1950s
1950s
Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com
| 1950 | Duke of Edinburgh at Butlins |
| Complaits about the Police Court Clock | |
| Original Sea View Hotel | |
| Death of Cllr Walter Cook | |
| Death of Crowson | |
| Gas works death mystery body vanished from lift cage | |
| Rifle missing from Skegness Rifle Club | |
| Scott death | |
| Skegness Roman Bank Methodist church choir | |
| Jolly Fisherman Special train proposal | |
| Clarence Walker Skegness photographer wedding | |
| Jolly Fisherman Potato Crisps | |
| Seacroft school for backward children official opening | |
| Children’s home proposed on Castleton Boulevard – Sandom | |
| Children’s home proposed on Castleton Boulevard – Sandom – residents protest (not photographed) | |
| Council objects to Butlin’s Great Wheel | |
| Schoolboy killed – Phillips | |
| 3/4 ton golden syrup stolen | |
| Skegness man selected to play in Africa | |
| Jolly Fisherman poster in Australia | |
| New road – Morris Gardens | |
| Clue to missing flight pilots | |
| Floodlit Pier Pavilion | |
| Skegness Town Football Club – picture | |
| Night spectacle pier | |
| Bomb-damaged hotels | |
| Cow runs amok after escaping from slaughter house | |
| Sea View Walk nearly completed | |
| New magistrate for Skegness | |
| Anne Allen Skegness lifeboat launch | |
| Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church opens | |
| Those in peril on the sea | |
| Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church opens (picture) | |
| First wedding at new Roman Catholic Church | |
| Rebuilding of Tower Cinema after WW2 bomb damage | |
| Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Earl Hane (?) visits Skegness lifeboat station | |
| War Memorial at Skegness Grammar School | |
| Tonglet wedding | |
| Boy falls from Briar Way hangar | |
| Body found at Gibraltar Point | |
| Boys Brigade outing with Roland Jenkins (picture) | |
| Chief Citizen’s Jewel donated to the Council | |
| Most photographed man in Britain dies Joe Veich Butlins | |
| Scott wedding | |
| Human bones found at Partney thought to be Civil War soldier | |
| Prison for Skegness woman | |
| The Will of Mr Sparkes | |
| Boer War veteran collapsed and died in Crofts store | |
| New magistrates for Skegness | |
| Skegness Unemployed Lament | |
| Original Sea View Hotel | |
| 1951 | Girl ‘blooded’ at fox hunt |
| Mablethorpe dwarf | |
| Knife drama at Skegness hospital | |
| Reminiscence of 45 years ago Tower Esplanade | |
| Minstrels | |
| Grand Parade before 1899 Winston Churchill | |
| Wainfleet bombing range air crash | |
| Ex-councillor Hannam dies in car crash | |
| Ron Scott jewellers wife’s death | |
| Rankin profile | |
| Wainfleet Bombing Range damage to neighbourhoos | |
| Suncastle manageress profile | |
| Traffic lights for Lumley Square proposal (story not photographed) | |
| Former Skegness Grammar School girl – famous chick | |
| Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Carvings inside the Sacred Heart RC Church | |
| Wedding of Fred Rye’s daughter, Betty (lion keeper) | |
| Old Salt (editor) reminisces about Lumley Road | |
| Suicide by hanging at the ‘Poplars’ cow shed Ingoldmells | |
| Tower Theatre rebuilt after bomb damage | |
| Salty occasion Jolly Fisherman Potato Crisps Competition | |
| Fell to his death – Pashley – High Street | |
| John Kime death | |
| Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Fell to his death – Pashley – High Street – follow-up | |
| Snake man | |
| Festival Centre opens | |
| The Beverley Sisters at Arcadia Theatre | |
| Closing of Winthorpe Church School after nearly 100 years | |
| Two found dead – incredible coincidences | |
