1960s
1960s
Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com
| 1960 | Subway built Jackson’s Corner |
| Old lamp posts sold off at Council depot | |
| Boating lake ‘Needle’ demolished | |
| One way traffic on High Street | |
| one way traffic on High Street (follow up) | |
| Derbyshire Miners open air pool | |
| Skegness publicity bus | |
| Edinburgh Avenue boarding houses closure threat | |
| New wall added to Compass Gardens | |
| Fire in Drummond RoadWainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Help of £3,000 in grants for Wainfleet Road Playing Fields | |
| Callow Park house turned into Jolly Fisherman pub | |
| Changes at Central Hall cinema | |
| Follies and coastguards | |
| Skegness on TV | |
| What a Whit – packed beach then empty | |
| RSPCA collection dog | |
| Barrow boys in Lawn car park | |
| Make sure of a deckchair Butlins elephant drowns |
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| Damage to pool and deckchairs | |
| Lights switch on – Foreshore Centre roof | |
| TV crew top of Embassy building | |
| Jolly Fisherman with boy (great-grandson) poster | |
| Tower Esplanade in a few years time | |
| 1961 | Valuable painting rescued from disused chapel loft |
| Skegness publicity coach | |
| Bathing pool spring clean | |
| Bravery recognised | |
| Bob a job | |
| ? | |
| Seacroft rifle range wall demolished | |
| Drowning of Philip Nicholson Skegness swimming pool | |
| Inquest of the drowning of Philip Nicholson Skegness swimming pool | |
| TV mast near the waterway | |
| Boating lake vandalised | |
| Butlins lion tamer | |
| TV interview with Ted Dwyer of the Pier Arcade Follies | |
| Jolly Fisherman’s grandson competition | |
| Skegness monster | |
| Crane dance school | |
| Crane and Jannice Sutton dance schools | |
| Coronation Street Stars Harry Hewett and Concepta Riley in Skegness | |
| Skegness Cast Stone Company carnival float | |
| Essendon School | |
| Steibel’s company | |
| Skegness lion is painted gold (flashback) | |
| Steibel’s machines | |
| Giant leather back turtle washed on Ingoldmells beach | |
| Laundry Cottages disappeared | |
| Big Dipper and Wild Mouse | |
| “Spartacus” drapes made in Skegness | |
| Riding high | |
| Jolly Fisherman with ‘grandson’ poster review | |
| c1962 | Butlins aquires the Royal Scot steam engine |
| 1962 | Bronze Age bricks and bones discovered at Beacon Park |
| Murphys Radio facory on four-day week | |
| ‘Gold (fish) rush’ in Skegness | |
| Ships and seaside scenes in a bottle | |
| Dog rescued from sewer pit | |
| Seaside Society Throp | |
| Underage drinking | |
| Granny Barley 100th birthday | |
| Graham Bonnett aged 14 years | |
| Oldest boarding house in Skegness demolished | |
| Model Village opens on South Parade | |
| Skegness holds its own Juke Box Jury at the Embassy | |
| Young Skegness girl singer Theresa Taylor | |
| Bathing Pool statue Matilda has a re-spray | |
| Body found on railway line | |
| Tour of Murphys Radio Factory | |
| Rowland Jenkins dies | |
| Picture of packed pavements on Skegness seafront | |
| Ban the Stink Bomb! | |
| Corrie Star Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) to switch on Skegness Illuminations | |
| Seaside donkeys must have a dinner hour | |
| Co-op escalator crosses Lumley Road (yes, you’ve read it correctly) | |
| Gertie went for a fatal swim – Butlins elephant drowns in Skegness swimming pool | |
| Crash stops clock (Lawn Avenue Skegness) | |
| Grammar School paints picture for Skegness library | |
| Corrie Star Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) switches on Skegness Illuminations | |
| Man dies as he waits for illuminations switch on | |
| Evidence points to a Mrs Jolly Fisherman | |
| Memories of Mrs Crouch – oldest resident in Skegness | |
| Anthony Holloway drowns (not photographed) (summer) | |
| 1963 | Councillor draws Festival Pavilion roof |
| Picture of the Ellis Family who went on to become the Ellis Bros Builders and contractors in Skegness | |
| Pilcher mother disappears | |
| Memories of Mrs Crouch – oldest resident in Skegness | |
| $64,000 question | |
| Landing craft wreck is exposed creating a danger to bathers in Skegness |
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| Duttons shop closes after 70 years | |
| Railway station master talks about the closure of Skegness Railway Station | |
| German Measles cancels Grammar School speech day | |
| Chatter-box cafe High Street for sale | |
| Stone mother plea | |
| Festival Pavilion roof goes on | |
| Wall of Death | |
| Bormans Coal business ends | |
