1990s
1990s
Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com
Updated: 16/1/2010
SH = Skegness Herald
SN = Skegness News
SS = Skegness Standard
SMA = Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News
SM = Skegness Magazine (skegnessvideo.com)
| 1990 | 5/1 | SS | Skegness Market founder dies |
| 19/1 | SS | First stone laid at new lifeboat station Tower Esplanade Skegness | |
| 19/1 | SS | Secretary Mrs Pollock retires from Richmond Primary School | |
| 2/2 | SS | Storm damage | |
| 9/2 | SS | Driver crashes into Clock Tower Island | |
| 16/3 | SS | Michelle Pell is Best Boots Girl | |
| 23/3 | SS | Poll Tax protest demonstration | |
| 23/3 | SS | Embassy Centre | |
| 30/3 | SS | Skegness textiles | |
| 13/4 | SS | Corky’s wine bar | |
| 27/4 | SS | Sea defenses | |
| 4/5 | SS | Roman Relics unearthed at Water Leisure Park | |
| 4/5 | SS | Turbos Disco | |
| 18/5 | SS | Church Farm Museum gets post box | |
| 15/6 | SS | Beauty shop | |
| 15/6 | SS | Nasty phone call – Turbos? | |
| 15/6 | SS | Elderly driver in tears | |
| 15/6 | SS | Lumley Road | |
| 6/7 | SS | Bells of St Clement’s | |
| 6/7 | SS | Drummond Road wool shop | |
| 20/7 | SS | Two die in plane crash | |
| 27/7 | SS | Funding sought for sea defenses | |
| 27/7 | SS | High Street pictures | |
| 10/8 | SS | Richmond school children at Skegness library | |
| 17/8 | SS | Bus shelter falls on boy | |
| 31/8 | SS | Girls – water fountain | |
| 7/9 | SS | Skegness brewery picture | |
| 28/12 | SS | Bombs away | |
| 1991 | 25/1 | St Vincent Wine Cellar set on fire Drummond Road | |
| 22/2 | Barn dismantled for transportation to Church Farm Museum | ||
| 3/5 | Pier Super bowl installed | ||
| 26/7 | Meccano exhibition at Festival Pavilion | ||
| 16/8 | Animal cruelty – neglected dog abandoned at Chapel St Leonards | ||
| 8/11 | Harrington Hall gutted by fire | ||
| 1992 | 3/1 | Harrington Hall restoration | |
| 17/1 | Beach defenses | ||
| 7/2 | New Scarbrough Avenue road sign spelt wrong | ||
| 20/3 | Carnival Queen punch-up | ||
| 3/7 | Tribute park bench to Betty Fainlight | ||
| 21/8 | Letter to local toddler from Princess Diana | ||
| 21/8 | Sex scandal Skegness woman has sex with young school boys | ||
| 18/9 | Lifeboat charity pull | ||
| 2/10 | Seacroft hotel being built picture | ||
| 9/10 | Local business woman robbed of £10,000 outside Midland Bank Skegness | ||
| 9/10 | RNLI recover WW2 aircraft propellor offshore Skegness | ||
| 16/10 | Dogs die in car blaze Arcadia car park | ||
| 13/11 | Skegness couple mugged on Miami holiday | ||
| 11/12 | Skegness Labour Party pit strike demonstration | ||
| 11/12 | Local missing toddler Ben Needham saves father from Sheffield courts | ||
| 1993 | 15/1 | SS | Flood sirens axed |
| 29/1 | SS | Floods flashback | |
| 12/2 | SS | Robbery at Co-op | |
| 19/3 | SS | Weekly fireworks display doomed | |
| 2/4 | SS | Memorial bench for Esther Ward | |
| 2/4 | SS | Jolly Fisherman steam train | |
| 9/4 | SS | Earl of Scarbrough opens Lindsey Blind Lumley Avenue | |
| 9/4 | SS | Nude beach plans | |
| 16/4 | SS | Jolly Fisherman steam train | |
