1890s
1890s
Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com
| 1890s | Skegness House (Moat House) demolished |
| 1890s | Duttons Cash Stores opens on Lumley Road (founder GHJ Dutton) |
| 1890s | Lady Scarbrough’s Convalescent Home opens north end of Park Avenue, later became Marine Villa, Towers Hotel and demolished early 1980s |
| 1890 | Death of Mr W Haslam by consumption, aged 52, and for many years the Station Master at Skegness Train Station. |
| Advert for Pembroke House as a guest house, proprietor Mrs Sarah Hildred late of Hildred’s Hotel. | |
| James Barlow’s Grocery Shop established on Lumley Road | |
| Fire at the Skegness Herald Offices | |
| Whales captured by Perrin and Moody and displayed in Skegness Baths | |
| Quadrant No 8 tricycle made by Berry of High Street | |
| 1891 | Derbyshire Poor Boys Home opens on Roman Bank Skegness, junction of Ida Road |
| Nottingham Convalescent Home (later miners’ home) established at Seathorne, Winthorpe, from a legacy by Charles Seeley MP for Nottingham. | |
| 1892 | Alarm of fire (Robert Moore’s Lumley Road premises – extinguished by Rowley) |
| Death of life boatman, Joseph Moody | |
| Tramway on the sands is removed | |
| Donkey drivers in trouble | |
| Capture of another whale | |
| Rev Baldwin resigns from the clergy of Skegness | |
| New rector for Skegness is Rev C P Disbrowe MA | |
| Man falls from St Clement’s church belfry | |
| Methodist Church granted license to perform marriages (first wedding is Frank Blades and Susan Waller) | |
| Who bathed in the sea 500 years ago in Skegness? (Letter to editor by Robert M Heanley) flashback | |
| 1893 | Severe weather – ice skating on the brick pond |
| Dr Bernard moves into Penbroke House previously occupied by Mrs Sarah Hildred | |
| Battle for Skegness Sands court case | |
| Charles Hildred is appointed Pier Manager, succeeding Mr Wigglesworth who moved to Blackpool | |
| Scarbrough Avenue Baths changes hands | |
| Sea View Hotel sold | |
| Effects of the Skegness Sands court case | |
| Sea View Hotel is sold by auction | |
| Sea View Hotel sold (more) | |
| Gaming on Syne Hills | |
| Health Inspector visits Skegness - cholera epidemic | |
| Sea View Hotel celebrations | |
| Capon switches jobs | |
| Re-opening of St Paul’s Church | |
| Old custom observed | |
| Clergyman sued | |
| Death at Prince Alfred Avenue | |
| Death at Prince Alfred Avenue inquest (not photographed) | |
| Royal Wedding supplement (Prince George) | |
| The Shannon Disaster Tragic pleasure boat disaster 30 dead | |
| Home of Rest officially opened | |
| Boating disaster – more bodies found | |
| Smyth’s Photographic Views of the Shannon (the photos were not published in the newspaper) | |
| Mrs J Crawshaw receives presentation for the “laying out of bodies” from Shannon Disaster | |
| Narrow escape from drowning | |
| Narrow escape from drowning – letter to editor | |
| A cruel and stupid hoax | |
| Shopping bill charged to the Queen (Randall’s shop, Lumley Road) | |
| Terrific gale – vessels wrecked – terrible loss of lives | |
| Funerals of bodies from gales – Dashwood Grunnil and Spence | |
| Wigglesworth death | |
| 92/93 | Severe gales cause damage to St Matthew’s church and Lion Hotel |
| 1894 | Death of Liddall Saville House North Parade |
| Gale damage in Lumley Road | |
| Accident – Brown | |
| Wigglesworth – Blackpool | |
| Skegness Boating Disaster Relief Fund – final meeting and accounts (Shannon disaster) | |
| Avery’s Penny Guide to Skegness | |
| Unusual flowering tree | |
| Beating the Bounds – old English custom | |
| A prolific dog | |
| Account of the first Baptisms service at St Paul’s Baptist Church Skegness | |
| Runaway horse | |
| Disappointing trip | |
| Novel pigeon shooting – plus advert | |
| Earl of Scarbrough party at Skegness | |