| Burgh Train Station tragedy | |
| Jolly Fisherman copyright issue town council – clerk to investigate (photographed twice) | |
| Child sex abuse at Skegness Sunday School case | |
| Skegness man found hanging – Cockerill | |
| Tombstone problem St Clement’s Church | |
| Julie Andrews at Arcadia Theatre | |
| Cartoon – crowning the carnival queen | |
| Syne Hills | |
| A Lumley Lament (poem) | |
| 1952 | Ball-point pens banned |
| ‘Erb’ cartoon | |
| Death of Tower Cafe founder | |
| ‘Erb’ cartoon Clock Tower | |
| The first Skegness Guide was delivered by horse and cart (flashback) | |
| False registration of a birth court case | |
| Top names in Skegness | |
| Heavy breathing phone calls | |
| ‘Erb’ cartoon – darts | |
| rescued from ice on Skegness boating lake | |
| Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II from Town Hall balcony | |
| Death of George Perrin | |
| Queen Elizabeth coronation | |
| Winthorpe vicar guilty of gross child abuse | |
| Women firefighters | |
| Dead man found in field arms slashed | |
| Dead man found in field arms slashed | |
| Rev Canon Morris | |
| Narrow escape from death as bombs fall on Spilsby AFTER the War | |
| Shades Hotel | |
| Sand blown in Marine Gardens | |
| Clearing the foreshore for Easter | |
| Retiring train stationmaster presentation | |
| Mr Forster, gasworks manager retires | |
| Terror of woman in Alexander Road Skegness | |
| Snake pit under Skegness pier | |
| Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Joseph Crawshaw with Henry Bateman TSB pass book presentation | |
| Drunk housewife fined for leaning on a kiosk | |
| Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Skegness born Hollywood film star, Elizabeth Allan returns to Skegness | |
| Skegness Fire Station Does Not Sleep | |
| Fire station | |
| Man’s body found in Skegness Waterway | |
| Death of Rowland Jenkins | |
| 1953 | Forest under the sea |
| Oldest married couple in Skegness (Rose) | |
| Skegness foreshore overwhelmed | |
| Flood Pictures | |
| floods | |
| Problem with sea defenses | |
| New stationmaster appointed (Howden) | |
| Film star, Elizabeth Allan film at Skegness cinema (picture of Miss Allan) | |
| Waterway spring clean | |
| Suncastle manageress dies | |
| Joseph Crawshaw with Eamon Andrews | |
| BBC’s Eamon Andrews shoots TV programme in Skegness | |
| Crown Hotel blaze | |
| Clock Tower scaffolding | |
| Skegness publicity bus | |
| Alford nylon factory picture (not photographed) | |
| Elsa Barratt fist lady ‘chairman’ of the council | |
| Peter Pan railway opens on central foreshore | |
| Painting of the Earl of Scarbrough wearing the Robe of the Garter, by artist James Gunn | |
| Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Batemans/Follies | |
| Skegness carnival | |
| Skegness postmen recieve awards (picture) | |
| Union leader drops dead on Embassy Ballroom dance floor | |
| Chapel demolition | |
| Harry Bateman at Buckingham Palace | |
| Skegness’ new official song | |
| Curry’s electrical store opens on Lumley Road (picture) | |
| Skegness Mother buried child’s body in dog’s grave Crimean Cottage Amber Hill Maisie Walters nee Naylor | |
| Charlie Chester with bathing beauties picture | |
| Bomb-damaged baths site is dangerous (Scarbrough Avenue_ | |
| Two army cadet officers killed in aeroplane mock battle (not photographed) | |
| Skegness Mother buried child’s body in dog’s grave Crimean Cottage Amber Hill Maisie Walters nee Naylor | |
| Foreshore Manager Bosworth falls in boating lake | |
| Peggy Elvin of Cavendish Road musical trio formed | |
| Memorial window dedication St Matthew’s Church (Bacon of Burgh) | |
