1910s
1910s
Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com
Updated: 16/1/2010
SH = Skegness Herald
SN = Skegness News
SS = Skegness Standard
SMA = Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News
SM = Skegness Magazine (skegnessvideo.com)
| 1910 | Lawn Theatre said to have opened on site previously occupied by Fred Clement’s entertainers – cannot find evidence of this. | ||
| SH | 25/2 | Trap accident Moody’s yard | |
| SMA | 5/1 | Gladstone Centenary at Skegness (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 5/1 | North Shore Estate annual dinner (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 12/1 | New college – St Peter’s Rutland Road | |
| SMA | 26/1 | Fundraiser for new Skegness Bank Chapel | |
| SMA | 26/1 | Daylight Comet visible from Skegness | |
| SMA | 26/1 | North Seas airship now ready to fly over Skegness | |
| SMA | 2/2 | Fire at Stows butchers | |
| SMA | 2/2 | Miss C F Tippet speaks China missionary work (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 2/2 | Advert for new St Peter’s College | |
| SMA | 9/2 | The new Skegness Town Hall and Council Chambers (two articles) | |
| SMA | 9/2 | Skegness roads made up – description | |
| SMA | 2/3 | Trap smash | |
| SMA | 2/3 | Waggon capsizes Grantham | |
| SMA | 2/3 | Excellent picture of interior of new Council Chambers | |
| SH | 4/3 | Nottingham Poor Girls Home abuse | |
| SMA | 23/2 | New Town Hall description of fixtures and fittings | |
| SMA | 23/2 | Telephone wires layed | |
| SMA | 23/3 | Excellent picture of SUDC George H Randall | |
| SMA | 23/3 | Excellent picture of SUDC Walter H Bridges | |
| SMA | 23/3 | Pharmacy exam success Halls Chemist St Peter’s College | |
| SMA | 23/3 | Comic Football Match picture of ticket | |
| SH | 25/3 | The new Seaside Chair | |
| SMA | 30/3 | Comic Football Match | |
| SH | 1/4 | Comic football match | |
| SH | 1/4 | Accident at the Comic Football game | |
| SH | 8/4 | Stone laying Roman Bank church | |
| SMA | 13/4 | Skegness Bank Chapel stone laying | |
| SH | 23/4 | New Winter Gardens | |
| SMA | 27/4 | North Shore golf links opening ceremony | |
| SH | 6/5 | Plan for new Winter Gardens | |
| SH | 6/5 | Lumley Road incident | |
| SH | 10/5 | Skegness poem – King’s death | |
| SMA | 11/5 | National mourning – advert by Crofts drapers | |
| SMA | 11/5 | Advert for Sea View Roller Rink | |
| SMA | 11/5 | Queen Alexandra letter to the nation | |
| SMA | 11/5 | Skegness United Football Club picture | |
| SMA | 11/5 | Advert of Empress Ballroom grand opening | |
| SMA | 11/5 | Death of King Edward VII | |
| SMA | 18/5 | Mourning the King – advert for church service | |
| SMA | 18/5 | Sid Dennis in Skegness police court | |
| SMA | 18/5 | Bird lays eggs on Figure 8 rollercoaster | |
| SMA | 25/5 | Funeral of the King | |
| SMA | 25/5 | Proclaimation of the new King George V | |
| SMA | 1/6 | Skegness seaweed wreath for King’s funeral | |
| SMA | 1/6 | Sudden death – Kime | |
| SMA | 8/6 | Trap accident at Skegness | |
| SMA | 8/6 | Billy the Diver at Skegness | |
| SMA | 15/6 | Nottingham Poor Boys’ Camp opened by Notts MP | |
| SMA | 15/6 | Trap accident Wainfleet Road – Baines | |
| SMA | 15/6 | Skegness Seaweed wreath for the King’s birthday | |
| SMA | 15/6 | Skeness Homing Society pigeons | |
| SMA | 15/6 | Dr Wallace appointed Medical Officer of Skegness & District | |
| SMA | 15/6 | Opening of Sea View Roller Rink | |
| SMA | 29/6 | Storm at Skegness | |
| SMA | 29/6 | Drinking fountain restored Lumley Square (Fairy Dell fountain) | |
| SMA | 29/6 | Sudden death of a youth – Harry Wilkinson | |
| SMA | 6/7 | Harry Ainsworth accident | |
| SMA | 6/7 | New poster for Skegness | |
| SMA | 6/7 | Harry Wilkinson funeral | |
| SH | 1/7 | Drunk and disorderly Cecil Avenue | |
| SH | 1/7 | Drunk and disorderly Roman Bank | |
| SH | 1/7 | Deluge at Skegness | |
| SMA | 13/7 | “Rationals” speak from the Clock Tower | |
| SH | 22/6 | Battle of Flowers pictures | |
| SH | 29/7 | Obscenity | |
| SH | First Herald pictures | ||
| SH | False teeth lost in the sea | ||
| SH | Sept Q | Death of Charlotte Toyne Sea View Farm (Ivy House Farm Wainfleet Road) | |
| SMA | 3/8 | Skegness Official Guide published | |
| SMA | 3/8 | Accident on the beach – Elvin | |
| SMA | 3/8 | Fire at Church Lads’ Camp Cricket Ground Lane (present-day Richmond Drive) | |
| SMA | 17/8 | Choir boy’s awful death | |
| SMA | 17/8 | Fraud at Sea View Hotel | |
| SMA | 24/8 | Skegness Nursing Home advert | |
| SMA | 31/8 | “Lying in a Manger” Spilsby Police Court case | |
| SMA | 7/9 | Votes for Women – chalkings on pavement | |
| SMA | 7/9 | Accident to a council scavenger | |
| SMA | 7/9 | Suffragettes at Skegness | |
| SMA | 14/9 | St Paul Baptist Church stone laying ceremony | |
