1920s News & History
1920s Skegness News
| 1923 | 3/1 | Accident to Charles Smythe Skegness photographer |
| N | 3/1 | Skegness is being swallowed up by sea fears |
| N | 14/2 | Restaurants needed for the working class people |
| N | 14/2 | Dutton’s shorthand now being used in Spilsby Court |
| N | 21/2 | Dog runs away with meat - butcher claims from Skegness Council |
| N | 28/2 | Skegness girl sends gift to Princess Mary’s new baby |
| N | 7/3 | Problem with wide pavement and verandahs - letter f to Council from Lowndes |
| N | 7/3 | Skegness’ first Shopping Week |
| N | 7/3 | Death of George Croft |
| N | 4/4 | Harriet Crawshaw’s death |
| N | 24/5 | Skegness United Football Team wins trophy |
| N | 25/4 | German Gun captured in World War 1 - problems discussed at council meeting |
| N | 23/5 | First Skegness Town Ball |
| N | 13/6 | Police court petty sessions |
| N | 20/6 | Police court petty sessions |
| N | 20/6 | Final resting place for German Gun suggestions at the town council meeting |
| N | 27/6 | Skegness Scouts camp pictures |
| N | 27/6 | Memorial to Smythe |
| N | 27/6 | War memorial erection discussed |
| N | 4/7 | Green divorce |
| N | 4/7 | Vine Pullover (Buckthorne) is it a private or public road? |
| N | 25/7 | Wainfleet Magdalen School headmaster tribute (includes photo) |
| N | 25/7 | War Memorial - Disney’s letter to Council |
| N | 1/9 | The estate of the late George Croft |
| N | 12/9 | German sailor found laid on Skegness beach |
| N | 24/10 | Wainfleet Magdalen School headmaster obituary |
| N | 14/11 | War Memorial unveiling ceremony order |
| N | 28/11 | New York broadcasts heard in Skegness |
| N | 28/11 | George Ball opens new Cattle market |
| 1924 | ?/1 | Death of William Dowse old Skegness tradesman |
| N | 3/1 | Death of William Dowse old Skegness tradesman |
| 3/1 | Death of George Croft | |
| 9/1 | Powletts Circus construction discussed in Council chambers | |
| 9/1 | New office for Births Marriages and Deaths registration, and new registrar | |
| 30/1 | Flashback - 25 years ago in Skegness - first motor car in Skegness | |
| 30/1 | The German Gun again | |
| 30/1 | Accident to Skegness News worker | |
| 5/3 | More about Powletts Circus | |
| 19/3 | Picking up Paris radio signal | |
| 26/3 | Death of Rowley, Skegness Baths proprietor | |
| 30/4 | The homeless German Gun | |
| 30/4 | Moody lifeboat | |
| 7/5 | More about the German Gun | |
| 21/5 | Excitement at Callow Park Hotel Maid throws herself from top window onto Grand Parade | |
| 30/7 | Mayor of Lincoln officially opens the Boating Lake | |
| 1/10 | Malcolm Campbell, eminent motor racing record breaker prepared to race in Skegness | |
| 30/10 | Malcolm Campbell, eminent motor racing record breaker prepared to race in Skegness | |
| 5/11 | Why are horseshoes considered lucky superstition | |
| 1925 | 14/1 | Skegness Casino Band selected to play on BBC radio |
| N | 14/1 | Skegness Radio Club formed |
| N | 21/1 | Wild Skegness story |
| N | 28/1 | Thomas Brearly Tribute Song -=- member of Skegness Cricket Club |
| N | 4/2 | Jolly Fisherman Poster at Colwyn Bay |
| N | 8/4 | Wainfleet Magdalen School, memorial to old headmaster Gerrish unveiled |
