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14 unusual facts about St Leonards


2MBS

The station broadcasts from studios located at Chandos Street, St Leonards, to the greater Sydney region at a frequency of 102.5 MHz from a 50 kilowatt (ERP) transmitter located atop Governor Philip Tower, in Sydney's central business district.

British Rail Class 201

However, one complete unit, no. 1001, was preserved by Hastings Diesels Ltd., which is based at St Leonards-on-Sea.

Cholesbury-cum-St Leonards

Governance for the civil parish is administered through a parish council.

Edward Thomas Connold

Edward Thomas Connold (11 June 1862 Hastings - January 1910 St Leonards-on-Sea), was an English naturalist and author with a particular interest in oak galls.

Frederick Marrable

In this period he designed St Mary Magdalene's Church in St Leonards-on-Sea (1852).

Gerald S. Graham

Gerald Sandford Graham (born 27 April 1903 in Sudbury, Ontario - died 5 July 1988 St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex) was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970.

After this appointment, Graham returned to his permanent home in England at St Leonards-on-Sea, where he died at the age of 85 in 1988.

Hastings School of Art

The art department was moved to the main college campus in Archery Road, St Leonards-on-Sea in 1982.

Nature Care College

Nature Care College is a private college in St Leonards, New South Wales specialising in natural therapies.

North Shore Rowing Club

The following month at the School of Arts in St Leonards a committee was elected and an enrolment program for members was commenced.

Simon Taufel

Simon James Arthur Taufel, (born 21 January 1971 in St Leonards, New South Wales), is a retired Australian cricket umpire who was a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel.

St Leonards-Mayfield School

The school was founded by Mother Cornelia Connelly in 1872, with the oldest buildings dating from the 14th century.

St Leonards-on-Sea

The land that is now St Leonards was once owned by the Levett family, an ancient Sussex gentry family of Norman origin who owned the adjacent manor of Hollington, and subsequently by their descendants, the Eversfields, who rose to prominence from their iron foundries and widespread property holdings during Tudor times.

James Burton, a successful London architect who had developed large areas of Bloomsbury and the houses around Regent's Park, purchased land from the Eversfield estate in order to put into being his concept of a seaside resort.


Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart

Charles Murray Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart GCB (Walton-on-the-Naze 21 December 1783 – 16 July 1859 St Leonards-on-Sea), styled Lord Greenock between 1814 and 1843, was a British Army general who became Governor General of the Province of Canada and Lieutenant Governor of Canada West (26 November 1845 – 30 January 1847).