London Road

From Historical Hastings
London Road
Construction
Completion1838

Now one of the main thoroughfares from St Leonards seafront to the junction at Silverhill. The roads were linked up finally in around 1838, with the road being dedicated in 1849[1]. This road was renumbered during 1902.[2] Prior to around 1860 when large-scale development further north and the work on the sea-wall resulted in the beach becoming inaccessible to wheeled transport, there were two large capstans at the sea-ward end of the road to facilitate hauling colliers up on the beach to discharge their loads of coal for St Leonards[3]

Numbers 181 and 183 (the location of the footpath Glen Passage which leads down some steps to Southwater Road) have never existed; the east side of London Road in this area being steeply banked into the valley and difficult to build on in any case.

Images & Features

N.B. The 'features' tab, whilst returning buildings and business premises in this road is not operating correctly, therefore a 'Dev.Use' tab is in place to explore alternative ways of retrieving this data.

Images

 Street number FromYear FromRef ToYear ToRef 
G. Bristow15
15
1891
1845
1947
1891
D. C. Williams105
Duncan Foster476
16
38
11
1950
1969
1969
1969
1970
1969
1969
196
Dunmore School1901
190
1907
1940
E. Gray & Sons13818901915
Farmers Direct40
269
19461980
1980
Langney Motors Ltd209-210
12
1951
1969
1969
1969
1969
1969
Moulton & Son Wine Merchant2
2
P. A. Fisher and Son38119842020
Rediffusion4719781978
St. Leonards British School45a18681913
St. Matthews Church
T. Munn3
The Clarence (Silverhill)3911869
The Royal Dairy40
20
1880
1880
1873
1945
1880

Documented Features

References & Notes

  1. Brett Manuscript Histories Vol. 3 Chap. 41
  2. Hastings & St Leonards Observer 05 April 1902 pg. 6
  3. St Leonards in the 1860s