| First anniversary of St Paul’s Baptist Church (not photographed) | |
| Death of Charles Hildred’s wife | |
| Sudden death at Sea View Hotel | |
| New attraction – Crystal Maze on North Parade | |
| Consecration of new churchyard extension | |
| National call to make isolation hospitals compulsary | |
| Bizarre talking dog (world news) | |
| Bostocks menagerie at Skegness | |
| Adding a tower to St Matthew’s Church discussed | |
| Robbery of watch and medal | |
| First interment in the new graveyard | |
| Extension of North Parade commences | |
| Accident to circus horse (Goodwin the captain of the yacht at Gibraltar Point) | |
| Death of Sleight | |
| Death of Dobson | |
| Marriage Borman and Warth | |
| Extraordinary diving fete | |
| A hurried wedding at St Matthew’s Church | |
| Presentation by Local Board to Grantham on his wedding (not photographed) | |
| Presentation to the Misses Grantham for community work (not photographed) | |
| Death of an infant from convulsions | |
| 1895 | Robbers |
| A sickening and gruesome find – mutilated body washed ashore | |
| Presentation to coastguard – Woollett | |
| Ice floes | |
| Soup kitchen recently opened in Skegness | |
| Blowing up of a wreck with powder cotton | |
| ‘Vesta’ beached ashore | |
| New soup kitchen | |
| Crawshaw to move – letter | |
| Swan shot and stuffed | |
| more re Blowing up of a wreck with powder cotton | |
| Eli Hudson wins scholarship | |
| Death of John Moody – Skegness lifeboat | |
| Lifeboat rescue | |
| Skegness Golf Club officially opened by Earl of Scarbrough (Seacroft) first ball drove off by Earl of Scarbrough | |
| Plans for toilets outside Hildred’s Hotel | |
| Accident Warth | |
| Wigglesworth birth and death | |
| Death of Verger of St Matthew’s Church – John Dunn (story not photographed) | |
| Bad storm lightening damage | |
| Seasaw erected | |
| Fatal fall from train | |
| Drowning fatality | |
| Determined suicide of a visitor | |
| More about body lost at sea | |
| Dutton phrenologist | |
| More about the brig ‘Vesta’ | |
| Launch of lifeboat | |
| Exciting scene on the beach | |
| Tea booth trouble | |
| Whale museum | |
| Alteration re Russian Brig story | |
| Terrific storm | |
| Fire on the Pier | |
| Boating disaster | |
| Iona on fire – loss of life | |
| Boating disaster body identified – Herring | |
| Scarbrough Avenue baths largest in the country | |
| Woman sentenced to death for murder of baby (Lincoln) – Hannah Elizabeth Wright | |
| Ghastly discovery – human remains at a Winthorpe cottage | |
| Unpleasant experience in gale – top hats blow away | |
| Skegness land plots to become freehold instead of leasehold | |
| 1896 | Mr WT Berry’s Bicycle Shop commenced in High Street (not found a story relating to this) |
| Large tree washed ashore | |
| Two bodies washed ashore | |
| Death of Skegness Postmaster – Howell | |
| Suicide | |
| Alicia inquiry | |
| Explosion of an aerolite over Madrid | |
| Body of a Lynn man washed ashore | |
| Improvements – Green Bank | |
| Torpedo boats coming | |
| Grave at St Clemen’s Church – Dunn | |
| Grave at St Clemen’s Church – Dunn – communication by relative | |
| Earl of Scarbrough stays at Glatton House North Parade | |
| Death at South Parade house – Lidall | |
| Drummond Castle werck discovered | |
| Bull on train line Cow Bank | |
| Death of Pawson of the Pier Hotel | |
| National School ordered to close – measles epidemic | |
| Disappearance of Rowley’s daughter | |
| 1897 | Planing for the erection of underground toilets junction of Lumley Road and High Street |
| Story of Mr Neal who first introduced the donkey to Skegness | |
| Mr WT Berry’s Skegness & District Bicycle Shop commenced in High Street now moved to bigger premises | |
| Alternatives to Clock Tower suggested | |
| Letter to Editor – erect the Clock Tower on the Pier | |
| More alternatives to Clock Tower suggested | |
