Skegness History Timeline

By Angela Gooch on June 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Pre - 1880

c1300 St Clement’s Church built
1526 Skegness completely washed away by tides and storm
1526+ Stones from original St Clement’s Church salvaged and used to rebuild church
1770 Skegness Hotel is built (known as the Enderby Hotel in 1828 and later became the Vine Hotel)
1825 Skegness Lifeboat and Coast Guard introduced - boats of the Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association
1825 Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is William Scupholm
1830s Ship Hotel is built at the junction of Burgh Road and Roman Bank
1830 Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is Samuel Moody
1858 Rev Edward Steere curate of Skegness see also memorial window in St Clement’s Church
1859 Coastguard Station built at Gibraltar Point
1862 Sea View Hotel opens owned by Dunkley
1864 Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association merged with RNLI due to financial difficulty
1864 Lifeboat station built on South Parade Skegness
1864 Skegness Lifeboat - Herbert Ingram I
1870 Skegness and District Pig Club formed
1871 Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is John Thomas Green
<1873 Skegness consisted of two roads only - High Street and Roman Bank
1874 First chemist shop in Skegness opened in High Street (owner George Morley)
1873 Firsby and Wainfleet railway was extended into Skegness
1874 Skegness Lifeboat - Herbert Ingram II
1875 H V Tippett, agent to the Earl of Scarbrough, conceived the idea of town planning Skegness
1876 Wesleyan Chapel opens on High Street Skegness
1877 Steam Laundry established on Roman Bank
1877 Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is Joseph Moody
1878 Skegness gasworks opened
1879 Frederica Terrace completed - the only building on Grand Parade
1879 First foundation stone of St Matthew’s Church laid
1879 Pavillion opened in the Pleasure Gardens
1879 Building of first Church of England schools commenced in Skegness
1879 Windmill stands on site of Clock Tower
1879 Grand Parade completed