| SMA | 14/9 | Visitors write poem in Skegness hotel’s visitors’ book Harrington Gardens | |
| SMA | 14/9 | Schools adverts | |
| SH | 16/9 | Stone-laying at the Baptist Church, Beresford Avenue | |
| SMA | 21/9 | Attempted suicide – son of Leicester Town Clerk – Rose | |
| SMA | 21/9 | Woman sent to prison – Youngman of Brunswick Drive Skegness | |
| SMA | 21/9 | Attempted suicide court case (Rose) | |
| SH | 23/9 | False teeth lost in the sea | |
| SH | False teeth found | ||
| SH | 23/9 | Ferocious seal shot after lunging at naturalist | |
| SH | 23/9 | Man jups into sea from Skegness Pier | |
| SH | 23/9 | Joywheel plans discussed | |
| SMA | 28/9 | Blind man assault – Beebe and Musgrave | |
| SH | 30/9 | The Earl’s Town | |
| SMA | 5/10 | Continuous Marine Parade – letter to editor | |
| SMA | 5/10 | Death of William Hiley (Hiley’s restaurant) | |
| SH | 7/10 | Death of Hiley | |
| SMA | 19/10 | Cast Stone Works sued for damage to trees and hedges | |
| SH | Skegness Brick Works sued for damages | ||
| SMA | 19/10 | Adulterated cream – dairyman fined | |
| SMA | 19/10 | Eli Hudson (famous Skegness flautist) in car crash | |
| SMA | 26/10 | Piier Hotel manager goes bankrupt | |
| SMA | 26/10 | Council discusses Manchester to Skegness direct railway line (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 2/11 | Emma Cable death Aldeburgh lifeboat Pascoe | |
| SMA | 2/11 | Attempted suicide man (Rose) dies in prison | |
| SMA | 9/11 | Extension of Skegness churchyard | |
| SMA | 9/11 | Message in a bottle (Stamper) | |
| SM | 15/11 | Death of James Perrin | |
| SMA | 23/11 | Extension of Skegness churchyard | |
| SMA | 14/12 | Lumley Hotel stables on fire | |
| SMA | 21/12 | Details of various shops in Skegness | |
| Freak whirlwind destroys Nottingham Poor Girls’ Home (pictures) | |||
| 1911 | SMA | 4/1 | Alfred Wrate wedding |
| SMA | 4/1 | Former African Slave Conducts Watch Night Church Service | |
| SMA | 11/1 | Fire Lumley Road shop caused by mice nibbling matches | |
| SMA | 11/1 | Capt Archibald and Mrs Weigall pictures | |
| SMA | 3/1 | Eli Hudson cut off by tide | |
| SMA | 18/1 | Capt Archibald and Mrs Weigall at North Shore golf club | |
| SMA | 18/1 | Process of dealcoholizing beer discovered | |
| SMA | 25/1 | Cheeky boy in police court | |
| SMA | 15/2 | Votes for Women suffragettes at Skegness | |
| SMA | 15/2 | Vine Hotel purchased – Shafto | |
| SMA | 8/3 | Alterations at Skegness train station | |
| SMA | 15/3 | Cottage hospital proposal | |
| SMA | 15/3 | Extending Skegness/ Winthorpe boundary | |
| SMA | 22/3 | SUDC election – pictures of Mead and Marshall candidates | |
| SMA | 22/3 | Tragic gun fatality at Alford – 14 yr old Jabez Fowler | |
| SMA | 22/3 | Proposal of Cottage Hospital for Skegness (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 15/3 | Seacroft Hotel licence | |
| SMA | 29/3 | Accident to Cllr George Ball | |
| SMA | 29/3 | Polling results | |
| SMA | 29/3 | Plans to enlarge Winthorpe schools and build council schools | |
| SMA | 29/3 | Kirkby death (Lion Hotel proprietor) | |
| SMA | 29/3 | Sequel to Alford gun tragedy | |
| SMA | 5/4 | Testing of ocean currents | |
| SMA | 5/4 | Financial support for Cottage Hospital from local people (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 5/4 | Death of Eliza Moody | |
| SMA | 5/4 | Accident on Wainfleet Road | |
| SMA | 12/4 | Iron fence removed from outside Hildred’s Hotel (site of underground toilets) | |
| SMA | 19/4 | Baptist church official opening | |
| SMA | 19/4 | Fire at the Pier Hotel | |
| SMA | 19/4 | Aerial flight accident | |
| SMA | 26/4 | Death at Albion House Lumley Road | |
| SMA | Empress Ballroom advert The Lumley Waltz | ||
| SMA | 3/5 | Torpedo gun boats off Skegness | |
| SMA | 10/5 | Torpedo gun boats off Skegness | |
| SMA | 10/5 | Work completed on High Street road and pavements | |
| SMA | 10/5 | Improvements at front of Hildred’s Hotel have been spoilt | |
| SMA | 10/5 | Proposal to increase number of councillors | |
| SMA | 17/5 | Plaques fitted to buildings – site of fire hydrants | |
| SMA | 17/5 | Accident at Seacroft Hotel | |
| SMA | 31/5 | A Skegness Labour Exchange | |
| SMA | 31/5 | A Skegness Labour Exchange set up at Council Offices | |
| SMA | 7/6 | Child rescued from drowning by funeral party | |
| SMA | 7/6 | Funeral of Mrs Dunkley | |
| SMA | 7/6 | Amusing Holiday Incidents | |
| SMA | 7/6 | Pier figures | |
| SMA | 7/6 | First accident of the season | |
| SMA | 7/6 | Training of the Police Force at Skegness (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 14/6 | The Will of Mr Kirkby (Lion Hotel) | |
| SMA | 21/6 | Mr Enderby found drowned | |
| 23/6 | The Rowley Car | ||