| N | 29/4 | 10,000 Jolly Fisherman Postal Seals distributed by the Skegness Advancement Committee |
| N | 13/5 | Jolly Fisherman penetrates Germany |
| N | 13/5 | ROAB picture |
| N | 27/5 | Memorial windows in St Matthew’s Church dedicated to George Croft |
| N | 10/6 | Malcolm Campbell motor racing record breaker races at Skegness |
| N | 1/7 | Radio broadcast from the Arcadia Theatre Skegness by Clement’s Entertainers |
| N | 9/9 | Sheffield soldier indecently assaults young Skegness girl |
| N | 23/9 | Six strokes of the Birch Rod for Skegness boy |
| N | 21/10 | Samuel Moody becomes a Justice of the Peace |
| N | 28/10 | St John Ambulance Brigade formed in Skegness |
| 1926 | 14/7 | New water tower |
| 4/8 | New pier head | |
| 18/8 | Happy Valley court case | |
| 6/10 | Farming on the beach Skegness Foreshore development begins | |
| 6/10 | amusements | |
| 27/10 | Skegness enormous project | |
| 27/10 | New design conctete houses | |
| 1927 | 2/2 | Chair o plane |
| 23/2 | pleasureland removal from Skegness Foreshore | |
| 23/3 | Memorial convalescent home (town hall) | |
| 1/6 | Memorial convalescent home opening ceremony | |
| N | 19/1 | Foreshore Manager position created |
| N | 2/2 | Boy’s foot crushed by council steamroller |
| N | 2/2 | Grunnill in Back and Kidney pills advert |
| N | 9/2 | Hospital wireless installation |
| N | 23/2 | ‘Lilac’ entertainers |
| N | 9/3 | Skegness man slits his own throat |
| N | 9/3 | Crawshaw honoured |
| N | 16/3 | Water tower collapse fears |
| N | 23/3 | Remember Lord Tennyson |
| N | 30/3 | Leaning tower of Skegness |
| N | 13/4 | Beam wireless first message in Skegness |
| N | 20/4 | School of Cookery sold for £3,650 at Lumley Hotel by George Ball (not photographed) |
| N | 4/5 | Salvation Army commanding officers leave Skegness |
| N | 18/5 | Skegness zoo |
| N | 25/5 | New beach donkey laws |
| N | August | Council Surveyor, Rowland Jenkins hands in his resignation but then withdraws it (not photographed) |
| N | 17/8 | Lawrence Wright, famous music writer, visits Skegness and wants to buy the water tower |
| N | 14/9 | Skegness foreshore illuminations for the first time in history (boating lake) |
| 1928 | 4/1 | New RAOB institute |
| 18/1 | Town Hall Fire | |
| 18/1 | Great gale amusement park wreckage | |
| 8/2 | Derbyshire miners opening | |
| 8/2 | Skeletons found | |
| 25/4 | Bathing Pool | |
| 16/5 | Gasworks extension | |
| 27/6 | Motor coach invasion | |
| 18/7 | Bathing pool - keeping cool | |
| 25/7 | Bathing pool from the air | |
| 8/8 | Flying boats | |
| 8/8 | Three men in a boat | |
| 22/8 | Shoe shop fire | |
| 19/9 | Distinguished visitor Skegness Cottage hospital | |
| 12/9 | Prize winning pig | |
| ? | Old Valor cooking stove advertisment | |
| N | 7/11 | Scrap the Jolly Fisherman poster call |
| 1929 | 30/1 | Tower Esplanade beach improvements |
| 27/2 | Hungry gulls | |
| 15/5 | Moody | |
| 29/5 | Foreshore improvements | |
| 29/5 | Publicity effort Jolly Fisherman | |
| 29/5 | Overton Family History | |
| 17/7 | Structure Tower Gardens | |
| 17/7 | Bathing Pool Chute | |
| 4/9 | Disney death | |
| 11/9 | Elephants on Promenade | |
| 11/9 | Blooding the Baby | |
| 27/11 | Lumley Road Pleasure Gardens | |
| 11/12 | Vine Hotel |
