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- 02:05, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1893 (Created page with "Category:1890s")
- 02:04, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Bexhill Library, Western Road (Created page with "Designed by Architect W. C. Richardson of Leeds and built by Padgham and Hutchinson of St. Leonards in 1893. The library is an important town centre heritage landmark. Built of warm red brick with Gothic styling, fine brickwork detailing including a continuous frieze with trefoil-headed arches repeated in the tympanum of the 1st floor window under the gable on the Western Road façade. Opened as a mixed infants school in 1893, a girls school opened on the upper floor of...")
- 01:59, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1934 (Created page with "Category:1930s")
- 01:59, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Devonshire Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
- 01:58, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Boots, 14-16 Devonshire Road (Created page with "A striking streamlined Moderne design of 1934 by Percy Bartlett (1895-1933) who was appointed the company architect in 1927 - the chamfered corners are particularly good as are the striped horizontal bands framing the small upper floor windows and pilotis in front of the shopfront. His extension to Boots of 1929 in Kingston-upon-Thames is Grade II listed. Category:All Category:Devonshire Road Category:1934 Category:Shops Category:Central Ward")
- 01:54, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1897 (Created page with "Category:1890s")
- 01:54, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Sackville House, 5-11 St. Leonards Road (Created page with "A splendid late Victorian building graces the western end of St Leonards Road – Sackville House was built in 1897. The canted upper floor bays, decorative plaster frieze and deeply overhanging eaves supported on carved console brackets stand above broad flattened arch shopfronts with borders of egg-and-dart mouldings. Category:All Category:St. Leonards Road Category:1897 Category:Shops Category:Sackville Ward")
- 01:51, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1912 (Created page with "Category:1910s")
- 01:51, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page 30 St. Leonards Road (Created page with "A good example of Edwardian architecture, rebuilt in 1912 with an exquisite white faience façade, mullioned windows with leaded light panes and a central steep triangular pedimented gable with a richly decorated oeil de boeuf centrepiece. Category:All Category:St. Leonards Road Category:1912 Category:Shops Category:Sackville Ward")
- 01:49, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1896 (Created page with "Category:1890s")
- 01:49, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:St. Leonards Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
- 01:48, 2 March 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page 48-52 St. Leonards Road (Created page with "This imposing late Victorian commercial building was built in 1896 – an outstanding façade displaying the architectural device known as blocking which frames the tripartite windows on the upper floors. The first floor fenestration is particularly interesting, composed of asymmetrical designs – conventional single and paired windows to No.48, a central recessed bay to No.50 and triangular oriels framing the central pair of windows to No. 52. The dormers have the same...")
- 23:05, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1920s (Created page with "Category:By Date")
- 23:05, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1921 (Created page with "Category:1920s")
- 23:04, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page The Picture Playhouse, 36-38 Western Road (Created page with "The Picture Playhouse was opened by the Duchess of Norfolk on 8th July 1921 (see photo below) with 800 seats. It was built adjacent to the Cinema de Luxe and was operated by Randolph E. Richards (the Cinema de Luxe was closed in February 1924 and became a garage and then printworks of the Bexhill Observer, it now forms part of the Weatherspoons pub). In 1966, it was taken over by the Classic Cinemas chain and was re-named Classic Cinema. Upon the retirement of Classic C...")
- 23:01, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Artwork & Memorials (Created page with "Category:Local List")
- 23:00, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs deleted page Category:Memorials (content was: "Category:Local List", and the only contributor was "AlexM" (talk))
- 23:00, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs deleted page Category:Artwork (content was: "Category:Local List", and the only contributor was "AlexM" (talk))
- 22:59, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1970s (Created page with "Category:By Date")
- 22:59, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Buckhurst Place (Created page with "Category:Streets")
- 22:58, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1976 (Created page with "Category:1970s")
- 22:58, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Artwork (Created page with "Category:Local List")
- 22:58, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Sainsbury's Concrete Mural, Buckhurst Place (Created page with "Three sculpture relief mural panels that were installed in 1976 on a new J Sainsbury store, designed by Henry and Joyce Collins (1912-1994 and 1912-2003) who worked on a number of large scale concrete murals in Britain the 1960s and 70s. Their commissions included artworks at the Shell Centre, London, Harlow New Town, GPO Tower, another Sainsbury's store in Southampton, British Home Stores and Gloucester. They represent beach scenes, a coins from the eras of William t...")