| SMA | 28/6 | Coronation celebrations (includes tree planting) | |
| 30/6 | New entrance to Cricket Ground Road built at the railway station | ||
| SMA | 5/7 | Right of Way dispute | |
| 7/7 | Granny’s Opening dispute | ||
| SMA | 19/7 | Consecration of graveyard extension | |
| SMA | 26/7 | Coronation Tree dies (includes amusing poem) | |
| SMA | 26/7 | Skegness motor boat | |
| SMA | 2/8 | Bohemians Entertainers – picture advert | |
| SMA | 9/8 | Bohemians Entertainers – picture advert | |
| SMA | 9/8 | Pc Lusby knocked down in Lumley Road | |
| SMA | 9/8 | Golf course shrub fire | |
| 11/8 | First lady motor cyclist to visit Skegness | ||
| 11/8 | Picture of Mrs Clark from Derby | ||
| SMA | 16/8 | Skegness – My favourite seaside resort (prose by boy) | |
| SMA | 23/8 | Freak of nature – hermaphrodite pig | |
| SMA | 23/8 | Council takes precautions against drowning accidents | |
| SMA | 23/8 | Sad bathing accident (more on this story which I haven’t photographed) | |
| SMA | 30/8 | Proposed church for Seacroft | |
| SMA | 30/8 | Death of Mrs Hind, Glatton House, North Parade | |
| SMA | 30/8 | Reporting on fire dives off Skegness Pier | |
| SMA | 30/8 | Baby’s body found burnt and buried at Alford | |
| SMA | 6/9 | American Joy Wheel beauty competitions | |
| 8/9 | Picture of bargain hunters outside Crofts drapers shop Lumley Road Skegness | ||
| SMA | 13/9 | Missing girl, Amy Smith appeal advert | |
| SMA | 13/9 | Accident on Figure 8 amusement ride | |
| SMA | 13/9 | Sale of gas shares | |
| 15/9 | Man falls from Figure 8 amusement ride rumour | ||
| SMA | 20/9 | Steam laundry fined for overworking young girls | |
| SMA | 27/9 | Amy Smith’s body washed ashore in Skegness | |
| SMA | 27/9 | Early closing announcement | |
| SMA | 4/10 | Princess Marie Louise honours Skegness lifeboat crew | |
| SMA | 4/10 | Shocking discovery – body of newborn baby | |
| SMA | 4/10 | Princess Marie Louise visits invalid child (Kenneth Hancock) | |
| 6/10 | Princess Marie Louise honours Skegness lifeboat crew | ||
| 6/10 | Newborn male-child with throat cut washed up on beach | ||
| SMA | 11/10 | Princess Marie Louise accepts bunch of Skegness seaweed (Overton) | |
| SMA | 18/10 | Death of Samuel Chapman | |
| SMA | 25/10 | Message of doom from the deep | |
| SMA | 25/10 | New concert hall opened by Henry Canning (Central Hall) | |
| SMA | 1/11 | Baby’s body found burnt and buried at Alford (follow-up) | |
| SMA | 8/11 | Behaved like a maniac | |
| SMA | 29/11 | Whale Ship Eliza damaged by high tides and was auctioned off for £16 10s | |
| SMA | 6/12 | St Andrews Road court case | |
| SMA | 6/12 | Novel design for picture postcards | |
| Dream of Death – bizarre premonition of tragedy | |||
| Switchback amusement said to have closed down (not yet found evidence of this in newspapers) | |||
| 1912 | SMA | 14/2 | Burial of frozen boat bodies |
| 16/2 | Granny’s Opening right of way court case | ||
| 12/4 | Gas from Tar – novel experiment in Skegness | ||
| 12/4 | Gale at Skegness (chickens) | ||
| 12/4 | Window smashing | ||
| 3/5 | Titanic relief fund receipt | ||
| SMA | 15/5 | Egg record | |
| SMA | 10/7 | New fire engine proposal | |
| SMA | 17/7 | Lincolnshire Show at Skegness | |
| SMA | 14/8 | Shooting of the Skegness Clock Tower | |
| SMA | 14/8 | Vesta Tilley at Skegness | |
| SMA | 4/9 | The Gertrude discovered | |
| SMA | 4/9 | Cog accident | |
| SMA | 4/9 | Fate of The Gertrude | |
| SMA | 18/9 | Daily Mail aviation Hydro plane wrecked on the beach | |
| SMA | Old advert and picture of The Bohemians Skegness Entertainers | ||
| SMA | 9/10 | Eliza Major dies at 41 Lumley Road, Skegness | |
| SMA | 13/11 | Sword find | |
| SMA | 13/11 | True ghost story | |
| 15/11 | Lifeboat launched | ||
| SMA | 20/11 | Skegness in White’s directory of Lincolnshire | |
| 22/11 | Gallant Rescue Brig “Azha” wrecked off Skegness (11/11/1912) | ||
| ?/11 | Rowland Jerkins becomes surveyor to the Skegness Council | ||
| 22/11 | Photo of “Azha” survivors | ||
| 6/12 | Letter of thanks from crew of “Azah” | ||
| 13/12 | Practical jokers at work in Skegness (bicycles) | ||
| 13/12 | Essendon school entertainment | ||
| 20/12 | Adverts for local schools | ||
| 27/12 | Poem dedicated to the “Azah” wreck | ||
| 1913 | Cottage Hospital officially opened by Countess of Scarbrough | ||
| 10/1 | Oldest Skegness club (pig club) celebrates 42 years | ||
| SMA | 15/1 | Body at Seacroft train station | |
| SMA | 29/1 | Severe Damage to Skegness Clock Tower | |
| SMA | 5/2 | Man hangs himself | |
| SMA | 12/2 | Moody accident | |
| 14/2 | Gas lamp on fire | ||
| SMA | 19/2 | Phantom airship | |
| 28/2 | Mysterious airship sightings | ||
| 7/3 | Mysterious airship sightings | ||
| SMA | 19/3 | Bizarre Skegness advertisment poster suggestion | |