| John Bateman eve of wedding picture (Gillian Clements Smith) | |
| Curved wall sea defense at Sutton completed (not photographed) | |
| Child killed in Ingoldmell’s camp playground (Groves of Derby) | |
| Seasonal newsman collapsed and died Berry’s Garage Wainfleet Road (Rustage) | |
| Carnival Queen with Cllr Catlyn picture – June Stevens | |
| Stonemason restores House of Commons – Brownman of Cavendish Road) | |
| Bateman | |
| Seacroft train station to close down | |
| Lifeboat Cuttle given welcome | |
| New lifeboat for Skegness – Cuttle | |
| Dr Frazer Menzies picture | |
| Harry Stokes Brown | |
| Harry Rose Drummond Road 63rd wedding anniversary (picture) | |
| David Lee weighing machine man (useful Skegness nostalgia) | |
| New minature steam train | |
| 1954 | Perrins lifeboat family |
| Later shopping times in Skegness | |
| Lady Elizabeth Lumley wedding includes list of people invited from Skegness | |
| St Clement’s Church get new hall | |
| Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| New fluorescent street lighting in Roman Bank | |
| Spring cleaning the boating lake | |
| Wedding shopping in Skegness – ad feature for local shops | |
| Roman Bank fluorescent lights | |
| Millstones from old windmill found in Lumley Road | |
| Money safe discarded in ditch after burgulary | |
| Dam Busters filmed in Skegness | |
| Pulpit dedicated at St Matthews Church Skegness | |
| Telegram to the Queen | |
| New council chairman investiture | |
| Skegness 5th scouts on parade | |
| Biggest ever Skegness illuminations feature | |
| Lily Crane marriage | |
| Billy Butlin switches on Skegness illuminations | |
| Runaway landau horse crashes into Clock Tower | |
| New miniature train | |
| Foreshore first aid post manned by St John Ambulance Brigade | |
| Appeal to save St Mary’s Church Winthorpe | |
| Dust men in Skegness | |
| Appeal church bells Loughborough | |
| Tommy Gore photo leader of Skegness Band | |
| New line for the bus conductor | |
| Ghost | |
| Bayonet used in wife attack | |
| Bird’s eye view Lumley Square | |
| Restoring Winthorpe church St Mary’s | |
| Blacksmith Prince George Street Skegness | |
| War bomb damage Scarborough Avenue baths | |
| St John Ambulance Brigade exercise | |
| Aerial view of the foreshore | |
| St John Ambulance Brigade gets Rolls Royce | |
| Aerial view of North Parade | |
| St John Ambulance Brigade dinner | |
| 1955 | Nude photos |
| Brick pit tradgey photos | |
| Million to one | |
| Standard in the Standard – local history uncovered in a gas lamp | |
| Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| New diesel train in Skegness | |
| Mystery snowman on Clock Tower | |
| Family drowned in frozen Brickpit tragedy | |
| Publicity coach tour | |
| Ashes scattered at sea off the Pier | |
| Two-year-old boy drowned | |
| Lion removed | |
| Skegness gets best kept train station award | |
| Car smashes into bungalow living room | |
| Sea cadet saves child’s life | |
| Coun Thompson – new Mayor of Skegness | |
| Wrates photographers advert | |
| Bob Monkhouse switches on Skegness illuminations | |
| Carnival Queen | |
| Picture of Bob Monkhouse | |
| Explosion Walshes caravan park | |
| St Matthew’s Church pictures 75th anniversary | |
| St Matthew’s Church 25 years | |
| United Nations Day ceremony at Skegness | |
| Skegness Grammar School blazers made by local trader | |
| Telephone exchange | |
| Garage mechanic seriously burned | |
| Car smashes into bungalow living room | |
| 1956 | ‘Nip’ Wright snooker player |
| Second fall of snow | |
| Head of Skegness Infant School | |
| Trolove riding school picture | |
| Lord Haw-Haw William Joyce captured by Skegness Hotel Manager | |
