1980s News & History
1980s Skegness News
| 1980 | 11/1 | Fravigar’s sweet shop birthday celebration |
| 11/1 | Then and Now Lumley Road | |
| 18/1 | Co-Op extension | |
| 29/2 | Grandways built | |
| 7/3 | Cartoon drawings of local people | |
| 4/4 | Addlethorpe church bells down for renovation | |
| 9/5 | Island put in centre of Lumley Road | |
| 23/5 | Then & Now Cecil Avenue | |
| 6/6 | Wrates photography business rescued | |
| 6/6 | Then & Now Pier | |
| 20/6 | Then & Now Mr Snaps photography shop | |
| 27/6 | Then & Now Shades Pub | |
| 1/8 | Artists impression Embassy pool | |
| 15/8 | Then & Now Figure 8 amusements | |
| 5/9 | Trike for hire with adverts | |
| 26/9 | St Mathew’s Church hall for sale | |
| 26/9 | Then & Now Grosvenor Road | |
| 10/10 | Then & Now Lumley Hotel | |
| 10/10 | Then & Now Bus on Seafront | |
| 17/10 | Then & Now Clock Tower | |
| 24/10 | Then & Now Vine Hotel | |
| 31/10 | High tide walkway collapses | |
| 7/11 | Grunnill obituary | |
| 14/11 | Then & Now High Street | |
| 5/12 | Then & Now Railway Station | |
| 1981 | 9/1 | Roller Rink |
| 16\1 | Then & Now Pier Mitchells | |
| 1982 | 1/1 | Pensioner dies after falling on a lamp |
| 22/1 | Embassy Tea Rooms demolished | |
| 12/2 | Mystery ship starts a scare | |
| 12/2 | Work starts on the Ice Palace, Winter Gardens | |
| 12/2 | ‘The Warren’ Gibraltar Point | |
| 19/2 | Then and Now Hildred’s Hotel | |
| 26/2 | Then and Now Gibraltar Point | |
| 12/3 | Then and Now Seaview Hotel | |
| March | Methodist Church extension | |
| March | Pools | |
| 19/3 | The ‘Jungle’ is cleared | |
| March | More about The Jungle | |
| 2/4 | Vandals smash the stone lion statue outside the Lion Hotel | |
| 2/4 | Then and Now Drummond Road post office | |
| 2/4 | Face of the Embassy changes shape | |
| 9/4 | Then and Now Royal Oak Terrace Winthorpe | |
| 16/4 | Then and Now Richmond Drive | |
| April | Skegness dairy? | |
| 23/4 | Then and Now National School Roman Bank Skegness | |
| 23/4 | Jolly Fisherman poster up for auction | |
| May | Embassy new shell takes shape | |
| May | 50 years ago - Crawshaw | |
| 14/5 | Lion statue restored | |
| 14/5 | Winter Garden ice skating rink opens | |
| May | About Roman Bank Skegness | |
| 4/6 | Arcadia Theatre feature | |
| 23/7 | Boer War - Victorian Graffiti Burgh le Marsh Train Station | |
| 30/7 | Advertising drum slammed - It’s a Knockout | |
| 7/12 | Gracie Field’s gift | |
| 1983 | January | Sea defenses after the 1953 flood |
| 7/1 | Brickyard chimney demolished | |
| 7/1 | remember 1882 tea gardens - Tony Blackburn -camels | |
| January | Chalets Princes Parade | |
| 28/1 | Freak whirlwind Nottingham Poor Girls Home | |
| 4/2 | Gales Lumley Road | |
| 11/2 | Pirate ship built at Botton’s amusements | |
| 11/2 | Then & Now sporting takeover | |
| 18/2 | Margaret Dickinson local author | |
| 25/2 | Jolly in nails | |
| February | Mystery photo | |
| February | Local Board | |
| February | Pavilion | |
| 20/1 | Gales Ingoldmells caravans strewn over | |
| 27/1 | Jolly Fisherman Winscale Nuclear Fallout on Skegness beach | |
| 27/1 | Railings promenade by Winston Kime | |
| 3/2 | Pier rebuilt | |
| 3/2 | Lincoln Imp | |
| 24/2 | Lincoln Imp | |
| 2/3 | Panton brothers Lancaster Bomber East Kirkby | |