| SMA | 26/3 | Ode to the Lifeboatmen | |
| SMA | 2/4 | Dig up Pleasure Gardens threat | |
| SMA | 9/4 | New poster approved | |
| SMA | 9/4 | New advertisemnt poster for Skegness | |
| SMA | 23/4 | Skegness News defends itself re Coun Shelley report | |
| SMA | 23/4 | Threat to blow up Skegness train station (women’s vote suffragettes) | |
| SMA | 30/4 | Accident to Sea View Hotel bus driver | |
| 19/5 | Young Skegness girl in history-making flight | ||
| SMA | 21/5 | Pleasure Gardens ownership transfer offer (indepth story not photographed) | |
| SMA | 4/6 | Humorous advert poster | |
| 6/6 | Skegness photographer, Samuel Charles Burnham death | ||
| SMA | 18/6 | Town crier announces lost monkey | |
| SMA | 25/6 | Man’s nasty fall at the Merrie Meade | |
| SMA | 25/6 | Amusing happenings at Skegness | |
| SMA | 25/6 | B C Hucks takes his holiday in Skegness | |
| SMA | 25/6 | Hucks biography (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 25/6 | Townspeople vote “NO” to purchasing the Pleasure Gardens | |
| SMA | 25/6 | Mysterious flash of light | |
| SMA | 2/7 | Aviation danger | |
| 4/7 | Pilot C B Hucks visits Skegness | ||
| SMA | 9/7 | Cruelty to a horse – Borman coal merchant | |
| SMA | 9/7 | Council employee injured | |
| SMA | 16/7 | “HELP” Message in a bottle | |
| SMA | 30/7 | Two obituaries – Grunnill and Rowley | |
| 29/8 | More about Hucks George Ball and Burley | ||
| SMA | 1/10 | Waterplane causes a sensation | |
| SMA | 1/10 | Explosion on Lumley Road | |
| SMA | 8/10 | Filthy donkey sheds complaint | |
| SMA | 29/10 | Poisoned himself after Skegness’ bracing air didn’t work | |
| SMA | 12/11 | Porter sprints into train station signal box after fleaing from runaway horse | |
| SMA | 17/12 | New picture house for Skegness (Tower Theatre) | |
| SMA | 17/12 | Perculiar mishap | |
| SMA | 24/12 | Rantanning at Withern | |
| Novel advert for Skegness | |||
| Old Skegness Fire Engine Photo | |||
| 1914 | 4/2 | Earl to keep a beach cafe | |
| SMA | 11/2 | Beeston Lodge Drummond Road up for auction (picture) | |
| SMA | 11/2 | Laundry girl personal injury court case | |
| SMA | 25/2 | Hospital fancy dress competition – Hamel (picture) | |
| SMA | 4/3 | Earl’s new tea rooms | |
| SMA | 18/3 | Ensor’s letter from Canada | |
| SMA | 18/3 | Earl’s tea rooms in Canadian newspaper | |
| SMA | 25/3 | Lawn Picture House reburbishment and Opening Night | |
| SMA | 1/4 | Excellent drawing of Clement’s new picture house (Tower Theatre) | |
| SMA | 1/4 | Picture of John Thomas Borman | |
| SMA | 1/4 | Death of Harry Frith of Frith’s restaurant | |
| SMA | 15/4 | John Player’s car damaged in accident | |
| SMA | 15/4 | Little Reggie Harding’s death | |
| SMA | 22/4 | Picture of George Ball | |
| SMA | 29/4 | Death of John Wallis of Woodthorpe Hotel South Parade | |
| SMA | 29/4 | Pony and Trap accident – Holmes and Blackbourn | |
| SMA | 29/4 | Vital statistics of Lincolnshire (only photographed Skegness reports) | |
| SMA | 5/5 | Earl of Scarbrough purchases Skegness Pier | |
| SMA | 3/6 | Fire at Randal’s shop | |
| SMA | 24/6 | Serious fire at Lumley Hotel | |
| SMA | 24/6 | Serious fire at Lumley Hotel – inquest | |
| SMA | 24/6 | Skegness Entertainers profile and picture – Donald Keir | |
| SMA | 1/7 | Skegness Entertainers profile and picture – Wally Young | |
| SMA | 22/7 | Skegness Entertainers profile and picture – Harry Clark | |
| 24/7 | List of pupils at St Winifred’s School Rutland Road | ||
| SMA | 29/7 | Disgraceful scenes on Skegness streets by Punch and Judy entertainers | |
| SMA | 29/7 | Man expires during drum head service in Pleasure Gardens | |
| SMA | 29/7 | Mr Bellamy is 90 years old – picture | |
| SMA | 29/7 | Arthur Bourchier at Central Hall | |
| SMA | 5/8 | Professor’s death at St Margaret’s bungalow Derby Avenue | |
| SMA | 5/8 | Skegness Entertainers profile and picture – Dan Harley and Fred Melton | |
| SMA | 5/8 | The war fund | |
| SMA | 5/8 | Major called up | |
| SMA | 5/8 | Skegness men called up | |
| SMA | 12/8 | War articles | |
| SMA | 12/8 | The collapse | |
| SMA | 19/8 | German schooner captured off Skegness pier | |
| SMA | 19/8 | Eggleston in Germany when war broke out | |
| SMA | 19/8 | Rumours | |
| SMA | 19/8 | High demand for Skegness News causes paper shortage | |
| SMA | 26/8 | Council economises due to war | |
| SMA | 26/8 | Not a German spy | |
| SMA | 26/8 | Patriots wanted | |
| SMA | 2/9 | 58 young Skegness men answer the call to war | |
| SMA | 2/9 | Skegness lads WW1 recruits send-off | |
| SMA | 9/9 | Skegness Terratorials | |
| SMA | 9/9 | Scouts volunteer – letter by scoutmaster Alfred Wrate | |
| SMA | 9/9 | Bryhtwen School mistress, Emma Robinson dies aged 87 | |