| Service held at St Matthew’s Church to celebrate Jubilee of Queen Victoria | |
| Woman’s body found in the sandhill | |
| Proposed erection of Clock Tower AND a drinking fountain | |
| Magistrates visited proposed site for the Clock Tower erection | |
| Ten designs submitted for the Jubilee Clock Tower | |
| Infectious disease hospital discussed | |
| Severe gales and floods | |
| Plans for a Steam Laundry in Skegness | |
| Skegness Urban District Council formed (previously named the Local Board) | |
| c1897 | Hildred’s Hotel taken over by Bass Brewery |
| 1898 | A stranded hotel (Noah’s Ark Gibraltar Point – Perrin family) |
| Lumley Hotel under the hammer | |
| Public toilets gets lamp | |
| Tenders invited for building of Clock Tower | |
| Extraordinary freak of nature Hybrid Cyclops owned by Mr Couch | |
| Railings erected around public toilets | |
| Tender accepted for the building of the Clock Tower | |
| Careless smoker causes Pier fire (extinguished by Chales Hildred) | |
| St Paul’s Baptist Church 5th anniversary | |
| Boy’s fatal fall from a Skegness excursion train (holiday maker) | |
| Deplorable death of an old Skegnessian (William Grunnill) | |
| Removal of Post Office to Lumley Road | |
| Narrow escape from quicksand (mentions feeder pipes from Scarbrough Ave baths) | |
| Fire breaks out at the Skegness Steam Laundry | |
| Enlargement of the Pier Saloon | |
| Let’s call Lumley Road ‘Skegness Boulevard’ | |
| Motor car at Skegness | |
| Foundation stone of Clock Tower advert | |
| Foundation stone of Clock Tower | |
| Call for a mortury in Skegness | |
| George Frederick Ball established his auctioneering and estate agency business | |
| Underground toilets built on Lumley Road | |
| c1898 | First shops in Lumley Road (Ryan butcher – where Argos is today) |
| Advert for Cornerville School Wainfleet Road | |
| c1899 | Bryhtwen High School opens in Skegness at the junction of Lumley Avenue and Algitha Road (presently Churchills pub) |
| 1899 | Agreement respecting the Clock Tower was signed and sealed |
| A clock for the Clock Tower | |
| Extra expenses incurred regarding the Clock Tower | |
| Public meeting re the Skegness Clock Tower | |
| Marriage of car syndicate man W. T. Berry | |
| Council reports rapid progress on the erection of the Clock Tower | |
| Windows in Lumley Road are damaged | |
| Call for the clock in the new tower to be set going on Queen Victoria’s birthday | |
| Councillor slams the Skegness Herald newspaper reporter | |
| A rundown on the last twelve months in Skegness | |
| Clock in the Clock Tower set in motion on Wednesday last | |
| Council discuss the Clock Tower – it doesn’t chime loud enough | |
| The Clock Tower should be insured for £500 | |
| Fire at the Pavilion in the Pleasure Gardens | |
| Hildreds Hotel history | |
| Skegness buys wedding present of the Earl and Countess of Scarbrough | |
| Frightened by a performing bear in Lumley Road (Mr Thompson, carriage proprietor) | |
| First motor car arrives in Skegness | |
| Jubilee Clock Tower official opening ceremony August 11th, performed by the Countess of Scarbrough | |
| Earl of Scarbrough’s tenants club together to buy wedding present | |
| Councillors argue about the names inscribed on the new Clock Tower | |
| Rev Disbrowe resigns to take up residence in Halton Holgate | |
| Drunken coffin bearer at St Mary’s church Winthorpe | |
| St Clemen’t church bell | |
| Two Skegness doctors at loggerheads | |
| Skegness station master retires (Tuckerman) | |
| The enclosure of land in Lumley Square | |
| Was ********* officially opened? | |
| Wesley Manse built for Wesleyan Chapel minister, 14 Lumley Avenue | |
| Primitive Methodist Chapel officially opens on Roman Bank | |
| Death of William Everington |
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