1920s

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)

1920s			Frontage of Pleasure Gardens built up on Lumley Road, and renamed Tower Gardens
			Coun Sam Moody JP is a leading proprietor in the Landau business in the 20s and 30s
	early		First Skegness town bus service operated by WT Berry – a Daimler single-decker
	early		John Minkley operated his mobile scissor-grinding business
1920			Mr Snaps (Bert Jackson), walking photographer sets up business in Skegness
	11/2	SMA	Call for the formation of an Advancement Association
	11/2	SMA	Advancement Association elections
	25/2	SMA	Trophies of war
	3/3	SMA	Call for electricity in Skegness
	3/3	SMA	Old Seaview Hotel building turned into flats
	7/4	SMA	Death of Rev Baldwin
	21/4	SMA	Accident to Rowley boy
	21/4	SMA	Accident to Coun Bycroft
	28/4	SMA	Purchase of Estate Office
	28/4	SMA	Objection to Clements cinema
	2/5	SMA	Rats
	12/5	SMA	Council worker crushed to death
	26/5	SMA	Death of one of Skegness’ pioneers, Coun Joseph Crawshaw
	2/6	SMA	Nottingham Poor Girls Camp brass tablet
	2/6	SMA	Disaster at Louth
	2/6		Miraculous escape as lightening strikes
	2/6		Joseph Crawshaw funeral
	2/6		Sale of brick yard
	9/6	SMA	Dramatic capture of armed robbers at Thrall’s garage (policemen Cross, Rodwell and Hutchinson received medals) **
	30/6	SMA	New attraction on Pier
	7/7	SMA	Dangerous corner Sea View Road
	7/7	SMA	Housing scheme – Briar Way Tennyson Green
	7/7	SMA	Skeg-cards chorus
	28/7	SMA	Figure 8 amusement park ride is good for a healthy liver
	18/8	SMA	Crofts shop proprietor fined
	6/10	SMA	Stuffy police court
	13/10	SMA	Call for another Skegness Rat Week
	20/10	SMA	Making-up of St Andrews Drive, Sunningdale and Murfield
	20/10	SMA	Corpse Ways
	27/10	SMA	Death of George Greenwood
	1/12	SMA	Proposed town war memorial
			Nat West Bank formed in 1920, formerly National Provincial & Union Bank of England

1921	5/1		First telegram from Skegness (12 years ago in 1909)
	19/1	SMA	Southend pier cuts in two
	19/1	SMA	Airship over Skegness
	19/1		A Hangman’s fees
	9/2	SMA	Grant child dies Sea View Road
	10/2		Wifebeating
	10/2		Human Skeleton found near Ruskington
	16/2		High Street houses unfit for habitation
	16/2	SMA	Lowndes
	16/2	SMA	Skeleton mystery
	23/2	SMA	Spilsby tradesman’s find
	23/2		Thomas Green letter from New Zealand
	23/2		Laziest man
	23/2	SMA	Bishop speaks out on cruelty in fashion
	2/3		Cruelty to a dog
	2/3	SMA	Dry anecdotes
	9/3	SMA	Additions to Hildred’s Hotel approved
	16/3	SMA	Latest fashion – trophies of cruelty – Bishop speaks out
	16/3	SMA	Patent granted to pumping station man
	23/3		Death of lifeboat man
	23/3		Accident to Fred Rye’s horse
	23/3	SMA	Cricket ground gift proposal by Earl of Scarbrough
	30/3	SMA	Cricket ground gift proposal by Earl of Scarbrough
	30/3	SMA	Smart capture of thieves at Seacroft
	30/3	SMA	Indecent assault of little girl
	6/4	SMA	Accident to Mr Crawshaw on the new housing estate
	6/4	SMA	Seacroft Robbery court case
	13/4	SMA	Purchase of foreshore discussion (not photographed)
	13/4	SMA	War medal stolen
	20/4	SMA	Death of waterworks manager Vasey
	20/4	SMA	Purchase of foreshore discussion
	20/4	SMA	Woman found dying on beach (story partially photographed)
	27/4		Council housing estate first baby
	4/5	SMA	Fire Station for Sea View proposal
	4/5	SMA	North Shore Club House burglary
	25/5		Low gas pressure stops newspaper printing
	25/5		Belgian coal secured in coal strike
	1/6	SMA	Suicide – Starr
	1/6	SMA	Beef bone operation (national news)
