1970s News & History
1970s Skegness News
| Skegness Standard 1970 | 7/1 | Demolition of kiosks, Grand Parade entrance to Tower Gardens begins |
| 18/2 | Swimming baths nothing new (Winston Kime) | |
| 18/3 | Figure 8 amusement ‘bites the dust’ | |
| 13/5 | demolition men reveal Micheal Angelo painting | |
| 20/5 | Wall of Death | |
| 24/6 | John Noakes visits Natureland | |
| 12/8 | Sparky the elephant switches on Illuminations | |
| 7/10 | Pier head demolished | |
| 28/10 | Remember the old days (goats round Clock tower) | |
| 18/12 | New miniature railway | |
| Skegness Standard 1971 | 6/1 | Pier entrance takes shape |
| 20/1 | Cafe Dansant is demolished | |
| 24/2 | Rasmussen’s shop opens | |
| 31/3 | Jolly Fisherman joins charity walkers | |
| 14/4 | All aboard new miniature railway | |
| 19/5 | RTK supermarket opens Drummond Road | |
| 26/5 | Pier Head, Variety Bar and Information Centre opens | |
| 14/7 | ‘Jungle’ cleared for police station | |
| 14/7 | Map | |
| 13/8 | RNLI flower display | |
| 1/9 | Planes thrill Skegness | |
| 15/9 | Butlin House to be demolished | |
| 1/12 | Lion on Algitha Road | |
| 1/12 | Lumley Road of the future | |
| Skegness Standard 1972 | 19/1 | Butlin House demolished |
| 9/2 | Astroglide built | |
| 8/3 | Hedley Grunnill | |
| 8/3 | Co-Op roof extended | |
| 12/4 | Arcadia Gardens | |
| 24/5 | Sky Sentinel plans ditched | |
| 19/7 | Suncastle flood (flashback) | |
| 69 | John Woodward signs £5m contract | |
| Sept | Girl hides dead baby in her bedroom | |
| Oct | Hagworthingham church tower collaspes | |
| 4/10 | Children from Inglewood School Skegness | |
| 4/10 | Downs Syndrome boy falls to his death from Skegness boarding house window | |
| 11/10 | Police station | |
| 25/10 | Train mows down 21 stray sheep | |
| 1/11 | Fire Station completed | |
| 8/11 | Skegness Landladies on Russell Harty TV show | |
| 15/11 | Arcadia theatre gets new switchboard | |
| 22/11 | Parents of Skegness-born famous footballer, Ray Clemente watch thewir son play on TV | |
| 20/12 | Chistmas lights switched on in Lumley Square Skegness | |
| 20/12 | Arcadia Theatre saved from demolition | |
| Skegness Standard 1973 | 10/1 | Michael John Curtis & Linda Nottingham wedding |
| 17/1 | Mauritius pinches our Skegness Jolly Fisherman | |
| 24/1 | Skegness rock band Seasaw member Richard Turland wedding | |
| 24/1 | William Way named after Royal visit | |
| 31/1 | Landladies Larks | |
| 14/2 | New beer machine for Batemans brewery Wainfleet | |
| 14/2 | Janice Sutton dancers | |
| 21/2 | Navy probes into beach bomb find | |
| 21/2 | Natureland gets new van | |
| 21/2 | Skegness Landladies Larks on TV | |
| 21/2 | Coun Harold Fainlight with girl guides | |
| 28/2 | Phone pervert says he’s from Oldrids Boston | |
| 28/2 | Telephone exchange | |
| 28/2 | Fury at Grand Parade hotel building plans | |
| 7/3 | Graham Kerr Seacroft Hotel chef | |
| 7/3 | Frankie Vaughn at Arcadia Theatre | |
| 7/3 | John Woodward launches campaign after daughter diagnosed with cancer | |
| 7/3 | Stand-in lifeboat for Skegness | |
| 14/3 | New Skegness ballet school | |
| 21/3 | Landaus will soon disappear in Skegness | |
| 21/3 | Opening of the Mardi Gras nightclub in Skegness | |
| 4/4 | Scouts make way for the dead at St Clement’s Church graveyard | |
| 2/5 | Lion goes for walk on Lumley Road | |
| 23/10 | New police headquarters Park Avenue | |
| Ban The Exorcist from the Tower Cinema | ||
| Skegness Standard 1974 | 9/1 | Harold Fainlight painting presentation to Skegness Football Club |
| 30/1 | Skegness Landladies Pier Performance | |
| 6/2 | The Thirty Club Castleton Boulevard closes its doors | |
| 13/2 | Memorial clock presented to Arcadia Theatre | |
| 6/3 | Professional footballer Ray Clements returns to Skegness | |
| 6/3 | Scouts chief alledged assault on young boy | |
| 6/3 | Cox Ken Holland fires maroon to mark 150 years of Lifeboat | |
| 6/3 | Wedding of Clock Tower builder’s decendant (Curtis) | |
| 20/3 | Jolly its a Knockout cloth | |
| 30/3 | Ode to Winter local poem | |
| 30/3 | Miss Anglia posed for local buisnesses advert pictures | |
| 3/4 | Bay City Rollers at the Variety Bar | |
| 10/4 | Coun Harold Fainlight opers King George V Walk | |
| 24/4 | Fenland Laundry Plant goes up | |
| 24/4 | It’s a Knockout practice | |