- 22:53, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Shops (Created page with "Category:All")
- 22:53, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Sackville Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
- 22:53, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page C. Wells & Sons, 30 Sackville Road (Created page with "Historic England have listed several shops that retain significant historic fabric – one example is in Bexhill, No. 6 St Leonards Road (1898). There is no point locally listing a building where the principle interest is its interior, though this could enable the planning authority to refuse an future application to remove its c1950s shopfront. Built in 1903, and founded a year later, this extraordinarily intact example of an historic shoe shop merits assessment for a...")
- 22:28, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1870s (Created page with "Category:By Date")
- 22:28, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Station Road (Created page with "Category:Streets")
- 22:28, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1876 (Created page with "Category:1870s")
- 22:28, 26 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Bexhill Signal Box, Station Road (Created page with "This signal box pre-dates the Grade II listed Edwardian station buildings by over 25 years and is a good example of a small mid-Victorian London, Brighton & South Coast Railway signal box. It was built in 1876 when the station was located on its original site opened in 1846 to the west of the existing station, fronting Station Road where the present-day Sainsbury's supermarket car park is. The station was then re-sited to the east in 1891 to face Devonshire Square before...")
- 18:57, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page File:Oceania, West Parade, Bexhill.jpg
- 18:57, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs uploaded File:Oceania, West Parade, Bexhill.jpg
- 18:41, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Kewhurst Ward (Created page with "Category:Wards")
- 18:41, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1940s (Created page with "Category:By Date")
- 18:40, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1940 (Created page with "Category:1940s")
- 18:40, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page St. Martha's Church, Cooden Sea Road (Created page with "Built by Edward Godwin and Sons in 1940. Text from Historic England’s Taking Stock - Catholic Churches of England and Wales: The foundation stone was laid on 11 August 1939 and the building was completed the following year. The cost was £7,114. The architect is recorded as one Marshall Wood of Hooe (a village near Little Common), who was a government architect in Hong Kong. It is a simple brick church but with a striking west (ritual) end reminiscent of Spanish or I...")
- 18:35, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Collington Ward (Created page with "Category:Wards")
- 18:35, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1933 (Created page with "Category:1930s")
- 18:35, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:St Augustines Close (Created page with "Category:Streets")
- 18:35, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page St. Augustine's Church, St Augustines Close (Created page with "Designed by William Henry Randoll Blacking (a pupil of Sir J Ninian Comper) and built by Edward Godwin and Sons, the first part, consisting of the chancel and the two east bays of the nave, completed in 1933 and consecrated the year later. Blacking planned a further three bays of the nave and a north west tower, but when construction was resumed in 1960 it was to a revised design by Hugh Hubbard Ford which was completed in 1963. He added only two more bays, resembling t...")
- 18:29, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1930s (Created page with "Category:By Date")
- 18:29, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1930 (Created page with "Category:1930s")
- 18:28, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Glassenbury Drive (Created page with "Category:Streets")
- 18:28, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Pebsham & St. Michael's Ward (Created page with "Category:Wards")
- 18:28, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page St. Michael and All Angels Church, Glassenbury Drive (Created page with "Designed by John Mendham (1866-1951) this church was built in 1930 in a simplified C13th Gothic style in brick with bath dressings. It comprises a nave, chancel, south aisle and south west tower with a pyramidal roof and tile hanging added in c1970 which complements its original design. The south aisle has transverse roofs giving a saw-tooth profile. The etched glass east window is by Marion Cantrell. Two churches by Mendham have been listed elsewhere: St Anthony of Pa...")
- 17:55, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page St. Stephen's Church, Down Road (Created page with "Built in 1898 and designed by Henry Ward (1852-1927) who also designed Bexhill Town Hall listed in 2022, URC Hastings Cambridge Road listed in 2010, Hastings Town Hall listed in 1999 and South Street Free Church Eastbourne listed in 2009. It has a Perpendicular Gothic South West tower, aisled nave, transepts and polygonal chancel. Brick with stone dressings. Detailed description in Antram & Pevsner’s Buildings of England: East Sussex. Category:All Category:1898...")
- 17:54, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs deleted page Category:Architecture (content was: "Category:Local List", and the only contributor was "AlexM" (talk))
- 17:50, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:1903 (Created page with "Category:1900s")
- 17:49, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Oceania, West Parade (Created page with "Once a single residence Oceania was converted into flats. The architect was Arnold Bidlake Mitchell (1863-1944). It was built by William McCormick and completed in 1903. It has polygonal bay windows, a large triangular pedimented gable and extensive use of terracotta. Category:All Category:West Parade Category:1903 Category:Central Ward")
- 17:46, 22 February 2025 AlexM talk contribs created page Category:Old Town & Worsham Ward (Created page with "Category:Wards")
