Vandeleur Benjamin Crake & Family
Their cultural & architectural contributions to St Leonards & Hastings
Talk by Christopher Maxwell-Stewart
Vandeleur Benjamin Crake (1816 – 1894) was the foremost member of the Crake family who made major contributions to the architectural and cultural heritage of St Leonards in the later decades of the 19th Century. The Scottish baronial ‘Highlands Gardens’ are his most obvious bequest but of equal importance architecturally are the ‘Arts and Crafts’ residences in Boscobel Road which he commissioned Philip Tree to design. His life was a contrast of great sadness and wonderful friendships most notably with Edward Lear.
Christopher Maxwell-Stewart was a founding trustee of the Burtons’ St Leonards Society and is the current chair. In recent years he has researched the development of St Leonards beyond the Burton Estate.
Royal Victoria Hotel
Sunday 26th September 2021
3.00 p.m
£2.50 members & £5.00 non members
2019 AGM
This year the society’s AGM will be held at South Lodge, Maze Hill, St. Leonards.
Sunday 24th November at 6pm followed by drinks and nibbles.
Talk: The wreck of the Amsterdam
March 31 2019 @ 4:00 pm. The Royal Victoria Hotel
Visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Tuesday 30 April 2019
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Modernism-on-Sea
The Burtons’ St Leonards Society present:
Modernism-on-Sea
A context for the concrete architecture of Sidney Little
A talk by Stephen Gray at the Royal Victoria Hotel
Sunday 28th October 2018 at 4 pm
(£2.50 members, £5 non-members, at the door)
Future of the Harold & Edith Swan-Neck Statue
February 24 2019 @ 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Future of the Harold & Edith Swan-Neck Statue
– A Panel Discussion
She
Sunday 29th September 2019 – 4-6 pm Kino Teatr, Norman Road, St Leonards
A showing of the 1925 silent film She with introductory talks by Christopher Maxwell-Stewart and Olga Mamonova on the life and works of St Leonards resident, Sir Henry Rider Haggard.
She was one of Rider Haggard’s most popular works, together with the famous King Solomon’s Mines and its sequel, Alan Quartermain.