| 1984 | ||
| 3/7 | Camels back in Skegness | |
| 20/7 | Map of the foreshore | |
| 27/7 | Helicopter ditches in sea | |
| 3/8 | Standard’s chief reporter rescued by lifeboat | |
| 17/8 | Lawn car park to be a supermarket | |
| 17/8 | Castleton Boulevard ‘new house’ | |
| 17/8 | Moody’s Glass present pane of glass to Grunnill | |
| 24/8 | Barn donated to Church Farm Museum | |
| 31/8 | Hildred’s Hotel to be demolished | |
| 21/9 | Paul Gooch | |
| 28/9 | Hildreds | |
| 28/9 | Susan Kirk | |
| 5/10 | Pandas Palace announcement | |
| 5/10 | The Hall Roman Bank feature in light of coming demolition | |
| 19/10 | Arcadia Theatre | |
| 19/10 | Jolly Fisherman pub closes on Grand Parade | |
| 26/10 | Festival Pavilion dance floor | |
| 9/11 | Hotels | |
| 27/11 | Tower disco | |
| 27/11 | Fountain | |
| 7/12 | Last effort to save Arcadia Theatre | |
| 7/12 | 1893 sea disaster | |
| 7/12 | Steam laundry - Granways | |
| 18/12 | Past and present | |
| St Matthew’s church hall auctioned | ||
| 1985 | 15/1 | Indoor swimming pool picture |
| 18/1 | Camels on Skegness beach | |
| 22/1 | Then & Now North Parade | |
| 25/1 | Princes Parade chalets demolished | |
| 12/2 | Then & Now Seacroft School and Social Services office | |
| 15/2 | Blue Anchor Fabrications auctioned off | |
| 15/2 | Nudist beaches introduced | |
| 6/3 | Whale washed up at Gibraltar Point | |
| 13/3 | Nostalgic look at North Parade | |
| 15/3 | Festival Pavilion takes shape | |
| 20/3 | Scarbrough Avenue baths | |
| 17/4 | Aerial view of Winthorpe | |
| 19/4 | Embassy booking agents get together Jolly Fisherman | |
| 10/5 | School flashback to 50s | |
| 22/5 | Helicopter ditched in sea | |
| 22/5 | WW2 Street Party in Skegness | |
| 28/6 | Disco fever in Skegness | |
| 3/7 | Suncastle playground opens (Jolly Fisherman) | |
| 5/7 | Tommy Tuft (of Tufty’s Wine Bar) | |
| 12/7 | Earl of Scarbrough opens hospital extension | |
| 19/7 | Ashley Wass young Skegness piano player | |
| 9/8 | Quicksand horror Jackson’s Corner Winthorpe | |
| 16/8 | Warning signs erected re above | |
| Pier Disco and Variety Bar advertisements | ||
| 23/8 | Engineers new technology for laying gas mains | |
| 11/9 | Then & Now Ralphs Shop Co-op chemist Roman Bank | |
| 4/10 | Oldest street in Skegness High Street flash back | |
| 18/10 | Then & Now North Parade social club - roller rink | |
| 3/10 | Pier theatre destroyed by fire | |
| 30/10 | Then & Now adverts for local businesses | |
| 1/11 | Probe into the Pier inferno | |
| 6/11 | Pier - final blaze of glory | |
| 8/11 | Freak whirlwind hits Skegness Grammar school | |
| 6/12 | Arcadia Theatre ‘For Sale’ | |
| 6/12 | Look back on old Skegness cattle market | |
| 1986 | 28/2 | Arcadia Theatre new owner |
| 28/2 | Old Pavilion flash back | |
| 18/4 | Shades Pub refurbished | |
| 16/5 | Work on St Matthew’s church roof | |
| 16/5 | TCs Nightspot opens in Skegness | |
| 30/5 | Wall of Death | |
| 30/5 | Panda’s Palace opens | |
| 8/8 | John Hassall at his easel | |
| 21/8 | Lion Shopping Centre Picture - storm damage | |
| 28/2 | A look back at Gibraltar Point | |
| 4/2 | Roman Bank Hall to be turned into a supermarket? | |
| 29/4 | Big Apple ride built at Bottons Pleasure Beach | |
| 29/7 | Sky Dive collapses at Fun City Amusement Park Skegness | |
