1970s
1970s
Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com
| 1970 | Demolition of kiosks, Grand Parade entrance to Tower Gardens begins |
| Oh Buoy! | |
| Fravigar dies in bike crash | |
| Swimming baths nothing new (by Winston Kime) | |
| Figure 8 amusement ‘bites the dust’ | |
| Landladies Larks advert picture | |
| Demolition men reveal Micheal Angelo painting | |
| Squatters in litter bin | |
| Human skeleton mystery unsolved | |
| Wall of Death | |
| Crocheted Queen’s portrait | |
| John Noakes visits Natureland | |
| Jane Hardy is the first Miss Skegness of the season | |
| Suncastle pianist quits after 25 years | |
| Sparky the elephant switches on Illuminations | |
| Man stung by giant jellyfish | |
| Killer cat | |
| Switchback Skegness band – Sid Dennis | |
| Pier head demolished | |
| Suncastle organist presentation | |
| Skeleton of 15 year old girl found at Chapel St Leonards | |
| Remember the old days (goats round Clock tower) | |
| Mystery crash at St Clement’s Church | |
| Pam Curtis and Roger Smith wedding | |
| Horror field death girl | |
| End of the line | |
| New miniature railway | |
| Janice Sutton Wizard of Oz | |
| 1971 | Pier entrance takes shape |
| Warehouse fire Arcadia Road | |
| Missing boy | |
| Cafe Dansant is demolished | |
| Valuable old plate found in drain | |
| Rasmussen’s shop opens | |
| Royal Scott train | |
| Royal Scott train | |
| Jolly Fisherman joins charity walkers | |
| All aboard new miniature railway | |
| RTK supermarket opens Drummond Road | |
| Pier Head, Variety Bar and Information Centre opens | |
| Prince of Wales visits Gibraltar Point nature reserve | |
| Seathorne swimming pool | |
| ‘Jungle’ cleared for police station | |
| Map | |
| Eartha Kit | |
| Space Mission David Nixon Skegness illuminations switch on | |
| RNLI flower display | |
| Planes thrill Skegness | |
| Butlin House to be demolished | |
| John Palmer missing for 6 weeks | |
| Janice Sutton dancer joins the Bluebells in Paris | |
| Parade for sale shock | |
| Crash horror | |
| Palmer mystery phone call | |
| Lion on Algitha Road | |
| Lumley Road of the future | |
| Old Foreshore Kiosks Demolition | |
| Palmer appeal | |
| 1972 | Palmer body found |
| Two die in car crash Hussey and Burton | |
| Butlin House demolished | |
| Fred Clements biography | |
| Astroglide built | |
| Windsor School of Dance | |
| Woman fell through window | |
| Hedley Grunnill | |
| Pop Williams old Skegnessian | |
| Co-Op roof extended | |
| Crisps and Clay Pipes | |
| Rummage sale St Matthew’s Church Hall Ida Road | |
| Firemen’s fancy dress party Parade Hotel | |
| Tramp Party at the Suncastle | |
| Arcadia girders | |
| Local Butcher disappears | |
| Local butcher’s body found | |
| The FIRST astroglide in Skegness (flashback) | |
| Janice Sutton dancers | |
| Murder, blackmail and sex scandal | |
| Friends save woman at sea | |
| Sky Sentinel plans ditched | |
| Ray Clemence | |
| Flipper the nervous dolphin | |
| Lovesick dolphin | |
| Suncastle flood (flashback) | |
| father dies in crash horror | |
| Ulster soldier collars youths in Roof top drama | |
| John Woodward signs £5m contract | |
| Patches disco | |
| Mary the dolphin girl | |
| Girl hides dead baby in her bedroom | |
| Hagworthingham church tower collaspes | |
| Children from Inglewood School Skegness | |
| Downs Syndrome boy falls to his death from Skegness boarding house window | |
| Police station | |
| Train mows down 21 stray sheep | |
| Fire Station completed | |
| Skegness Landladies on Russell Harty TV show | |
| Arcadia theatre gets new switchboard | |
| Parents of Skegness-born famous footballer, Ray Clemente watch their son play on TV | |
| Woman found dead in sea | |
| Chistmas lights switched on in Lumley Square Skegness | |