| Skegness Rock Factory | |
| Shane Fenton (Alvin Stardust) breaks Embassy Theatre attendance record | |
| Coleens Dance School | |
| Festival Pavilion (formerly Festival Centre) | |
| Paddling on front | |
| Fairy Dell Festival publicity | |
| The Samuel Lewis (former) lifeboat sinks | |
| The Moly Phone | |
| First Skegness skating group formed | |
| Jolly Fisherman comes to life – first postal impression of Jolly Fisherman | |
| Eric Blood local artist controversial paintings | |
| dearest hopes to be realized | |
| Memories of the Skegness Sand Races | |
| Skegness is culturally dead! | |
| Tramp fancy dress party | |
| Billy Butlin | |
| Old car renovation | |
| First car in Skegness (flashback) | |
| Pier Hotel fire | |
| 1964 | Skegness Coat of Arms |
| Skegness Coat of Arms the Standard’s alternative suggestion | |
| Butlin donates to Skegness Council | |
| Gassing of rabbits suspended by SUDC | |
| Skegness has two Piers | |
| Councillor is slammed when he calls for one gas lamp to be preserved for historical interest | |
| Plans for a Clock Tower subway | |
| North Parade looked like this | |
| Skegness girl presented with Photographic prize by Margo Fontaine | |
| TV detector foiled by dentist’s drill | |
| Tank landing craft removed | |
| Coat of Arms dropped | |
| Butlin gift to …. Races | |
| Copyright Jolly | |
| George Ball memories | |
| Plaques for hotels | |
| Crofts | |
| New town hall opens on North Parade | |
| Billy Butlin on honours list | |
| Princess Royal at new town hall | |
| Coronation Street stars at ‘Cripple Chalets’ | |
| Graham Bonnet Missing Links Skegness pop band | |
| Colleens School of Dance | |
| Marineland | |
| New lifeboat named | |
| Butlin at Buckingham Palace | |
| Largest family to visit Skegness | |
| Jeckle and Hyde | |
| Z Cars star illuminations switch on | |
| Councillor knocks down coppers (reference to Z Cars star) | |
| Wild Mouse | |
| Town Hall demolition | |
| 1965 | Emblem of licensed victualers |
| Pop Williams matchbox collection | |
| Vicar of Stiffkey | |
| Homeless Miss White | |
| Rare Breeches Bible Presented to Skegness Church | |
| Man Digs Up Roman Burial Chamber | |
| Curtis Golden Wedding | |
| Automatic Magic Mirror Skegness Mens’ Invention | |
| Jolly Fisherman comes home | |
| Man foils death – Peter Cumberworth | |
| LVA chain of office | |
| Jolly Fisherman March composed | |
| Anglers at Skegness Cricket Ground (picture includes Victorian summer house now at Church Farm Museum) | |
| Trevitt Fish Cafe closes down | |
| The Norfolk Bar opens at Seacroft Hotel | |
| Hazel Sykes | |
| Gibraltar Point coastguard’s house | |
| Skegness Butlins Gets Country’s First Monorail (Video) | |
| Smash and grab at Nelsons Jewellers Drummond Road | |
| Hazel Sykes RAF pinup girl | |
| Giant transformers arrive | |
| Havenhouse railway station gates smashed | |
| Adam Faith Visits Skegness Boy | |
| Elsie Theaker resigns from council | |
| Dancing Waters Embassy Skegness | |
| Marineland (Natureland) | |
| Marineland opens | |
| Mr Vernon dies | |
| Wilfred Perrin and Mrs George (Grace) Perrin | |
| Marineland Yearden | |
| Gale hits Marineland | |
| “American” returns to Skegness | |
| Missing lifeboatman’s presentation watch turns up after 52 years | |
| Skegness Rector slams Jehovah’s Witnesses as a ‘modern day heresy’ | |
| Colleens Dance School | |
| Filming for the new Skegness Holiday Guide | |
| New Sodom and Gomorrah | |
| Determined something new to offer holidaymakers | |
| 1966 | Fry Fenland laundry |
| Burgh Church tenor bell replaced | |
| Jolly Fisherman logo on gents’ ties | |
| Pier saved | |
| Bottons Big Wheel being constructed | |
| Pop Williams | |
| Figure 8 cafe plans | |
| Missing man – fed up so went home | |
| Botton’s tower | |
| New traffic wardens | |
| Ellis Brothers Clock Tower Corner buildings | |
| 1966 World Cup postage stamps first day issue Skegness postmark | |
| Wall of Death | |
| Wild West theme at the Chuck Wagon | |
| Briar Way market | |
| Traffic light demolished | |
| Stolen letter Winston Churchill | |
| Skegness (glamour) chicks | |
| Plane crash | |
| World Cup stamps | |
| Skegness girl marries Petula Clark’s brother | |
| John Palmer butcher | |
| Builder finds 150 year old newspaper | |
| Telephone exchange | |
| Eric Blood draws sea monster ’seen’ at Chapel St Leonards | |
| Cover design for new Guide to Skegness | |
| Abattoir | |
| Council Surveyor hurt in hovercraft trials | |
| Golden wedding | |
| Child abducted by Syrian father – Jean Husrt | |