	8/6		Influx of visitors
	8/6	SMA	Runaway horse
	15/6		Census complaint
	15/6		Churchill foot amputation
	15/6		Policemen commanded to Buckingham Palace
	15/6	SMA	Widow burnt alive (world news)
	29/6	SMA	Honour for Skegnesss policemen
	6/7	SMA	Mile of Pennies
	6/7	SMA	Cricket ground aquired by cricket club after Council turns down Lord Scarbrough’s offer
	13/7	SMA	Fire on the foreshore
	13/7	SMA	Fire on the Pier
	13/7	SMA	Mile of Pennies
	13/7	SMA	Cricket Club public company
	20/7	SMA	Cricket Club public company
	20/7	SMA	Chalet Theatre old advert
	27/7	SMA	Opening of Fred Clements’ Tower Theatre Lumley Road
	3/8	SMA	Donald Kier at the Arcadia Theatre
	3/8	SMA	Boy scout drowns in brick pit
	3/8	SMA	Char-a-banc accident
	3/8	SMA	Boy scout drowns in brick pit – inquest
	10/8	SMA	Walter Smyth funeral
	17/8	SMA	Alleged obstruction Lumley Road – Randall
	24/8	SMA	Skegness statistics
	31/8	SMA	Four sets of false teeth found
	7/9	SMA	Charlie Chaplin Tower Theatre
	14/9	SMA	Funeral – Ellis
	5/10	SMA	Death of Bellamy
	5/10	SMA	Baby competition – Goy winner (first council house baby)
	5/10	SMA	Miss Emma Crofts’ marriage to Walter E Lapham (wedding photo)
	12/10	SMA	VD production – “Damaged Goods”
	12/10	SMA	Council meet at the Clock Tower to discuss site for new toilets
	12/10	SMA	Death of Mr Porter
	19/10	SMA	Marriage of Charles Lane
	19/10	SMA	The late Mr Porter
	26/10	SMA	Council house allocation and list
	16/11	SMA	Death of Mrs Blackbourn
	23/11	SMA	Rat Week
	23/11	SMA	Fire at Rowley’s shop
	23/11	SMA	Agent of the Earl of Scarbrough commits suicide
	23/11	SMA	Shell shock
	30/11	SMA	Rat Week results
	30/11	SMA	Motor accident at “Spalding Plantation” corner
	7/12	SMA	Great Whale find
	7/12	SMA	Hard tennis courts built at Skegness Cricket Ground
	21/12	SMS	Death of William Baker
			Jolly Fisherman Embroidery Cloth (42 years ago flashback)

1922	11/1	SMA	Purchase of Foreshore deal sealed
	18/1	SMA	Bogus Captain Clarke
	18/1	SMA	Mirage at Skegness
	18/1	SMA	VD film
	25/1		Accident on Roman Bank
	25/1	SMA	Ancient Bully beef
	26/1	SMA	Foreshore sand
	1/2	SMA	Accident on Roman Bank Ida Road junction
	1/2	SMA	The ‘Mary’s of the Empire
	1/2	SMA	Waggoner’s accidental death – Harness
	1/2	SMA	To sell or not to sell
	8/2	SMA	A buoy washed ashore
	8/2	SMA	New industry for Skegness proposal – rabbit skins
	15/2	SMA	More buoys
	15/2	SMA	Policeman’s bravery – capture of a runaway horse
	1/3	SMA	Betsy Ann Walker death
	8/3	SMA	Sale of foreshore sites
	15/3	SMA	Letter from Fred Clements
	5/4		Call for Skegnessians to breed rabbits to make their own fur coats
	5/4	SMA	Fur industry hots up
	12/4	SMA	Ancient and Modern Skegness and District book by Dutton
	26/4	SMA	Freshney funeral
	26/4	SMA	Berry’s bus service
	3/5	SMA	New promenade and Jenkin’s Pier
	10/5	SMA	Coun Sam Moody takes oath for magistrate
	10/5	SMA	Nottingham Poor Girls home dripping appeal
	17/5	SMA	Skegness development scheme – picture
	24/5	SMA	New restaurant near station
	24/5	SMA	Miss Margaret Cooper picture – entertainer
	24/5	SMA	The Marine Walk
	31/5	SMA	Widening of street corners
	21/6	SMA	Reference to Wesleyan Chapel on High Street – Smyth
	28/6	SMA	Call new council estate “Addisonville”
	5/7	SMA	Call for sunshelters
	5/7	SMA	Huge foreshore development to be revealed
	19/7	SMA	Livestock show – Dunkley picture
	19/7	SMA	Pleasureland proposal
	19/7	SMA	Crofts new tea lounge advert – picture
	19/7	SMA	Garden competitions – Addisonville
	19/7	SMA	Trapped by Mormons
	26/7	SMA	Cruelty to a donkey
