1880s
1880s
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| 1880 | Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is Thomas Smalley |
| Lumley Terrace and Gomersall Terrace completed (Lumley Road south-east) | |
| Cattle market opens near Skegness train station (only had a short life) | |
| National School opens on Roman Bank headmaster Mr Abraham Porter | |
| Whale Museum opened in High Street owner Thomas Spikin | |
| Lumley Hotel opened, manager Mr Enderby | |
| Cricket Ground opens on Marsh Lane, later named Cricket Ground Lane, (present day Richmond Drive) | |
| Crofts Drapery established on Lumley Road by GJ Crofts – became Skegness’ first department store with a frontage on High Street (today Nationwide and adjoining two shops to the west) | |
| Francis Fravigar came from Boston to set up his ice-cream business | |
| 1880s | Lord Tennyson’s Tree at the Vine Hotel |
| 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 | |
| Garfitts Bank opened in the Estate Offices | |
| Reading Rooms open Lumley Road Rutland Road (now National Westminster bank) | |
| Primitive Methodist Chapel opened on Roman Bank opposite and just north of the school | |
| Skegness Pier opens 4th June (No official opening ceremony) | |
| Pier Hotel opens | |
| Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and son of Queen Victoria arrives on Pier by boat (streets named after them) They did NOT perform opening ceremony but came to inspect lifeboat. | |
| 1881 | Henry (?) Skegness fisherman had an accident when he tangled with a 40year old wreck |
| 1881 | Railway guard killed on duty in Skegness |
| 1882 | Petition for Sunday Post service |
| Skegness Hearld first issue | |
| Skegness Hearld early journalism | |
| Lodging-house keeper in trouble (Emmerson – Lumley Road) | |
| Cattle disease in Skegness | |
| First photographic studio opened in Skegness by Charles Smyth in High Street | |
| Cattle robbery from Burgh le Marsh | |
| Assault on mistress (Susan Size and Miss Stevens) | |
| Narrow escape from drowning | |
| Pier and Pleasure Gardens visitor figures | |
| First Grand Rose Show held at the Skegness Cricket Ground | |
| Extraordinary case of poisoning (Blades) | |
| Extended opening times for hotels granted | |
| Sunday postal service is required | |
| Alleged assault on a boy | |
| New Wesleyan chapel opened on Algitha Road Skegness | |
| Accident on the sands | |
| Joseph Crawshaw’s son passes exams | |
| Accident at the sands races (shoemaker at Kirkstead) | |
| Bathing machine blown out to sea | |
| Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association lifeboat inspection | |
| Vagrancy charge – 14 days hard labour | |
| Lion Hotel owner granted license to sell alcohol at the Cricket Ground | |
| LC Shipwreck Association inspection of Skegness Lifeboat “Herbert Ingram” | |
| Frederica Terrace to be sold | |
| Skegness Niggers (entertainers) advert | |
| Article on how well Skegness is doing as a seaside resort | |
| Petition for Sunday postal service lies in Reading Rooms | |
| Alleged assault | |
| Incorragable boy thief | |
| Accident at Cow Bank | |
| Pavilion | |
| Accident to a lady | |
| Census forwarded to Parliament for better water supplies in Skegness | |
| First dentist opens in Skegness (Huskinson) | |
| A seal is shot at Skegness | |
| Great jewelery robbery | |
| Boy back in court | |
| Skegness Polka | |
| Cruelty to a donkey | |
| Stranger bursts into Privative Methodist Chapel an gives a sermon | |
| Attempted felony | |
| First Skegness Holiday Guide (handbook) is launched | |
| Extend the season – call | |
| A fire appliance is needed in Skegness | |
| Serious accident | |
| First anniversary of Privative Methodist Chapel Roman Bank Skegness | |
| A steamboat for Skegness | |
| Testimonial to Station Master | |
| Earl of Scarbrough’s agent (Tippet) comes to live in Skegness | |
| Steam tramway to be launched at Alford | |
| A steam tramway from Skegness to Chapel and Burgh proposal | |
| Important to get a fire service in Skegness | |
| St Matthew’s Church fire underground | |
| Church mice eat organ keys | |
| Disappointed maiden – no suitor (letter to editor) | |
| Number of donkeys and horses for amusement in Skegness | |
| Odd Fellows Juniors formed | |
