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Fountain, 26 Caves Road, St Leonards

At Fountain Place in 1878 & earlier. This sea front pub was built in 1837 and is now called the Marina Fountain to avoid confusion with another Fountain pub in Queen's Road 2 miles away (see Hastings list). A very popular pub with the young and not so young, the Fountain is a well patronised biker and everyone else friendly pub with live rock music most weekends and often other types of music at other times. Raised stage area with pool table on it when no bands are playing. Regular quiz nights are also a feature. No special facilities for the disabled, but double doors and everything on one level, so I can't forsee any problems except for narrow toilet doors. Disabled people often do use the pub, but can usually walk short distances. This pub is worth a visit if only to gawp at the splendid array of superb motorbikes often parked outside, the chopped motorbike on stage and Fred Flintstone's old motorcycle in the beer garden. Beer garden/child's play area at rear with fascinating example of heavy Victorian civil engineering holding up the cliff behind the pub which may be related to this 1863 event:
Landlady Stephenie Beale runs, what in my opinion, is the best pub for many miles, certainly the best in the Hastings/St Leonards area. I have no connection with this pub other than as a very satisfied customer who regularly travels three miles to get there, passing at least thirty other pubs on the way. ***

Directory of historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in St Leonards, Sussex. The St Leonards, Sussex listing uses information from census, Trade Directories and History to add licensees, bar staff, Lodgers and Visitors.

Fountain, 26 Caves Road, St Leonards - in 2009

Fountain, 26 Caves Road, St Leonards - in 2009

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The following entries are in this format:

Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.

1859/S Noakes/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1866/W Jenks/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1878/Wm Nuttman/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1881/William B Nuttman/Licensed Victualler/31/Cheam, Surrey/Census ****
1881/Ann Nuttman/Wife/29/Cooksey, Worcester/Census
1881/William B Nuttman/Son/5/St Leonards, Sussex/Census
1881/Jack B Nuttman/Son/2/St Leonards, Sussex/Census
1881/Fred Nuttman/Son/11 months/St Leonards, Sussex/Census

1890/Timothy Hammond/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1899/Charles Webber/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1905/Wm Pompey Glazebrook/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1915/Tom Sellick/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1918/Walter Emery/../../../Post Office Directory ****

1938/Samuel J Clee/../../../Post Office Directory ****

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