	26/7	SMA	Pleasureland problems – too long a lease
		SMA	Marine Gardens referred to as “Fountain Gardens” (no photograph)
	2/8	SMA	Motor accident
	9/8	SMA	Cruelty to a baby – Rollitt
	16/8	SMA	Death of Rowe – York House
	16/8	SMA	Skegness Tobacconists
	16/8	SMA	Landau sensation
	6/9	SMA	Lawrence Wright dance competition at the Casino – picture
	13/9	SMA	A proper fire station needed – discussion
	20/9	SMA	Skegness and Beeston hockey team – picture
	20/9	SMA	Salvation Army harvest festival – picture
	20/9	SMA	YMCA Cricket Team – picture
	20/9	SMA	Memorial Tablet to headmaster, Mr Porter unveiled
	27/9	SMA	Presentation to Lady Serena Lumley coming of age, at The Hall – picture by Jackson
	25/10	SMA	Divorce case Lowndes
	25/10	SMA	Sands shooting echo
	25/10	SMA	Huttoft bigamy murder
	25/10	SMA	Serious sea bank damage at Ingoldmells
	25/10	SMA	High tides at Skegness
	1/11	SMA	Winifred Smyth death
	1/11	SMA	Winifred Smyth tribute
	1/11	SMA	“Shimmey Shake” discusting says Judge
	1/11	SMA	Charles Fred Grantham death
	8/11	SMA	The new fire engine
	15/11	SMA	Funeral of William Scupholm
	22/11	SMA	Sea defense grant and ammusements decision
	29/11	SMA	Thompsons amusements
	6/12	SMA	Captain Samuel Moody Death
	6/12	SMA	German Gun
	13/12	SMA	Gruesome discovery on the beach (3 articles)
			Fred Clements opens the Tower Theatre
			Council bought the whole of the foreshore from the Earl of Scarbrough for £15,100
			Photograph of the Skegness Council 1922

1923	3/1		Accident to Charles Smyth Skegness photographer
	3/1		Skegness is being swallowed up by sea fears
	17/1	SMA	The horse that went home
	31/1	SMA	Marine Walk and Casino pathway
	14/2		Restaurants needed for the working class people
	14/2		Dutton’s shorthand now being used in Spilsby Court
	21/2		Dog runs away with meat – butcher claims from Skegness Council
	28/2		Skegness girl sends gift to Princess Mary’s new baby
	7/3		Problem with wide pavement and verandas – letter to Council from Lowndes
	7/3		Skegness’ first Shopping Week
	7/3		Death of George Croft
	4/4		Harriet Crawshaw’s death
	11/4	SMA	Grantham Will
	25/4	SMA	Rev Street receives cup for Skegness Football Club – picture
	25/4	SMA	HMS Pinafore Arcadia Theatre – picture
	2/5	SMA	HMS Pinafore Arcadia Theatre – picture
	9/5	SMA	Madam Osbourne picture
	16/5	SMA	German Gun – something for our children
	24/5		Skegness United Football Team wins trophy
	25/4		German Gun captured in World War 1 – problems discussed at council meeting
	23/5	SMA	Thompsons Amusements officially opened
	23/5		First Skegness Town Ball
	30/5	SMA	Opening of miniature golf course (story not photographed)
	30/5	SMA	Memorial church window – headmaster Mr Porter
	30/5	SMA	Publicity car – picture
	13/6		Police court petty sessions
	13/6	SMA	51 applicants for one council house (list of applicants)
	13/6	SMA	Carnival pictures
	20/6		Police court petty sessions
	20/6	SMA+	Final resting place for German Gun suggestions at the town council meeting
	20/6	SMA	Engineers’ conference at Skegness – picture
	27/6	SMA	Nasty accident Wainfleet level crossing
	27/6	SMA	Memories of Old Skegness*
	27/6		Skegness Scouts camp pictures
	27/6		Memorial to Smyth
	27/6		War memorial erection discussed
	27/6	SMA	Carnival pictures
	27/6	SMA	Memorial tablet toWinifred Smyth in Wesleyan Chapel Algitha Road
	27/6	SMA	Skegness scouts camp – pictures
	4/7	SMA	Miniature Railway extension proposal
	4/7		Green divorce
	4/7		Vine Pullover (Buckthorne) is it a private or public road?