| Arcadia Theatre saved from demolition | |
| Skegness Lifeboat’s last trip to Lynn Well lightship | |
| 1973 | Michael John Curtis & Linda Nottingham wedding |
| Mauritius pinches our Skegness Jolly Fisherman | |
| Skegness rock band Seasaw member Richard Turland wedding | |
| William Way named after Royal visit | |
| Landladies Larks | |
| New beer machine for Batemans brewery Wainfleet | |
| Janice Sutton dancers | |
| Navy probes into beach bomb find | |
| Natureland gets new van | |
| Skegness Landladies Larks on TV | |
| Coun Harold Fainlight with girl guides | |
| Phone pervert says he’s from Oldrids Boston | |
| Telephone exchange | |
| Fury at Grand Parade hotel building plans | |
| Graham Kerr Seacroft Hotel chef | |
| Frankie Vaughn at Arcadia Theatre | |
| John Woodward launches campaign after daughter diagnosed with cancer | |
| Stand-in lifeboat for Skegness | |
| New Skegness ballet school | |
| Landaus will soon disappear in Skegness | |
| Opening of the Mardi Gras nightclub in Skegness | |
| Scouts make way for the dead at St Clement’s Church graveyard | |
| Dolphinarium disaster | |
| Lion goes for walk on Lumley Road | |
| Indian toy danger | |
| Annie Goose missing mum | |
| Bear mauls circus man | |
| Dore sister drown at Skegness | |
| Scouts master | |
| New police headquarters Park Avenue | |
| Death crash car spun in air | |
| Laundry fire Roman Bank | |
| Ban The Exorcist from the Tower Cinema | |
| Train horror – 21 sheep mowed down and killed | |
| Skyride construction | |
| Mountain Slide and Tarzan Glide | |
| 1974 | Harold Fainlight painting presentation to Skegness Football Club |
| Skegness Landladies Pier Performance | |
| The Thirty Club Castleton Boulevard closes its doors | |
| Memorial clock presented to Arcadia Theatre | |
| Professional footballer Ray Clemencs returns to Skegness | |
| Scouts chief alledged assault on young boy | |
| Cox Ken Holland fires maroon to mark 150 years of Lifeboat | |
| Wedding of Clock Tower builder’s decendant (Curtis) | |
| Jolly its a Knockout cloth | |
| Ode to Winter local poem | |
| Miss Anglia posed for local buisnesses advert pictures | |
| Skegness Urban District Council ceased to exsist, Skegness now becoming part of the East Lindsey District Council | |
| Bay City Rollers at the Variety Bar | |
| Coun Harold Fainlight opers King George V Walk (from Burgh Road to Winthorpe) | |
| Fenland Laundry Plant goes up | |
| It’s a Knockout practice | |
| Bob Kerr is Jolly Fisherman | |
| It’s a Knockout in Skegness | |
| Lion Hotel interior photo | |
| Coun Harold fainlight | |
| Inglewood Private School | |
| Miss Knockout beauty queen | |
| Fire at Butlins Camp | |
| Butlins Princes Building destroyed by fire | |
| Graham Kerr | |
| Patches nightclub reopens | |
| Blaze on High Street | |
| Indian toy danger | |
| Annie Goose missing mum | |
| Double yellow lines on Grand Parade | |
| Bear mauls circus man | |
| Pier crammed with people for Norman Wisdom show | |
| Dore sisters’ tragic drowning | |
| Seacroft train station stationmasters house turned into Pet Crematorium | |
| Scout master sexual assault | |
| Miss Gibraltar, Miss World contestant visits Gibraltar Point Skegness | |
| Janice Sutton dance school opens on Grantham Drive, Skegness | |
| People queuing for bread during national strikes | |
| Gibraltar Point Visitors Centre opened by Richard Attenborough | |
| Skyride erection | |
| Jolly Fisherman Embroidery Cloth | |
| 1975 | Fire at the County Hotel |
| Morley Adams dance school | |
| Exorcist review by John Cowpe | |
| Nude volleyball | |
| Beach ball ‘bombs’ | |
| Baby death mother gets four years jail sentence | |
| Wainfleet Rd houses demolished for one way system | |
| Stewards of the Hildreds Hotel, Seacroft Hotel and the Lilywhites Club | |