1880s Skegness Herald

1880 Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is Thomas Smalley
Lumley Terrace and Gomersall Terrace completed
Cattle market opens near Skegness train station
National School opens on Roman Bank headmaster Mr Abraham Porter
Whale Museum opened in High Street owner Thomas Spikin
Easter Lumley Hotel opened, manager Mr Enderby
Cricket Ground opens on Marsh Lane (present day Richmond Drive)
1881 Pembroke House boys school built on Rutland Road Skegness (now Masonic Hall) Tippet’s son one of first pupils
Earl of Scarbrough Estate Offices built on Roman Bank/Algitha Road
Reading Rooms open Lumley Road Rutland Road (now National Westminster bank)
Pier opens
Pier Hotel opens
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and son of Queen Victoria arrives on Pier by boat
1882 30/6 Lodging-house keeper in trouble
Cattle disease in Skegness
Photographic studio opened
7/7 Cattle robbery from Burgh le Marsh
Assault on mistress
Narrow escape from drowning
Pier and Pleasure Gardens visitor figures
14/7 Extraordinary case of poisoning
Extended opening times for hotels granted
Sunday postal service is required
21/7 Alleged assault on a boy
New Wesleyan chapel opened on Algitha Road Skegness
28/7 Accident on the sands
Joseph Crawshaw’s son passes exams
Accident at the sands races
4/8 Bathing machine blown out to sea
Vagrancy charge - 14 days hard labour
Lion Hotel owner granted license to sell alcohol at the Cricket Ground
11/8 Frederica Terrace to be sold
Skegness Niggers (entertainers) advert
Article on how well Skegness is doing as a seaside resort
18/8 Petition for Sunday postal service lies in Reading Rooms
Alleged assault
Incorragable boy thief
Accident at Cow Bank
25/8 Pavillion
Accident to a lady
1/9 Census forwarded to Parliament for better water supplies in Skegness
A seal is shot at Skegness
Great jewelery robbery
Boy back in court
8/9 Skegness Polka
Cruelty to a donkey
15/9 Stranger bursts into Privative Methodist Chapel an gives a sermon
Attempted felony
22/9 First Skegness Guide (handbook) is launched
Extend the season - call
29/9 A fire appliance is needed in Skegness
6/10 Serious accident
13/10 First anniversary of Privative Methodist Chapel Roman Bank Skegness
27/10 A steamboat for Skegness
Testimonial to Station Master
Earl of Scarbrough’s agent (Tippett) comes to live in Skegness
A steam tramway from Skegness to Chapel and Burgh proposal
3/11 Important to get a fire service in Skegness
Church mice eat organ keys
10/11 Disappointed maiden - no suitor (letter to editor)
1/12 Improvements in Skegness
Whale ship Eliza (museum) set up on Skegness sands by Joe Wingate
1883 19/1 Reading rooms not frequented
19/1 Memorial window in old church (St Clement’s)
19/1 Street and other improvements
2/2 Erection of new street lamps
9/2 Fire in a nearby village - call for a fire engine
16/2 Crawshaw (local builder) advert for house sales
16/2 Child severely burned
23/2 Formation of the Cricket Club
9/3 Town meeting of rate payers
16/3 Pembroke school opens
23/3 Election of Parish Officers - ratepayers’ meeting (this story is not photographed)
30/3 Road improvements near Sea View Hotel
30/3 Vessel beached near Sea View Hotel, to be auctioned
6/4 Demolition of the Moat House
6/4 Skegness Police Station introduced
20/4 Brick and tile works opened
11/5 Great alterations in the Pleasure Gardens
11/5 Indepth description of the Turkish Baths Scarbrough Avenue
18/5 Reading Rooms building to let
25/5 Reading Rooms close due to poor support
25/5 Scarbrough Lodge of Odd Fellows 7th anniversary
1/6 Tippet secures fresh water for Skegness
1/6 Herald offices moved
8/6 Skegness lifeboat inspection
8/6 Lumley Road almost completed
6/6 Discussion - what to do with the old church (St Clement’s)
6/7 Viscount Lumley and Lord Muncaster visit to Skegness, lunched at Lumley Hotel
13/7 Touting for business - letter to editor
10/8 Fatal boat accident
17/8 Court hearing - fatal boat accident (story not photographed)
24/8 Swimming entertainment
31/8 Bathing infants in the Sea (British Medical Journal)
7/9 Card sharpers and welchers at the horse racing
14/9 Large number of porpoises passed off pier head (story not photographed)
19/10 Gale damage to pier
19/10 Town meeting to discuss Lincoln to Skegness railway (story not photographed)
26/10 St Matthew’s church roof unsafe
26/10 New fire engine is on display
2/11 Strange death of a mare
2/11 Ten sovereigns lost and found
9/11 Accident on Skegness Train Station
Fatal accident to a child
1884 4/1 Drunk and disorderly man in St Matthew’s Church
4/1 Road scrapers - letter to the Editor
8/2 Headless and handless body found on Skegness beach
22/2 New Sunday school opened in the Gas Works
7/3 Rare cormorant bird shot off Skegness Pier
14/3 Meeting held to discuss the town’s fetes, overseeing their organisation so they don’t clash (not photographed)
21/3 Meeting held to discuss the town’s fetes, overseeing their organisation so they don’t clash
28/3 William Plasket Moody takes delivery of 500 fine hams
28/3 Lord Lumley has a serious accident
28/3 Chief clerk at Skegness railway station is leaving
4/4 Skegness’ reaction to the death of the Duke of Albany
4/4 Election of parish officers
11/4 Hackney licenses granted in the Lumley Hotel
18/4 Attempted suicide
25/4 Earthquake tremors felt in Skegness
25/4 Skegness National Schools cleaned and distempered during school holidays
25/4 A Complaint - letter to Editor
2/5 Pony and trap accident
2/5 Scavenging in Skegness - letter to Editor
9/5 Blue Ribbond Movement - teetotalers
16/5 Complaints about the street lighting in Skegness
23/5 Improvements to Skegness Baths
23/5 Birds nest in letter box
30/5 Death of a horse on Skegness sands
30/5 Improvements in the shops ready for the start of the season
30/5 Spilsby story - mysterious dead body of a child
6/6 Description of the Whitsuntide holidays in Skegness
13/6 Funeral Moody - Charles Houghton speaks
13/6 Death of Chambers who owned the Vine Hotel
13/6 Watering the streets of Skegness
18/7 Child injured by a donkey
25/7 Donkeys running amok - complaint to Editor
1/8 Tricycles are a nuisance - complaint to Editor
8/8 Eating-house pests - complaint to Editor
22/8 Accident to a child belonging to Moody
19/9 Call for a Local Board to be set up in Skegness
10/10 Man tries to drown himself
10/10 Man charged with cruelty by working a sick horse
31/10 Love letter found and sent to the Herald
14/11 Improvements to Scarbrough Avenue and the Skegness railway station
12/12 Earl of Scarbrough dies (this story has not been photographed)
1885 6/2 Raid on Skegness bakers
6/2 Lads playing football are a nuicance
20/2 Prediction that Valentine’s Day will become obsolete
27/2 Ran-tanning bizarre ritual performed when a ‘wife-beater’ is discovered in Skegness
10/4 Funeral of Samuel Clark’s wife - owners of the Lion Hotel Roman Bank Skegness
22/5 Bathing machines painted in colours of Nottingham football team
29/5 Bicycles and tricycles become a pest in Skegness
26/6 Watering the streets of Skegness (not photographed)
10/7 Brutal assault on the Police
24/7 Boy nearly drowned in Alexander Road pond
July Skegness Ratepayers Association formed (story not photographed)
1886 9/4 Scarbrough Avenue laid out
16/4 Rates, sewers and watering roads
30/4 Extension of promenade from pier to Sea View Hotel
4/6 Lion Hotel changes hands - new owner Mr Kirkby
11/6 Restrictions on shop’s pavement displays
11/6 Complaint of stalls near Hildred’s Hotel
18/6 Death of Inspector Taylor
18/6 National School award from HM Chief Inspector of Schools
25/6 Rare species of moth found at Skegness and put on display
9/7 Pembroke House boys school up To Let
13/8 Stealing money at the Cricket Club
20/8 Winston Churchill visits Skegness
27/8 Local Board seals by-laws
12/11 Guy Fawkes ritual in Skegness
17/12 Queen Victoria Jubilee Clock discussed
17/12 Boiling of horse flesh man warned by Local Board
1887 Tramway Skegness Beach
1888 6/1 Lifeboat answers distress signals off Skegness
6/1 Treat for lifeboat crew from Mrs Ingram, donator of Herbert Ingram lifeboat
13/1 Member of Local Board treat their Chairman to a dinner
13/1 Local Board is photographed
24/2 Chairman of the Local Board, Col Iremonger, death and funeral
13/3 Local Board discusses suitable memorial for the late Col Iremonger
27/4 Dinner held for Charles Hildred on leaving his hotel
11/5 Sheep worrying
1/6 New Cremorne Pleasure Gardens to be opened
6/7 Marine Gardens opened
20/7 Tramway on Skegness Sands
3/8 Whale, Switchback and tramway discussed
17/8 Complaints of Whale stench
17/8 Illuminations for new tramway
12/10 Removal of fountain Lumley Road discussed
12/10 Improvements underway for Drummond Road and High Street Skegness
26/10 Samuel Moody’s wife dies (Angelina nee Brailsford)
26/10 Removal of fountain Lumley Road discussed
9/10 William Henry Crawshaw, son of Joseph Local Board, charged with letting his chimney get on fire
16/11 Fountain Lumley Hotel discussed
23/11 Canoe in distress off the pier
21/12 Memorial window fro Col Iremonger, Chairman of Local Board in St Matthew’s Church
21/12 New lifeboat arrives (not photographed)
28/12 English New Year superstitions

1890s Skegness Herald

1891 Derbyshire Poor Boys Home opens on Roman Bank Skegness, junction of Ida Road
1895 18/1 A sickening and gruesome find - mutilated body washed ashore
15/2 Soup kitchen recentry opened in Skegness
Skegness land plots to become freehold instead of leasehold
1896 Mr WT Berry’s Bicycle Shop commenced in High Street
1897 15/1 Planing for the erection of underground toilets juction of Lumley Road and High Street
22/1 Story of Mr Neal who first introduced the donkey to Skegness
9/4 Mr WT Berry’s Skegness & District Bicycle Shop commenced in High Street now moved to bigger premises
16/4 Alternatives to Clock Tower suggested
16/4 Letter to Editor - erect the Clock Tower on the Pier
30/4 More alternatives to Clock Tower suggested
2/6 Service held at St Matthew’s Church to celebrate Jubilee of Queen Victoria
13/8 Woman’s body found in the sandhills
13/8 Proposed erection of Clock Tower AND a drinking fountain
17/9 Magistrates visited proposed site for the Clock Tower erection
29/10 Ten designs submitted for the Jubilee Clock Tower
19/11 Infectious disease hospital discussed
3/12 Severe gales and floods
3/12 Plans for a Steam Laundry in Skegness
Skegness Urban District Council formed (previously named the Local Board)
1898 Underground toilets built on Lumley Road
c1899 Bryhtwen High School opens in Skegness at the junction of Lumley Avenue and Algitha Road (presently Churchills pub)
1899 First motor car arrives in Skegness
1899 Jubilee Clock Tower official opening ceremony
1899 Wesley Manse built for Wesleyan Chapel minister, 15 Lumley Avenue

