1930s
1930s
Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com
| 1930 | Lumley Square Fountain |
| New Post Office | |
| Christmas in the Workhouse (flashback to 1905) | |
| Vine Hotel | |
| Germans to drain the North Sea | |
| VIPs test new Butlins Thriller Ride | |
| Flashback to 1905 – the new post office | |
| New Court House | |
| Inside new court house | |
| Tramway on beach | |
| Moathouse | |
| Miracle cure for loss of voice | |
| Boating Lake | |
| Rustic Bridge and Lake Pleasure Gardens | |
| V? | |
| Return of Sammy (Samuel Moody) | |
| Rebirth Lumley Road | |
| Minkey’s Corner | |
| New Butlins Amusement Park to open | |
| Whale story | |
| Skegness visitor’s body washed up at Mablethorpe | |
| Uproar in Skegness when it’s proposed that the amusement closes on Sunday morning | |
| Lions at Butlins | |
| 25 years ago in Skegness | |
| Lion sneezes | |
| Death of Ingamels (first woman driver) | |
| Man comes from London to drown himself in the sea at Skegness | |
| Aerial views | |
| Polo matches at Skegness bathing pool | |
| Butlin’s shelter proves valuable to holidaymakers | |
| Aerial view promenade | |
| Girl hides dead baby in a suitcase | |
| Butlins aeroplane | |
| Steam Laundry | |
| Skegness is quiet | |
| Grosvenor Hotel and Imperial Cafe built by Frederick Walker | |
| Canon Morris arrived in Skegness | |
| 1931 | Town Hall Transformation – reopens after fire in 1928 |
| Beautifying Skegness Beach | |
| Avery deaths | |
| Eli Hudson | |
| Police Training | |
| Suicide | |
| Skegness Waterway opens | |
| Fravigars celebrate Golden Wedding | |
| Wainfleet Church Memorial Dedication | |
| German Gun destined for scrap | |
| Storms on Sunday – shops on underground toilets flooded | |
| Lowndes in court | |
| Graf Zeppelin over Skegness | |
| Gip Grunnill | |
| Pier diver | |
| Damage to the boating lake (sand hills) | |
| Skegness dentist weds | |
| Butlin’s Midgets | |
| Sand Sculpture | |
| Butlins Big Thriller tragedy | |
| Bottle explosion on beach maims Nottingham Poor Boy | |
| Hospital extension Lady Scarbrough | |
| Foreshore workers | |
| Former Skegness pier diver loses hand in freak accident | |
| Sanitary Squad | |
| Lowndes 40th court case | |
| Armistice | |
| Bycroft death | |
| Skegness in the past year review and King | |
| Skegness’ First Free public lending library | |
| Callow Park Hotel is sold | |
| Great flood – Skegness swept by worst thunderstorms | |
| Rapid washing machine advert | |
| Royal Midgets at Butlins | |
| LNER railway workers photo | |
| Foreshore workers photo | |
| Skegness before its seashore is developed | |
| Library moves from High Street to new Town Hall | |
| Countess of Scarbrough death | |
| Bathing pool staff photo | |
| Sanitary squad photo | |
| Brigadier officers photo | |
| Council gardeners photo | |
| Roller skating rink at the Central Hall | |
| Wrecks hidden off Skegness beach | |
| Wesleyan Society Club photo | |
| Talented guides | |
| Period fancy dress | |
| Skegness Chicks photo | |
| Ambulance men at Lumley Hotel photo | |
| Seacroft Girls School photo | |
| Old Skegness football club photo | |
| Magdalen school hockey team photo | |
| Australian Air Mail Reaches Skegness | |
| 1932 | Tea Party |
| Matt Grunnill | |
| George Perrin takes over from Matt Grunnill as coxswain of Skegness lifeboat | |
| Wesleyan 45 years ago | |
| Samuel Moody cuts wire – flashback to 1908 | |
| Lifeboat launch | |
| Electricity | |
| Entrenching | |
| new footpath St Clement’s Church | |
| Beach Transformation | |
| Glimpse old Skegness memories of Hildred’s Hotel | |
| Before Clock Tower built | |
| Electricity supply switched on by Joseph Crawshaw Mayor of Skegness | |
| Suncastle being built | |
| Regime railway station | |
| Winter garden | |
| Skegness then and now | |
| Crofts | |
| Standard’s 10th birthday | |
