The talk will begin at 4pm sharp on Sunday 6 October, 2024, in the Burton Room of the Royal Victoria Hotel, TN38 0BD. Members free, non members £5. This event will be an illustrated talk given by the Burtons’ St Leonards Society Member, Prue Maxwell-Stewart, on ‘The Amsterdam‘: the extraordinary story of the laden Dutch […]
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On Sunday 14 July starting at 3pm our chairman Stephen Van Dulken will be re-running the well received walk around the former public house sites of St Leonards. The walk lasts around one hour with a planned final stop at the Horse and Groom (for anyone actually requiring refreshments by that point). Well behaved dogs […]
The next ‘turn up & go’ (no booking necessary) guided walk of Burtons’ St Leonards will be on the Bank Holiday, Monday 26th August, 2024 at 11am. Meet promptly for 11am on the St Leonards seafront (high level) opposite the Royal Victoria Hotel, Marina, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0BD for a 90 minute walk around Burtons’ […]
Our late summer members’ garden party will be on Sunday 1 September, 2024, weather allowing, 3pm-6.30pm. Details will be emailed to members closer to the event.
I recently took members of the Society on a walk round some pubs of St Leonards, both those still existing and some which have been closed. I enjoyed it and I think the members did too. Here is me holding forth with the Railway and the Royal in the background. As a followup, here is […]
This talk will be given by our Chair, Stephen van Dulken, but mainly based on research by Christopher Maxwell-Stewart. The dairy was a family business which migrated from Hastings to the corner of Gensing Road and North Street and involved reconstructing two houses from the America Ground. The talk will include some very rarely seen […]
On Sunday May 5 our Chairman Stephen Van Dulken will lead a historic walk around the sites of St Leonards public houses that have now sadly disappeared. The walk will start at 3pm, it is expected to take around 1 hour, and will conclude at a pub that is actually still in operation. This walk […]
This will be at a new venue, in the grounds of a Decimus Burton house. Details will be sent to members closer to the event.
“Walking is how the body measures itself against the earth”, a quote from Rebecca Solnit’s ‘Wanderlust: a history of walking’. Usually in a catchment area of 30 miles, the Society walks through sunshine and mud amongst their local flora & fauna and it was my turn to contribute a walk on 25th January, 2024. Managing […]
Happy New year to all members, or to step back briefly to the earlier days of the Burtons’ St Leonards:‘Opening rosebuds fair as ye, may the coming New Year be’ Our next Society event is a talk on the St Leonards Bathing Pool by Andre Palfrey-Martin @ 16.00 on Sunday 28th January in the Burton […]