1900s Skegness News

1900 Fred Clements first performance on Skegness beach
1901 Jan Queen Victoria’s death - how Skegness mourned
1/2 Skegness sent memorial wreath to Windsor Castle
1/2 Displays in Skegness in memory of Queen Victoria
8/2 Memorial to Queen Victoria
15/2 New Infectious disease hospital proposed
8/3 Paper Chase Skegness college
15/3 Architect’s report on the structure of St Matthew’s Church Skegness
15/3 Derbyshire Poor Boys Home 10th anniversary
20/3 Preparations for the taking of the 1901 census in Skegness
19/4 Isolation Hospital discussed at Skegness Urban District Council meeting
26/4 Council man blows himself up when inspecting sewers
26/4 Telephone exchange for Skegness
3/5 John Charles Fowler Curtis and sister Grace Curtis commendation at school
17/5 Isolation Hospital discussions
31/5 Battle of Flowers may be abandoned through lack of support
2/8 Live seals on display aboard Whale Ship Eliza
2/8 Suicide of a teacher in Lumley Road
2/8 Stabbing incident in Skegness
16/8 Part of Skegness baths made into a concert hall
16/8 Charles Hildred death
30/8 Lumley Hotel Company Limited goes into liquidation
30/8 Pembroke House (now the Masonic Hall Rutland Road) is now apartments
1/9 Installation of the telephone in Skegness
6/9 Comedy Theatre destroyed by fire
13/9 Concert to raise money for Comedy Theatre destroyed by fire
13/9 Concert Hall at the Baths in trouble with the Council SUDC
13/9 Ratepayers refuse to pay rates
13/9 Taxis not wearing badges
13/9 Isolation Hospital
20/9 Former National School teacher dies in South Africa
8/11 Local baker gets gold award for his bread
1902 24/1 Letter to Editor - footpath hazzard
31/1 H V Tippet is seriously ill
31/1 Sewage disposal at sea
7/2 Lady’s clothes catch fire at a house in Rutland Road
12/2 Tippet’s death and funeral (this story is not photographed)
21/3 Divorce case in Skegness
2/5 Death of a child (Toyne) by poisoning inquest at the Vine Hotel
9/5 Alledged mismanagement of lifeboat funds
23/5 Death of Gasworks Manager
6/6 Skegness Disaster Fund
19/9 ‘Goodbye, Skeggy Gay’ Derbyshire Children’s Home song
17/10 Caretaker appointed at the Isolation Hospital
17/10 Wainfleet Road pond is a health risk
7/11 Further developments in Skegness
28/11 Charles Burnham Photographic Studio opens in High Street Skegness
28/11 Funeral of W E Enderby at Halton Holgate (Shades Hotel)
28/11 Fred Greenwood dies
1908 Samuel Moody Cuts Wire Right of Way over North Shore Golf Links asserted

