Hastings Council gave permission on the 3 February 2025 to planning application HS/FA/23/00871 for Gensing Manor, 19 Dane Road, for ‘Alterations and extension to existing building to create 20 apartments, together with associated access, landscaping and car parking.’ An extension in a similar style will be built onto the back. The Argus has an article […]
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I came across a mention of Maud Bullock in a 1914 newspaper and decided to research her life. There are a number of mentions of her in the newspapers, and I was also pleased to find that a relative had put up photos of her on a family tree on the Ancestry subscription database. What […]
St Leonards used to have the Warrior Square Concert Hall, later the Royal Concert Hall. Its location was on a block that is now entirely occupied by an apartment building, with Terrace Road to its south and Warrior Gardens to its north. The Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 18 October 1879, describes in detail the […]
By chance I came across a photo of a man using old railway carriages at St Leonards as bathing machines. This was in the Sunday Mirror, 30 May 1920, with the headline ‘Demobilised Major as bathing machine proprietor’. There is a picture of the gallant Major smiling at a lady customer about to enter the […]