Tag Archives: WWI

St Leonards’ Royal Concert Hall, later the Elite Cinema

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 […]

Veterinary surgeon turned bathing machine proprietor: James Mannington Richardson

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 […]