	11/7	SMA	German Gun – letter from Carrisbrook House owner
	11/7	SMA	William Blackbourn death and funeral (shoe shop)
	18/7	SMA	Sweeton bad motor accident
	25/7		Wainfleet Magdalen School headmaster tribute (includes photo)
	25/7		War Memorial – Disney’s letter to Council
	25/7	SMA	More about Sharman Alexandra Road
	25/7	SMA	Presidential visit to Magdalen College Wainfleet
	25/7	SMA	Trouble in Alexadra Road (Sharman)
	1/8	SMA	Will of G J Crofts
	13/8	SMA	Motor accident Croft bend – Ballard of Leicester (story not photographed)
	13/8	SMA	Cllr Sweeton in bad motor accident
	13/8	SMA	Miss Dunkley coming of age party – picture
	13/8	SMA	Cattle Market – mayor digs first grass-sod – picture
	29/8	SMA	List of boarding houses
	1/9		The estate of the late George Croft
	19/9	SMA	Mysterious death – Harescough
	12/9		German sailor found laid on Skegness beach
	3/10	SMA	Making up of North Shore roads
	24/10		Wainfleet Magdalen School headmaster obituary
	7/11	SMA	Drake sells part of Seacroft Estate
	14/11		War Memorial unveiling ceremony order
	28/11		New York broadcasts heard in Skegness
	28/11		George Ball opens new Cattle market
			Tower Esplanade completed
			Mountain Slide and Tarzan Glide at Thompson’s Pleasureland

1924	3/1	SN	Death of William Dowse old Skegness tradesman
	3/1	SN	Death of Thomas Croft
	9/1	SN	Powlett’s Circus construction discussed in Council chambers
	9/1	SN	New office for Births Marriages and Deaths registration, and new registrar
	9/1	SMA	Calling the fire brigade problems
	30/1	SN	Flashback – 25 years ago in Skegness – first motor car in Skegness
	30/1	SN	The German Gun again – councillor calls for it to be scrapped
	30/1	SN	Accident to Skegness News worker
	2/2	SS	73 year old Rector to marry 35 year old woman
	6/2	SMA	Cosmo Cafe Lumley Road
	13/2	SS	73 year old Rector to marry 35 year old woman – engagement cancelled!
	13/2	SS	French Leave – Skegness performance
	20/2	SMA	Plans for boating lake – plus German Gun
	27/2	SS	Skegness Hotel Manager IRA Murder Drama (Hildred’s Hotel – Naylor)
	27/2	SMA	Lifeboat launch with a difference
	5/3	SS	Convalescent Home in The Jungle
	5/3	SN	More about Powlett’s Circus
	19/3	SN	Picking up Paris radio signal
	19/3	SS	Piano prize-winner
	19/3	SMA	Freak of nature – Mrs Fox’s calf
	26/3	SN	Death of Henry Rowley, Skegness Baths proprietor
	26/3	SS	Death of Mr Kirk of North Shore estate
	26/3	SS	Orient Girls’ school magazine
	2/4	SS	Skegness Police inspectors
	2/4	SS	Rowley funeral
	9/4	SS	Cllr Haley
	9/4	SS	Wedding Spence and Browett
	16/4	SS	Huge Boston Blaze of 80 years ago
	16/4	SS	Old Skegness Boy’s Death
	16/4	SS	Pioneer of Modern Skegness – death of Mr Holmes
	23/4	SS	Romans in Lincolnshire – Skegness castle
	30/4	SN	The homeless German Gun
	30/4	SN	Presentation to Mr Moody lifeboat
	7/5	SN	More about the German Gun
	7/5	SS	Skegness Blue Rovers Football Club
	7/5	SS	Wainfleet Magdalen College school photo
	7/5	SMA	Gadsby in Contraband film
	17/5	SS	The German Gun – a light-hearted story
	21/5	SS	Skegness Lilywhites football club photo
	21/5	SN	Excitement at Callow Park Hotel Maid throws herself from top window onto Grand Parade
		SN	The Smiling Redios (entertainers) – picture
	21/5	SMA	Straightening of North Parade – council buys strip of land
	21/5	SMA	Ducking Ponds are banned
	21/5	SMA	Site German Gun on Warth Lane
	28/5	SS	Motor-cyclist killed
	28/5	SMA	Motorbike accident – Bush
	28/5	SMA	Death of Warth
	28/5	SMA	New conductor and Chalet Theatre – picture
	11/6	SMA	South Parade bowling greens officially opened
	18/6	SS	Coverley funeral
	9/7	SS	Jolly Fisherman car mascot
	9/7	SS	Charabancs and penny all the way buses
	30/7	SS	Mayor of Lincoln officially opens the Boating Lake
	30/7	SN	Boating Lake opens (pictures)
	24/9	SMA	Famous wedding at Cafe Dansant (wedding gifts list partially photographed)
	1/10	SN	Malcolm Campbell, eminent motor racing record breaker prepared to race in Skegness
	15/10	SMA	Plans for Piazza and Bathing Pool
	15/10	SMA	Henry Haslam picture
	22/10		Skegness Liberal and Conservative working women photos
	22/10		Cafe Dansant owner goes bankrupt
	30/10		Malcolm Campbell, eminent motor racing record breaker prepared to race in Skegness
	5/11	SN	Why are horseshoes considered lucky superstition
	5/11	SS	Polling day mishaps
	12/11	SS	Child’s sudden death
	12/11	SMA	Roman Bank to be renamed