| 30/7 | SS | Model lifeboat made | |
| 15/10 | SS | Boots bid to boost town shopping | |
| 15/10 | SS | Council board outside the Co-op | |
| 22/10 | SS | Shamed Carnival Queen | |
| 1994 | 28/1 | Diane Brealey’s painted Jolly Fisherman models | |
| 11/2 | Nudist beach | ||
| 11/3 | Leigonaires club folds up | ||
| 25/3 | Was there a MRS Jolly Fisherman? | ||
| 15/4 | Virgin for Queen? | ||
| 29/4 | Drowning accident | ||
| 29/4 | Pavilion, Tower Gardens is a Grade 2 listed building | ||
| 6/5 | The first person to be saved by the ambucopter | ||
| 10/6 | New miniature tramway | ||
| 22/7 | Councillor hurt in attack | ||
| 22/7 | Ride to Terror | ||
| 29/7 | Sex scandal victim found hanging | ||
| 5/8 | Man found hanging | ||
| 12/8 | New theme park at Ingoldmells | ||
| 30/9 | Adult weekend at Butlins | ||
| 11/11 | Adult weekend at Butlins | ||
| 18/11 | Man hanged himself when mum died | ||
| 25/11 | Future of Tower Gardens Pavilion | ||
| 25/11 | Woman vagrant in seafront sun shelter appears in court | ||
| 2/12 | Man hangs himself when mother dies | ||
| Splattergram fun ends in fracas | |||
| Kids Burn in Holiday Nightmare | |||
| 1995 | 20/1 | Richard Branson Virgin airship rescued by Skegness lifeboat | |
| 10/2 | Fantasy Island pyramid installed | ||
| 24/2 | Skegness girl in public phone box in a bikini in winter – TV show | ||
| 3/3 | Abseilers at Fantasy Island | ||
| 23/6 | oil slick on Skegness boating lake | ||
| 28/7 | Salvation Army Citadel built on High Street | ||
| 25/8 | Drugs abuse at the Zoo rave nightclub Fantasy Island | ||
| 25/8 | Jolly Fisherman poster carnival | ||
| 1/9 | Ex-servicemens club bids for original Jolly Fisherman poster | ||
| 15/9 | Objections to funeral parlour on Roman Bank | ||
| 6/10 | The Zoo rave nightclub Fantasy Island | ||
| 13/10 | Woodward buys heritage Jolly Fisherman poster | ||
| 17/11 | Woman sets fire to Skegness guesthouse | ||
| 24/11 | Welcome home. Jolly – Jolly Fisherman poster returns to Skegness | ||
| Kids Burn in Holiday Nightmare | |||
| 1996 | 1/3 | SS | Sex attacker escapes jail |
| 15/3 | SS | Compass Gardens Jolly Fisherman statue new water feature | |
| 124 | SS | Male shop assistant exposes himself when schoolgirls buy sweets | |
| 12/4 | SS | The Jolly Fisherman exposed | |
| 12/4 | SS | Public toilets row Skegness town council and East Lindsey district council | |
| 19/4 | SS | Ecstasy drug seller at Fantasy Island rave is jailed | |
| 19/4 | SS | Son brutally tortures mother | |
| 31/5 | SS | Jolly Fisherman statue ’shrinks’ on new water feature, letter to editor | |
| 31/5 | SS | Ghostly goings-on at Hildred’s jewelers | |
| 14/6 | SS | Man cleared of indecency towards shchoolgirls | |
| 5/7 | SS | Anniversary of Jolly Fisherman poster | |
| 19/7 | SS | Barry McGuigan switches on Skegness illuminations | |
| 19/7 | SS | Storm brewing for proposed new Skegness weather station | |
| 9/8 | SS | A new theme song for Skegness seaside resort | |
| 16/8 | SS | Trapped in drain horror | |
| 30/8 | SS | Skegness’ past characters in cartoon, flash back to 1936 | |
| 6/9 | SS | New weather centre for Skegness artist impression | |
