1980s
1980s
Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com
| 1980 | Fravigar’s sweet shop birthday celebration |
| Then and Now Lumley Road | |
| Co-Op extension | |
| Grandways built | |
| Cartoon drawings of local people | |
| Addlethorpe church bells down for renovation | |
| Island put in centre of Lumley Road | |
| Then & Now Cecil Avenue | |
| Wrates photography business rescued | |
| Then & Now Pier | |
| Then & Now Mr Snaps photography shop Tonglet Corner | |
| Then & Now Shades Pub | |
| Artists impression Embassy pool | |
| Then & Now Figure 8 amusements | |
| Trike for hire with adverts | |
| St Mathew’s Church hall for sale | |
| Then & Now Grosvenor Road | |
| Then & Now Lumley Hotel | |
| Then & Now Bus on Seafront | |
| Then & Now Clock Tower | |
| Then & Now Vine Hotel | |
| High tide walkway collapses | |
| Grunnill obituary | |
| Then & Now High Street | |
| Then & Now Railway Station | |
| 1981 | Roller Rink |
| Then & Now Pier Mitchells | |
| Restoration work at St Matthew’s church Skegness | |
| Shardelos Road spelling differs on two road signs | |
| Jolly Fisherman in Australia | |
| Changing face of Lumley Road | |
| Local farmer’s shotgun death | |
| Nat West Then and Now | |
| Lion Hotel centenery | |
| ‘The Park’ Then and Now | |
| UFO spotted in Tennyson Green Skegness | |
| Old Spilsby Town football club1882 team photo | |
| Police hunt for gunman | |
| Graham Bonnett back with parents in Skegness | |
| Franklin Avenue Skegness Then and Now | |
| Graham Bonnett gets married | |
| View of damaged pier from the Zyclon amusement ride | |
| The Sands Then and Now | |
| Water tower demolition | |
| High Street Skegness Then and Now | |
| Fire destroys Skegness Morris school records | |
| Woodward Hawkins Tower cinema | |
| Bomb hoax at Skegness lifeboat station | |
| Last births at Skegness Hospital | |
| Tower Cinema Then and Now | |
| Cyclone boy death | |
| Skegness Photographer Alfred Wrate found hanged | |
| Another incident at the Cyclone | |
| Verdict on boy’s Cyclone death | |
| Morris School Mural | |
| Bonnet with parents | |
| 1982 | Pensioner dies after falling on a lamp |
| Embassy Tea Rooms demolished | |
| Mystery ship starts a scare | |
| Work starts on the Ice Palace, Winter Gardens | |
| ‘The Warren’ Gibraltar Point | |
| Then and Now Hildred’s Hotel | |
| Then and Now Gibraltar Point | |
| Then and Now Seaview Hotel | |
| Methodist Church extension | |
| Pools | |
| The ‘Jungle’ is cleared | |
| More about The Jungle | |
| Vandals smash the stone lion statue outside the Lion Hotel | |
| Then and Now Drummond Road post office | |
| Face of the Embassy changes shape | |
| Then and Now Royal Oak Terrace Winthorpe | |
| Then and Now Richmond Drive | |
| Skegness dairy? | |
| Then and Now National School Roman Bank Skegness | |
| Jolly Fisherman railway sign up for auction | |
| Embassy new shell takes shape | |
| 50 years ago – Crawshaw | |
| Lion statue restored | |
| Winter Garden ice skating rink opens | |
| About Roman Bank Skegness | |
| Arcadia Theatre feature | |
| Boer War – Victorian Graffiti Burgh le Marsh Train Station | |
| Advertising drum slammed – It’s a Knockout | |
| Gracie Field’s gift | |
| Shoe Shine Man | |
| 1983 | Sea defenses after the 1953 flood |
| Brickyard chimney demolished | |
| remember 1882 tea gardens – Tony Blackburn -camels | |
| Chalets Princes Parade | |
| Freak whirlwind Nottingham Poor Girls Home (flashback to 1910) | |
| Gales Lumley Road | |
| Pirate ship built at Botton’s amusements | |
| Then & Now sporting takeover | |
| Margaret Dickinson local author | |
| Jolly in nails | |
