1960s News & History
1960s Skegness News
| Skegness Standard 1960 | 6/1 | Subway built Jackson’s Corner |
| 10/2 | Anchor pub, Sea Lane, Ingoldmells, Skegness granted a license | |
| 17/2 | Old lamp posts sold off at Council depot | |
| 2/3 | Boating lake ‘Needle’ demolished | |
| 2/3 | One way traffic on High Street | |
| 9/3 | one way traffic on High Street (follow up) | |
| 16/3 | Derbyshire Miners open air pool | |
| 6/4 | Skegness publicity bus | |
| 13/4 | Edinburgh Avenue boarding houses closure threat | |
| 11/5 | New wall added to Compass Gardens | |
| 18/5 | Fire in Drummond Road | |
| 18/5 | Callow Park house turned into Jolly Fisherman pub | |
| 18/5 | Changes at Central Hall cinema | |
| 25/5 | Follies and coastguards | |
| 1/6 | Skegness on TV | |
| 6/6 | What a Whit - packed beach then empty | |
| 13/7 | RSPCA collection dog | |
| 27/7 | Barrow boys in Lawn car park | |
| 3/8 | Make sure of a deckchair | |
| 10/8 | Damage to pool and deckchairs | |
| 17/8 | Lights switch on - Foreshore Centre roof | |
| 24/8 | TV crew top of Embassy building | |
| 28/9 | Gas works goodbye | |
| 2/11 | Jolly Fisherman with boy (great-grandson) poster | |
| 23/11 | Tower Esplanade in a few years time | |
| Skegness Standard 1961 | 1/3 | Skegness publicity coach |
| 8/3 | Bathing pool spring clean | |
| 5/5 | Seacroft rifle range wall demolished | |
| 7/6 | Welcome Garage junction of Burgh Road and Lincoln Road, Skegness | |
| 21/6 | TV mast near the waterway | |
| 12/7 | TV interview with Ted Dwyer of the Pier Arcade Follies | |
| 20/9 | Coronation Street Stars Harry Hewett and Concepta Riley in Skegness | |
| 4/10 | Essendon School | |
| 11/10 | Steibel’s company | |
| 8/11 | Steibel’s machines | |
| 15/11 | Giant leather back turtle washed on Ingoldmells beach | |
| 29/11 | Big Dipper and Wild Mouse | |
| 27/12 | Jolly Fisherman with ‘grandson’ poster review | |
| Skegness Standard 1962 | 10/1 | Bronze Age bricks and bones discovered at Beacon Park |
| 17/1 | ‘Gold (fish) rush’ in Skegness | |
| 7/2 | Dog rescued from sewer pit | |
| 14/3 | Oldest boarding house in Skegness demolished | |
| 25/4 | Skegness holds its own Juke Box Jury at the Embassy | |
| 25/4 | Young Skegness girl singer Theresa Taylor | |
| 2/5 | Bathing Pool statue Matilda has a re-spray | |
| 2/5 | Body found on Wainfleet railway line | |
| 23/5 | Rowland Jenkins dies | |
| 13/6 | Picture of packed pavements on Skegness seafront | |
| 27/6 | Ban the Stink Bomb! | |
| 4/7 | Corrie Star Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) to switch on Skegness Illuminations | |
| 11/7 | Co-op escalator crosses Lumley Road (yes, you’ve read it correctly) | |
| 1/8 | Gertie went for a fatal swim - Butlins elephant drowns in Skegness swimming pool | |
| 1/8 | Crash stops clock (Lawn Avenue Skegness) | |
| 8/8 | Grammar School paints picture for Skegness library | |
| 29/8 | Corrie Star Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) switches on Skegness Illuminations | |
| 29/8 | Man dies as he waits for illuminations switch on | |
| 14/11 | Picture of Billy Butlin and Gracie Fields | |
| Skegness Standard 1963 | 20/2 | $64,000 question |
| 3/4 | railway station | |
| 1/5 | Festival Pavilion roof goes on | |
| 1/5 | Wall of Death | |
| 15/5 | Skegness Rock Factory | |
| 14/8 | Jolly Fisherman comes to life - first postal impression of Jolly Fisherman | |
| 28/8 | dearest hopes to be realized | |
| 20/11 | first car in Skegness (flashback) | |
| 4/12 | Pier Hotel fire | |
| Skegness Standard 1964 | 1/1 | Skegness Coat of Arms |
| 15/1 | Skegness Coat of Arms the Standard’s alternative suggestion | |
| 5/2 | Pier | |
| 26/2 | North Parade looked like this | |
| 4/3 | Coat of Arms dropped | |
| 1/7 | Marineland | |
| 4/11 | Wild Mouse | |
| 9/12 | Town Hall demolition | |
| Skegness Standard 1965 | 6/1 | Emblem of licensed victualers |
| 3/3 | Jolly Fisherman comes home | |
| 19/5 | Gibraltar Point coastguard’s house | |
| 23/6 | Marineland (Natureland) | |
| 7/7 | Marineland opens | |
| 4/8 | Wilfred Perrin and Mrs George (Grace) Perrin | |
| 11/8 | Marineland Yearden | |
| 24/8 | Gale hits Marineland | |
| 15/12 | Determined something new to offer holidaymakers | |
| Skegness Standard 1966 | 23/3 | Burgh Church tenor bell replaced |
| 11/5 | Figure 8 cafe plans | |
| 25/5 | Botton’s tower | |
| 22/6 | Wall of Death | |
| 20/7 | Briar Way market | |
| 20/7 | Traffic light demolished | |
| 20/7 | Stolen letter Winston Churchill | |
| 19/10 | Telephone exchange | |
| 19/10 | Eric Blood draws sea monster ’seen’ at Chapel St Leonards | |
| 19/10 | Cover design for new Guide to Skegness | |
| 26/10 | Abattoir | |
| 9/11 | Women’s Institute scrap book lodged with Skegness library | |
| Skegness Standard 1967 | 25/1 | Telephone exchange |
| 15/3 | Victor Rose pig keeper at Burgh | |
| 3/5 | New Bier Garten | |
| 3/5 | Lay by on Drummond Road | |
| 24/5 | Twin pram designed by local jeweler in 1870s | |
| 31/5 | Bier Garten opens | |
| 21/6 | driving wrong way around new one way system | |
| 6/9 | Pier high and dry | |
| 6/9 | Boating lake arch | |
| 20/9 | Aerial view North parade | |
| 6/12 | Marine Hotel to close | |
| 13/12 | 1968 Guide to Skegness preview | |
| Skegness Standard 1968 | 3/1 | Skegness Air Training Corps has new quarters built on Burgh Road (with asbestos sheets, of course!) |
| 21/1 | Margaret Whitehead marriage Hogsthorpe | |
| 7/2 | Vine Hotel tree blown down | |
| 28/2 | Jungle | |
| 13/3 | blown down like a pack of cards | |
| 3/4 | Scrub fire | |
| 24/4 | Live ammunition in Waterway | |
| 22/5 | Local author Margaret Dickinson first novel | |
| 19/6 | Pier redevelopment | |
| 10/7 | Fireman climbs up ladder at Marine Hotel | |
| 17/7 | Storms pier | |
| 14/8 | John Crooks owl man | |
| 25/9 | Parade Hotel Storm Damage | |
| 2/10 | Drivers pitch skills on Grand Parade | |
| Skegness Standard 1969 | 15/1 | Cavendish Road |
| 19/2 | Snow paths cleared | |
| 19/3 | Skegness Pier | |
| 30/7 | Drummond Road flooded | |
| 3/9 | Yobs arrested in Compass gardens | |