1920s Skegness News

1923 3/1 Accident to Charles Smythe Skegness photographer
N 3/1 Skegness is being swallowed up by sea fears
N 14/2 Restaurants needed for the working class people
N 14/2 Dutton’s shorthand now being used in Spilsby Court
N 21/2 Dog runs away with meat - butcher claims from Skegness Council
N 28/2 Skegness girl sends gift to Princess Mary’s new baby
N 7/3 Problem with wide pavement and verandahs - letter f to Council from Lowndes
N 7/3 Skegness’ first Shopping Week
N 7/3 Death of George Croft
N 4/4 Harriet Crawshaw’s death
N 24/5 Skegness United Football Team wins trophy
N 25/4 German Gun captured in World War 1 - problems discussed at council meeting
N 23/5 First Skegness Town Ball
N 13/6 Police court petty sessions
N 20/6 Police court petty sessions
N 20/6 Final resting place for German Gun suggestions at the town council meeting
N 27/6 Skegness Scouts camp pictures
N 27/6 Memorial to Smythe
N 27/6 War memorial erection discussed
N 4/7 Green divorce
N 4/7 Vine Pullover (Buckthorne) is it a private or public road?
N 25/7 Wainfleet Magdalen School headmaster tribute (includes photo)
N 25/7 War Memorial - Disney’s letter to Council
N 1/9 The estate of the late George Croft
N 12/9 German sailor found laid on Skegness beach
N 24/10 Wainfleet Magdalen School headmaster obituary
N 14/11 War Memorial unveiling ceremony order
N 28/11 New York broadcasts heard in Skegness
N 28/11 George Ball opens new Cattle market
1924 ?/1 Death of William Dowse old Skegness tradesman
N 3/1 Death of William Dowse old Skegness tradesman
3/1 Death of George Croft
9/1 Powletts Circus construction discussed in Council chambers
9/1 New office for Births Marriages and Deaths registration, and new registrar
30/1 Flashback - 25 years ago in Skegness - first motor car in Skegness
30/1 The German Gun again
30/1 Accident to Skegness News worker
5/3 More about Powletts Circus
19/3 Picking up Paris radio signal
26/3 Death of Rowley, Skegness Baths proprietor
30/4 The homeless German Gun
30/4 Moody lifeboat
7/5 More about the German Gun
21/5 Excitement at Callow Park Hotel Maid throws herself from top window onto Grand Parade
30/7 Mayor of Lincoln officially opens the Boating Lake
1/10 Malcolm Campbell, eminent motor racing record breaker prepared to race in Skegness
30/10 Malcolm Campbell, eminent motor racing record breaker prepared to race in Skegness
5/11 Why are horseshoes considered lucky superstition
1925 14/1 Skegness Casino Band selected to play on BBC radio
N 14/1 Skegness Radio Club formed
N 21/1 Wild Skegness story
N 28/1 Thomas Brearly Tribute Song -=- member of Skegness Cricket Club
N 4/2 Jolly Fisherman Poster at Colwyn Bay
N 8/4 Wainfleet Magdalen School, memorial to old headmaster Gerrish unveiled
N 29/4 10,000 Jolly Fisherman Postal Seals distributed by the Skegness Advancement Committee
N 13/5 Jolly Fisherman penetrates Germany
N 13/5 ROAB picture
N 27/5 Memorial windows in St Matthew’s Church dedicated to George Croft
N 10/6 Malcolm Campbell motor racing record breaker races at Skegness
N 1/7 Radio broadcast from the Arcadia Theatre Skegness by Clement’s Entertainers
N 9/9 Sheffield soldier indecently assaults young Skegness girl
N 23/9 Six strokes of the Birch Rod for Skegness boy
N 21/10 Samuel Moody becomes a Justice of the Peace
N 28/10 St John Ambulance Brigade formed in Skegness
1926 14/7 New water tower
4/8 New pier head
18/8 Happy Valley court case
6/10 Farming on the beach Skegness Foreshore development begins
6/10 amusements
27/10 Skegness enormous project
27/10 New design conctete houses
1927 2/2 Chair o plane
23/2 pleasureland removal from Skegness Foreshore
23/3 Memorial convalescent home (town hall)
1/6 Memorial convalescent home opening ceremony
N 19/1 Foreshore Manager position created
N 2/2 Boy’s foot crushed by council steamroller
N 2/2 Grunnill in Back and Kidney pills advert
N 9/2 Hospital wireless installation
N 23/2 ‘Lilac’ entertainers
N 9/3 Skegness man slits his own throat
N 9/3 Crawshaw honoured
N 16/3 Water tower collapse fears
N 23/3 Remember Lord Tennyson
N 30/3 Leaning tower of Skegness
N 13/4 Beam wireless first message in Skegness
N 20/4 School of Cookery sold for £3,650 at Lumley Hotel by George Ball (not photographed)
N 4/5 Salvation Army commanding officers leave Skegness
N 18/5 Skegness zoo
N 25/5 New beach donkey laws
N August Council Surveyor, Rowland Jenkins hands in his resignation but then withdraws it (not photographed)
N 17/8 Lawrence Wright, famous music writer, visits Skegness and wants to buy the water tower
N 14/9 Skegness foreshore illuminations for the first time in history (boating lake)
1928 4/1 New RAOB institute
18/1 Town Hall Fire
18/1 Great gale amusement park wreckage
8/2 Derbyshire miners opening
8/2 Skeletons found
25/4 Bathing Pool
16/5 Gasworks extension
27/6 Motor coach invasion
18/7 Bathing pool - keeping cool
25/7 Bathing pool from the air
8/8 Flying boats
8/8 Three men in a boat
22/8 Shoe shop fire
19/9 Distinguished visitor Skegness Cottage hospital
12/9 Prize winning pig
? Old Valor cooking stove advertisment
N 7/11 Scrap the Jolly Fisherman poster call
1929 30/1 Tower Esplanade beach improvements
27/2 Hungry gulls
15/5 Moody
29/5 Foreshore improvements
29/5 Publicity effort Jolly Fisherman
29/5 Overton Family History
17/7 Structure Tower Gardens
17/7 Bathing Pool Chute
4/9 Disney death
11/9 Elephants on Promenade
11/9 Blooding the Baby
27/11 Lumley Road Pleasure Gardens
11/12 Vine Hotel