| SMA | 16/9 | Three young girls assaulted in the park (plus comment by Skegness News) | |
| SMA | 23/9 | Soldiers’ Tobacco Fund – advert | |
| SMA | 23/9 | Little girl’s sudden death | |
| SMA | 23/9 | Letter from Galton – injured soldier | |
| SMA | 1/10 | Hucks drives off hostile plane | |
| SMA | 7/10 | Emergency Council Meeting – Skegness to accommodate 3,000 horses and soldiers | |
| SMA | 7/10 | Skegness man’s brave rescue of sailors – Ellis | |
| SMA | 7/10 | Census figures for Lincolnshire | |
| SMA | 14/10 | Press ban on Rats meeting | |
| SMA | 20/10 | First batch of war wounded arrive at Skegness | |
| SMA | 4/11 | Wounded soldiers arrive | |
| SMA | 4/11 | British Red Cross | |
| SMA | 11/11 | Church organist branded a German spy | |
| SMA | 18/11 | Mounted troops on their way | |
| SMA | 25/11 | Mounted soldiers arrive – a fine body of men | |
| SMA | 25/11 | Rev Disney steps in re Church organist branded a German spy | |
| SMA | 18/11 | Heated letters – Church organist branded a German spy | |
| SMA | 30/12 | Truth about the Russians – cartoon | |
| SH | Useful advice for when the Zeppelins arrive – cartoon | ||
| Practical joke | |||
| 1915 | SMA | 17/2 | George Ball announces there will be no Skegness Holiday Guide this year due to the war |
| SMA | 17/2 | John Dane Player’s (tobacco manufacturer) car damaged at Skegness Court Case | |
| 3/3 | Skegness Territorials left to fight the war in France | ||
| SMA | 3/3 | Skegness air saves baby | |
| SMA | 10/3 | Letter to Kitchener by Skegness lady | |
| SMA | 17//3 | How a Line Officer fell – Grantham | |
| 17/3 | Joy-wheel amusement gutted by fire | ||
| SMA | 17/3 | Dowse’s affairs Skegness business goes into receivership | |
| SMA | 24/3 | Soldiers sweep the roads | |
| SMA | 24/3 | Publicity Committee formed (story not photographed) | |
| SMA | 31/3 | First Skegness soldier falls in the Great War | |
| SMA | 7/4 | Hat and shovel semophore Skegness soldier signals a ‘Bull’ to Germans | |
| SMA | 7/4 | Dr Sweeton called up to war | |
| SMA | 7/4 | Letter home by Skegness football player Teesdale | |
| SMA | 14/4 | Costly funerals in time of national crisis | |
| SMA | 21/4 | A bullock’s end – Cook’s butcher | |
| SMA | 21/4 | Guided by a Zepellin | |
| SMA | 28/4 | Hanging in Alexander Road – Jackson | |
| SMA | 28/4 | Cooper dies on Golden Wedding Day | |
| 30/4 | Germans drop letters attached to stones in the trenches | ||
| SMA | 5/5 | Woman found hanging | |
| SMA | 5/5 | Government aeroplane passes over Skegness | |
| SMA | 5/5 | Pro-German sects in Skegness | |
| SMA | 19/5 | Zeppelin Scares | |
| SMA | 21/5 | Soldiers’ Poem | |
| SMA | 26/5 | Disney letter – At work among the Huns | |
| SMA | 26/5 | Letter from Mr Naylor (Hildred’s Hotel) | |
| SMA | 2/6 | Martha Houghton death (daughter of Skegness pioneer, Charles Houghton) | |
| SMA | 4/6 | Soliders protest over Pierrots (Colwyn Bay) | |
| SMA | Jun? | A military wedding – Crofts | |
| SMA | Jun? | Cllr Barlow’s death | |
| SMA | 9/6 | Soldiers drowned at Chapel St Leonards | |
| SMA | 16/6 | Skegness soldier’s letter home from the front line | |
| SMA | 23/6 | Skegness soldier’s homecoming | |
| SMA | 30/6 | Letter from J H Canning | |
| SMA | 30/6 | Stop Pinching Our Job! Letter from Smyth Skegness Photographer | |
| SMA | 21/7 | Shocking accident to a little girl – Starr | |
| SMA | 28/7 | Letter from the trenches – Porter | |
| 5/8 | The War Fund | ||
| 5/8 | Major | ||
| 5/8 | Skegness men called up | ||
| 12/8 | War article | ||
| 12/8 | The collapse | ||
| 19/8 | Capture of German schooner off Skegness Pier | ||
| 19/8 | Eggleston in Germany | ||
| 19/8 | Rumours | ||
| 19/8 | Shortage of paper – Skegness newspaper can’t keep up with demand | ||
| SMA | 25/8 | Private Charles Burrows death | |
| 26/8 | Council economises due to war | ||
| 26/8 | Not a German spy | ||
| 26/8 | Patriots wanted | ||
| 2/9 | 52 young Skegness men answer the Call to War | ||
| 2/9 | The send-off of the soldiers | ||
| 9/9 | Skegness territorials | ||
| 9/9 | Emma Robinson mistress of Bryhtwen school dies aged 87 | ||
| SMA | 15/9 | Another Skegness soldier killed in the Great War | |
| SMA | 15/9 | Billy the Diver saves holidaymaker’s life | |
| SMA | 22/9 | The War – poem by George Ward | |
| 1/10 | Hucks drives off hostile plane | ||
| SMA | 6/10 | Nurse found dead at Craigside Hotel Scarbrough Avenue | |
| SMA | 3/11 | Ode to the Red Cross nurses in Skegness by a wounded soldier | |
| SMA | 5/11 | Kaiser’s dream | |
| SMA | 10/11 | An exciting career | |
| SMA | 10/11 | How Capt Scorer died | |
| SMA | 15/11 | Too old to fight in the war | |
| German in the Skegness ‘camp’ rumour | |||
| 1916 | SMA | 5/1 | Former Skegness soldier’s gallant deed |
| SMA | 5/1 | Missing Skegness soldier | |