	19/11	SMA	Cargo Steamer Named After Skegness
	26/11	SMA	Lyndusrt Cottage auctioned
	26/11	SMA	First Skegness Pet Shop opens
	26/11	SS	War causes Skegness school failure
	3/12	SS/SMA	Vasey, waterworks manager death
	17/12	SMA	Ye Ancient Skegness
	17/12	SMA	Memorial church window – Crofts
	31/12	SMA	Marine Walk – letter
	Dec	SS	Earl of Scarbrough claims off Skegness Council for death of trees (not photographed)

1925	14/1		Skegness Casino Band selected to play on BBC radio
	14/1		Skegness Radio Club formed
	21/1		Wild Skegness story
	28/1		Thomas Brearly Tribute Song -=- member of Skegness Cricket Club
	4/2		Jolly Fisherman Poster at Colwyn Bay
	18/2	SMA	Skegness Guides
	8/4		Wainfleet Magdalen School, memorial to old headmaster Gerrish unveiled
	29/4		10,000 Jolly Fisherman Postal Seals distributed by the Skegness Advancement Committee
	13/5		Jolly Fisherman penetrates Germany
	13/5	SMA	Charles Sheppard Smyth death
	13/5	SMA	ROAB picture
	13/5	SMA	Jolly Fisherman
	27/5		Memorial windows in St Matthew’s Church dedicated to George Croft
	10/6		Malcolm Campbell motor racing record breaker races at Skegness
	1/7		Radio broadcast from the Arcadia Theatre Skegness by Clement’s Entertainers
	9/9		Sheffield soldier indecently assaults young Skegness girl
	23/9		Six strokes of the Birch Rod for Skegness boy
	21/10		Samuel Moody becomes a Justice of the Peace
	28/10		St John Ambulance Brigade formed in Skegness
			Billy Butlin arrives and sets up amusement park in The Jungle
	9/12	SMA	Toy gun tragedy

1926	6/1	SS	Fancy Dress winner
	6/1	SMA	Accident to a tree-lopper in Lumley Road
	13/1	SS	Friskney men of the Great War
	13/1	SS	Solicitor’s death
	13/1	SS	Wireless
	20/1	SMA	“Commander Clarke” imposter
	20/1	SMA	Officer who gave his life for a ball – Shouler
	23/1	SS	Court case assault
	27/1	SS	Fire false alarm
	27/1	SS	Skegness woman’s ghastly ordeal
	27/1	SMA	Burning grate – echo of a previous tragedy
	10/2	SS	Wedding
	10/2	SS	Skegness story
	24/2	SS	Family
	24/2	SMA	Provision of gas for the Casino
	24/2	SS	Condemned cottage
	24/2	SS	Donkey shed
	3/3	SS	Condemned house
	3/3	SMA	Earl of Scarbrough give land in Ida Road for nurses
	10/3	SMA	Smith v Council – arcade Lumley Road, Pleasure Gardens
	17/3	SMA	Council election canditades (pictures)
	17/3	SS	Keen competition for beach sites
	17/3	SS	Bonnetts’ New industry
	24/3	SS	Condemned cottage
	7/4	SS	Gibraltar Point Coastguard station sold
	7/4	SMA	A Secret Room and a Hidden Picture
	21/4	SMA	Incident on High Street
	21/4	SMA	Frank Wood elected as new mayor of Skegness
	21/4	SMA	400 people in High Street
	21/4	SMA	John Hassall Paints Second Jolly Fisherman Poster
	28/4	SMA	Will the water tower be ready for Bank Holiday?
	28/4	SS	Human skull found at Burgh
	28/4	SS	Skegness Amateurs picture
	28/4	SS	Sir John Franklin relic (tin of meat left by expedition party)
	28/4	SS	Bateman
	5/5	SS	Tric Street for Skegness
	5/5	SMA	Landing stage for steamboats (story not photographed)
	19/5	SS	Sea cars on Skegness beach
	26/5	SMA	Funeral of George Pybus
	26/5	SMA	Fire at Chalet Theatre
	9/6	SS	Bad car accident
	16/6	SS	Skeg Cup race
	30/6	SMA	Interview with Avery
	14/7	SS	Skegness to Horncastle walk presentaion
	14/7	SS	New water tower
	21/7	SMA	Death of Frank Gadsby’s son
	28/7	SMA	Little boy rescued from drowning
	4/8		New pier head
	11/8	SMA	Death Harry Stilling Cavendish Road
	18/8	SS	Happy Valley court case
	18/8	SMA	Skegness murder threats – Hill
	25/8	SMA	That Jolly Fisherman Poster
	25/8	SMA	Sheffield boy drowned – Leach
	1/9	SMA	Simpson death
	1/9	SMA	Gadsby fire dive
	8/9	SMA	Jolly Fisherman publicity tour
	22/9	SMA	Bus driver’s death and funeral (two articles)
	22/9	SMA	New isolation hospital needed after fire
	22/9	SMA	Oriental Cafe advert – picture
	22/9	SMA	Bus driver’s death inquest
	29/2	SMA	Lady dies under anesthetic – Berry
	6/10		Farming on the beach Skegness Foreshore development begins
	6/10		amusements
	13/10	SMA	New water tower construction – picture
	13/10	SMA	“Almond’s Remainder” sale
	27/10	SS	Skegness enormous project
	27/10	SS	Bancroft death
	27/10		New design concrete houses
			Skegness railway men
	17/11	SMA	Death of Porter born in High Street
	17/11	SS	Mablethorpe Town Hall gutted by fire
	15/12	SS/SMA	Bathing pool builder workman suffers bad accident
	24/12	SMA	Skegness Chicks debut

1927	5/1	SS	John Green golden wedding