| Ray Clemence | |
| Wainfleet Rd houses demolished for one way system | |
| Sky Ride | |
| Parade Hotel DJ | |
| Lion cub at the County Hotel | |
| Old fire station building | |
| Hildreds Hotel becomes a listed building | |
| Sand dig kids cheat death when they’re almost buried alive | |
| Skegness Pottery opens in John Pountney’s garage, Burgh Road (Jackson Shipleys now) (father Frank Pountley) | |
| Firemen rescue fireman from Sky Ride | |
| Beach train introduced | |
| Future of Parade Cinema debated | |
| Crossroads soap star, Amy Turtle switches on Skegness illuminations | |
| Lion cubs at Skegness zoo | |
| Thieves make themselves a cuppa | |
| Mystery sand castles appear on central beach | |
| Cilla’s car makes history on Skegness pier | |
| First female DJ in Skegness | |
| Pier alterations | |
| Skegness pier from the Variety Bar | |
| DJ Emperor Rosco at the Mardi Gras | |
| Removal of the Jungle | |
| Boys save the pier pavilion from fire | |
| Morley Adams dance school | |
| Rasmussen’s fined for selling mouldy chocolates | |
| Councillor Brian O’Connor’s wedding at St Clement’s church | |
| Royal Marines assault course on the Pier field | |
| 1976 | Town brass band |
| Warman School of Dance | |
| First shops in Lumley Road Skegness 1890s | |
| Mobile units supplied by Blue Anchor for government offices on Briar Way | |
| Tower Gardens pond get face lift | |
| Coughing fit may explain death driver (Parker) | |
| Lawn carpark shed building | |
| Norah Canning dance class | |
| Baffling bus shelter | |
| Charles Lane and Frazer | |
| Fire at Tower gardens Pavilion | |
| Last auction at Tower Gardens Pavilion? | |
| Sands Show bar plans | |
| Wainfleet Road one way system | |
| Arcadia Theatre seating renewed | |
| Parade Cinema turned into Penny Arcade | |
| Dolphin medical check-up | |
| Memorial clock in Arcadia Theatre Skegness Playgoers | |
| Gorilla hits holidaymaker | |
| Co-op Arts Group | |
| Look out on the move | |
| Margaret Thatcher childhood in Skegness memories | |
| Church Farm Museum opens | |
| Briar Way Market | |
| Hildred’s Hotel becomes a listed building | |
| Sycamores house on High Street (pull-out supplement) | |
| Woolworths and Skegness shops memories (pull-out supplement) | |
| Alvin Benson fire engine | |
| Morley Adams dance school | |
| Bier Garten staff photo | |
| Guys and Dolls pop group riding on donkeys photo | |
| King Kong Cameraman is jailed | |
| Dog shot dead when it prevent help for dying master | |
| Morris school pupils help out at Church Farm Museum | |
| Sands Showbar staff photo | |
| Skegness Lions Club formation | |
| Church Farm Museum begins construction | |
| Sands Show bar – death of a dream? | |
| Workmen repair Pavilion after blaze | |
| Honeycombed chalets appear on beach | |
| Seacroft Hotel to be turned into a residential home plans | |
| Factory closes | |
| St Matthew’s church interior alterations | |
| Blaze at the Red House | |
| BBC Mending clock at County Hotel | |
| Richmond County Primary School opens on the site of the former Skegness United Football Ground | |
| Parade Cinema becomes the Penny Parade amusement arcade, owner Joe Sales | |
| Exam Fear Girl Suicide Heather Orr | |
| 1977 | Film making in Skegness |
| Thorns on the beach | |
| Ghosts in Skegness Grammar School | |
| Youth on Parade replaces the Landladies Larks | |
| Co-op Art Group Rose Marie production | |
| Wooden box office at Arcadia Theatre demolished | |
| Richmond School opens | |
| Randall | |
| Sid Dennis band | |
| Fry Fred Clements | |
| Stiebel makes Skegness centenary Jolly Fisherman lace | |
| Jolly Fisherman original sculpture presented to Skegness Town Hall | |
| Why was 1977 chosen to celebrate Skegness’ centenary? (pull-out supplement) | |