| SMA | 5/1 | Miraculous escape – Great War adventures of former Skegnessian, Tippet | |
| SMA | 12/1 | Roll of Honour plea (no pic) | |
| SMA | 9/2 | Roll of Honour – some names | |
| SMA | 16/2 | PoW sends letter home | |
| SMA | 23/2 | Simply Hell on Earth in the dug-outs | |
| SMA | 23/2 | Roll of Honour poem | |
| SMA | 23/2 | My internment in Germany – Dent | |
| SMA | 1/3 | Blown up by a mine Hira Grunnill | |
| SMA | 1/3 | Exciting lifeboat rescue (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 8/3 | “Holiday” in Egypt | |
| SMA | 22/3 | Local soldier’s appreciation for sympathy shown to mother | |
| SMA | 22/3 | Great fire at Skegness | |
| SMA | 22/3 | “Skegness is unsafe” rumours – Coun Moody speaks | |
| SMA | 22/3 | Former Skegnessian awarded the DCM | |
| SMA | 22/3 | Rector – Parish Magazine | |
| SMA | 22/3 | Council posters | |
| SMA | 29/3 | Death of first Skegness chemist, George Morley | |
| SMA | 29/3 | Skegness soldier killed after only 16 days training | |
| SMA | 29/3 | A true war story | |
| SMA | 19/4 | Randall goes into receivership | |
| SMA | 3/5 | Soldier’s burial – Walter Albit | |
| SMA | 3/5 | Big story (no pics) Soldier shot at Friskney | |
| SMA | 3/5 | Letter home from Pte Overton | |
| SMA | 10/5 | Belgian Baby baptism Clock Tower | |
| SMA | 24/5 | John S Crawshaw | |
| SMA | 30/5 | Charles Burnham memorial | |
| SMA | 7/6 | Second disaster – Tippet | |
| SMA | 7/6 | Local soldier wangles two dinners | |
| SMA | 14/6 | History – police court | |
| SMA | 14/6 | Man lost in great battle – Herbert Sewell | |
| SMA | 14/6 | Shocking gun accident Spilsby | |
| SMA | 21/6 | Poem by Alfred Davy | |
| SMA | 28/6 | PoW Bert Holland | |
| SMA | 28/6 | What is a factory? | |
| 30/6 | Captured German Gun | ||
| SMA | 5/7 | A friendly warning – trenches in Skegness | |
| SMA | 12/7 | Skegness soldier’s death – Atkinson | |
| SMA | 12/7 | Skeg lads wounded | |
| SMA | 26/7 | Skegness soldier succumbs to wounds | |
| SMA | 2/8 | Military medal – Henshell | |
| SMA | 2/8 | Soldier dies of wounds – Bullivant | |
| SMA | 9/8 | Local parents great trial | |
| SMA | 16/8 | Killed – Cecil Wilkinson | |
| SMA | 6/9 | Killed – Forsyth | |
| SMA | 6/9 | Passing of a Zeppelin | |
| SMA | 13/9 | Lord Scarbrough’s agent killed in action | |
| SMA | 20/9 | Five local heros honoured | |
| SMA | 20/9 | Shocking beach fatality | |
| SMA | 27/9 | Letter from the Suffolk boys | |
| SMA | 18/10 | Letter from the firing line | |
| SMA | 18/10 | Scandal of expensive funerals | |
| SMA | 25/10 | PoW Thornton sends letter home | |
| SMA | 25/10 | Wounded soldier – Raithby | |
| SMA | 25/10 | Zep night | |
| Nov | Skegness Tribunal – people’s pleas to be excluded from going to war | ||
| Lost hats rumour | |||
| 1917 | SMA | 3/1 | Killed in Action – Skegness lifeboat coxswain’s son, Grunnill |
| SMA | 3/1 | Soldier wounded – leg saved by top boot | |
| SMA | 3/1 | How to tell when war will be over – quiz | |
| SMA | 9/1 | Disney awarded Military Cross | |
| SMA | 10/1 | Medals awarded | |
| SMA | 17/1 | Killed in acion – George Williams | |
| SMA | 17/1 | Munitions for the Tommies | |
| SMA | 17/1 | War allotments | |
| SMA | 17/1 | Killed in Action – George Cook | |
| SMA | 17/1 | Roll of Honour – Cook | |
| SMA | 24/1 | Former Skegness tradesman arrested for absence from military duty Coulson | |
| SMA | 24/1 | Dead baby found in Wainfleet Haven | |
| SMA | 24/1 | Land cultivation – Jenkins letter | |
| SMA | 24/1 | Woman charged with murder | |
| SMA | 31/1 | Letter from the front – Smalley | |
| SMA | 31/1 | Local girl charged with murder of her child | |
| SMA | 31/1 | Lieut Kiss wounded | |
| SMA | 31/1 | Lifeboat launch | |
| SMA | 7/2 | Council discussions | |
| SMA | 14/2 | Soldier’s sad leave | |
| SMA | 21/2 | Skegness donates bandages | |
| SMA | 21/2 | Killed on the Somme – Furness | |
| SMA | 28/2 | Tommy’s Thanks to Red Cross – poem | |
| SMA | 7/3 | PoW letter to Miss Rankin from F Shepherd | |
| SMA | 14/3 | Death of Harriet Bamber | |
| SMA | 21/3 | Formation of sand dunes | |
| SMA | 21/3 | Extra work a chaplain undertakes | |
| SMA | 28/3 | Tribunal applications | |
| SMA | 4/4 | Road to churchyard obstructed by the military | |
| SMA | 4/4 | Rev Parle goes bankrupt | |
| SMA | 11/4 | Killed in Action – Potter | |
| SMA | 18/4 | Soldiers Orwell (Horwell?) and Woodward | |
| SMA | 25/4 | Appeals to be excused from military service | |
| SMA | 2/5 | Soldiers wounded – Wilson and Eggleston | |
| SMA | 2/5 | Skegness celebrates when America joins the war | |
| SMA | 25/4 | Killed in Action – Potter | |
| SMA | 9/5 | Killed in Action – Woods and Frith | |
| SMA | 9/5 | Medal for Hyndes | |
| SMA | 9/5 | PoW letter | |
| SMA | 16/5 | Killed in action – Simpson | |
