grade II listed, and their official description at the Historic […]
I have posted before about a bombing raid on The Lawn, taken from bomb reports kept at the Hastings Museum. This post is about a raid on the 19 February 1943 which caused much damage across a large area of St Leonards. I have selected another short road affected in that raid, Cumberland Gardens, to […]
4 June 1835, Brighton Gazette HASTINGS. It is reported here that part of the Roman Catholic Establishment will consist of Sisters of Charity. WARRIOR’S GATE, BETWEEN HASTINGS AND ST LEONARDS. – The Sea Wall, partly formed of concrete and partly of stone, is now completed, and will be an object of general attention and admiration. […]