| Improvements in Skegness | |
| Whale ship Eliza (museum) set up on Skegness sands by Joe Wingate | |
| Pier View Hotel opens on Grand Parade | |
| Scarbrough Avenue baths open | |
| Accident at Lumley Road eating-house | |
| 1883 | Reading rooms not frequented |
| Memorial window in old church (St Clement’s) | |
| Street and other improvements | |
| Erection of new street lamps | |
| Fire in a nearby village – call for a fire engine | |
| Crawshaw (local builder) advert for house sales | |
| Child severely burned | |
| Formation of the Cricket Club | |
| Town meeting of rate payers | |
| Pembroke school opens | |
| Election of Parish Officers – ratepayers’ meeting (this story is not photographed) | |
| Road improvements near Sea View Hotel | |
| Vessel beached near Sea View Hotel, to be auctioned | |
| Demolition of the Moat House | |
| Skegness Police Station introduced | |
| Brick and tile works opened | |
| Great attractions in the Pleasure Gardens | |
| In depth description of the Turkish Baths Scarbrough Avenue | |
| Reading Rooms building to let (later becomes Hiley’s Restaurant) | |
| Reading Rooms close due to poor support | |
| Scarbrough Lodge of Odd Fellows 7th anniversary | |
| Tippet secures fresh water for Skegness | |
| Skegness Herald offices moved | |
| Skegness lifeboat inspection | |
| Lumley Road almost completed | |
| Discussion – what to do with the old church (St Clement’s) | |
| Viscount Lumley and Lord Muncaster visit to Skegness, lunched at Lumley Hotel | |
| Touting for business – letter to editor | |
| Fatal boat accident | |
| Court hearing – fatal boat accident (story not photographed) | |
| Swimming entertainment Pier Head | |
| Bathing infants in the Sea (British Medical Journal) | |
| Card sharpers and welchers at the horse racing | |
| Large number of porpoises passed off pier head (story not photographed) | |
| Gale damage to pier | |
| Town meeting to discuss Lincoln to Skegness railway (story not photographed) | |
| St Matthew’s church roof unsafe | |
| New fire engine is on display | |
| Strange death of a mare | |
| Ten sovereigns lost and found | |
| Accident on Skegness Train Station | |
| Fatal accident to a child | |
| Victorian Skegness Holiday Song composed by Thomas Dows | |
| First hanging execution at Lincoln prison | |
| 1884 | Drunk and disorderly man in St Matthew’s Church |
| Road scrapers – letter to the Editor | |
| Headless and handless body found on Skegness beach | |
| New Sunday school opened in the Gas Works | |
| Rare cormorant bird shot off Skegness Pier | |
| Meeting held to discuss the town’s fetes, overseeing their organization so they don’t clash (not photographed) | |
| Meeting held to discuss the town’s fetes, overseeing their organization so they don’t clash | |
| William Plasket Moody takes delivery of 500 fine hams | |
| Lord Lumley has a serious accident | |
| Chief clerk at Skegness railway station is leaving | |
| Skegness’ reaction to the death of the Duke of Albany | |
| Election of parish officers | |
| Hackney licenses granted in the Lumley Hotel | |
| Attempted suicide | |
| Earthquake tremors felt in Skegness | |
| Skegness National Schools cleaned and distempered during school holidays | |
| A Complaint – letter to Editor | |
| Pony and trap accident | |
| Scavenging in Skegness – letter to Editor | |
| Blue Ribboned Movement – teetotalers | |
| Complaints about the street lighting in Skegness | |
| Improvements to Skegness Baths | |
| Birds nest in letter box | |
| Death of a horse on Skegness sands | |
| Improvements in the shops ready for the start of the season | |
| Spilsby story – mysterious dead body of a child | |
| Description of the Whitsuntide holidays in Skegness | |
| Funeral Moody – Charles Houghton speaks | |
| Death of Chambers who owned the Vine Hotel | |
| Watering the streets of Skegness | |
| Child injured by a donkey | |
| Donkeys running amok – complaint to Editor | |
| Tricycles are a nuisance – complaint to Editor | |
| Eating-house pests – complaint to Editor | |
| Accident to a child belonging to Moody | |
| Call for a Local Board to be set up in Skegness | |
| Man tries to drown himself | |
| Man charged with cruelty by working a sick horse | |
