1930s News & History
1930s Skegness News
| S 1930 | 1/1 | Lumley Square Fountain |
| 1/1 | New Post Office | |
| 15/1 | Vine Hotel | |
| 29/1 | New Court House | |
| 5/2 | Inside new court house | |
| 5/2 | Tramway on beach | |
| 12/2 | Moathouse | |
| 5/3 | Boating Lake | |
| 12/3 | Rustic Bridge and Lake Pleasure Gardens | |
| 2/4 | V? | |
| 16/4 | Rebirth Lumley Road | |
| 30/4 | Whale story | |
| N | 4/6 | Lions at Butlins |
| N | 11/6 | 25 years ago in Skegness |
| 2/7 | Aerial views | |
| 13/8 | Aerial view promenade | |
| 22/10 | Steam Laundry | |
| 19/11 | Skegness is quiet | |
| Grosvenor Hotel and Imperial Cafe built by Frederick Walker | ||
| S 1931 | 7/1 | Town Hall Transformation - reopens after fire in 1928 |
| 1/4 | Beautifying Skegness Beach | |
| 15/4 | Avery deaths | |
| 20/5 | Police Training | |
| /5 | Skegness Waterway opens | |
| /5 | Fravigars celebrate Golden Wedding | |
| 17/6 | Wainfleet Church Memorial Dedication | |
| 15/7 | Storms on Sunday - shops on underground toilets flooded | |
| 19/8 | Gip Grunnill | |
| 26/8 | Pier diver | |
| 9/9 | Butlin’s Midgets | |
| 16/9 | Sand Sculpture | |
| 30/9 | Hospital extension Lady Scarbrough | |
| 30/9 | Foreshore workers | |
| 14/10 | Sanitary Squad | |
| 18/11 | Armistice | |
| 16/12 | Bycroft death | |
| 7/1 | Skegness in the past year review and King | |
| N | 28/1 | Free lending library |
| N | 4/2 | Callow Park Hotel is sold |
| N | 15/7 | Great flood - Skegness swept by worst thunderstorms |
| N | 12/8 | Rapid washing machine advert |
| N | 2/9 | Royal Midgets at Butlins |
| N | 7/10 | Skegness before its seashore is developed |
| Library moves from High Street to new Town Hall | ||
| S 1932 | 20/1 | Tea Party |
| 20/1 | Matt Grunnill | |
| 20/1 | Wesleyan 45 years ago | |
| 3/2 | Samuel Moody cuts wire - flashback to 1908 | |
| 17/2 | Lifeboat launch | |
| 2/3 | Electricity | |
| 6/3 | Entrenching | |
| 23/3 | new footpath St Clement’s Church | |
| 30/3 | Beach Transformation | |
| 6/4 | Glimpse old Skegness | |
| 13/4 | Before Clock Tower built | |
| Electricity supply switched on by Joseph Crawshaw Mayor of Skegness | ||
| 4/5 | Suncastle being built | |
| 4/5 | Regime railway station | |
| 11/5 | Winter garden | |
| 25/5 | Skegness then and now | |
| 8/6 | Crofts | |
| 6/7 | Standard’s 10th birthday | |
| 20/7 | Old time Landaus | |
| N | 27/7 | Roman Bank school closes |
| 3/8 | New Skegness Water Tower | |
| 3/8 | New gas tank installed by gasworks | |
| 3/8 | Yachts | |
| 10/8 | Butlins Picture competition prizes | |
| 17/8 | Pygmy Princess at Butlins | |
| 24/8 | Pygmy princess arrives | |
| 31/8 | 30,000 view Pygmy princess | |
| 31/8 | more Butlins picture competition | |
| 31/8 | Yacht breaks mooring | |
| 31/8 | Lifeboat presentation | |
| 7/9 | Farewell to Pygmy princess | |
| 7/9 | Pier manager | |
| 14/9 | Carnival lights stolen | |
| N | 14/9 | Donkeys at the Roller Rink |
| 23/? | Feet - uring Harold the dwarf | |
| 17/10 | Lumley Secondary School opens | |
| 26/10 | Battle of Flowers | |
| 26/10 | Seacroft proposal | |
| 7/12 | Homeless Samuel Lewis lifeboat | |
| 14/12 | new motor lifeboat | |
| 14/12 | lifeboat history by ‘Old Salt’ | |
| 28/12 | Anne Allen photo | |
| 28/12 | Christmas at Suncastle | |
| N | 6/4 | Hildreds Hotel Skegness and Victorian Water Fountain |