1930s Skegness News

S 1930 1/1 Lumley Square Fountain
1/1 New Post Office
15/1 Vine Hotel
29/1 New Court House
5/2 Inside new court house
5/2 Tramway on beach
12/2 Moathouse
5/3 Boating Lake
12/3 Rustic Bridge and Lake Pleasure Gardens
2/4 V?
16/4 Rebirth Lumley Road
30/4 Whale story
N 4/6 Lions at Butlins
N 11/6 25 years ago in Skegness
2/7 Aerial views
13/8 Aerial view promenade
22/10 Steam Laundry
19/11 Skegness is quiet
Grosvenor Hotel and Imperial Cafe built by Frederick Walker
S 1931 7/1 Town Hall Transformation - reopens after fire in 1928
1/4 Beautifying Skegness Beach
15/4 Avery deaths
20/5 Police Training
/5 Skegness Waterway opens
/5 Fravigars celebrate Golden Wedding
17/6 Wainfleet Church Memorial Dedication
15/7 Storms on Sunday - shops on underground toilets flooded
19/8 Gip Grunnill
26/8 Pier diver
9/9 Butlin’s Midgets
16/9 Sand Sculpture
30/9 Hospital extension Lady Scarbrough
30/9 Foreshore workers
14/10 Sanitary Squad
18/11 Armistice
16/12 Bycroft death
7/1 Skegness in the past year review and King
N 28/1 Free lending library
N 4/2 Callow Park Hotel is sold
N 15/7 Great flood - Skegness swept by worst thunderstorms
N 12/8 Rapid washing machine advert
N 2/9 Royal Midgets at Butlins
N 7/10 Skegness before its seashore is developed
Library moves from High Street to new Town Hall
S 1932 20/1 Tea Party
20/1 Matt Grunnill
20/1 Wesleyan 45 years ago
3/2 Samuel Moody cuts wire - flashback to 1908
17/2 Lifeboat launch
2/3 Electricity
6/3 Entrenching
23/3 new footpath St Clement’s Church
30/3 Beach Transformation
6/4 Glimpse old Skegness
13/4 Before Clock Tower built
Electricity supply switched on by Joseph Crawshaw Mayor of Skegness
4/5 Suncastle being built
4/5 Regime railway station
11/5 Winter garden
25/5 Skegness then and now
8/6 Crofts
6/7 Standard’s 10th birthday
20/7 Old time Landaus
N 27/7 Roman Bank school closes
3/8 New Skegness Water Tower
3/8 New gas tank installed by gasworks
3/8 Yachts
10/8 Butlins Picture competition prizes
17/8 Pygmy Princess at Butlins
24/8 Pygmy princess arrives
31/8 30,000 view Pygmy princess
31/8 more Butlins picture competition
31/8 Yacht breaks mooring
31/8 Lifeboat presentation
7/9 Farewell to Pygmy princess
7/9 Pier manager
14/9 Carnival lights stolen
N 14/9 Donkeys at the Roller Rink
23/? Feet - uring Harold the dwarf
17/10 Lumley Secondary School opens
26/10 Battle of Flowers
26/10 Seacroft proposal
7/12 Homeless Samuel Lewis lifeboat
14/12 new motor lifeboat
14/12 lifeboat history by ‘Old Salt’
28/12 Anne Allen photo
28/12 Christmas at Suncastle
N 6/4 Hildreds Hotel Skegness and Victorian Water Fountain
N 17/8 Pygmy Princess the town awaits her arrival
N 17/8 Jolly Fisherman island
N 24/8 Pygmy Princess arrives
Lumley Square redeveloped and old houses demolished at the west end of High Street
S 1933 22/3 Lumley Square improvements
Suncastle opens
N Tarred and Naked Man at Skegness
N 26/4 Worst week in history for tragedies in Skegness
N 26/4 Fire
N 3/5 Woman burned to death
N 10/5 Gas exhibition in Skegness
17/5 fire engine
N 31/5 Christening of the ‘Elizabeth Allan’ pleasure boat
N 7/6 Air crash Skegness Aerodrome
14/6 new school
14/6 Rowland Jenkins
21/6 Anne Allen lifeboat
28/6 Thompson’s Pleasure Beach
5/7 Old Skegness lifeboat plane rescue
12/7 mechanical monster at Butlins
N 19/7 Last speech day at Magdalen School Wainfleet
9/8 Fire Rainford Terrace Drummond Road
9/8 Lumley Road fire
23/8 Grammar school opens
4/12 New vestry for St Matthew’s Church
25/10 Raising the Roof Central Hall Roman Bank Skegness - turned into Central Cinema
6/12 New gas showrooms preview
13/12 Parade Cinema opens, owned by Kemp of Nottingham
Skegness Film Star Elizabeth Allan is called to Hollywood
S 1934 10/1 Red Letter Day
21/2 Passing of the Lawn Theatre
14/3 Link with New Zealand
14/3 Elizabeth Allan Returns (film star)
30/5 Castleton Boulevard
3/10 Ship Hotel architecture
21/11 Old and New Showroom
28/11 Whale ship Eliza
N 3/1 Borman coal merchants
N 17/1 Skegness Council request designs for Skegness poster (flashback)
N 24/1 ‘Bouncing Boatmen’ poster considered by Skegness Council (flashback)
N 14/2 County Hotel was initially to be named ‘The Jolly Fisherman’
N 28/2 Child dies after swallowing a h’penny piece
S 1935 Lifeboat crew presentation
N 2/1 Pensioner wedged in barrel after fatal fall from roof
N 9/1 Child’s body in a bag found on Skegness beach
N 9/1 Unusual fish washed ashore in Skegness
N 23/1 Demolition of building west corner of Briar Way
N 30/1 Skegnessians save lost bomber by flashing morse code signals with car headlights
N 6/2 Widdow robbed by her son
N 6/2 Gas attack Grosvenor Road
N 6/2 Death of Trevett Pavilion manager
N 6/2 Skegness laundry girls photo
N 13/2 Jolly Fisherman now in Skegness
N 20/2 Death of Thomas Hutson Lincolnshire’s oldest lifeboatman
N 20/2 Bodies found frozed to an upturned boat
N 6/3 Skegness-born artiste joins the Pier Follies
N 13/3 Skegness plasterer in court for employees’ unpaid insurance stamps John Charles Fowler Curtis
N 13/3 60-year-old man indecently assaulted 13-year-old schoolgirl
N 13/3 New Skegness Brass Band photo
N 13/3 Child’s body in a bag found on Skegness beach - follow-up
N 13/3 Gold medal award for Skegness bakers
N 20/3 New Lumley Road shopping centre
N 3/4 Tennyson College pupils photo
N 24/4 Married man abducted a teenage maid
N 24/4 Serious sex charge against Skegness man dismissed due to lack of evidence
N 19/6 County Hotel was made entirely from Skegness bricks and stone
N 3/7 Dancing elephants for Skegness
N 17/7 Buy British campaign
N Lawn Theatre converted into Hildreds Hotel FebruaryPier Head demolished December
S 1936 8/1 Pier improvements
5/2 pier - artist’s impression
19/2 Printing works
10/6 Fred Rye’s lions feature
10/6 Younger’s ’so bracing’ advert Jolly Fisherman welcomes
Younger’s Brewery Excursion to Skegness.
(This is Jolly Fisherman before the official , modern costume)
10/6 Hughie Green at Butlins
10/6 Hypnotized lion - Chinese man
10/6 announcement of John Hassall’s visit to Skegness
17/6 John Hassall is presented with silver model of his Jolly Fisherman creation
1/7 Car hits Skegness kiosk
8/7 Pleasure cars bound for Africa
29/7 Through the arch - Sunshine corner
30/9 Palace de Dance
14/10 Lumley Cinema new picture house plans for Lumley Road Skegness
25/11 Europa crashed into pier (flashback)
N 1/7 ‘Speedy’ Winter Gardens clown
S 1937 13/1 Skegness boom in Scotland
3/2 Samuel Moody’s death
3/3 Skegness Band
23/6 Peaceful Skegness
7/7 Before the Clock Tower
14/7 Rector of Stiffkey Amazing story of de-frocked rector who sat in
Lions Den at Skegness - to be eventually mauled to death!
21/7 Battle of Flowers
4/8 Rector of Stiffkey death
25/8 Skegness hospital artist’s impression
17/11 Elizabeth Allen return to stage
?/12 Tennis stars in Skegness
N 20/1 Friskney man suffocates on his false teeth
N 28/4 Official commemorative plaque for King George VI coronation
N 28/4 New Butlins poster
N 4/8 Sex scandal Vicar of Stiffkey mauled by lion trial
N 4/8 Sex scandal Rector of Stiffkey funeral
N 15/9 John Hassall famous Jolly Fisherman poster
N 10/11 Young girl accuses local doctor of seducing her - trial
N 24/11 Three men and a dog rescued by Skegness lifeboat flashback
S 1938 16/2 Gift of embroidered cloth given to Skegness hospital
23/2 The development of double carriageway and shrubbery Lumley Rd East
23/2 Skegness lifeboat rescue photo
2/3 Picture of Skegness Silver Band
5/4 Skegness waterway extended over the central foreshore
8/6 About Skegness
13/7 Butlins Bathing Beauties
24/8 Woman’s nude body found on Skegness beach
21/9 Lusitania survivor in Skegness police court
N 26/1 RAOB man accused of giving alcohol to young boy
N 24/8 Nude woman’s body found on Skegness beach
N 31/8 Elderly woman falls to her death on local hotel’s stairs
N 7/9 Wasp sting
N 21/9 Lusitania survivor in Skegness police court
N
 26/10 Fred Rye lion keeper in Vicar of Stiffkey trial - verdict
N 30/11 Saved by the lifeboat
S 1939 4/1 Skegness school
8/2 Butlins fire
15/2 Butlins fire
31/5 Duchess of Gloucester royal visit
6/9 War declared news hits Skegness
N 7/5 Jolly Fisherman painter, John Hassall calls for a museum in Skegness

