Tag Archives: Cross Street

Assaults at 4 Cross Street, St Leonards on Sea, in 1857 and 1861

This story is about assaults within a shared house and is grimly comic. I had come across this newspaper account of a case before the local magistrates, in the Hastings and St Leonards News, 11 September 1857: ASSAULT. – Rebecca Thrift v Mary Kenward. – A summons for an assault alleged to have been committed […]

The Prince of Wales public house, 15 Western Road, St Leonards on Sea

The Prince of Wales public house reopened in brightly painted and refurbished style on the 5 March with the declared aim of being a not-for-profit enterprise as part of the Hastings Project, a community brewery. The style is simple with no music, and the décor is the same inside and out: dark green and a […]