| 24/4 | Bob Kerr is Jolly Fisherman | |
| May | It’s a Knockout in Skegness | |
| 8/5 | Lion Hotel interior photo | |
| 8/5 | Coun Harold fainlight | |
| 15/5 | Inglewood Private School | |
| 15/5 | Miss Knockout beauty queen | |
| 12/6 | Butlins Princes Building destroyed by fire | |
| 19/6 | Graham Kerr | |
| 16/6 | Patches nightclub reopens | |
| 19/6 | Blaze on High Street | |
| 24/7 | Double yellow lines on Grand Parade | |
| 28/8 | Pier crammed with people for Norman Wisdom show | |
| 18/9 | Seacroft train station stationmasters house turnrd into Pet Crematorium | |
| 6/11 | Miss Gibraltar, Miss World contestant visits Gibraltar Point Skegness | |
| 4/12 | Janice Sutton dance school opens on Grantham Drive, Skegness | |
| 11/12 | People queuing for bread during national strikes | |
| Skegness Standard 1975 | 19/3 | Wainfleet Rd houses demolished for one way system |
| 26/3 | Wainfleet Rd houses demolished for one way system | |
| 2/4 | Sky Ride | |
| 26/5 | Hildreds Hotel becomes a listed building | |
| 18/6 | Firemen rescue family from Sky Ride | |
| 16/7 | Beach train introduced | |
| 16/7 | Future of Parade Cinema debated | |
| 10/9 | Mystery sand castles appear on central beach | |
| 15/10 | Pier alterations | |
| 22/10 | DJ Emperor Rosco at the Mardi Gras | |
| 22/10 | Removal of the Jungle | |
| 31/12 | Councillor Brian O’Connor’s wedding at St Clement’s church | |
| Skegness Standard 1976 | 21/1 | Changing face of Skegness |
| 4/2 | Mobile units supplied by Blue Anchor for government offices on Briar Way | |
| 4/2 | Tower Gardens pond get face lift | |
| 10/3 | Fire at Tower gardens Pavilion | |
| 24/3 | Last auction at Tower Gardens Pavilion? | |
| 31/3 | Sands Show bar plans | |
| 31/3 | Wainfleet Road one way system | |
| 7/4 | Arcadia Theatre seating renewed | |
| 12/4 | Parade Cinema turned into Penny Arcade | |
| 26/5 | Hildred’s Hotel becomes a listed building | |
| 23/6 | Church Farm Museum begins construction | |
| 11/8 | Sands Show bar - death of a dream? | |
| 20/10 | Workmen repair Pavilion after blaze | |
| 27/10 | Honeycombed chalets appear on beach | |
| 10/11 | St Matthew’s church interior alterations | |
| 29/12 | BBC Mending clock at County Hotel | |
| Skegness Standard 1977 | 18/2 | Wooden box office at Arcadia Theatre demolished |
| 13/3 | Sid Dennis band | |
| 1/4 | Stiebel makes centenary Jolly Fisherman lace | |
| 8/4 | Jolly Fisherman original statue presentation | |
| 22/4 | Earl of Scarbrough opens Church Farm Museum | |
| 3/6 | ‘Red House’ demolished | |
| 24/6 | New Arcadia Theatre box office | |
| 8/7 | Osbert House | |
| 15/7 | Blue rock - relic of the ice Age? | |
| 16/9 | Barrow Boys (and girls) | |
| 28/10 | Auctioneer Fred Scoggins at Pavilion Tower Gardens | |
| 11/11 | Skegness to Boston bus in the 1920s | |
| Skegness Standard 1978 | 13/1 | Contraband - Skegness jazz group |
| 29/1 | Pier destroyed by storms | |
| 20/3 | Pictures of the old firemen in Skegness | |
| 5/5 | Cyril Smith MP takes a ride in a Landau in Skegness | |
| 28/5 | Former bus station - Drummond Road | |
| 28/5 | Two open-top buses to run on sea front | |
| 2/6 | Water tower to be demolished | |
| 2/6 | Aerial view of Skegness | |
| 9/6 | Painting of horse - gift to Skegness hospital | |
| 16/6 | Astroliner ride installed on the Pier | |
| 16/6 | Skegness pottery photo of interior | |
| 23/6 | Removal of seating from the Pier Theatre | |
| 21/7 | New pleasure trains on sea front | |
| 4/8 | Wall of Death | |
| 22/9 | Briar Way indoor market wall collapses 2 killed 14 injured | |
| 6/10 | DHSS on Wainfleet Road opens | |
| 24/11 | Skegness Urban District Council dustcart from the 1920s | |
| 8/12 | Gomersall Terrace Then & Now | |
| Skegness Standard 1979 | 26/1 | Flashback to Sept 1978 - indoor Briar Way market wall collapses |
| 16/2 | Three cinemas in Skegness | |
| 30/3 | Adeline Lee (fortune teller) reads DJ Pete Murry’s palm | |
| 6/4 | Old reading rooms | |
| 1/6 | Zyclon at Bottons amusements | |
| 1/6 | Embassy Theatre | |
| 29/6 | Scarbrough Avenue Then & Now | |
| 10/8 | YMCA Then & Now | |
| 7/9 | Derbyshire Children’s home Then & Now | |
| 21/9 | Skyride Then & Now | |
| 23/11 | Salvation Army Citadel and Sycamore House old photo | |
| 7/12 | Briar Way building collapse | |