	5/1	SS	Bamber/Hill wedding
	12/1	SS	Orient Boys College
	2/2	SS	Rankin toys
	2/2		Chair o plane
	16/2	SS	North Parade sites
	23/2	SS	pleasure land removal from Skegness Foreshore
	23/2	SS	Lilac Entertainers
	23/3	SS	Miniature Railway
	23/3		Memorial convalescent home (town hall) erected
	30/3	SS	School of Dance
	1/6		Memorial convalescent home opening ceremony
	19/1		Foreshore Manager position created
	2/2		Boy’s foot crushed by council steamroller
	2/2		Grunnill in Back and Kidney pills advert
	9/2		Hospital wireless installation
	23/2		‘Lilac’ entertainers
	9/3		Skegness man slits his own throat
	9/3		Crawshaw honoured
	16/3		Water tower collapse fears
	23/3		Remember Lord Tennyson
	30/3		Leaning tower of Skegness
	13/4	SS	Ivor Cule
	13/4		Beam wireless first message in Skegness
	20/4		School of Cookery sold for £3,650 at Lumley Hotel by George Ball (not photographed)
	20/4	SS	Remarkable “Spirit” Photographs Claimed by Skegnessian, Basil K Kirkby (George Jobson of Horncastle)
	4/5		Salvation Army commanding officers leave Skegness
	4/5	SS	Sunday refreshments
	18/5		Skegness zoo
	25/5		New beach donkey laws
	25/5	SS	More about the ice cream ban
	28/5		HH Princess Marie Louise opens NDFS
	1/6	SS	ROAB stone laying
	1/6	SS	Ice cream and milk banned on Sundays
	15/6	SS	Skegness girl guides
	22/6	SS	Boating lake operator weds
	29/6	SS	Seacroft railway master
	29/6	SS	Skegness Casino proprietor’s death
	29/6	SS	Seacroft sanitorium proposal
	6/7	SS	Acton – pioneer of modern Skegness
	6/7	SS	Another Jolly Fisherman
	6/7	SS	Nottingham Poor Boys Home
	13/7	SS	Motoring Knotts garage
	August		Council Surveyor, Rowland Jenkins hands in his resignation but then withdraws it (not photographed)
	17/8		Lawrence Wright, famous music writer, visits Skegness and wants to buy the water tower
	14/9		Skegness foreshore illuminations for the first time in history (boating lake)
			Blackbourn (shoe shop) death

1928	4/1	SS	New ROAB institute on Briar Way Skegness
	4/1	SN	Sanitorium opposition (review of 1927)
	4/1	SN	Beam Wireless Station (review of 1927)
	4/1	SN	Death and funeral of Skegness Postmaster – Raynor
	4/1	SN	Seacroft development described
	11/1	SN	Skegness Pig Club oldest institue (58 years)
	11/1	SS/SN	Town Hall Fire
	11/1	SN	Police court held in Sunday School room due to Town Hall Fire
	11/1	SS	Miller of Algitha House wedding
	11/1	SS	Great gale
	18/1	SS	Town Hall Fire
	18/1		Great gale amusement park wreckage
	25/1	SN	Mackinder death and funeral
	25/1	SN	Kitchen boy gets Borstal – Key
	25/1	SN	Snow storm an Act of God – woman claims off council (national news)
	1/2	SN	Motor fire engine is needed
	1/2	SN	Illuminations foreshore and boating lake
	1/2	SN	Proposal to straighten leaning water tower (part photographed due to story obscured by binding)
	1/2	SN	Elections for Skegness – conference report (story not photographed)
	8/2	SS	Derbyshire miners opening
	8/2	SS	Rare whale washed ashore
	8/2	SS	Human Skeletons found at Edlington Hall
	8/2	SN	Overdose Man Collapsed and Died in Police Station
	8/2	SN	Agreement for Sunday refreshments on foreshore (story not photographed)
	8/2	SN	New Town Hall to be built (partially obscured by binding)
	8/2	SN	First Buffs ceremony at new headquarters in Briar Way
	15/2		More about human skeleton find
	15/2	SS	Wainfleet Magdalen College School party photo (H Crawshaw)
	22/2	SN	Ralphs grocers shop goes bankrupt
	29/2	SN	Modernising the fire equipment
	29/2	SN	Sewage pumping station extension
	29/2	SN	Ex-servicemen’s new building fund (partially photographed)
	29/2	SN	Tower Gardens Pavilion improvement recommendations
	7/3	SN	Council acts re leaning water tower being straightened
	7/3	SN	Peplo appointed new Skegness Postmaster
	7/3	SS	Clement’s entertainer row
	14/3	SN	Councillor election pictures – Skinner and Thornton
	14/3	SN	Derbyshire Miners opening ceremony (partially photographed)
	14/3	SS	New postmaster
	14/3	SN	Boy’s passion for butchers’ knives
	21/3	SN	Nominees for council election (partially photographed)
	21/3	SN	Death of Albert Dennis
	21/3	SN	Death of Mrs Rowley
	28/3	SN	New Town Hall – council decides to offer present site for tender
	28/3	SN	Pictures of council candidates
	28/3	SN	Unhappy neighbours court case
	4/4	SN	Council election results
	4/4	SN	Salvation Army funeral – Beal
	4/4	SN	Should council take Seacroft foreshore?