| Old time Landaus | |
| Roman Bank school closes | |
| New Skegness Water Tower | |
| New gas tank installed by gasworks | |
| Yachts | |
| Butlins Picture competition prizes | |
| Pygmy Princess at Butlins | |
| Pygmy princess arrives | |
| 30,000 view Pygmy princess | |
| more Butlins picture competition | |
| Yacht breaks mooring | |
| Lifeboat presentation | |
| Farewell to Pygmy princess | |
| Pier manager | |
| Carnival lights stolen | |
| Donkeys at the Roller Rink | |
| Feet – uring Harold the dwarf | |
| Lumley Secondary School opens | |
| Battle of Flowers | |
| Seacroft proposal | |
| Homeless Samuel Lewis lifeboat | |
| new motor lifeboat | |
| lifeboat history by ‘Old Salt’ | |
| Anne Allen photo | |
| Christmas at Suncastle | |
| Hildreds Hotel Skegness and Victorian Water Fountain | |
| Pygmy Princess the town awaits her arrival | |
| Jolly Fisherman island | |
| Pygmy Princess arrives | |
| Lumley Square redeveloped and old houses demolished at the west end of High Street | |
| Hildreds Hotel Skegness and Victorian Water Fountain | |
| Sam Moody retires from Skegness Council | |
| 1933 | Winthorpe children nativity play |
| School of Cookery cake | |
| Elizabeth Allan called to Hollywood | |
| Crawshaw’s son passes exams | |
| Children’s opperetta (operation?) | |
| Lumley Square improvements | |
| Suncastle opens | |
| Tarred and Naked Man at Skegness | |
| Worst week in history for tragedies in Skegness – Fatal Areoplane crash into sea | |
| Child’s Fatal Dash through traffic stream | |
| Tragedy of woman’s secret visit to Ingoldmells | |
| Fire | |
| Woman burned to death | |
| Gas exhibition in Skegness | |
| fire engine | |
| Christening of the ‘Elizabeth Allan’ pleasure boat | |
| Air crash Skegness Aerodrome | |
| new school | |
| Rowland Jenkins | |
| Anne Allen lifeboat | |
| Thompson’s Pleasure Beach | |
| Old Skegness lifeboat plane rescue | |
| mechanical monster at Butlins | |
| Last speech day at Magdalen School Wainfleet | |
| Fire Rainford Terrace Drummond Road | |
| Lumley Road fire | |
| Grammar school opens | |
| New vestry for St Matthew’s Church | |
| Raising the Roof Central Hall Roman Bank Skegness – turned into Central Cinema | |
| New gas showrooms preview | |
| Parade Cinema opens, owned by Kemp of Nottingham | |
| Skegness Film Star Elizabeth Allan is called to Hollywood | |
| Railway delivers parcels by horse and cart | |
| 1934 | Egg-laying trials |
| Science master’s wedding | |
| Topliss child funeral | |
| Tennyson College Seacroft | |
| Red Letter Day | |
| Odd Fellows on parade | |
| Mock Mess Monster at Skegness | |
| Passing of the Lawn Theatre | |
| Croft’s staff dinner | |
| Billy Butlin’s mother, Bertha Cassandra Butlin dies buried at St Clement’s Church Skegness | |
| Skegness boy dies after swallowing coin | |
| Snow clearing – Skegness council | |
| Link with New Zealand | |
| Berry death | |
| Elizabeth Allan Returns (film star) | |
| Berry funeral | |
| Truant cow at Boston | |
| Laundry boiler at Skegness railway station | |
| Famous sailor that never went to sea | |
| Tennyson College play | |
| Tom Fox wedding | |
| Skegness Thursday football club photo | |
| Skegness fire engine dash | |
| Castleton Boulevard | |
| Bill and Bob Skegness shoe-shine boys | |
| Accident at Skegness | |
| Elvin wedding | |
| Orient Boys’ College sports day at Skegness cricket ground | |
| New Winter Gardens Circus | |
| Earl of Scarbrough objects to Castleton Boulevard | |
| Saucy picture – donkey driver | |
| Snake eggs make natural history at Skegness | |
| Sunday bathing tragedy | |
| Beesley death | |
| Barman found dead in cellar Ship Hotel | |
| Speedboat sunk | |
| Barman found dead in Ship Hotel cellar follow up | |
| First prize picture | |
| War victim dies | |
| Incident at Winter Gardens | |
