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After founding his new town of St Leonards-on-Sea, James Burton gained permission by an Act of Parliament of 1837 to build a turnpike road northwards from Maze Hill to avoid the congestion in Hastings. [5] However, when this was authorized, the Hastings Council also obtained the necessary Turnpike Act to build a new road towards London.
St Leonards-on-Sea (commonly known as St Leonards) is a town and seaside resort in the borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. It has been part of the borough since the late 19th century and lies to the west of central Hastings.
Cave Austin and Co., Ltd was a chain of Grocery Stores and Cafés in the South East of England. At its height, there were over fifty branches over South-East London, North-East London, Kent, and Surrey as well as cafés in many major South Coast resorts such Deal in Kent and St Leonards-on-Sea and Hastings in Sussex. Cee N'Cee Late 1950s
St Leonards-on-Sea experienced continuous rapid growth after it was founded in 1828 by London-based builder and speculator James Burton. [2] The seaside resort, immediately west of the ancient port of Hastings, had a 2 ⁄ 3-mile (1.1 km) esplanade with high-class buildings facing the English Channel, [3] but also extended a long way inland by the late 19th century as housing was built up the ...
Permanent churches were opened in both Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea in the 1880s: at Hastings, the very tall, complex Free Gothic Revival St Mary Star of the Sea Church (1881–83, by Basil Champneys) was partly funded by poet Coventry Patmore [24] while the much more austere Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs, St Leonards ...
The St Leonards Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the St Leonards-on-Sea area of Hastings in East Sussex. [ 1 ] The St Leonards Academy was established in September 2011 from a merger of Filsham Valley School and The Grove School.
St Leonard's Church is an Anglican church in the St Leonards-on-Sea area of Hastings, a town and borough in the English county of East Sussex.The main church serving James Burton's high-class mid 19th-century new town of St Leonards-on-Sea was designed by Burton himself just before his death, and it survived for more than a century despite being damaged by the cliff into which it was built ...
St Michael and All Angels convent chapel was St Leonards-on-Sea's first Roman Catholic place of worship. Relations between the convent sisters and the parish were difficult, and in 1866 [ 6 ] a new church was built for public use nearby, after which the convent chapel reverted to private use for The Society of the Holy Child Jesus only.