| N | 17/8 | Pygmy Princess the town awaits her arrival |
| N | 17/8 | Jolly Fisherman island |
| N | 24/8 | Pygmy Princess arrives |
| Lumley Square redeveloped and old houses demolished at the west end of High Street | ||
| S 1933 | 22/3 | Lumley Square improvements |
| Suncastle opens | ||
| N | Tarred and Naked Man at Skegness | |
| N | 26/4 | Worst week in history for tragedies in Skegness |
| N | 26/4 | Fire |
| N | 3/5 | Woman burned to death |
| N | 10/5 | Gas exhibition in Skegness |
| 17/5 | fire engine | |
| N | 31/5 | Christening of the ‘Elizabeth Allan’ pleasure boat |
| N | 7/6 | Air crash Skegness Aerodrome |
| 14/6 | new school | |
| 14/6 | Rowland Jenkins | |
| 21/6 | Anne Allen lifeboat | |
| 28/6 | Thompson’s Pleasure Beach | |
| 5/7 | Old Skegness lifeboat plane rescue | |
| 12/7 | mechanical monster at Butlins | |
| N | 19/7 | Last speech day at Magdalen School Wainfleet |
| 9/8 | Fire Rainford Terrace Drummond Road | |
| 9/8 | Lumley Road fire | |
| 23/8 | Grammar school opens | |
| 4/12 | New vestry for St Matthew’s Church | |
| 25/10 | Raising the Roof Central Hall Roman Bank Skegness - turned into Central Cinema | |
| 6/12 | New gas showrooms preview | |
| 13/12 | Parade Cinema opens, owned by Kemp of Nottingham | |
| Skegness Film Star Elizabeth Allan is called to Hollywood | ||
| S 1934 | 10/1 | Red Letter Day |
| 21/2 | Passing of the Lawn Theatre | |
| 14/3 | Link with New Zealand | |
| 14/3 | Elizabeth Allan Returns (film star) | |
| 30/5 | Castleton Boulevard | |
| 3/10 | Ship Hotel architecture | |
| 21/11 | Old and New Showroom | |
| 28/11 | Whale ship Eliza | |
| N | 3/1 | Borman coal merchants |
| N | 17/1 | Skegness Council request designs for Skegness poster (flashback) |
| N | 24/1 | ‘Bouncing Boatmen’ poster considered by Skegness Council (flashback) |
| N | 14/2 | County Hotel was initially to be named ‘The Jolly Fisherman’ |
| N | 28/2 | Child dies after swallowing a h’penny piece |
| S 1935 | Lifeboat crew presentation | |
| N | 2/1 | Pensioner wedged in barrel after fatal fall from roof |
| N | 9/1 | Child’s body in a bag found on Skegness beach |
| N | 9/1 | Unusual fish washed ashore in Skegness |
| N | 23/1 | Demolition of building west corner of Briar Way |
| N | 30/1 | Skegnessians save lost bomber by flashing morse code signals with car headlights |
| N | 6/2 | Widdow robbed by her son |
| N | 6/2 | Gas attack Grosvenor Road |
| N | 6/2 | Death of Trevett Pavilion manager |
| N | 6/2 | Skegness laundry girls photo |
| N | 13/2 | Jolly Fisherman now in Skegness |
| N | 20/2 | Death of Thomas Hutson Lincolnshire’s oldest lifeboatman |
| N | 20/2 | Bodies found frozed to an upturned boat |
| N | 6/3 | Skegness-born artiste joins the Pier Follies |
| N | 13/3 | Skegness plasterer in court for employees’ unpaid insurance stamps John Charles Fowler Curtis |
| N | 13/3 | 60-year-old man indecently assaulted 13-year-old schoolgirl |
| N | 13/3 | New Skegness Brass Band photo |
| N | 13/3 | Child’s body in a bag found on Skegness beach - follow-up |
| N | 13/3 | Gold medal award for Skegness bakers |
| N | 20/3 | New Lumley Road shopping centre |
| N | 3/4 | Tennyson College pupils photo |
| N | 24/4 | Married man abducted a teenage maid |
| N | 24/4 | Serious sex charge against Skegness man dismissed due to lack of evidence |
| N | 19/6 | County Hotel was made entirely from Skegness bricks and stone |