| Women’s Institute scrap book lodged with Skegness library | |
| Skegness Monster in French book | |
| Remembrance Day 40 years ago | |
| Cruel Twist to Football Pools Win | |
| 1967 | Telephone exchange |
| Skegness Horror Film | |
| Victor Rose pig keeper at Burgh | |
| St John Ambulance | |
| Jolly fish bowls addict | |
| Roman urn discovery at Chapel St Leonards | |
| Grammar School TV quiz | |
| Keithley’s shop Skegness | |
| Yellow lines problem | |
| Man trips over alligator in Natureland Tropical House | |
| New Bier Garten | |
| Bier Garten at Bottons | |
| No Parking sign in Drummond Road layby | |
| Lay by on Drummond Road | |
| Twin pram designed by local jeweler in 1870s | |
| Skegness film | |
| Bier Garten opens | |
| Carnival Queen crowned | |
| driving wrong way around new one way system | |
| Roman find story in French Magazine | |
| Phil Williams clown | |
| Film at Lumley School | |
| Salts fish and chips in America | |
| Hazel Sykes in show | |
| Plaques at church | |
| Pier Follies | |
| Amber rush | |
| Boy saved fron pool | |
| Pier high and dry | |
| Boating lake arch | |
| Aerial view North parade | |
| Boating lake boats | |
| Butlins rides | |
| Evidence of Tennyson in Skegness wanted | |
| Skegness 8mm Club | |
| Medieval pottery find | |
| Boy took bullets to school | |
| Boy took bullets to school follow-up | |
| Skegness Jubilee Holiday Guide preview | |
| Marine Hotel to close | |
| 1968 Guide to Skegness preview | |
| 1968 | Skegness Air Training Corps has new quarters built on Burgh Road (with asbestos sheets, of course!) |
| Cafe man hurt in boating lake fall | |
| Charge for autographs | |
| Margaret Whitehead marriage Hogsthorpe | |
| Vine Hotel tree blown down | |
| Jungle | |
| blown down like a pack of cards | |
| Scrub fire | |
| Albert Hewison | |
| Skegness Estate Agent, George Ball is a froth blower | |
| Fravigar marriage | |
| Snake found in Skegness house | |
| Live ammunition in Waterway | |
| Cherrie Dutton | |
| Percy Grunnill | |
| Hassall’s daughter’s first visit to Skegness | |
| Local author Margaret Dickinson first novel | |
| Daughter of Jolly Fisherman Creator John Hassall First Visit to Skegness | |
| Pier redevelopment | |
| Fireman climbs up ladder at Marine Hotel | |
| Jolly Fisherman on Watneys Beer Mats | |
| Storms pier | |
| John Crooks owl man | |
| Parade Hotel Storm Damage | |
| 101 days in a coffin buried alive | |
| Drivers pitch skills on Grand Parade | |
| Harold Wilson portrait | |
| Flamingo on Wainfleet bombing range | |
| Brussel sprouts in festival pavilion | |
| The Marbles 1960s pop band | |
| Wainfleet Bombing Range Attacked – by a Flamingo! | |
| Skegness Boy kidnapped by Syrian Father | |
| Weapon collection | |
| Bombs found in the Masonic Hall | |
| 1969 | Skegness cut offf by snow |
| Cavendish Road | |
| Singer’s TV debut Elizabeth Kemp | |
| Snow paths cleared | |
| Skegness Pier | |
| Weighing machines removed | |
| “Weekly Global” new newspaper launched by local schoolboys | |
| Bomb squad combs beach | |
| The Marbles 1960s band | |
| Former head of Lumley school dies | |
| Mystery death – Mr Enderby | |
| Watchmakers since 1910 | |
| Boy trapped in sand | |
| Car overturns | |
| The Marbles 1960s pop group | |
| Fravigar sweet and Skegness rock factory | |
| Mike Newman at Butlins holiday camp | |
| Marriage Anne Curtis and Alfred Walker | |
| The Marbles 1960s pop group | |
| Marbles DJ Alan Freeman Butlins Holiday Camp | |
| Donkey races | |
| Drummond Road flooded | |
| Skegness illuminations switch on by Fred Trueman | |
| Skegness train station is packed | |
| Train station being phased out | |
| Freddie Truman switches on Skegness illuminations | |
| Yobs arrested in Compass gardens | |
| Fravigar bike crash | |
| Salt | |
| Pencil tower | |
| Cottage in St Clement’s Church | |
| Billy Butlin’s son | |
| Driver tests | |
| Suit of armour | |
| Andy Kirk | |
Hiya
I was born in Skeg… daughter of Jack Walker (Car hire) and had some form of “message” from someone (now passed) who apparantly died in the Swimming Pool in Skegness… this would be around 1960 – 1980 – I had the name Andy .. but that may not be correct
I would be very grateful if you could advise me of any deaths at the Swimming Pool please
Kind regards and thanks
Judie
Judie, I think you better look at this story: http://skegnesshistory.com/2009/06/ghost-haunts-skegness-grammar-school/
Another death at the swimming pool that I am aware of is of a worker meeting his fate there. I’ve got the story but have not yet uploaded it – will check it out shortly!