1950s News & History
1950s Skegness News
| Skegness News 1950 | 8/2 | Gas works death mystery body vanished from lift cage |
| 15/3 | Clarence Walker Skegness photographer marries | |
| 24/5 | Floodlit Pier Pavilion | |
| 19/7 | Anne Allen Skegness lifeboat launch | |
| 23/8 | Rebuilding of Tower Cinema after WW2 bomb damage | |
| 27/9 | Tonglet wedding | |
| 18/10 | Boy falls from Briar Way hangar | |
| 18/10 | Body found at Gibraltar Point | |
| 25/10 | Chief Citizen’s Jewel donated to the Council | |
| 25/10 | Most photographed man in Britain dies | |
| Skegness News 1951 | 10/1 | Knife drama at Skegness hospital |
| 4/4 | Suncastle manageress profile | |
| 6/6 | Suicide by hanging at the ‘Poplars’ cow shed Ingoldmells | |
| 11/7 | Snake man | |
| 25/7 | The Beverley Sisters at Arcadia Theatre | |
| 25/7 | Two found dead - incredible coincidences | |
| 1/8 | Burgh Train Station tradgey | |
| 1/8 | Jolly Fisherman copyright issue town council | |
| 8/8 | Child sex abuse at Skegness Sunday School case | |
| 29/8 | Julie Andrews at Arcadia Theatre | |
| 12/9 | Cartoon - crowning the carnival queen | |
| Skegness News 1952 | 2/1 | Ball-point pens banned |
| 2/1 | ‘Erb’ cartoon | |
| 2/1 | Death of Tower Cafe founder | |
| 9/1 | ‘Erb’ cartoon Clock Tower | |
| 9/1 | The first Skegness Guide was delivered by horse and cart (flashback) | |
| 9/1 | False registration of a birth court case | |
| 16/1 | Top names in Skegness | |
| 23/1 | Heavy breathing phone calls | |
| 6/2 | ‘Erb’ cartoon - darts | |
| 6/2 | Dog rescued from ice on Skegness boating lake | |
| 20/2 | Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II from Town Hall balcony | |
| 27/2 | Winthorpe vicar guilty of gross child abuse | |
| 5/3 | Women firefighters | |
| 12/3 | Dead man found in field arms slashed | |
| 19/3 | Dead man found in field arms slashed | |
| 19/3 | Rev Canon Morris | |
| 26/3 | Narrow escape from death as bombs fall on Spilsby AFTER the War | |
| 9/4 | Shades Hotel | |
| 9/4 | Clearing the foreshore for Easter | |
| 23/4 | Retiring train stationmaster presentation | |
| 23/4 | Mr Forster, gasworks manager retires | |
| 11/6 | Terror of woman in Alexander Road Skegness | |
| 2/7 | Snake pit under Skegness pier | |
| 3/9 | Joseph Crawshaw with Henry Bateman TSB pass book presentation | |
| 3/9 | Drunk housewife fined for leaning on a kiosk | |
| 17/9 | Skegness born Hollywood film star, Elizabeth Allan returns to Skegness | |
| 29/10 | Man’s body found in Skegness Waterway | |
| Skegness News 1953 | 28/1 | Skegness foreshore overwhelmed |
| 4/2 | Flood Pictures | |
| 4/3 | Problem with sea defenses | |
| 29/4 | Joseph Crawshaw with Eamon Andrews | |
| 6/5 | Crown Hotel blaze | |
| 13/5 | Skegness publicity bus | |
| 3/6 | Peter Pan railway opens on central foreshore | |
| 24/6 | Batemans/Follies | |
| 8/7 | Chapel demolition | |
| Skegness News 1954 | 17/2 | Perrins lifeboat family |
| 24/2 | Later shopping times in Skegness | |
| 24/2 | Lady Elizabeth Lumley wedding includes list of people invited from Skegness | |
| 14/4 | Millstones from old windmill found in Lumley Road | |
| 21/4 | Money safe discarded in ditch after burgulary | |
| 27/4 | Dam Busters filmed in Skegness | |
| 5/5 | Pulpit dedicated at St Matthews Church Skegness | |
| 12/5 | Telegram to the Queen | |
| 26/5 | New council charirman investiture | |
| 2/6 | Skegness 5th scouts on parade | |
| 14/7 | Billy Butlin switches on Skegness illuminations | |
| 21/7 | Runaway landau horse crashes into Clock Tower | |
| 4/8 | Foreshore first aid post manned by St John Ambulance Brigade | |
| 1/9 | Dust men in Skegness | |
| 6/10 | Tommy Gore photo leader of Skegness Band | |
| 13/10 | Bayonet used in wife attack | |