| Years of growth as a seaside town (pull-out supplement) | |
| Children’s home on Franklin Avenue Skegness | |
| Earl of Scarbrough opens Church Farm Museum | |
| Ray Clemence book signing | |
| New Roman Bank Pottery | |
| Red House demolished | |
| The Thor – vessel rescued by Skegness Lifeboat | |
| Runaway steer is rescued by lifeboat then shot dead | |
| ‘Red House’ demolished | |
| New Arcadia Theatre box office | |
| Centenary stone laid in Compass Gardens | |
| Osbert House | |
| Blue rock – relic of the ice Age? | |
| Billy Butlin’s last visit to Skegness – switched on illuminations. He stayed at County Hotel which was built on the site of his first amusement park | |
| Centenary flashback – Big Dipper | |
| Skegness Barrow Boys (and girls) | |
| Fenland laundry | |
| Auctioneer Fred Scoggins at Pavilion Tower Gardens | |
| Skegness to Boston bus in the 1920s | |
| 1978 | Contraband – Skegness jazz group |
| Old fire engine picture | |
| Pier destroyed by storms (night of January 11th) | |
| Ferret attack | |
| Pet sniffs out cash | |
| Broome family | |
| Pictures of the old firemen in Skegness | |
| Jolly Fisherman Lottery | |
| Tony Benn in Skegness | |
| Burgh brewery | |
| Cyril Smith MP takes a ride in a Landau in Skegness | |
| Barlow’s shop history | |
| New bus station | |
| Former bus station – Drummond Road (closed on 14th May) | |
| Two open-top buses to run on sea front | |
| Firemen strike | |
| Ghost train opens at Bottons Pleasure Beach | |
| Open-top bus shuttle | |
| Drummond Road bus station | |
| Water tower to be demolished | |
| Water Tower to be demolished next year | |
| Aerial view of Skegness | |
| Painting of horse – gift to Skegness hospital | |
| Surfs across the Wash | |
| Traveller’s Wedding in Skegness | |
| Astroliner ride installed on the Pier | |
| Skegness pottery photo of interior | |
| Crossed Wash on Wind Surfer | |
| Removal of seating from the Pier Theatre | |
| Pentecostal Church opens on Lansdowne Road (not photographed) | |
| New pleasure trains on sea front | |
| Wall of Death | |
| Sweet Shop horror ride | |
| Jolly Fisherman Lottery | |
| Warman dance school | |
| Smugglers | |
| Briar Way indoor market wall collapses 2 killed 14 injured | |
| Randall profile | |
| DHSS on Wainfleet Road opens | |
| Cromwell relics found | |
| Skegness Urban District Council dustcart from the 1920s | |
| Old picture of the switchback railway | |
| Gomersall Terrace Then & Now | |
| Statue theft | |
| Tower Cinema changed hands – rebuilt with cinema upstairs | |
| 1979 | Flashback to Sept 1978 – indoor Briar Way market wall collapses |
| Cast Stne works closes down | |
| Changing scene of North Parade | |
| Three cinemas in Skegness (Tower Cinema Closure) | |
| Adeline Lee (fortune teller) reads DJ Pete Murry’s palm | |
| Old reading rooms | |
| New amusement park rides – Zyclon ans Astroliner | |
| Margaret Thatcher’s corner shop | |
| New owner for Skegness Miniature Railway | |
| Zyclon at Bottons amusements | |
| Elsa Barratt retires | |
| Embassy Theatre | |
| New bridge for Tower Gardens | |
| Roman Bank Church closure | |
| Scarbrough Avenue Then & Now | |
| Alford – Sutton steam tramway | |
| Girl struck by lightening Skegness beach | |
| YMCA Then & Now | |
| Derbyshire Children’s home Then & Now | |
| Skegness railway station tea trolly | |
| Skyride Then & Now | |
| Miniature railway then and now | |
| Walk marks Roman Bank Methodist church closure | |
| Local newspapers indexed | |
| Madhouse | |
| Hardacker music shop sold off | |
| Seely House fate | |
| Salvation Army Citadel and Sycamore House old photo | |
| Briar Way building collapse trial verdict | |
| Sea Saw Skegness rock group released an LP record |
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