| 30/9 | Yachting on the beach - old photo | |
| 20/10 | Old picture of Edinburgh Avenue | |
| 1987 | 23/1 | Pier damaged by high tides |
| 30/1 | Hildreds Hotel to be demolished | |
| 6/2 | Hildreds Hotel to be demolished | |
| 13/2 | Richmond caravan park pool built | |
| 20/2 | Post Office | |
| 6/3 | The Hall Roman Bank | |
| 6/3 | Pavilion show piece | |
| 6/3 | Pink Elephant nightclub opens | |
| 27/3 | Hildreds Hotel Jolly makes symbolic blow of destruction | |
| 29/5 | Hildreds Hotel (site before demolition) | |
| 20/11 | Hildreds | |
| 1988 | 29/1 | Hildred’s Hotel in the light of demolition |
| 5/2 | Dovecote at ‘The Hall’ Roman Bank recently demolished | |
| 26/2 | Hildreds - paving the way | |
| 26/2 | The Hall Roman Bank - history | |
| 1/4 | Jolly Fisherman opens Gateways in new Hildred’s Shopping Centre | |
| 8/4 | Derelict stalls at Arcadia Theatre | |
| 29/4 | Jolly Fisherman poster - John Hassall | |
| 6/5 | Hildred’s given Edwardian touch | |
| 13/5 | Jolly Fisherman in marathon | |
| 1/7 | Radio Skeggy | |
| 19/8 | Harry’s Cafe opens on Roman Bank | |
| 2/9 | Tony’s fish and chip shop retractable canopy defies planning permission | |
| 16/9 | Embassy indoor pool construction | |
| 3/2 | Demolition of the Hall begins on Roman Bank | |
| 3/2 | Excursion Jolly Fisherman steam train and poster | |
| 24/2 | Mayor’s plea - “don’t pull our town to pieces” | |
| 2/3 | Night out at Hildreds Hotel | |
| 30/3 | Charles Fred Grantham lifeboat back after refit | |
| 30/3 | Lumley Hotel before current refurbishment picture | |
| 27/4 | Photo of the Dovecote at the Hall Roman Bank | |
| 24/8 | Jolly Fisherman advertises Hamlet cigars | |
| 1989 | 17/2 | Kissogram for Coun Harold Fainlight |
| 3/3 | Embassy indoor pool whilst being built | |
| 24/3 | Car crash at Clock Tower | |
| 24/3 | Variety Bar interior photo | |
| 12/5 | Coun Fainlight unveils Jolly Fisherman Statue Compass Gardens | |
| 19/5 | Victorian wooden sun house from Cricket ground transported to Church Farm Museum | |
| 26/5 | Jolly Fisherman statue unveiled at the train station | |
| 7/7 | Skegness Boat People (Richmond dancers) at lifeboat station Drummond Road | |
| 15/9 | Young girls on Hen Night - on donkeys | |
| 1/12 | Story of Granny’s Opening Thrice Mayor, Coun Sam Moody cuts barricade wire, subsequent court hearing. | |
| 1/2 | Pictures from the Past | |
| 22/2 | Andrew & John Kirk butchers | |
| 8/3 | Penny all the way sea front bus | |
| 8/3 | Cost of honeycombed chalets demolition | |
| 12/4 | Earl of Scarbrough’s letter to Earl of Scarbrough school pupil | |
| 19/4 | Man injured after Crown hotel fire tumble | |
| 17/5 | Orlando Santini Tudor Pub plans | |
| 17/5 | Jolly Fisherman statue unveiled in Compass Gardens | |
| 24/5 | Jolly Fisherman Statue positioned at train station | |
| 24/5 | New open top bus arrives | |
| 24/5 | St Clement’s church bell down for repair | |
| 24/5 | Ben Hardaker bans saucy snaps from his photo shop | |
| 31/5 | Artist impression of Sutton Court housing development Skegness | |
| 28/6 | Lithograph pictures of old Skegness | |
| 5/7 | St Clement’s church bell | |
| Picture of High Street in 1860 and 1900 | ||
| 4/10 | Buy a Brick new lifeboat house | |
| 15/11 | Jolly Fisherman in PANTYHOSE! |