| Missing woman – Frith | |
| New conservative club at Carisbrook Hotel | |
| St Clement’s Church hall | |
| YMCA amazing transformation | |
| Sea erosion at Jackson’s Corner. | |
| Mississippi Steamer on Skegness boating lake | |
| Crane School of Dance photos | |
| Skegness illuminations Foreshore Centre (Cafe Dansant) | |
| Theresa Taylor 6 Cecil Avenue | |
| New headmaster for Morris School | |
| Welcome Inn Shipstone’s new hotel | |
| Welcome Inn Shipstone’s new hotel | |
| Chapel Point bank gave way | |
| Morris school opens | |
| Benny Hill to open new jazz club | |
| New jazz club opens | |
| Michael Bell car crash | |
| Joseph Crawshaw death | |
| Brickpit emptied after 1955 tragedy | |
| 1957 | Lifeboat launch 50 years ago |
| Hungarian refugees arrive in Skegness | |
| Hungarian refugees at Skegness | |
| Hungarian refugees at Skegness | |
| Certificates found after being lost during wartime | |
| Hungarian refugee marries Skegness woman (Theresa McCabe) | |
| Skegness publicity | |
| Burgh Windmill | |
| New Morris school ceiling collapses | |
| Official opening of the new Morris school posponed after ceiling collapses | |
| Hungarian refugees observe National Hungarian Day at the Skegness war memorial | |
| Football ground works pipes | |
| Lifeboat Wilfred Perrin | |
| Guy Grantham | |
| Follies on the Pier | |
| Derbyshire Miners (Curtis) | |
| Hungarian man accused of murder – Bentley Family of Albany Road Skegness | |
| Change of plans ends in tragedy | |
| Skegness photographer, Mrs Wrate dressed a gypsy | |
| Jolly Fisherman statuette award to be made rarer | |
| Herbert Ingram | |
| Pictures of Co-op store, Lumley Road (not photographed) | |
| Murder charge hearing | |
| Coaches in Lawn car park | |
| Hungarian man sent for murder trial | |
| Boating lake fireworks | |
| Home town photo sent to soldier | |
| Married a Hungarian refugee (Dorothy Elvin) | |
| Homemade bomb hits visitor | |
| WW2 mine washed ashore at Chapel St Leonards | |
| Rugby Club new pavilion opens at Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Polio Boy collection box | |
| Jubilee baby weds | |
| Whale story | |
| Hungarian refugee sentence to life imprisonment for murder of Skegness man (not photographed) | |
| Artist’s impression of how new development of Grand Parade will look | |
| 1958 | Skegness Lace Mills |
| Fire at the ‘Dots Club’ on Drummond Road Skegness | |
| How to board the school bus safely, Skegness Infants School Cavendish Road | |
| Who will censor the comic postcards on sale in Skegness? | |
| Ladies ‘PROBUS’ photo Marine Hotel | |
| Skegness slogan | |
| Railway deliveres parcels by horse and cart | |
| High Street traffic problems photo | |
| Cranes (in with 1959 news photos) | |
| Did Mablethorpe pinch our Jolly Fisherman slogan? | |
| Barrow Boys race | |
| New chalets for Derbyshire Miners Home | |
| New automated machinery for Skegness Town Hall | |
| Consecration of the new part of St Clement’s Church burial ground | |
| American wife decapitated in road accident | |
| Home of Harry Bateman of Batemans Brewery, Wainfleet | |
| Skegness pier is painted | |
| Canon Morris | |
| Mid-air drama | |
| Wartime observation post at Jackson’s Corner demolished | |
| Pier man retires – memories of Europa crashing into pier | |
| First electronic post barrow for Skegness | |
| Council house reserved for Skegness teacher | |
| Girls Life Brigade photo | |
| Child is bitten by Skegness donkey | |
| Girl Guides inspection Lumley School photo | |
| Berry’s house struck by lightening | |
| First Butlin express steam train arrives in Skegness | |
| New event for Skegness – barrow boys | |
