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Illustrated Talk by Stephen Gray: Sunday 27th March 20224 p.m. Burton Room, Royal Victoria Hotel Admission: Non-members £5.00 – Members £2.50 Of the twelve children of James and Elizabeth Burton, ten survived infancy: William Ford, Eliza, James, Jane, Septimus, Octavia, Henry, Decimus, Alfred, Jessy (Jessica) – a remarkable family. One of the most remarkable is […]
Their cultural & architectural contributions to St Leonards & Hastings Talk by Christopher Maxwell-Stewart Vandeleur Benjamin Crake (1816 – 1894) was the foremost member of the Crake family who made major contributions to the architectural and cultural heritage of St Leonards in the later decades of the 19th Century. The Scottish baronial ‘Highlands Gardens’ are […]
Sunday 23rd February : Talk by Helena Wojtczak Helena Wojtczak is a local author and historian specialising in the lives of women in the Victorian era. She has written four books about the subject and one on the history of female railway workers. After discovering that a serial poisoner and Jack the Ripper suspect once […]
A talk by Steven Gray Sunday 27th October 2019 – 4 pm Royal Victoria Hotel, St Leonards From the aftermath of the Great Fire of London and into the Victorian era, one house type was ubiquitous from London to Bath, Liverpool to Dublin and Boston to St Leonard’s-on-Sea. Danish architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen described the […]
March 31 2019 @ 4:00 pm. The Royal Victoria Hotel click here for details Visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Tuesday 30 April 2019 click here for details Please find the current newsletter on our home pageOr click here to download
The Burtons’ St Leonards Society present: Modernism-on-Sea A context for the concrete architecture of Sidney Little A talk by Stephen Gray at the Royal Victoria Hotel Sunday 28th October 2018 at 4 pm (£2.50 members, £5 non-members, at the door) Click to download flyer and information
February 24 2019 @ 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm Future of the Harold & Edith Swan-Neck Statue– A Panel Discussion click here to download details
A showing of the 1925 silent film She with introductory talks by Christopher Maxwell-Stewart and Olga Mamonova on the life and works of St Leonards resident, Sir Henry Rider Haggard. She was one of Rider Haggard’s most popular works, together with the famous King Solomon’s Mines and its sequel, Alan Quartermain. Click here to download […]