| Miss E Elvin in beauty competition | |
| Butlins Beauty Queen | |
| Carnival float Capture of King Kong | |
| Mrs Trevit death | |
| Fire at Lumley Road restaurant | |
| Plans for County Hotel, originally named The Jolly Fisherman | |
| Ship Hotel architecture | |
| Skegness Chicks change | |
| Old and New Showroom | |
| Whale ship Eliza | |
| 1595 Salt Marshes map found | |
| New lady magistrates | |
| Offensive postcards sent to a Skegness married woman | |
| Man gasses himself on eve of wedding | |
| Grandma cuts cake | |
| Borman coal merchants | |
| Skegness Council request designs for Skegness poster (flashback) | |
| ‘Bouncing Boatmen’ poster considered by Skegness Council (flashback) | |
| County Hotel was initially to be named ‘The Jolly Fisherman’ | |
| Child dies after swallowing a h’penny piece | |
| Boating Lake contruction and extension (flashback) | |
| A Skegness Comic Opera | |
| Skegness statistics and residential information | |
| 1935 | Lifeboat crew presentation |
| Pensioner wedged in barrel after fatal fall from roof | |
| Child’s body in a bag found on Skegness beach | |
| Unusual fish washed ashore in Skegness | |
| Demolition of building west corner of Briar Way | |
| Skegnessians save lost bomber by flashing morse code signals with car headlights | |
| Widdow robbed by her son | |
| Gas attack Grosvenor Road | |
| Death of Trevett Pavilion manager | |
| Skegness laundry girls photo | |
| Jolly Fisherman now in Skegness | |
| Death of Thomas Hutson Lincolnshire’s oldest lifeboatman | |
| Bodies found frozed to an upturned boat | |
| Skegness-born artiste joins the Pier Follies | |
| Skegness plasterer in court for employees’ unpaid insurance stamps John Charles Fowler Curtis | |
| 60-year-old man indecently assaulted 13-year-old schoolgirl | |
| New Skegness Brass Band photo | |
| Child’s body in a bag found on Skegness beach – follow-up | |
| Gold medal award for Skegness bakers | |
| New Lumley Road shopping centre | |
| Tennyson College pupils photo | |
| Married man abducted a teenage maid | |
| Serious sex charge against Skegness man dismissed due to lack of evidence | |
| County Hotel was made entirely from Skegness bricks and stone | |
| Dancing elephants for Skegness | |
| Buy British campaign | |
| Lawn Theatre converted into Hildreds Hotel | |
| John Hassall gets Jolly Fisherman Statue | |
| Pier Head demolished | |
| 1936 | Leap from a blazing plane |
| Pier improvements | |
| Atkinson death | |
| Proposal for an aviary in Tower Gardens | |
| Film of King George’s funeral show at Skegness cinemas | |
| pier – artist’s impression | |
| Oliver Cromwell’s boot in Burgh Museum | |
| Printing works | |
| Threats to murder wife and daughter | |
| SOS radio broadcast | |
| Drummond Road bus station | |
| Man dies after drinking neat acetic acid in fish and chip shop | |
| History of the Skegness Methodist Churches | |
| Major Gardman’s death | |
| Death of Mr T Francis, bathing van proprietor | |
| Worker on the new Skegness Pier death (Elvin) | |
| Pictures of the new Butlins Holiday Camp, Skegness | |
| “Christine” death | |
| New Wainfleet bombing range will be ready by the end of the year | |
| Death of Ex-servicemen’s club chairman | |
| Foundation work begins on new Drummond Road bus station | |
| Hindenburg just misses Skegness | |
| First Milk Bar opens in Skegness | |
| Lioness at large in Skegness | |
| Woman shot at Skegness amusement park | |
| Maid sacked | |
| Doctor’s wife steals tankard from Skegness Hotel | |
| Fred Rye’s lions feature | |
| Younger’s ’so bracing’ advert . (This is Jolly Fisherman before the official , modern costume) |
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| Hughie Green at Butlins | |
| Hypnotized lion – Chinese man | |
| John Hassall’s first visit to Skegness | |
| Jolly’s wife | |
