1940s News & History
1940s
| 1940 | 3/1 | Matt Grunnill death |
| 10/1 | Watime DOs and DON’Ts for women | |
| 17/1 | Death of William Plasket Moody | |
| 17/1 | Air raid warning sirens tested in Skegness | |
| 17/1 | ‘Seathorne’ to be abolished | |
| 17/1 | Steam Laundry annual dinner County Hotel | |
| 24/2 | Death of Kezial Grunnill | |
| 22/3 | ‘Peggy Gadsby’ (Frank) professional pier diver convicted in Skegness Magistrates Court | |
| 27/3 | First ‘War Easter’ Skegness is busy! | |
| 3/4 | Two Skegness men fined for violating wartime blackout rules | |
| 3/4 | Free repairs to gas masks | |
| 30/10 | Air raid shelters at Skegness Infant School ‘inadequate’ | |
| 30/10 | Skegness Council’s message to Hitler | |
| 30/10 | Red tape hinders lifeboat launch | |
| 6/11 | First World War II air raid in Skegness | |
| 6/11 | Fined for leaving a bicycle on the pavement | |
| 13/11 | Mobile Canteen set up by WI to help air raid victims | |
| 13/11 | Wainfleet bombings | |
| 20/11 | 6th air raid on Skegness | |
| 27/11 | Incendiary bombs dropped on Skegness | |
| 27/11 | More paper - thanks to Hitler | |
| 11/12 | Police devise new way of catching ‘blackout’ offenders | |
| 11/12 | Planning a wartime Christmas | |
| 18/12 | Skegness Grammar School boy crushed in a Sheffield air raid | |
| 24/12 | Police officer shot by sentery | |
| 1941 | 15/1 | George Dutton death |
| 22/1 | Another bomb raid | |
| 5/2 | Coastguard Watch history | |
| 12/2 | Defeating the raider | |
| 12/3 | Two German bombers shot down | |
| 19/3 | Three enemy raiders brought down | |
| 9/4 | Moonlight air raid | |
| 30/4 | Four soldiers in Tower Cafe cellar - threats with bayonette | |
| 7/5 | Headless whale washed up on Skegness beach | |
| 14/5 | Hitler comes 800 miles to kill an 8-year-old boy | |
| 4/6 | Seance in Skegness to contact dead sailor | |
| 18/6 | Lone raider bombs Skegness | |
| 9/7 | Enemy raider shot down | |
| 9/7 | Don’t use stirrup pumps to spray the garden! | |
| 16/7 | Shot through head body found | |
| 30/7 | Sleeping out in air raid shelters | |
| 20/8 | Bombs fall on Vine Walk in Skegness | |
| 29/10 | Rats ate the jam | |
| 15/10 | Bombs fall near Crown Hotel | |
| 8/10 | Child’s body found in a well at Petwood Hotel Woodhall Spa | |
| 26/3 | Capon death (first surveyor to the Skegness Local Board | |
| 19/11 | “Well done, Skegness!” | |
| 8/11 | Worship Week | |
| 1942 | 1/7 | Skegness lads in India |
| 30/7 | Barmaid falls through top window of Lion Hotel | |
| 8/10 | Pull down St Matthew’s Church | |
| 1943 | 13/1 | Frank Charles Fowler Curtis Skegness wedding |
| 1944 | 25/10 | Bombs |
| 8/11 | Raids on the resort | |
| 1945 | 28/2 | Skegness beach re-opened after minefields have been cleared |
| 7/3 | Earl of Scarbrough death | |
| 7/3 | Police machine-gunned in enemy fire | |
| 7/3 | Piazza soon to be de-requisitioned | |
| 28/3 | Local men missing in the War | |
| 28/3 | Bombs in the boating lake | |
| 25/4 | Brick pit not safe for sea scouts practice | |
| 2/5 | Jehovah’s Witness jailed for refusing to do war work | |
| 9/5 | VE Day | |
| 16/5 | Mayor of Skegness, Joseph Crawshaw, announces VE Day from balcony of Lumley Hotel bay window | |
| 23/5 | Victory in Europe Day celebrated by street party in Wiolford Grove Skegness | |
| 20/6 | Piazza changes its name to the Embassy | |
| 4/7 | Skegness “gunmen” in trouble | |
| 1/8 | Still some mines in the area | |
| 1/8 | Organ pipes missing from St Clement’s Church | |
| 15/8 | VJ Day Victory in Japan | |
| 1946 | 6/2 | Moody death |
| 1947 | 2/7 | Comedians Laurel and Hardy visit Skegness |
| 17/9 | Eric Watson story | |
| 15/10 | Battle of the new raised hemline fashions - vox pop | |
| 1949 | 23/3 | How old is Castleton Boulevard? |
| 30/3 | Conference Hall proposal | |
| 6/4 | Skegness beach 60 years ago | |
| 6/4 | New ration books | |
| 13/4 | Prom stopped short | |
| 20/4 | Plan Skegness great foreshore development | |
| 4/5 | Greatest lifeboat rescue recalled (Norway) | |
| 18/5 | Mrs Merryweather (fire engine) | |
| 1/6 | Skegness landmark goes (brickyard chimney) | |
| 22/6 | Waterway extension flashback | |
| 29/6 | South Bracing grand opening | |
| 13/7 | Pier that was | |
| 3/8 | Peaceful prom | |
| 17/8 | Thrilling lifeboat launch recalled | |
| 28/12 | Old Tower Cinema passes rebuilt | |
| N | 12/1 | Cartoon - price of railway tickets to Skegness |
| N | 23/3 | Jolly Fisherman goes to Leicester Football Club |
| N | 23/3 | Jolly goes to Leicester Football Club - they won! |
| N | ?/ 3 | Joseph Crawshaw |
| N | 13/4 | Skegness Thursday Football Club |
| N | 1/6 | Brickyard chimney is demolished |
| N | 1/6 | Shades pub Lumley Road |
| N | 8/6 | Fire at Tower Lumley Cafe Skegness |
| N | 22/6 | George Perrin |
| N | 10/8 | Pensioners Hall Grantham Drive |
| N | 7/9 | Fire at Derbyshire Miners holiday centre |
