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 […]
Tag Archives: WWII
On this Remembrance Sunday, I am giving in this post some entries from the Hastings and St Leonards Observer’s “On active service” section during World War II. The initial dates are of the newspaper issue. Links are to the official record in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website. I have added a few notes […]
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 […]
I have posted before about a bombing raid on The Lawn, taken from bomb reports kept at the Hastings Museum. This post is about a raid on the 19 February 1943 which caused much damage across a large area of St Leonards. I have selected another short road affected in that raid, Cumberland Gardens, to […]
Undercliff is a road in St Leonards which at present is numbered 1 to 14, going from east to west. It used to be numbered 1 to 18, but four houses were destroyed in World War II. This post will mainly show how some information on those lost houses, and proposals to rebuild them or […]