| Skegness snack bar stabbing threat | |
| Donkey is taught to cross the road safely | |
| Mitchell invents talking horoscope arcade game | |
| Pier mystery solved | |
| BBC test Skegness for broadcasting signal strength | |
| Oldest barmen | |
| Lights out for Skegness Illuminations non-payers | |
| Emergency car park for holiday traffic | |
| Fatal accident social cycles | |
| Evans High Street Fish cafe closes after summons | |
| Skegness Illuminations switch on photo | |
| Death of Ivor Cule | |
| New cot for Skegness Day Nursary | |
| Lumley junior school children photo | |
| Work on Skegness leaning water tower | |
| Evans fish cafe window smashed in High Street | |
| Young boy found hanging | |
| Railway delivers parcels by horse and cart (flashback) | |
| 1959 | Lincoln Road alterations |
| Clock Tower island built | |
| Jolly’s grandson – by the Old Salt (editor) | |
| St Clement’s Church flooded | |
| Laundry Cottages Roman Bank demolished for road improvements | |
| Guy Grantham | |
| Bounding Boy poster publicity | |
| Accidental death to bank manager’s wife | |
| Bonnett wedding | |
| Skegness school football picture | |
| Red House fascinating mystery uncovered | |
| Grammar school picture | |
| Friskney landmark vanishes | |
| Pier Follies eat icecream | |
| Hole in Lumley Road | |
| Boy saves childs life in boating lake | |
| Lumley Road drama | |
| Fire at Wards cycle shop High Street Skegness | |
| Painter dies in fall when decorating County Hotel | |
| Scenery fell off a lorry | |
| Lady Isobel Barnett at YMCA | |
| Former National School gets facelift | |
| Weather bureau | |
| Opening night “Discovery Time” Theresa Taylor winner | |
| Face lift for Roman Bank School building | |
| County Hotel painter’s death – follow-up | |
| Susan Crane wins handwriting contest | |
| Dolls house | |
| Old weather reports | |
| Link with Skegness – electricity | |
| Charlie Williams plays for Skegness Football Club | |
| There’s a crow in the Embassy Theatre! | |
| Crowds of holidaymakers round Clock Tower | |
| Barrel organ | |
| Baby born at Butlins | |
| Riding school | |
| More about the barrel organ | |
| Swim | |
| Morris school film crew | |
| Wrates photographers win first prize at Skegness carnival | |
| Council-built nylon stocking factory | |
| Roman Bank gang bonfire | |
| Clock Tower Model | |
| Roman Bank Gang bonfire | |
| Boating lake landing stage removed | |
| New landing stage for Skegness boating lake | |
| Grunnill Trevitt marriage | |
| Football picture | |
| Lincoln Road construction | |
| Morris school kids | |
| Cartoon fireworks over Clock Tower | |
| Trees threaten St Matthew’s church foundations | |
| Morris school pottery class | |
| Marine hotel manager retires | |
| Model made of St Clement’s church | |
| Charles Houghton | |
| Jolly Fisherman statuette presented to Ed Sullivan in USA | |
| Nativity play (Graham Bonnet) | |
| Grammar headmaster’s This is Your Life surprise | |
| School of Cookery Auction |
In 1952 one of my mothers friends a Mr D Powell was lost at sea somewhere near Skegness, I am trying to locate any news coverage, can anyone help?
Hiya, Mrs Ward, there are no D Powells registered as dying in Lincolnshire in 1952.
However, there is a death entry for a Mr Dennis C Powell in the Spilsby registration district (which covers Skegness) in the March Quarter of 1951. He was 20 when he died. Could this be the guy we’re looking for?
If it IS him, we should be looking for stories towards the end of 1950 and up till March, 1951.
I have not got the newspaper story on file but could check on Friday if you could confirm it’s the correct person.
Cheers
Angela
Skegness