| Mystery photo | |
| Local Board | |
| Pavilion | |
| Gales Ingoldmells caravans strewn over | |
| Jolly Fisherman Winscale Nuclear Fallout on Skegness beach | |
| Railings promenade by Winston Kime | |
| Pier rebuilt | |
| Lincoln Imp | |
| Lincoln Imp | |
| Panton brothers Lancaster Bomber East Kirkby | |
| 1984 | Camels back in Skegness |
| Map of the foreshore | |
| Helicopter ditches in sea | |
| Standard’s chief reporter rescued by lifeboat | |
| Lawn car park to be a supermarket | |
| Castleton Boulevard ‘new house’ | |
| Moody’s Glass present pane of glass to Grunnill | |
| Barn donated to Church Farm Museum | |
| Hildred’s Hotel to be demolished | |
| Paul Gooch | |
| Hildreds | |
| Susan Kirk | |
| Pandas Palace announcement | |
| The Hall Roman Bank feature in light of coming demolition | |
| Arcadia Theatre | |
| Jolly Fisherman pub closes on Grand Parade | |
| Festival Pavilion dance floor | |
| Hotels | |
| Tower disco | |
| Fountain | |
| Last effort to save Arcadia Theatre | |
| 1893 sea disaster | |
| Steam laundry – Granways | |
| Past and present | |
| 1985 | Indoor swimming pool picture |
| Camels on Skegness beach | |
| Then & Now North Parade | |
| Princes Parade chalets demolished | |
| Then & Now Seacroft School and Social Services office | |
| Blue Anchor Fabrications auctioned off | |
| Nudist beaches introduced | |
| Whale washed up at Gibraltar Point | |
| Nostalgic look at North Parade | |
| Festival Pavilion takes shape | |
| Scarbrough Avenue baths | |
| Aerial view of Winthorpe | |
| Embassy booking agents get together Jolly Fisherman | |
| School flashback to 50s | |
| Helicopter ditched in sea | |
| WW2 Street Party in Skegness | |
| Disco fever in Skegness | |
| Suncastle playground opens (Jolly Fisherman) | |
| Tommy Tuft (of Tufty’s Wine Bar) | |
| Earl of Scarbrough opens hospital extension | |
| Ashley Wass young Skegness piano player | |
| Quicksand horror Jackson’s Corner Winthorpe | |
| Warning signs erected re above | |
| Pier Disco and Variety Bar advertisements | |
| Engineers new technology for laying gas mains | |
| Then & Now Ralphs Shop Co-op chemist Roman Bank | |
| Oldest street in Skegness High Street flash back | |
| Then & Now North Parade social club – roller rink | |
| Pier theatre destroyed by fire | |
| Then & Now adverts for local businesses | |
| Probe into the Pier inferno | |
| Pier – final blaze of glory | |
| Freak whirlwind hits Skegness Grammar school | |
| Arcadia Theatre ‘For Sale’ | |
| Look back on old Skegness cattle market | |
| Flashback to c1904 Orient Boys College | |
| Old 1912 picture of Tower Esplanade Skegness | |
| 1986 | Arcadia Theatre new owner |
| Old Pavilion flash back | |
| Shades Pub refurbished | |
| Work on St Matthew’s church roof | |
| TCs Nightspot opens in Skegness | |
| Wall of Death | |
| Panda’s Palace opens | |
| John Hassall at his easel | |
| Lion Shopping Centre Picture – storm damage | |
| A look back at Gibraltar Point | |
| Roman Bank Hall to be turned into a supermarket? | |
| Big Apple ride built at Bottons Pleasure Beach | |
| Sky Dive collapses at Fun City Amusement Park Skegness | |
| Yachting on the beach – old photo | |
| Old picture of Edinburgh Avenue | |
| Cowpe becomes editor of the Skegness Standard | |
| Murdered Young Skegness Schoolgirl | |
| Worker injured after Wrates wall collapses | |
| 1987 | Police step up murder hunt |
| Nora Burley high flying exploits | |
| Police seek youths in murder mystery | |
| Lion shopping centre picture | |
| Pier damaged by high tides | |
| Youth faces murder charge | |
| Hildreds Hotel to be demolished | |
| Hildreds Hotel to be demolished | |