	4/4	SS	Vision of the Future for Skegness
	11/4	SN	New police court is needed
	11/4	SN	Cllr Rawding burglary
	11/4	SN	War Grave Identity Mix-up – Soldier Still Alive!
	18/4	SN	Boots Chemist comes to Skegness
	25/4		Bathing Pool, Embassy Ballroom, Central Car Park and Compass Gardens replace the former Marine Gardens
	25/4	SS	Nottingham Poor Girls Home
	25/4	SN	Electricity needed for bthing pool, boating lake etc (partially photographed)
	2/5	SS	Nottingham Poor Boys home
	2/5	SN	Unusual catch – salmon
	2/5	SS	Smyth wedding
	2/5	SS	Boring for water
	2/5	SN	Salvation Army building
	2/5	SN	Cllr Wheatley offers to purchase town hall ruins
	9/5	SN	Cllr Wheatley’s offer to purchase town hall ruins rejected, only Cllr Moody agrees (not photographed)
	9/5	SN	Salvation Army Ensign (Maw) gets marching orders
	16/5	SN	Salvation Army gets new building on High Street
	16/5	SN	Billy Butlin
	16/5		Gasworks extension
	30/5	SN	Bathing Pool opens (on Whit Monday)
	30/5	SN	Butlin’s proposal to council – new amusement park
	30/5	SN	Cavendish Road residents protest about caravan settlement
	30/5	SN	Death of Derbyshire Miners’ housemaster Ovington
	6/6	SS/SN	Nottingham Poor Boys Home official opening on Roseberry Avenue
	6/6	SN	How Skegness rock is made – letter from a visitor
	6/6	SN	Death of Harriiet Grunnill
	6/6	SN	Cavendish Road caravan owners hit back
	6/6	SN	Lawsons Ice Cream kiosk
	6/6	SN	Swing boats on Central Beach
	13/6	SS	Butlin’s Joy City proposal
	13/6	SN	Sunday bathing allowed – much protest
	13/6	SN	Sunday afternoon boating allowed
	13/6	SN	Billy Butlin’s interesting proposal to Council
	13/6	SN	Patron saint of Skegness?
	20/6	SN	Rare Pictures of Bultins Pleasureland Skegness
	20/6	SN	Novel miniature car racing at the Casino
	27/6	SS	Motor coach invasion
	27/6	SN	Boatman’s child found dead in drain – Grunnill
	27/6	SN	Councillor’s unusual will
	27/6	SN	Sunday opening fever – Figure 8 follows suit
	27/6	SN	Leaning water tower’s rectification delayed (not photographed)
	4/7	SN	Cavendish Road caravans – official report
	4/7	SN	Panatrope installed at the bathing pool
	11/7	SN	Primitive Methodist minister Ralph Streets leaves Skegness
	11/7	SS	Bitten by a seal
	18/7	SN	Weighing machines for Skegness ordered by the Council
	18/7	SS	Skegness Orient College
	18/7		Bathing pool – keeping cool
	25/7		Bathing pool from the air
	1/8	SS	Will Crawshaw serious accident
	4/8	SS	Bathing Belles
	4/8	SS	“Empty-headed girls” condemnation by Skegness College headmistress
	4/8	SS	Mixed bathing is banned
	8/8		RAF Supermarine Flying boats hit Skegness
	8/8	SN	Skegness’ chief citizan becomes the 100,000th Sheffield Glooper
	8/8		Three men in a boat
	15/8	SN	Skegness Lifeboat centenary
	15/8	SN	Former Skegness footballer’s death – Fowler
	15/8	SN	Skegness Lifeboat centenary – pictures
	22/8	SN	Shoe shop fire Lumley Road
	22/8	SN	Death of Joseph Moody
	22/8	SN	New fire engine delay
	29/8	SN	Sheffield man rowned at Chapel St Leonards – Millward (not photographed)
	29/8	SN	Pier diver Gadsby offer to council turned down
	29/8	SN	Joseph Moody funeral
	5/9	SN	Jimmy Loft court case
	5/9	SN	Town Band formed
	5/9	SN	Trophy Cups for the water gala – picture
	5/9	SN	Young Skegness Policeman Engulfed in Flames – Mapleston
	19/9		Distinguished visitor Skegness Cottage hospital
	12/9		Prize winning pig
	12/9	SN	Young Skegness Policeman Engulfed in Flames – inquest
	12/9	SN	Dedication of Girls Life Brigade flag
	?		Old Valor cooking stove advertisement
	19/9	SN	Skegness’ first royal visitor Sultan of Muscat and Oman (Claim is incorrect as the Duke of Edinburgh was in Skegness in 1881)
	19/9	SN	Farewell to a Skegness Relic – old fire engine
	19/9	SN	Letter to Sultan from Skegness Council Chairman
	19/9	SN	Rev Disney cartoon
	26/9	SS	Acton 59 years wedding
	10/10	SN	Young Skegness woman killed – Pinion
	17/10	SN	Erect new Town Hall in Pleasure Gardens!