| Barmaid’s fatal fall through Hildred’s fanlight | |
| John Hassall is presented with silver model of his Jolly Fisherman creation | |
| Terrible crash on Grand Parade | |
| Hindenburg over Seacroft | |
| Car hits Skegness kiosk | |
| ‘Speedy’ Winter Gardens clown | |
| Pleasure cars bound for Africa | |
| New day nursery open at former Cafe Dansant | |
| Penny-all-the-way bus mishap | |
| Through the arch – Sunshine corner | |
| First radio broadcast from a holiday camp – Butlins Skegness | |
| Bus station incident | |
| Skegness pioneer’s death – Fensom | |
| Porter death | |
| Record bank holiday – holidaymakers sleep in Tower Gardens | |
| Camper’s tragic death | |
| Butlins picture | |
| Skegness left without water at bank holiday | |
| Gallant attemp to rescue drowning man | |
| Palace de Dance | |
| Gasmask March | |
| Stories of Lincolnshire coast smugglers | |
| Link with the Past | |
| Europa crashed into pier (flashback) | |
| Body found in drain near Church Farm Museum | |
| Find after 44 years | |
| Butlins Holiday Camp opens | |
| Old Ship Inn on Roman Bank is demolished | |
| Plans for a Lumley Cinema | |
| Shirley’s birthday party (?) | |
| 1937 | Skegness boom in Scotland |
| Discussions about securing air raid shelters in Skegness | |
| Proposal to install air raid shelters in Skegness | |
| Samuel Moody’s death | |
| Skegness Band | |
| Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Haslam | |
| Bathing pool tragedy – first death by drowning | |
| Peaceful Skegness | |
| Skegness Butlin’s Zoo Llama loose at Boston train station | |
| Before the Clock Tower | |
| Rector of Stiffkey Amazing story of de-frocked rector who sat in Lions Den at Skegness – to be eventually mauled to death! | |
| Battle of Flowers | |
| Rector of Stiffkey arrested | |
| Fire at the Skegness baths boiler house | |
| Rector of Stiffkey death | |
| Latest Jolly Fisherman novelty | |
| Skegness hospital artist’s impression | |
| Freddie the Lion (which killed the Vicar of Stiffkey) bites again | |
| John Hassall, creator of the Skegness Jolly Fisherman, judges Butlin’s contest | |
| Joyous time in Germany | |
| About Germany | |
| Children’s broadcast | |
| Elizabeth Allen returns to the stage | |
| Tennis stars in Skegness | |
| Friskney man suffocates on his false teeth | |
| Official commemorative plaque for King George VI coronation | |
| New Butlins poster | |
| Sex scandal Vicar of Stiffkey mauled by lion trial | |
| Sex scandal Rector of Stiffkey funeral | |
| John Hassall famous Jolly Fisherman poster | |
| Young girl accuses local doctor of seducing her – trial | |
| Boy injured in Butlin’s Maze | |
| Three men and a dog rescued by Skegness lifeboat flashback | |
| Freddie the Lion | |
| German village | |
| 1938 | ROAB member supplied beer to schoolboys |
| British Legion dinner party pictures | |
| Nellie Hammond death | |
| Gift of embroidered cloth given to Skegness hospital | |
| Butlin’s Zoo noise complaint | |
| Picture of Skegness Silver Band | |
| Proposal for a civic centre in Tower Gardens | |
| RSPCA clinic for Skegness | |
| Skegness waterway extended over the central foreshore | |
| Thomas Green death | |
| Casino roof builder in court | |
| Skegness film star Elizabeth Allan christens lion cub | |
| Arcadia Theatre old advert | |
| Butlins lonely hearts letters | |
| Dr Peter Gardiner’s death at Ocean Avenue | |
| Mary Bamber dies Lumley Avenue | |
| Butlins Lonely Hearts gathering | |
| Surprise for Skegness jeweller after Butlins Lonely Hearts gathering | |
| Lion cub christening | |
| Fire at Seacroft dunes | |
| Dog and cycle accident | |
| RSPCA opens in Skegness (not photographed) | |
| Monkey born at Skegness | |
| Albatross shot at North Shore (Albatross = golf term) | |
| About Skegness | |
| Mrs Butlin hurt in car crash | |
| Uproar at the lion show | |
