GHASTLY DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS NEAR SKEGNESS
A gruesome discovery was made a few days since in a garden attached to some cottages at Winthorpe, and which has created a great deal of talk in the neighbourhood and given rise to ... 
Here is an excerpt from a 1936 issue of the Skegness News which covered the story of John Hassall's first visit to Skegness. Hassall joined a party at the County Hotel where he sketched the Mrs Jolly Fisherman character.
Well, yes, ... 
Gertie was a 28 year old Indian elephant who was a tourist attraction at Butlins holiday camp in Skegness.
She was used to paddling in Ingoldmells pool during the winter months so she had no quarms about splashing about in the ... 
TAKE A SEAT!
UNSCREWING all 1,160 seats in the old Skegness Pier Theatre and transporting 830 of them to the Festival Pavilion for the Pier Company's summer show there has been a tricky job. [hidepost=0]
It has involved undoing about 10,000 screws and ... 
A WEDDING BLUNDER
A BRIDE MARRIED TO BEST MAN
A curious mistake, said the Sheffield Independent in 1891, occurred a day or two ago at a wedding at St Michael’s parish church of Brierley Hill on the borders of the Black Country.
The bridal party by some means had got mixed up, and the bride was actually married to the [...]
An isolation hospital containing accommodation for twelve patients has been erected about three-quarters of a mile out of the town on the Wainfleet Road. The building was constructed by Messrs. Humphreys Limited, London, at a cost of about £400. At the same time the Council erected a care-taker’s lodge, mortuary, disinfecting chamber and wash-house at [...]
Platiciens Volants Skegness SO Festival 2010 Illuminations Switch On
Skegness was cram-packed last night, with thousands of people who had gathered on the seafront to watch the illuminations switch on.
Giant illuminated balloons, in the shape of fish, lobsters, crabs, jelly fish and an octupus, transformed the parades into an aquatic wonderland, causing the crowd to gasp [...]
Transe Express Mobile Homme Skegness SO Festival 2010
Rope broke outside police station !
PART of a lorry load of painted stage scenery being taken to Derbyshire Miners’ Welfare Holiday Centre by Arthur Smith (28), of 51, Lancaster Avenue, Skegness, fell off the lorry outside the Roman Bank police station, it was stated at Skegness Court on Wednesday, when Smith was fined E2 for having [...]
The SO Festival 2010 opens in Skegness today, transforming Skegness into a kalidescope of colour!
Programme of SO Festival Events
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Thursday, July 22
All day: Traffic Art, Tower Esplanade – The UK premiere of the work of visual artist Ra Kajol. He will transform 4,000 square metres of the town with a ‘colourscape’ painting reflecting the history of [...]
Staff at the Marks & Spencer store in Lumley Road, Skegness, have been told that the company intends to close the Skegness store next year.
“For several recent years we have recorded declining sales and profitability,” said spokesperson Amanda Glover.
“We have looked at other options, including modernisation, but none were commercially viable.”
A petition has been set [...]
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