Skegness Development

Written by Angela Gooch on August 10th, 2007 in Tourist Attractions, Town evolution.

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Source: Skegness Standard 15th December 1965

Photos: Norman Beckett

Looking as if it has been hit by a busy building boom, whatever the state of the national enonomy, Skegness is apparently determined to have something new to offer when th 1966 visitors make their welcome appearance.
Dutton’s bookshop gives way to a supermarket in Lumley Road. The old house (and more recently the fish-and-ship basement) at the corner of Drummond Road and South Parade, by the Clock Tower, becomes shops and an amusement arcade. And here we picture two other rapidly changing sites…
What was formerly the Butlin amusement park and now is Botton Bros, ditto is being prepaped fot its new look. The northern side has been opened up by the demolition of the buildings within the long concrete wall that used to face the Pier Arcade. Bulldozers and hammers are flattening and leveling the site.

Site Skegness front cleared for amusement park

The old Town Hall has gone at last. Now the Fire Station is revealed in unexpectedly fragile isolation, and the hose-tower is suddenly seen to have a leg to stand on, The site is being prepared for shops and offices.

old Skegness fire station

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The hose-tower still remains today, though the old Skegness Fire station has gone, to be replaced by Vesta House. The building in the left background is the old Central Hall, now the bingo hall.