| N | 3/7 | Dancing elephants for Skegness |
| N | 17/7 | Buy British campaign |
| N | Lawn Theatre converted into Hildreds Hotel FebruaryPier Head demolished December | |
| S 1936 | 8/1 | Pier improvements |
| 5/2 | pier - artist’s impression | |
| 19/2 | Printing works | |
| 10/6 | Fred Rye’s lions feature | |
| 10/6 | Younger’s ’so bracing’ advert Jolly Fisherman welcomes Younger’s Brewery Excursion to Skegness. (This is Jolly Fisherman before the official , modern costume) |
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| 10/6 | Hughie Green at Butlins | |
| 10/6 | Hypnotized lion - Chinese man | |
| 10/6 | announcement of John Hassall’s visit to Skegness | |
| 17/6 | John Hassall is presented with silver model of his Jolly Fisherman creation | |
| 1/7 | Car hits Skegness kiosk | |
| 8/7 | Pleasure cars bound for Africa | |
| 29/7 | Through the arch - Sunshine corner | |
| 30/9 | Palace de Dance | |
| 14/10 | Lumley Cinema new picture house plans for Lumley Road Skegness | |
| 25/11 | Europa crashed into pier (flashback) | |
| N | 1/7 | ‘Speedy’ Winter Gardens clown |
| S 1937 | 13/1 | Skegness boom in Scotland |
| 3/2 | Samuel Moody’s death | |
| 3/3 | Skegness Band | |
| 23/6 | Peaceful Skegness | |
| 7/7 | Before the Clock Tower | |
| 14/7 | Rector of Stiffkey Amazing story of de-frocked rector who sat in Lions Den at Skegness - to be eventually mauled to death! |
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| 21/7 | Battle of Flowers | |
| 4/8 | Rector of Stiffkey death | |
| 25/8 | Skegness hospital artist’s impression | |
| 17/11 | Elizabeth Allen return to stage | |
| ?/12 | Tennis stars in Skegness | |
| N | 20/1 | Friskney man suffocates on his false teeth |
| N | 28/4 | Official commemorative plaque for King George VI coronation |
| N | 28/4 | New Butlins poster |
| N | 4/8 | Sex scandal Vicar of Stiffkey mauled by lion trial |
| N | 4/8 | Sex scandal Rector of Stiffkey funeral |
| N | 15/9 | John Hassall famous Jolly Fisherman poster |
| N | 10/11 | Young girl accuses local doctor of seducing her - trial |
| N | 24/11 | Three men and a dog rescued by Skegness lifeboat flashback |
| S 1938 | 16/2 | Gift of embroidered cloth given to Skegness hospital |
| 23/2 | The development of double carriageway and shrubbery Lumley Rd East | |
| 23/2 | Skegness lifeboat rescue photo | |
| 2/3 | Picture of Skegness Silver Band | |
| 5/4 | Skegness waterway extended over the central foreshore | |
| 8/6 | About Skegness | |
| 13/7 | Butlins Bathing Beauties | |
| 24/8 | Woman’s nude body found on Skegness beach | |
| 21/9 | Lusitania survivor in Skegness police court | |
| N | 26/1 | RAOB man accused of giving alcohol to young boy |
| N | 24/8 | Nude woman’s body found on Skegness beach |
| N | 31/8 | Elderly woman falls to her death on local hotel’s stairs |
| N | 7/9 | Wasp sting |
| N | 21/9 | Lusitania survivor in Skegness police court |
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26/10 | Fred Rye lion keeper in Vicar of Stiffkey trial - verdict |
| N | 30/11 | Saved by the lifeboat |
| S 1939 | 4/1 | Skegness school |
| 8/2 | Butlins fire | |
| 15/2 | Butlins fire | |
| 31/5 | Duchess of Gloucester royal visit | |
| 6/9 | War declared news hits Skegness | |
| N | 7/5 | Jolly Fisherman painter, John Hassall calls for a museum in Skegness |
