Tag Archives: North Street

The Christ Church St Leonards House Improvement Society, Ltd.

Recently I noticed houses in Union and Alfred Street with niches in their walls, as if for statues of saints, and wondered about them. They are at nos. 8 and 17 Alfred Street and 5 Union Street. By chance I came across an article in a 1936 newspaper which made clear why they are there. […]

‘An appeal to the charitable’: a distressed master mariner of 7 North Street, St Leonards on Sea

The Hastings and St Leonards Times, 18 January 1884, has the following: AN APPEAL TO THE CHARITABLE. – An appeal is now being made to the public for the purpose of giving George Robinson, a local man, living at 7 North Street, St Leonards, a fresh start in life. The facts of the case are […]