At the southern end of Kenilworth Road, and now numbered no. 98, is a former chapel, very obvious as one descends the road from the north. Formerly its activities were carried out upstairs at its neighbour, 18 Gensing Road, which is on the corner. The Primitive Methodists were a working class breakaway from the Methodist […]
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The 12 July 1862 issue of the St Leonards and Hastings Gazette & Visitors’ Vade Mecum reported on the sale of a ‘block’ of 13 houses and a plot of land at an auction at the Warrior’s Gate pub, the site of the present Post Office on London Road. The account is unusually detailed, and […]
This is the story of three confectioner families in St Leonards, all linked by living at one time or another at 43 Marina. Evidence is at first fragmentary, and we can only speculate about motivations. The address is presently that of a four-floored carpet store, presumably with housing above the ground level, next door to […]