1940s

1940 3/1 Matt Grunnill death
10/1 Watime DOs and DON’Ts for women
17/1 Death of William Plasket Moody
17/1 Air raid warning sirens tested in Skegness
17/1 ‘Seathorne’ to be abolished
17/1 Steam Laundry annual dinner County Hotel
24/2 Death of Kezial Grunnill
22/3 ‘Peggy Gadsby’ (Frank) professional pier diver convicted in Skegness Magistrates Court
27/3 First ‘War Easter’ Skegness is busy!
3/4 Two Skegness men fined for violating wartime blackout rules
3/4 Free repairs to gas masks
30/10 Air raid shelters at Skegness Infant School ‘inadequate’
30/10 Skegness Council’s message to Hitler
30/10 Red tape hinders lifeboat launch
6/11 First World War II air raid in Skegness
6/11 Fined for leaving a bicycle on the pavement
13/11 Mobile Canteen set up by WI to help air raid victims
13/11 Wainfleet bombings
20/11 6th air raid on Skegness
27/11 Incendiary bombs dropped on Skegness
27/11 More paper - thanks to Hitler
11/12 Police devise new way of catching ‘blackout’ offenders
11/12 Planning a wartime Christmas
18/12 Skegness Grammar School boy crushed in a Sheffield air raid
24/12 Police officer shot by sentery
1941 15/1 George Dutton death
22/1 Another bomb raid
5/2 Coastguard Watch history
12/2 Defeating the raider
12/3 Two German bombers shot down
19/3 Three enemy raiders brought down
9/4 Moonlight air raid
30/4 Four soldiers in Tower Cafe cellar - threats with bayonette
7/5 Headless whale washed up on Skegness beach
14/5 Hitler comes 800 miles to kill an 8-year-old boy
4/6 Seance in Skegness to contact dead sailor
18/6 Lone raider bombs Skegness
9/7 Enemy raider shot down
9/7 Don’t use stirrup pumps to spray the garden!
16/7 Shot through head body found
30/7 Sleeping out in air raid shelters
20/8 Bombs fall on Vine Walk in Skegness
29/10 Rats ate the jam
15/10 Bombs fall near Crown Hotel
8/10 Child’s body found in a well at Petwood Hotel Woodhall Spa
26/3 Capon death (first surveyor to the Skegness Local Board
19/11 “Well done, Skegness!”
8/11 Worship Week
1942 1/7 Skegness lads in India
30/7 Barmaid falls through top window of Lion Hotel
8/10 Pull down St Matthew’s Church
1943 13/1 Frank Charles Fowler Curtis Skegness wedding
1944 25/10 Bombs
8/11 Raids on the resort
1945 28/2 Skegness beach re-opened after minefields have been cleared
7/3 Earl of Scarbrough death
7/3 Police machine-gunned in enemy fire
7/3 Piazza soon to be de-requisitioned
28/3 Local men missing in the War
28/3 Bombs in the boating lake
25/4 Brick pit not safe for sea scouts practice
2/5 Jehovah’s Witness jailed for refusing to do war work
9/5 VE Day
16/5 Mayor of Skegness, Joseph Crawshaw, announces VE Day from balcony of Lumley Hotel bay window
23/5 Victory in Europe Day celebrated by street party in Wiolford Grove Skegness
20/6 Piazza changes its name to the Embassy
4/7 Skegness “gunmen” in trouble
1/8 Still some mines in the area
1/8 Organ pipes missing from St Clement’s Church
15/8 VJ Day Victory in Japan
1946 6/2 Moody death
1947 2/7 Comedians Laurel and Hardy visit Skegness
17/9 Eric Watson story
15/10 Battle of the new raised hemline fashions - vox pop
1949 23/3 How old is Castleton Boulevard?
30/3 Conference Hall proposal
6/4 Skegness beach 60 years ago
6/4 New ration books
13/4 Prom stopped short
20/4 Plan Skegness great foreshore development
4/5 Greatest lifeboat rescue recalled (Norway)
18/5 Mrs Merryweather (fire engine)
1/6 Skegness landmark goes (brickyard chimney)
22/6 Waterway extension flashback
29/6 South Bracing grand opening
13/7 Pier that was
3/8 Peaceful prom
17/8 Thrilling lifeboat launch recalled
28/12 Old Tower Cinema passes rebuilt
N 12/1 Cartoon - price of railway tickets to Skegness
N 23/3 Jolly Fisherman goes to Leicester Football Club
N 23/3 Jolly goes to Leicester Football Club - they won!
N ?/ 3 Joseph Crawshaw
N 13/4 Skegness Thursday Football Club
N 1/6 Brickyard chimney is demolished
N 1/6 Shades pub Lumley Road
N 8/6 Fire at Tower Lumley Cafe Skegness
N 22/6 George Perrin
N 10/8 Pensioners Hall Grantham Drive
N 7/9 Fire at Derbyshire Miners holiday centre