| Love letter found and sent to the Herald | |
| Improvements to Scarbrough Avenue and the Skegness railway station | |
| Earl of Scarbrough dies (this story has not been photographed) | |
| Alford-Sutton Steam Tram | |
| 1885 | Raid on Skegness bakers |
| Lads playing football are a nuisance | |
| Prediction that Valentine’s Day will become obsolete | |
| Ran-tanning bizarre ritual performed when a ‘wife-beater’ is discovered in Skegness | |
| Funeral of Samuel Clark’s wife – owners of the Lion Hotel Roman Bank Skegness | |
| Bathing machines painted in colours of Nottingham football team | |
| Bicycles and tricycles become a pest in Skegness | |
| Watering the streets of Skegness (not photographed) | |
| Brutal assault on the Police | |
| Boy nearly drowned in Alexander Road pond | |
| Skegness Ratepayers Association formed (story not photographed) | |
| 1886 | Scarbrough Avenue laid out |
| Rates, sewers and watering roads | |
| Extension of promenade from pier to Sea View Hotel | |
| Lion Hotel changes hands – new owner Mr Kirkby | |
| Restrictions on shop’s pavement displays | |
| Complaint of stalls near Hildred’s Hotel | |
| Death of Inspector Taylor | |
| National School award from HM Chief Inspector of Schools | |
| Rare species of moth found at Skegness and put on display | |
| Pembroke House boys school up To Let | |
| Stealing money at the Cricket Club | |
| Winston Churchill visits Skegness | |
| Local Board seals by-laws | |
| Guy Fawkes ritual in Skegness | |
| Queen Victoria Jubilee Clock discussed | |
| Boiling of horse flesh man warned by Local Board | |
| 1887 | Tramway Skegness Beach |
| Mrs Ingram lifeboat | |
| Cow walks into kitchen | |
| Suicide South Parade | |
| Argument about Coronation Moody Pawley (not photographed) | |
| Employment of a Winthorpe labourer | |
| Earl of Scarbrough memorial window St Matthew’s Church | |
| Whale captured in Skegness |
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| Advert for Jubilee celebrations 50 years Queen Victoria | |
| Write up re Jubilee | |
| More about E of S memorial window | |
| Call for water for thirsty donkeys and dogs | |
| Ungrateful drowning victim | |
| Horse killed on sands | |
| Wreck of a smack | |
| Switch Back Railway rollercoaster opens in Skegness |
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| Tramway Skegness Beach | |
| 1888 | Lifeboat answers distress signals off Skegness |
| Treat for lifeboat crew from Mrs Ingram, donator of Herbert Ingram lifeboat | |
| Member of Local Board treat their Chairman to a dinner | |
| Local Board is photographed | |
| Chairman of the Local Board, Col Iremonger, death and funeral | |
| Local Board discusses suitable memorial for the late Col Iremonger | |
| Picture of Local Board to be placed in Council Chamber as a memorial to Col Iremonger | |
| Dinner held for Charles Hildred on leaving his hotel | |
| Sheep worrying | |
| New Cremorne Pleasure Gardens to be opened | |
| Marine Gardens opened | |
| Tramway on Skegness Sands | |
| Whale, Switchback and tramway discussed | |
| Complaints of Whale stench | |
| Illuminations for new tramway | |
| Removal of fountain Lumley Road discussed | |
| Improvements underway for Drummond Road and High Street Skegness | |
| Samuel Moody’s wife dies (Angelina nee Brailsford) | |
| Removal of fountain Lumley Road discussed | |
| William Henry Crawshaw, son of Joseph Local Board, charged with letting his chimney get on fire | |
| Fountain Lumley Hotel discussed | |
| Canoe in distress off the pier | |
| Memorial window for Col Iremonger, Chairman of Local Board in St Matthew’s Church | |
| New lifeboat arrives (not photographed) | |
| English New Year superstitions | |
| Removal of fountain from Lumley Square to Marine Gardens | |
| 1889 | Skegness College opens a department for young ladies |
| Gravel by Sea – The Henrietta, a 38-ton ship from Grimsby, arrived and dumped 60 tons of gravel for the roads, running ashore directly opposite the Sea View Hotel. | |
| A fried fish shop which was recently opened by Mr C Major in High Street is being patronized by the general public who appear to enjoy a good slice of fried fish. Upwards of 1000 slices of fish were sold in one evening. |
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