	17/10	SN	Definite attempt to rectify leaning water tower (story not photographed)
	24/10	SS	Shark washed ashore at Skegness
	24/10	SN	Skegness Foreshore Litter
	31/10	SN	Death of John Capstack Hudson – musician lived at Red House
	7/11		Scrap the Jolly Fisherman poster call
	7/11	SN	“I Bequeath – Annual Bonfires to Horncastle”
	7/11	SN	71 years married – Walker of Wainfleet
	7/11	SN	Cllr Wheatley finds skeleton in his garden
	14/11	SS	New amusement park
	14/11	SS	Earl of Scarbrough decision
	8/11	SS	Skegness chicks
	21/11	SN	New of reconstructed Town Hall debate (not photographed)
	21/11	SN	First cine camera wedding at St Matthew’s Church
	28/11	SN	Butlins amusement park deal
	28/11	SN	Is the Jolly Fisherman poster out of date?
	5/12	SN	Is the Jolly Fisherman poster out of date? – discussion
	5/12	SN	A Marine Drive?
	5/12	SS	Lloyd’s bank manager
	5/12	SS	Spilsby workhouse bomb threat
	5/12	SS	Jolly Fisherman painting
	12/12	SN	Council decide on a modified Marine Drive scheme (story in two parts)
	12/12	SN	A shelter for North Shore
	19/12	SN	Distribution of Christmas gifts by Advancement Association – list (story not photographed)
	19/12	SN	Attack on Wainfleet girl – Warth
	26/12	SN	Council to aquire Seacroft Foreshore (story partly obscured by binding)
			Nottingham Poor Girls ride in a dray

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
	9/1	SS	Plans for making up of Scarbrough Avenue
	23/1	SS	Players at Arcadia Theatre
	23/1	SS	Wedding Arliss
	30/1	SS	Damage in the Park “Jungle” Wood Removed – Court Case
	6/2	SS	Raynor railway attendent retires
	6/2	SS	Fred Cooper death
	13/2	SS	Dennis wedding
	20/2	SS	Tennyson’s gardener’s death
	20/2	SS	Swan divorce scandal
	27/2	SS	Hungry gulls
	6/3	SS	Croft picture
	13/3	SS	Smyth reads the Standard
	13/3	SS	Grand National winner on Skegness sands?
	13/3	SS	Salvation Army Citadel opening
	13/3	SS	Wedding Lilly and Wilson
	10/4	SS	Wedding Howard
	10/4	SS	Bert Parrot’s death
	10/7	SS	Ball wedding
	10/4	SS	Hilda Lightfoot child cruelty
	17/4	SS	Skegness Life Boys
	24/4	SS	Major wedding
	8/5	SS	Miss White’s letter to the King
	8/5	SS	Miss Mercedes Gleitze in Skegness (Wash swimmer)
	5/6	SS	Voters
	5/6	SS	Wash swim
	12/6	SS	Night safe
	17/7	SS	Leeman
	18/9	SS	Acton wedding anniversary
	4/9	SS	Skegness inventor ridiculed
	25/9	SS	Jumbo’s amusing incident – elephant refuses to go on Skegness train station
	2/10	SS	Wedding violinist
	2/10	SS	Wedding Freason
	16/10	SS	Half a century topped (WH Smith)
	23/10	SS	Wedding Morgan and Croft
	23/10	SS	Wainfleet school
	30/10	SS	Wedding Guests Agog as Police Arrest Married Bridegroom Wrigglesworth
	27/11	SS	Bonnett death
	27/11	SS	Builder falls to his death

** A photograph of the policemen wearing medals presented by King GeorgeV appears in G. H. J. Dutton’s publication, ‘Ancient and Modern Skegness and District’ which was published in the 1920s.