| Richmond caravan park pool built | |
| Post Office | |
| Body at Gibraltar Point | |
| Roman Bank Hall set to become a supermarket | |
| The Hall Roman Bank | |
| Pavilion show piece | |
| Pink Elephant nightclub opens | |
| Hildreds Hotel Jolly makes symbolic blow of destruction | |
| Bail on murder charge | |
| Miss Wet T-shirt TCs nightclub | |
| Didn’t do it claim | |
| Big Apple ride built at Botton’s Amusement Park | |
| TCs one year old | |
| Hildreds Hotel (site before demolition) | |
| Skyride Collapses Skegness Amusements | |
| Yachting on Skegness beach picture | |
| Old picture of Edinburgh Avenue | |
| Hildreds | |
| 1988 | Hildred’s Hotel in the light of demolition |
| Dovecote at ‘The Hall’ Roman Bank recently demolished | |
| Hildreds – paving the way | |
| The Hall Roman Bank – history | |
| Memories of Gibraltar Point | |
| Jolly Fisherman opens Gateways in new Hildred’s Shopping Centre | |
| Derelict stalls at Arcadia Theatre | |
| Jolly Fisherman poster – John Hassall | |
| Hildred’s given Edwardian touch | |
| Jolly Fisherman in marathon | |
| Radio Skeggy | |
| Harry’s Cafe opens on Roman Bank | |
| Tony’s fish and chip shop retractable canopy defies planning permission | |
| Embassy indoor pool construction | |
| Demolition of the Hall begins on Roman Bank | |
| Excursion Jolly Fisherman steam train and poster | |
| Mayor’s plea – “don’t pull our town to pieces” | |
| Night out at Hildreds Hotel | |
| Sea monster riddle solved | |
| Hildred’s demolition picture | |
| Charles Fred Grantham lifeboat back after refit | |
| Lumley Hotel before current refurbishment picture | |
| Photo of the Dovecote at the Hall Roman Bank | |
| Jolly Fisherman advertises Hamlet cigars | |
| 1989 | Earl accused of blackmail |
| Mitchell rides – takeover | |
| Kissogram for Mayor of Skegness Coun Harold Fainlight | |
| Embassy indoor pool whilst being built | |
| Car crash at Clock Tower | |
| Variety Bar interior photo | |
| Church procession photo (showing Major’s) | |
| Coun Fainlight unveils Jolly Fisherman Statue Compass Gardens | |
| Victorian wooden sun house from Cricket ground transported to Church Farm Museum | |
| Jolly Fisherman statue unveiled at the train station | |
| Old Vine tree lopped down Dutch Elm Disease | |
| Skegness Boat People (Richmond dancers) at lifeboat station Drummond Road | |
| Suicide at Gibraltar Point | |
| Feathers fly after parrot dies | |
| Skegness Grammar School first to go grant maintained | |
| Young girls on Hen Night – on donkeys | |
| Earthquake survivor | |
| Bus crash (Miles) | |
| Story of Granny’s Opening Thrice Mayor, Coun Sam Moody cuts barricade wire, subsequent court hearing. | |
| Donkey man, Sid Sewell dies | |
| Pictures from the Past | |
| Andrew & John Kirk butchers | |
| Penny all the way sea front bus | |
| Cost of honeycombed chalets demolition | |
| Earl of Scarbrough’s letter to Earl of Scarbrough school pupil | |
| Man injured after Crown hotel fire tumble | |
| Orlando Santini Tudor Pub plans | |
| Jolly Fisherman statue unveiled in Compass Gardens | |
| Jolly Fisherman Statue positioned at train station | |
| New open top bus arrives | |
| St Clement’s church bell down for repair | |
| Ben Hardaker bans saucy snaps from his photo shop | |
| Artist impression of Sutton Court housing development Skegness | |
| Richmond School June Day Jaunt videos | |
| Lithograph pictures of old Skegness | |
| St Clement’s church bell | |
| Picture of High Street in 1860 and 1900 | |
| Buy a Brick new lifeboat house | |
| Jolly Fisherman in PANTYHOSE! |
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