| 20/9 | SS | Council says ‘NO’ to Zoo rave signs | |
| SS | The origins of the Standard Local Newspaper plus pictures of press printers (supplement) | ||
| 4/10 | SS | John Woodward presented with Jolly Fisherman statue for donating original Jolly Fisherman poster to Skegness Council | |
| 4/10 | SS | Jolly Fisherman painting in the Mayor’s Parlour Skegness town hall | |
| 18/10 | SS | UFO sighting at Gibraltar Point Skegness | |
| 1/11 | SS | Old Woolworths photo taken in Skegness, shop and staff | |
| 8/11 | SS | Man jailed after beating son with wood | |
| 8/11 | SS | Human fireball gas blast Drummond Road | |
| 29/11 | SS | The Lion pub is sold to Wetherspoons | |
| 29/11 | SS | The Street nightclub to replace roller rink on North Parade Skegness | |
| 6/12 | SS | Les Sharpe motor car repair advert | |
| 13/12 | SS | Woman abusive towards police | |
| 1997 | 21/1 | SS | Water feature not so Jolly (statue in Compass Gardens) |
| 21/2 | SS | Queen’s portrait donated to Skegness Town Council erected in council chambers | |
| 14/2 | SS | ‘Drain Deaths’ unlawful killing verdict | |
| 23/5 | SS | The Street – new nightclub for Skegness | |
| 6/6 | SS | Ghosts in the unused Post Office building | |
| 13/6 | SS | NO MORE RAVES! Woodward destroys Zoo sign after drugs death at rave nightclub | |
| 2/5 | SS | Sex sneak jailed after secretly filming up a girl’s skirt | |
| 1/8 | SS | NO to Street laser lights | |
| 4/4 | SS | The Grunnill family history story | |
| 27/6 | SS | Millenium ride – John Woodward | |
| 27/6 | SS | Knife attack on shop manager | |
| 27/6 | SS | The Street to get ‘laser lights’ | |
| 27/6 | SS | Local disabled woman in Skegness beach quicksand ordeal | |
| SS | Cooks butchers and other old Skegness photos in the special supplement | ||
| 4/7 | SS | ‘Grey Lady’ ghost haunts Wainfleet museum library | |
| 4/7 | SS | Laser lights problems for The Street nightclub | |
| 4/7 | SS | New design fo Jolly Fisherman water feature Compass Gardens | |
| 4/7 | SS | Missing stone lion statue found | |
| 11/7 | SS | Petrol dowsing threat at DHSS benefits office | |
| 11/7 | SS | Street laser lights – threat to wildlife fears | |
| 17/7 | SS | Zoo rave nightclub teenager Ecstacy tablets | |
| 25/7 | SS | Illuminations switch on by Chuckle Brothers | |
| 25/7 | SS | Dogs horror wounds | |
| 25/7 | SS | Four held at gunpoint at Skegness Hotel | |
| 8/8 | SS | The Street nightclub laser light fury | |
| 15/8 | SS | The Street nightclub laser light opposition | |
| 29/8 | SS | Mayor of Skegness poses with topless ‘Daily Sport’ models | |
| 5/9 | SS | Bouquets laid in memory of Princess Diana | |
| 5/9 | SS | Paedophiles in Skegness outrage | |
| 3/10 | SS | Vicious rumours – The Street is NOT closing! | |
| 31/10 | SS | Baby died in parents’ bed | |
| 7/11 | SS | Stone lion disappears from Red Lion Hotel Roman Bank | |
| 14/11 | SS | Underground loos closure fears | |
| 14/11 | SS | Woman’s body found in Tower Gardens | |
| 21/11 | SS | Woman’s body found in Tower Gardens | |
| 5/12 | SS | Laser light plans for The Street | |
