2000s

Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com

2000

Jolly Fisherman logo used without permission
Crash on Lumley Road – car mounts pavement
Resort has a face lift
Formation of new Skegness Society (formerly Skegness Forum) Lumley Lodge crisis
Wind farm installed at Skegness Grammar School
Marine Boathouse pub glass canopy plans proposal
More about the new Skegness Society
Bank holiday disaster as the whole of Skegness is left without water
Grays Amusement tragedy – child killed
Blocked chimney in Scarbrough Ave flat causes death tragedy
New open air swimming pool opens behind Embassy Theatre
John Woodward bids for prime location spots in Skegness
Reopening of Tower Gardens
Jolly Fisherman poster in dispute
John Woodward bids for Festival Pavilion Skegness foreshore
Cynthia Lakin memorial bench
Oddessy Millennium ride at Fantasy Island introduced
Wall of Death
Flashback to 1937 Rector of Stiffkey
Major White – North Parade extension
Skegness Society declared an official charity
Skegness Society calls for Loo Closure talks
National fuel crisis hits Skegness
John Woodward bids for Millennium Dome in London
Dead frog in Walkers crisps packet horror
Butlin’s Memories by former chalet girl, Ivy
Butlin’s sold to Bourne Leisure
Stuck in the mud Skegness beach drama
New hope for Millennium Dome on Lincolnshire coast
Skegness Stadium gutted by blaze
Fury as Millennium Dome plans are hijacked
Future of Festival Pavilion – should it be demolished?
Fire at Sid Dennis scrap yard
Gale damage
Swans and wildlife hit by oil leak from local factory
Underground Victorian toilets closure Hildred’s square
Save Our Toilets call
Great gypsy invasion Skegness foreshore closes in Christmas holidays

2001

Mystery creature spotted in Skegness boating lake
Victorian underground toilets demolition threat
Richmond Drive pumping station demolition threat
Sex shop plans cause concern
Could the pumping station be turned into a community hall, not demolished
Flower beds crime
Anger at sex shop license
Runaway boy drowns in Skegness boating lake
Editor’s son reports on 9/11 twin towers bombing in America
Auction for 9/11 USA bombing tragedy
McDonnalds fast foods to open at Bottons Pleasure Beach Skegness
Skegness man in M4 hostage drama
Medal for lifeboat hero
Thieves steal from elderly and attack nurse at Skegness hospital
Armed robbery at Winthorpe
Churchill Avenue before Manorcrest development
People watched man die in rescue bid Ingoldmells Point drowning
Dune pub, Winthorpe, barmaid in bath of baked beans for Children in Need charity
Anthrax scare
Council gay comments cause outrage

2002

Tragic death of Cheryl Miles
Seathorne Methodist Chapel community centre
Skegness band – old picture
Big Breakfast Show Tennyson Green
Mrs Fisher becomes Richmond School headmistress
Bateman’s Theatre of Beers
Gordon Hawkins builds kiosks outside Hildreds Shopping Centre
Plans for Grand Parade car park
Fred Dibnah paints Fantasy Island ride
Duke rides in Fantasy Island rollercoaster
Battle for Town Hall by Skegness Civic Society
Royal ballet star
Skegness Town Hall under threat
Gas explosion at laundrette
Fire at Sid Dennis scrap yard
Kirks butchers online
Xsite skatepark plans
History Jolly Glass
Meadows stone unveiling
Ram raiders at Oscars designer clothes shop
Concern over children’s web use at Skegness library
Staff at Copper Kettle restaurant
Work starts on Southview Leisure Park
Couple share Standard’s birthday
Bride on motorcycle
Battle to get Kentucky Fried Chicken clock working
John Woodward Fantasy Island ride
New head for Skegness Infant School
The Lion Statue
Skegness Civic Society
Christmas lights switch on
Christmas Cracker fancy dress
Coastal Academy Link area colleges
Beach oil mystery
Embassy mural
Xmas Tree Festival

2003

Memories of a bomb attack
Malcolm France is new rector for Skegness
Lumley Road railings replaced
Floods feature
Skegness school photo class of 1955
Gwen Louch 100th birthday
Dead man washed up on beach
Mystery objects
Floods plaque dedication
Crash kills three
Byford complaint
Body on beach identified
Wartime bomb memories
Sea wall tribute flowers
Storrs petrol pumps Wainfleet
Light shed on mystery object
Ram raiders
Fairy Dell sketch by Harold Fainlight
Steibels to close
Woodward in trouble for Fantasy Island advert on roadside van
High Street shops gutted by fire
Fire at Chapel
Community officers
Car hits pedestrian on Sea Lane Ingoldmells
Thugs attack man
Funeral carriage
Burning pub
WW1 rifle handed in at police amnesty
Keystone Cops-style chase after runaway horse
Man kidnapped
Tufty Gordon at Theresa and Byron’s dance school
Harvey’s wine bar opens
Ballot papers
Hanging
Death
Julie Stevens dancers
Stowaway
Floating amusement park
School headmistress
Ill-feeling at Skegness Infant school
Carnival queen
Stationmaster’s house
Arson Heath Road factory
Crusade to save historic bricks Wainfleet Methodist School
Graham Road allottment fires
School head suspended
More about stabbing
More about stabbing
Jolly Fisherman welly paddle
Barber Bill Brown retires
Crisis-hit school gets new head Skegness Infants
Two hurt in train crash
Grunnill honoured citizen
Cassie Graham charity
Big cat sighting
Bomb canisters removed
David Briggs speaks out on Black Cat
Stationmaster’s house
Calendar girls Dunes Pub Winthorpe
Shelter loss anger
Clock Tower keys returned to Skegness
Janice Sutton dancers
Superdrug raise money for charity

2005

Cows shot after straying onto train line
Hildred’s shopping centre wins award
Gas alert at Hildred’s shopping centre
Sharks off Skegness beach fears
Byford appeals for photographer, Alec Manning information
Hallway to Dance tribute to Disney show at Embassy Theatre
Protest re Lucy Bellamy killed at Winthorpe
Fun at Burgh Hall – Peter Ireland dressed up as Jolly Fisherman
Kite surfing
Lincolnshire light railway
Royal visit to East Kirkby Aviation Centre – Duke of Gloucester
WW2 re-enactment Church Farm Museum
World record jet-skiers arrive back at Winthorpe Skegness
New flag for Lincolnshire
Parents find drugs in Wainfleet child’s bag after drug-sniffer god demo at Butlins
Armed robbery Bookers cash and carry
Skegness Art Club paint murals at train station
Janet Mosley singing audition on the phone
Artificial flowers banned on graves in St Clements
Cost for using Jolly Fisherman logo
Mysterious circles drawn around dog foulings
Cemetery flower ban put on hold
Local ghost stories
New Years Eve Skegness
Victorian Steam Thresher
Victorian Blacksmith
Doggie Christmas Party and Fancy Dress
The Late Raymond Baxter OBE of Tomorrow’s World
World War 2 Lancaster Bomber Taxi Run Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum
WW2 Aircraft Recovered Wreckage
WW2 Lee Enfield Rifle Re-enactment
Victorian Blacksmith Video
Steam Train Ludborough Railway Heritage Museum England
Skegness Christmas Lights Switch On
University of the Third Age Cinderella
St Nicholas Church Addlethorpe near Skegness Lincolnshire