Patrick Francis Robertson (1807-1885) was a wealthy Scottish entrepreneur who in the early 1850s turned the derelict America Ground into Hastings’s main shopping street and seafront residential area. But the root of his wealth was opium.
Patrick Francis Robertson (1807-1885) was a wealthy Scottish entrepreneur who in the early 1850s turned the derelict America Ground into Hastings’s main shopping street and seafront residential area. But the root of his wealth was opium.
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