1950s Skegness News

Skegness News 1950 8/2 Gas works death mystery body vanished from lift cage
15/3 Clarence Walker Skegness photographer marries
24/5 Floodlit Pier Pavilion
19/7 Anne Allen Skegness lifeboat launch
23/8 Rebuilding of Tower Cinema after WW2 bomb damage
27/9 Tonglet wedding
18/10 Boy falls from Briar Way hangar
18/10 Body found at Gibraltar Point
25/10 Chief Citizen’s Jewel donated to the Council
25/10 Most photographed man in Britain dies
Skegness News 1951 10/1 Knife drama at Skegness hospital
4/4 Suncastle manageress profile
6/6 Suicide by hanging at the ‘Poplars’ cow shed Ingoldmells
11/7 Snake man
25/7 The Beverley Sisters at Arcadia Theatre
25/7 Two found dead - incredible coincidences
1/8 Burgh Train Station tradgey
1/8 Jolly Fisherman copyright issue town council
8/8 Child sex abuse at Skegness Sunday School case
29/8 Julie Andrews at Arcadia Theatre
12/9 Cartoon - crowning the carnival queen
Skegness News 1952 2/1 Ball-point pens banned
2/1 ‘Erb’ cartoon
2/1 Death of Tower Cafe founder
9/1 ‘Erb’ cartoon Clock Tower
9/1 The first Skegness Guide was delivered by horse and cart (flashback)
9/1 False registration of a birth court case
16/1 Top names in Skegness
23/1 Heavy breathing phone calls
6/2 ‘Erb’ cartoon - darts
6/2 Dog rescued from ice on Skegness boating lake
20/2 Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II from Town Hall balcony
27/2 Winthorpe vicar guilty of gross child abuse
5/3 Women firefighters
12/3 Dead man found in field arms slashed
19/3 Dead man found in field arms slashed
19/3 Rev Canon Morris
26/3 Narrow escape from death as bombs fall on Spilsby AFTER the War
9/4 Shades Hotel
9/4 Clearing the foreshore for Easter
23/4 Retiring train stationmaster presentation
23/4 Mr Forster, gasworks manager retires
11/6 Terror of woman in Alexander Road Skegness
2/7 Snake pit under Skegness pier
3/9 Joseph Crawshaw with Henry Bateman TSB pass book presentation
3/9 Drunk housewife fined for leaning on a kiosk
17/9 Skegness born Hollywood film star, Elizabeth Allan returns to Skegness
29/10 Man’s body found in Skegness Waterway
Skegness News 1953 28/1 Skegness foreshore overwhelmed
4/2 Flood Pictures
4/3 Problem with sea defenses
29/4 Joseph Crawshaw with Eamon Andrews
6/5 Crown Hotel blaze
13/5 Skegness publicity bus
3/6 Peter Pan railway opens on central foreshore
24/6 Batemans/Follies
8/7 Chapel demolition
Skegness News 1954 17/2 Perrins lifeboat family
24/2 Later shopping times in Skegness
24/2 Lady Elizabeth Lumley wedding includes list of people invited from Skegness
14/4 Millstones from old windmill found in Lumley Road
21/4 Money safe discarded in ditch after burgulary
27/4 Dam Busters filmed in Skegness
5/5 Pulpit dedicated at St Matthews Church Skegness
12/5 Telegram to the Queen
26/5 New council charirman investiture
2/6 Skegness 5th scouts on parade
14/7 Billy Butlin switches on Skegness illuminations
21/7 Runaway landau horse crashes into Clock Tower
4/8 Foreshore first aid post manned by St John Ambulance Brigade
1/9 Dust men in Skegness
6/10 Tommy Gore photo leader of Skegness Band
13/10 Bayonet used in wife attack
24/11 St John Ambulance Brigade exercise
1/12 St John Ambulance Brigade gets Rolls Royce
8/12 St John Ambulance Brigade dinner
Skegness News 1955 23/2 Family drowned in frozen Brickpit tradgey
30/3 Two-year-old boy drowned
27/4 Lion removed
27/4 Best kept station award
25/5 Coun Thompson - new Mayor of Skegness
22/6 Bob Monkhouse switches on Skegness illuminations
22/6 Carnival Queen
28/9 St Matthew’s Church 25 years
26/10 United Nations Day ceremony at Skegness
9/11 Skegness Grammar School blazers made by local trader
30/11 Garage mechanic seriously burned
Skegness News 1956 18/1 ‘Nip’ Wright snooker player
8/1 Second fall of snow
4/4 New conservative club at Carisbrook Hotel
25/4 St Clement’s Church hall
23/5 YMCA amazing transformation
20/6 Sea erosion at Jackson’s Corner.
18/7 Skegness illuminations Foreshore Centre (Cafe Dansant)
18/7 Theresa Taylor 6 Cecil Avenue
22/8 Welcome Inn Shipstone’s new hotel
29/8 Welcome Inn Shipstone’s new hotel
5/9 Chapel Point bank gave way
12/9 Morris school opens
Skegness News 1957 2/1 Lifeboat launch 50 years ago
27/2 Burgh Windmill
22/5 Football ground works pipes
29/5 Lifeboat Wilfred Perrin
29/5 Follies on the Pier
29/5 Derbyshire Miners (Curtis)
10/7 Herbert Ingram
9/10 Polio Boy collection box
30/10 Whale story
Skegness News 1958 15/1 Skegness Lace Mills
22/1 Fire at the ‘Dots Club’ on Drummond Road Skegness
29/1 How to board the school bus safely, Skegness Infants School Cavendish Road
29/1 Who will censor the comic postcards on sale in Skegness?
26/2 Ladies ‘PROBUS’ photo Marine Hotel
26/3 High Street traffic problems photo
9/4 Did Mablethorpe pinch our Jolly Fisherman slogan?
9/4 Barrow Boys race
16/4 New chalets for Derbyshire Miners Home
23/4 New automated machinery for Skegness Town Hall
30/4 Consecration of the new part of St Clement’s Church burial ground
30/4 American wife decapitated in road accident
7/5 Home of Harry Bateman of Batemans Brewery, Wainfleet
7/5 Skegness pier is painted
7/5 Canon Morris
7/5 Mid-air drama
14/5 Wartime observation post at Jackson’s Corner demolished
14/5 Pier man retires - memories of Europa crashing into pier
14/5 First electronic post barrow for Skegness
21/5 Council house reserved for Skegness teacher
21/5 Girls Life Brigade photo
21/5 Child is bitten by Skegness donkey
4/5 Girl Guides inspection Lumley School photo
21/5 Berry’s house struck by lightening
11/6 Butlins express train
18/6 New evevt for Skegness - barrow boys
25/6 Skegness snack bar stabbing threat
9/7 Donkey is taught to cross the road safely
9/7 Mitchell invents talking horoscope arcade game
16/7 Pier mystery solved
30/7 BBC test Skegness for broadcasting signal strength
30/7 Oldest barmen
6/8 Lights out for Skegness Illuminations non-payers
6/8 Emergency car park for holiday traffic
13/8 Fatal accident social cycles
20/8 Chip cafe closed after summons
27/8 Skegness Illuminations switch on photo
3/9 Death of Ivor Cule
3/9 New cot for Skegness Day Nursary
8/10 Lumley junior school children photo
8/10 Work on Skegness leaning water tower
12/11 Evans cafe window smashed in High Street
17/12 Young boy found hanging