| Threats to let lions loose in Skegness | |
| Fire at the amusement park | |
| Kings Hall and Baths bought by Kemp | |
| Winter Gardens Circus | |
| Butlins Bathing Beauties | |
| Immoral behaviour | |
| Skegness bricks at Wembly | |
| Dog pulled woman to her death in Coronation Walk (Rose) | |
| Child found dead in drain | |
| Woman’s nude body found on Skegness beach | |
| Lusitania survivor in Skegness police court | |
| RAOB man accused of giving alcohol to young boy | |
| Dramatic beach incident | |
| Sorry, Skegness | |
| Black cats not always lucky – Mrs Butlin | |
| Thimbleby donation to Skegness lifeboat | |
| Nude woman’s body found on Skegness beach | |
| Beach woman’s body telltale bruises | |
| Gallantry of lion tamer – reference to Vicar of Stiffkey | |
| Elderly woman falls to her death on local hotel’s stairs | |
| Policeman killed by Wasp sting | |
| Viscount the Wonder Dog | |
| Gipsy curse | |
| St Matthew’s Church collection box theft | |
| “Hitler” in Skegness police court | |
| Gassed himself after separation order | |
| Charles Hanahan death at Saxby Avenue | |
| Lusitania survivor in Skegness police court | |
| Register your baby for gas mask | |
| Maid and landlady in court | |
| Fred Rye lion keeper in Vicar of Stiffkey trial – verdict (not photographed) | |
| Beam wireless station to close | |
| Skegness jockey injured | |
| Throat cut patient discovered by matron of Skegness Hospital | |
| Tragic discovery in back of Skegness shop | |
| Saved by the lifeboat (picture) | |
| Duke of Kent visits Butlins holiday camp | |
| 1939 | National School Photo WW1 |
| Crawshaw in Skegness National School picture | |
| Young airman assaulted in bar | |
| Picture of the steam laundry | |
| Stealing coal | |
| Baby falls into fire | |
| Butlins fire | |
| Butlins fire | |
| Fire engine crashes after attending Butlins fire | |
| Shock for local housewife | |
| “Seacroft Aristocrat” at crufts | |
| IRA bomb hoax | |
| Pier recontruction | |
| Hardaker music Poor Childrens Fund | |
| Skegness film star sues film company | |
| “Bombs” Skegness train | |
| Jolly Fisherman painter, John Hassall calls for a museum in Skegness | |
| Hassall on the Civil List | |
| Duchess of Gloucester royal visit | |
| First baby born at Skegness Maternity hospital | |
| First miners holiday camp in Britain | |
| Verdict on “Baby falls into fire” case | |
| John Hassall, creator of the Skegness Jolly Fisherman, visits Skegness Butlins | |
| Winston Kime’s wedding | |
| Joe Veich Butlins | |
| Child dies in quicksand | |
| Skegness road accident mystery | |
| Pier high diver is injured | |
| Autographs sold for hospital | |
| Child evacuees arrive from Grimsby | |
| Child evacuees arrive from Grimsby | |
| Clothes appeal for child evacuees | |
| Old advert for the Thirty Club Castleton Boulevard | |
| Entertaining the child evacuees | |
| Skegness appeals to Grimsby (child evacuees) | |
| Inside Butlin House picture |
I am lookign for information on the Mitchell family who lived in Gas Works House, Skegness in the 1930’s.(Alexander and Mary Mitchell)
Does anyone know of Lawson’s Ice Cream Co in the late 1920’s/early 30s and operating on the sands at Skegness?
And was there a Happy Valley theatre ?
FAO Peter:
Not sure of Lawson’s Ice Cream Co but I’ll keep a lookout for it.
Happy Valley Theatre was Fred Clements’ entertainers on the Sand (towards the north end). There are a couple of pics here:
http://skegnessphotos.org/displayimage.php?album=24&pos=11
http://skegnessphotos.org/displayimage.php?album=24&pos=7
FAO Anne
Maybe the family are on the 1928 Skegness Street Guide?
http://skegnessphotos.org/thumbnails.php?album=27
Would you believe, Peter – I’ve just found a 1928 story with a reference to Lawson’s Ice Cream Kiosk!! – only a reference, mind, but I’ll aim to upoad it in the next couple of days.