Skegness Magazine

Source: Skegness Herald 1890
CAPTURE OF TWO WHALES IN THE WASH.
The Wash seems to be coming a favourite resort for the monsters of the deep.
About three years ago, it will be remembered, a large whale nearly 50 feet in length, was captured immediately opposite Skegness, and exhibited on the sands for some weeks, thousands of people [...]

AN ARTIST CHRISTMAS CARD By SAPPER A. W. PORTER, R.E.
We have just seen a splendid Christmas card designed by Sapper A. W. Porter, of the Royal Engineers, only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. M. Porter, Ida Road, Skegness.
The card has been designed for the Scottish Division in France, to which the artist is [...]

The Jolly Fisherman Seals
Following the paragraph in our columns last week, pointing out that the Advancement Association had secured a quantity of Jolly Fisherman Seals, and asking householders and tradesmen to obtain them free of charge, and place them on all correspondence, nearly 10,000 have been issued to applicants.
It is hoped that all householders will [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 9th August 1933
Photos: Mrs Wrate Lumley Road Post Office Skegness and C O Shepherd Skegness
Reported as ‘The most spectacular blaze in the history of the resort”.
The row of houses described in the following newspaper article is called Rainford Terrace which is on Drummond Road in Skegness.
The report says ‘ “A fiery furnace” [...]

Name
Rank
Service
Regiment
Date Of Death
Age
Grave/Memorial Ref.

ABLITT , W
Private
2156
Suffolk Regiment
24/04/1916
Unknown
Grave

ALSOP, SAMUEL HAYWOOD, S H
Sergeant ( Pilot )
1006349
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
12/10/1941
19
Plot 35. Grave 16.

ATKINS, WILLIAM EVAN, W E
Warrant Officer ( Pilot )
741156
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
21/01/1943
Unknown
Grave 843.

ATKINSON, HERBERT ANTHONY, H A
Company Serjeant Major
12/838
York and Lancaster Regiment
09/07/1916
34

BARLING, SYDNEY ROY, S [...]

Dam Busters film shoot on location in Skegness

Some scenes from the famous World War 2 film, The Dam Busters, were shot on location at Gibraltar Point Skegness in 1954.
The film which was an adaptation of Paul Brickhill’s best selling book, The Dam Busters, was directed by Michael Anderson and starred Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. [...]

International 60s singing star, Pet Clark, couldn’t make it when her brother married his Skegness bride at St Matthew’s Church, Skegness in September of 1966. So she paid for their honeymoon in Palma instead.
Skegness girl, Christina Clark was 21 when she married Petula’s brother, Malcolm McLaren, who she met when he was working in Skegness. [...]

Runaway steer shot dead after sea rescue
A steer ran amok in Skegness before running panic-stricken into the sea after it broke away from the Skegness District Meat Traders in 1977.
The animal, a castrated bull, ran from Heath Road, through Dorothy Avenue, along Roman Bank, past the traffic lights and along Sunningdale Drive and Sea View [...]