| 24/11 | St John Ambulance Brigade exercise | |
| 1/12 | St John Ambulance Brigade gets Rolls Royce | |
| 8/12 | St John Ambulance Brigade dinner | |
| Skegness News 1955 | 23/2 | Family drowned in frozen Brickpit tradgey |
| 30/3 | Two-year-old boy drowned | |
| 27/4 | Lion removed | |
| 27/4 | Best kept station award | |
| 25/5 | Coun Thompson - new Mayor of Skegness | |
| 22/6 | Bob Monkhouse switches on Skegness illuminations | |
| 22/6 | Carnival Queen | |
| 28/9 | St Matthew’s Church 25 years | |
| 26/10 | United Nations Day ceremony at Skegness | |
| 9/11 | Skegness Grammar School blazers made by local trader | |
| 30/11 | Garage mechanic seriously burned | |
| Skegness News 1956 | 18/1 | ‘Nip’ Wright snooker player |
| 8/1 | Second fall of snow | |
| 4/4 | New conservative club at Carisbrook Hotel | |
| 25/4 | St Clement’s Church hall | |
| 23/5 | YMCA amazing transformation | |
| 20/6 | Sea erosion at Jackson’s Corner. | |
| 18/7 | Skegness illuminations Foreshore Centre (Cafe Dansant) | |
| 18/7 | Theresa Taylor 6 Cecil Avenue | |
| 22/8 | Welcome Inn Shipstone’s new hotel | |
| 29/8 | Welcome Inn Shipstone’s new hotel | |
| 5/9 | Chapel Point bank gave way | |
| 12/9 | Morris school opens | |
| Skegness News 1957 | 2/1 | Lifeboat launch 50 years ago |
| 27/2 | Burgh Windmill | |
| 22/5 | Football ground works pipes | |
| 29/5 | Lifeboat Wilfred Perrin | |
| 29/5 | Follies on the Pier | |
| 29/5 | Derbyshire Miners (Curtis) | |
| 10/7 | Herbert Ingram | |
| 9/10 | Polio Boy collection box | |
| 30/10 | Whale story | |
| Skegness News 1958 | 15/1 | Skegness Lace Mills |
| 22/1 | Fire at the ‘Dots Club’ on Drummond Road Skegness | |
| 29/1 | How to board the school bus safely, Skegness Infants School Cavendish Road | |
| 29/1 | Who will censor the comic postcards on sale in Skegness? | |
| 26/2 | Ladies ‘PROBUS’ photo Marine Hotel | |
| 26/3 | High Street traffic problems photo | |
| 9/4 | Did Mablethorpe pinch our Jolly Fisherman slogan? | |
| 9/4 | Barrow Boys race | |
| 16/4 | New chalets for Derbyshire Miners Home | |
| 23/4 | New automated machinery for Skegness Town Hall | |
| 30/4 | Consecration of the new part of St Clement’s Church burial ground | |
| 30/4 | American wife decapitated in road accident | |
| 7/5 | Home of Harry Bateman of Batemans Brewery, Wainfleet | |
| 7/5 | Skegness pier is painted | |
| 7/5 | Canon Morris | |
| 7/5 | Mid-air drama | |
| 14/5 | Wartime observation post at Jackson’s Corner demolished | |
| 14/5 | Pier man retires - memories of Europa crashing into pier | |
| 14/5 | First electronic post barrow for Skegness | |
| 21/5 | Council house reserved for Skegness teacher | |
| 21/5 | Girls Life Brigade photo | |
| 21/5 | Child is bitten by Skegness donkey | |
| 4/5 | Girl Guides inspection Lumley School photo | |
| 21/5 | Berry’s house struck by lightening | |
| 11/6 | Butlins express train | |
| 18/6 | New evevt for Skegness - barrow boys | |
| 25/6 | Skegness snack bar stabbing threat | |
| 9/7 | Donkey is taught to cross the road safely | |
| 9/7 | Mitchell invents talking horoscope arcade game | |
| 16/7 | Pier mystery solved | |
| 30/7 | BBC test Skegness for broadcasting signal strength | |
| 30/7 | Oldest barmen | |
| 6/8 | Light out for Skegness Illuminations non-payers | |
| 6/8 | Emergency car park for holiday traffic | |
| 13/8 | Fatal accident social cycles | |
| 20/8 | Chip cafe closed after summons | |
| 27/8 | Skegness Illuminations switch on photo | |
| 3/9 | Death of Ivor Cule | |
| 3/9 | New cot for Skegness Day Nursary | |
| 8/10 | Lumley junior school children photo | |
| 8/10 | Work on Skegness leaning water tower | |
| 12/11 | Evans cafe window smashed in High Street | |
| 17/12 | Young boy found hanging |
