1880s News & History
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 |