| SMA | 16/5 | Missing in action – Chapman | |
| SMA | 16/5 | Missing in action – Simpson | |
| SMA | 23/5 | Killed in Action – Overton | |
| SMA | 25/5 | Killed in action – Kaye | |
| SMA | 24/5 | Missing in action – Thornton | |
| SMA | 30/5 | Baby’s body found in drain – Burn | |
| SMA | 30/5 | Objector who made good (national news) | |
| SMA | 30/5 | Hydes’ medal on display | |
| SMA | 6/6 | Killed in Action – Captain Ball | |
| SMA | 6/6 | Killed in Action – Atkin | |
| SMA | 6/6 | Accident Freshney | |
| SMA | 6/6 | Medal Hydes | |
| SMA | 6/6 | Rose on leave | |
| SMA | 13/6 | Roll of Honour in Pleasure Gardens | |
| SMA | 13/6 | PoW Chapman | |
| SMA | 20/6 | News of Pte Richard Heaton jnr | |
| SMA | 20/6 | Local war casualties | |
| SMA | 20/6 | Transport in dyke | |
| SMA | 20/6 | Appeals | |
| SMA | 20/6 | Prisoner of war – Heaton | |
| SMA | 27/6 | PoW Thornton | |
| SMA | 4/7 | Sergt Carmichael recommended for DCM | |
| SMA | 4/7 | Light offence – thought they had seen a Zepellin | |
| SMA | 11/7 | Killed in Action – Sellars | |
| SMA | 18/7 | Visitors should bring their own sugar | |
| SMA | 18/7 | Killed in Action – Sapper Charles Dunn | |
| SMA | 25/7 | Medal Ashton | |
| SMA | 8/8 | Aeroplane smash on Skegness beach | |
| SMA | 8/8 | Essendon school – dance pictures | |
| SMA | 8/8 | Dr Caroline Matthews picture | |
| SM | 10/8 | Death of Eliza Hipkin | |
| SMA | 15/8 | Beer famine in Skegness | |
| Church opens doors to “tommies” | |||
| SMA | 15/8 | Will of Shafto Vine Hotel | |
| SMA | 22/8 | Dr Caroline Matthews lecture – German Atrocities | |
| SMA | 29/8 | Missing in action – Overton | |
| SMA | 12/9 | Horrific Death of a Skegness Soldier Percy Hare | |
| SMA | 10/10 | Death of William Roulston | |
| SMA | 10/10 | Soldiers sentenced – bathing van damage | |
| SMA | 17/10 | Harrods and Dutton’s shorthand | |
| SMA | 17/10 | Escaped German prisoners | |
| SMA | 17/10 | Eggs needed for wounded soldiers | |
| SMA | 24/10 | Death of Beatrice Lill (sad story) | |
| SMA | 7/11 | No beer! | |
| SMA | 28/11 | Killed in action – Peet | |
| SMA | 28/11 | Killed in action – Borrell | |
| SMA | 12/12 | Sapper Porter designs WW1 Christmas Card | |
| SMA | 26/12 | Skegness toy industry | |
| 1918 | SMA | 9/1 | The truth about the war |
| SMA | 16/1 | Welcome to Skegness – sign made from sea shells | |
| SMA | 23/1 | Death fall downstairs – Davis | |
| SMA | 30/1 | Satan’s letter to Wilheim von Holhenzollern | |
| SMA | 6/2 | Killed in Action – Bartin of Wainfleet | |
| SMA | 27/2 | International “Draughts” | |
| SMA | 6/3 | Local tribunal – Crawshaw | |
| SMA | 6/3 | Skegness to buy four aeroplanes | |
| SMA | 6/3 | Killed in Action – Hyman | |
| SMA | 13/3 | History of Skegness (lecture) | |
| SMA | 20/3 | Divorce case | |
| SMA | 1/5 | Bomb Ball washed up on Skegness beach | |
| SMA | May | Skegness newspaper reduced in size due to paper shortage | |
| SMA | 15/5 | Police court case – carrying a camera | |
| SMA | 29/5 | Unsent letter | |
| SMA | 29/5 | Aeroplane accident | |
| SMA | 29/5 | WWW | |
| SMA | 5/6 | Clock in Tower has stopped | |
| SMA | 12/6 | Death of Crey – Drummond Road post office | |
| SMA | 19/6 | PoW Fravigar | |
| SMA | 19/6 | Empire Day celebrations | |
| SMA | 19/6 | Retailers’ duty – warn about carrying cameras law | |
| SMA | 26/6 | Empire Day report (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 10/7 | Stop pinching our potatoes | |
| SMA | 17/7 | Sudden death in Barber’s Shop | |
| SMA | 17/7 | Collecting fruit stones and nutshells for war effort | |
| SMA | 24/7 | No Joy Riding! | |
| SMA | 24/7 | Death Baumber Oriental Cafe | |
| SMA | 31/7 | Collecting fruit stones and nutshells for war effort | |
| SMA | 31/7 | A day of Intercession | |
| SMA | 30/7 | Essendon school transferred to Scotland | |
| SMA | 31/7 | War Aims meeting | |
| SMA | 31/7 | High tides | |
| SMA | 31/7 | Call for vacant beds | |
| SMA | 31/7 | Holidays at Skegness | |
| 7/8 | Huge crowds at Skegness | ||
| SMA | 4/9 | Killed in action – Dennis | |
| SMA | 4/9 | A New Snobbery | |
| SMA | 11/9 | Skegness on the Pictures – first promo film made by Canning | |
| SMA | 11/9 | Killed in Action – Forsyth | |
| SMA | 18/9 | Whip-round for blinded soldier who loses £12 | |
| SMA | 25/9 | Killed in Action – Overton | |
| SMA | 25/9 | Stealing letters | |
| SMA | 25/9 | Gun Week | |
| SMA | 16/10 | Dutton v Pitman trial | |
| SMA | 16/10 | Aircraft gun practice | |
| SMA | 13/11 | Signing of the Armistice – Skegness celebrates | |
| SMA | 11/12 | Killed in Action – Cook (Roman Bank Butchers) | |
| SMA | 18/12 | Mysterious murder | |
| SM | Kaiser effigy burned | ||
| SM | WW1 WW2 British Military Photos | ||
| 1919 | SMA | 1/1 | Prisoner of War returns on Christmas Eve – Heaton |