| Skegness Standard 1950 | 4/1 | Duke of Edinburgh at Butlins |
| 4/1 | Complaits about the Police Court Clock | |
| 11/1 | Original Sea View Hotel | |
| 1/3 | Skegness Roman Bank Methodist church choir | |
| 15/3 | Jolly Fisherman potato crisps | |
| 31/5 | Night spectacle pier | |
| 5/7 | New magistrate for Skegness | |
| 19/7 | Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church opens | |
| 26/7 | those in peril on the sea | |
| 3/12 | Live bomb found when old tank at Gibraltar Point is removed | |
| Skegness Standard 1951 | 3/1 | Girl ‘blooded’ at fox hunt |
| 3/1 | Mablethorpe dwarf | |
| 17/1 | Reminiscence of 45 years ago Tower Esplanade | |
| 24/1 | Minstrels | |
| 24/1 | Grand Parade before 1899 Winston Churchill | |
| /3 | Tragic death of G H Hannan | |
| 28/3 | Rankin profile | |
| 4/4 | Former Skegness Grammar School girl - famous chick | |
| 12/5 | Carvings inside the Sacred Heart RC Church | |
| 23/5 | Old Salt (editor) reminisces about Lumley Road | |
| 27/6 | Tower Theatre rebuilt after bomb damage | |
| 4/7 | Salty occasion | |
| 18/7 | Festival Centre opens | |
| 26/9 | Syne Hills | |
| 17/10 | A Lumley Lament (poem) | |
| Skegness Standard 1952 | 20/2 | death of George Perrin |
| 20/2 | Queen Elizabeth coronation | |
| 9/4 | Sand blown in Marine Gardens | |
| 8/10 | Fire station | |
| Skegness Standard 1953 | 4/2 | floods |
| 18/3 | Waterway spring clean | |
| 6/5 | Clock Tower scaffolding | |
| 24/6 | Skegness carnival | |
| 22/7 | Butlins fire armed police ready to shoot zoo animals | |
| 16/11 | Bateman | |
| 2/12 | Seacroft train station closes after 80 years | |
| 16/12 | lifeboat Cuttle given welcome | |
| Skegness Standard 1954 | 3/3 | St Clement’s Church get new hall |
| 10/3 | New fluorescent street lighting in Roman Bank | |
| 17/3 | Spring cleaning the boating lake | |
| 17/3 | Wedding shopping in Skegness - ad feature for local shops | |
| 24/3 | Roman Bank fluorescent lights | |
| 28/4 | Dam Busters filmed at Gibraltar Point | |
| 2/6 | Biggest ever Skegness illuminations feature | |
| 28/7 | Runaway landau horse crashes into Clock Tower | |
| 28/7 | New miniature train | |
| 18/8 | Appeal to save St Mary’s Church Winthorpe | |
| 8/9 | Appeal church bells Loughborough | |
| 13/10 | Bird’s eye view Lumley Square | |
| 20/10 | Restoring Winthorpe church St Mary’s | |
| 10/11 | War bomb damage Scarborough Avenue baths | |
| 24/11 | Aerial view of the foreshore | |
| 1/12 | Aerial view of North Parade | |
| Skegness Standard 1955 | 5/1 | Nude photos |
| Brick pit tradgey photos | ||
| 26/1 | Standard in the Standard - local history uncovered in a gas lamp | |
| 2/2 | New diesel train in Skegness | |
| 16/2 | Mystery snowman on Clock Tower | |
| 9/3 | Publicity coach tour | |
| 9/3 | Ashes scattered at sea off the Pier | |
| 4/5 | Car smashes into bungalow living room | |
| 4/5 | Sea cadet saves child’s life | |
| 1/6 | Wrates photographers advert | |
| 13/7 | Picture of Bob Monkhouse | |
| 17/8 | Explosion Walshes caravan park | |
| 17/8 | St Matthew’s Church pictures 75th anniversary | |
| 9/11 | Telephone exchange | |
| Skegness Standard 1957 | 13/2 | Skegness publicity |
| 3/7 | Skegness photographer, Mrs Wrate dressed a gypsy | |
| 3/7 | Jolly Fisherman statuette award to be made rarer | |
| 24/7 | Coaches in Lawn car park | |
| 7/8 | Fireworks display on Boating Lake | |
| 25/12 | Artist’s impression of how new development of Grand Parade will look | |
| Skegness Standard 1958 | 26/2 | Skegness slogan |
| Skegness Standard 1959 | 7/1 | Lincoln Road alterations |
| 7/1 | Clock Tower island built | |
| 7/1 | Jolly’s grandson - by the Old Salt (editor) | |
| 16/12 | Jolly Fisherman statuette presented to Ed Sullivan in USA | |