Skegness Standard 1950 4/1 Duke of Edinburgh at Butlins
4/1 Complaits about the Police Court Clock
11/1 Original Sea View Hotel
1/3 Skegness Roman Bank Methodist church choir
15/3 Jolly Fisherman potato crisps
31/5 Night spectacle pier
5/7 New magistrate for Skegness
19/7 Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church opens
26/7 those in peril on the sea
3/12 Live bomb found when old tank at Gibraltar Point is removed
Skegness Standard 1951 3/1 Girl ‘blooded’ at fox hunt
3/1 Mablethorpe dwarf
17/1 Reminiscence of 45 years ago Tower Esplanade
24/1 Minstrels
24/1 Grand Parade before 1899 Winston Churchill
/3 Tragic death of G H Hannan
28/3 Rankin profile
4/4 Former Skegness Grammar School girl - famous chick
12/5 Carvings inside the Sacred Heart RC Church
23/5 Old Salt (editor) reminisces about Lumley Road
27/6 Tower Theatre rebuilt after bomb damage
4/7 Salty occasion
18/7 Festival Centre opens
26/9 Syne Hills
17/10 A Lumley Lament (poem)
Skegness Standard 1952 20/2 death of George Perrin
20/2 Queen Elizabeth coronation
9/4 Sand blown in Marine Gardens
8/10 Fire station
Skegness Standard 1953 4/2 floods
18/3 Waterway spring clean
6/5 Clock Tower scaffolding
24/6 Skegness carnival
22/7 Butlins fire armed police ready to shoot zoo animals
16/11 Bateman
2/12 Seacroft train station closes after 80 years
16/12 lifeboat Cuttle given welcome
Skegness Standard 1954 3/3 St Clement’s Church get new hall
10/3 New fluorescent street lighting in Roman Bank
17/3 Spring cleaning the boating lake
17/3 Wedding shopping in Skegness - ad feature for local shops
24/3 Roman Bank fluorescent lights
28/4 Dam Busters filmed at Gibraltar Point
2/6 Biggest ever Skegness illuminations feature
28/7 Runaway landau horse crashes into Clock Tower
28/7 New miniature train
18/8 Appeal to save St Mary’s Church Winthorpe
8/9 Appeal church bells Loughborough
13/10 Bird’s eye view Lumley Square
20/10 Restoring Winthorpe church St Mary’s
10/11 War bomb damage Scarborough Avenue baths
24/11 Aerial view of the foreshore
1/12 Aerial view of North Parade
Skegness Standard 1955 5/1 Nude photos
Brick pit tradgey photos
26/1 Standard in the Standard - local history uncovered in a gas lamp
2/2 New diesel train in Skegness
16/2 Mystery snowman on Clock Tower
9/3 Publicity coach tour
9/3 Ashes scattered at sea off the Pier
4/5 Car smashes into bungalow living room
4/5 Sea cadet saves child’s life
1/6 Wrates photographers advert
13/7 Picture of Bob Monkhouse
17/8 Explosion Walshes caravan park
17/8 St Matthew’s Church pictures 75th anniversary
9/11 Telephone exchange
Skegness Standard 1957 13/2 Skegness publicity
3/7 Skegness photographer, Mrs Wrate dressed a gypsy
3/7 Jolly Fisherman statuette award to be made rarer
24/7 Coaches in Lawn car park
7/8 Fireworks display on Boating Lake
25/12 Artist’s impression of how new development of Grand Parade will look
Skegness Standard 1958 26/2 Skegness slogan
Skegness Standard 1959 7/1 Lincoln Road alterations
7/1 Clock Tower island built
7/1 Jolly’s grandson - by the Old Salt (editor)
16/12 Jolly Fisherman statuette presented to Ed Sullivan in USA

1970s Skegness News

Skegness Standard 1970 7/1 Demolition of kiosks, Grand Parade entrance to Tower Gardens begins
18/2 Swimming baths nothing new (Winston Kime)
18/3 Figure 8 amusement ‘bites the dust’
13/5 demolition men reveal Micheal Angelo painting
20/5 Wall of Death
24/6 John Noakes visits Natureland
12/8 Sparky the elephant switches on Illuminations
7/10 Pier head demolished
28/10 Remember the old days (goats round Clock tower)
18/12 New miniature railway
Skegness Standard 1971 6/1 Pier entrance takes shape
20/1 Cafe Dansant is demolished
24/2 Rasmussen’s shop opens
31/3 Jolly Fisherman joins charity walkers
14/4 All aboard new miniature railway
19/5 RTK supermarket opens Drummond Road
26/5 Pier Head, Variety Bar and Information Centre opens
14/7 ‘Jungle’ cleared for police station
14/7 Map
13/8 RNLI flower display
1/9 Planes thrill Skegness
15/9 Butlin House to be demolished
1/12 Lion on Algitha Road
1/12 Lumley Road of the future
Skegness Standard 1972 19/1 Butlin House demolished
9/2 Astroglide built
8/3 Hedley Grunnill
8/3 Co-Op roof extended
12/4 Arcadia Gardens
24/5 Sky Sentinel plans ditched
19/7 Suncastle flood (flashback)
69 John Woodward signs £5m contract
Sept Girl hides dead baby in her bedroom
Oct Hagworthingham church tower collaspes
4/10 Children from Inglewood School Skegness
4/10 Downs Syndrome boy falls to his death from Skegness boarding house window
11/10 Police station
25/10 Train mows down 21 stray s