| 19/12 | SS | Jolly Fishermans 90th birthday celebrations | |
| 26/12 | SS | Advert for The Street nightclub | |
| Zoo Rave Nightclub sign smashed by owner after drugs deaths | |||
| 1998 | 2/1 | Jolly Fisherman promotes Bateman’s Beer | |
| /1 | Majors Stationary shop closes after more than 100 years trading | ||
| 23/1 | Butlins Gaiety Theatre demolished | ||
| 27/2 | Local bar manager ‘groping’ charge | ||
| 27/2 | Skegness infants school demolished | ||
| Mar | Sayer’s Jewellrey shop closes after over 100 years trading | ||
| 15/5 | Jolly’s head removed reveals a ’star’ | ||
| 24/7 | Skegness illuminations switched on by Corrie star, Ken Barlow | ||
| 24/7 | Spider and ladybird plague in Skegness | ||
| 14/8 | Sex and controversy hits The Street nightclub in Skegness | ||
| 21/8 | Fire at the Marine Boathouse nightclub in Skegness | ||
| 11/9 | Letter to the editor “Where has the Stone Lion Statue gone?” | ||
| 16/10 | Time capsule to mark Clock Tower 100 years anniversary | ||
| 23/10 | Time capsule to mark Clock Tower 100 years anniversary “see you in 2028″ | ||
| 23/10 | Gay man kicked out of Salvation Army | ||
| 4/12 | Mark De’ath guilty of possessing cannabis resin | ||
| 25/12 | Jolly Fisherman looks ‘cool’ in sunglasses | ||
| 1999 | 1/1 | Bedsit teenager dies from alcohol and drugs mix |
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| 8/1 | Boy murdered on Skegness beach Christopher Swales | ||
| 15/ | Gun-point robbery Spa shop Winthorpe | ||
| 15/1 | Skyline Pavilion Butlins | ||
| 22/1 | World Champion snooker player Willie Thorne meets Skegness Mayor | ||
| 26/2 | Boy murdered on Skegness beach Christopher Swales | ||
| 19/3 | Pensioner gets young schoolgirl girl pregnant | ||
| 26/3 | Janice Sutton officially opens Squirrels nursery | ||
| 26/3 | Man fakes suicide on Skegness beach | ||
| 23/4 | Historical Skegness Town Plans 1878 go under the hammer | ||
| 23/4 | High Street in 1999 (photo) | ||
| 7/5 | Coun Bob Stow dies | ||
| 7/5 | Wall of Death | ||
| 21/5 | Truck crashes into Burgh butchers shop | ||
| 21/5 | Beach Bar opens | ||
| 11/6 | Pier View Hotel (Oasis amusement arcade) gets make-over | ||
| 11/6 | Twister hits Skegness | ||
| 18/6 | Curtis bakery opens on Lumley Road Skegness | ||
| 4/6 | Pictures of the Beach Bar opening | ||
| 25/6 | Donkeys run amok in Skegness | ||
| 2/7 | John Woodward’s son gets (real) train set for third birthday | ||
| 16/7 | Mum seduces 11-year-old | ||
| 16/7 | Jolly is turned down a TV make-over | ||
| 22/7 | Local author, Margaret Dickinson asked to write a Skegness Millenium Play | ||
| 23/7 | Mum seduces 11-year-old (follow-up) | ||
| Lowndes reburbished | |||
| 20/8 | Clock Tower 100th Birthday Celebrations | ||
| 10/9 | Paedophile lures child with playstation | ||
| 10/9 | Local plumber found dead | ||
| 10/9 | Nude sunbather distresses children | ||
| 1/10 | Mum seduces 11-year-old – walks free from court | ||
| 1/10 | Tower Gardens – history repeats itself | ||
| 12/11 | Boy murdered on Skegness beach Christopher Swales (follow-up) | ||
| Dec | Millenium Bug |
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