| SMA | 15/1 | Privateer pleasure boat lost at sea | |
| SMA | 15/1 | Prisoner of War returns – Hardy | |
| SMA | 15/1 | Alice Crawshaw death | |
| SMA | 22/1 | Death of Eli Hudson famous Skegness flautist | |
| SMA | 5/2 | Death of Pte Wilkinson | |
| SMA | 26/2 | Seacroft Surgical Depot closes – no longer required now war is over | |
| SMA | 26/2 | Postmistress retires – Cutler | |
| SMA | 26/2 | Seaplanes for Skegness | |
| SMA | 26/2 | Presentation to Mrs Grantham for Red Cross work | |
| SMA | 26/2 | Weigall letter – conscientious objectors | |
| SMA | 5/3 | Disappearence of Wainfleet girl – Boothby | |
| SMA | 12/3 | Edward Green | |
| SMA | 12/3 | Right of Way dispute – Seacroft | |
| SMA | 19/3 | Dunkley funeral | |
| SMA | 19/3 | SUDC medal Shelley | |
| SMA | 26/3 | SUDC medal Shelley – thanks from Cllr Shelley | |
| SMA | 26/3 | Europa crashes into Skegness Pier | |
| SMA | 16/4 | Death of Harriet Pearce | |
| SMA | 16/4 | A Skegness Poem | |
| SMA | 23/4 | A visit to Skegness ends in divorce | |
| SMA | 23/4 | Sale of The Palace Rink | |
| SMA | 30/4 | Birch for two Skegness lads | |
| SMA | 7/5 | Shannon Disaster widow’s death – Grunnill | |
| SMA | 7/5 | Death Giles – connected to Switchback and Figure 8 | |
| SMA | 7/5 | Death of Miller – Black House | |
| SMA | 7/5 | Cafe Dansant | |
| SMA | 14/5 | Pybus charged with now burying a pig’s carcass | |
| SMA | 14/5 | Boy in court for wandering – Martin | |
| SMA | 21/5 | War memorial ideas | |
| SMA | 21/5 | Motor cycle mystery | |
| SMA | 21/5 | Mystery of disappearing valuable brooch (world news) | |
| SMA | 21/5 | War memorial – new hospital wing | |
| SMA | 28/5 | War memorial discussed | |
| SMA | 4/6 | Opening of the Cafe Dansant (partially photographed) | |
| SMA | 4/6 | War memorial – new hospital wing not suitable | |
| SMA | 4/6 | Sad death of a visitor – Arthur Yeoman (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 11/6 | Seacroft footpath | |
| SMA | 11/6 | Coronation Walk footpath to be tar painted (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 28/5 | War memorial discussed | |
| SMA | 18/6 | War memorial to the fallen heroes of the Great War | |
| SMA | 18/6 | Put war memorial in Lumley Square | |
| SMA | 25/6 | Motor cycle mystery inquest | |
| SMA | 2/7 | Stealing ginger beer bottles | |
| SMA | 2/7 | Firework placed under Pavilion stage – dangerous | |
| SMA | 23/7 | Fire on Roman Bank – damage to church – Fowler | |
| SMA | 23/7 | Peace Celebrations in Tower Gardens Pavilion (partially photographed due to story being obscured by binding) | |
| SMA | 23/7 | Peace Celebrations – collection of donations | |
| SMA | 23/7 | Serious charge of forgery – Hunter | |
| SMA | 30/7 | Roll of Honour in Town Hall Chambers | |
| SMA | 30/7 | Serious charge of forgery – Hunter – inquest | |
| SMA | 30/7 | Attempted suicide | |
| SMA | 6/8 | Accident to Miss Shafto | |
| SMA | 6/8 | Company formed to purchase North Shore Golf Club | |
| SMA | 6/8 | “Damaged Goods” VD film advert | |
| SMA | 13/8 | Attempted suicide after dining at Ralphs | |
| SMA | 13/8 | Attempted suicide after dining at Ralphs – additional article | |
| SMA | 13/8 | Seacroft Links footpath | |
| SMA | 13/8 | Wooden huts erected on North Shore – used for sleeping visitors | |
| SMA | 20/8 | Mine on the Pier | |
| SMA | 20/8 | Attempted suicide – Cole | |
| SMA | 3/9 | Granny’s Opening problems | |
| SMA | 3/9 | Seacroft pathway | |
| SMA | 17/9 | Addition to Skegness Police Court discussion | |
| SMA | 1/10 | Death of Connell at the Claremont | |
| SMA | 8/10 | Seacroft footpath | |
| SMA | 8/10 | Aurora Borealis seen in Skegness | |
| SMA | 15/10 | **Concrete pathway on the sands | |
| SMA | 15/10 | Man falls from roof of Skegness Council Chambers | |
| SMA | 22/10 | Purchase of Foreshore discussed | |
| SMA | 22/10 | Council considers purchasing the Estate Office | |
| SMA | 22/10 | Future of Skegness | |
| SMA | 29/10 | Purchase of Foreshore discussed – additional articel | |
| SMA | 29/10 | Welcome Home Dinner – rsvp to invitations | |
| SMA | 5/11 | Purchase Skegness foreshore poll results | |
| SMA | 5/11 | Mine washed ashore | |
| SMA | 12/11 | Welcome Home dinner for the Skegness soldiers and medallion awards | |
| SMA | 19/11 | Purchase of Foreshore hangs on a thread | |
| SMA | 26/11 | Purchase of Foreshore hangs on a thread – further article | |
| SMA | 26/11 | Presentation to Percy Ellis | |
| SMA | 26/11 | Frith wins silver medal for Dutton’s shorthand | |
| SMA | 17/12 | District Nursing Association proposal (not photographed) | |
| SMA | 24/12 | Skegness Rat Week | |
| SMA | 31/12 | William Toyne death | |
| SMA | 31/12 | Death to Rats! |
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