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Video New Year’s Eve Skegness 2007

New Year is nearly upon us and if you’re partying in Skegness fancy dress is a MUST so get planning NOW!

You can be sure we’ll be out and about in the Skegness pubs and nightclubs snapping the party revellers and we promise we’ll bring you our best ever pictures this year!

Meanwhile let’s look back at the last couple of New Year’s Eve Big Nights Out in Skegness:

Photos New Year’s Eve in Skegness Pubs and Nightclubs Fancy Dress

New Year Celebrations 2005 in Skegness

The seaside town of Skegness is very popular over Christmas and New Year. Traditionally, all the party goers don fancy dress on New Year’s Eve and head for a good night out in the pubs and night clubs.
Skegness Video captured some of the fancy dress outfits on camcorder.

The resort was ‘buzzing’ with pretty girls, we snapped some busy bees as they were making a beeline for the nearest pub!

Hey! we’re videoing nights in Skegness not Arabian Nights!

Unemployed now until next year, Santa joined in the celebrations. He looked very plump! Must be all those mince pies!

We approached a passing policeman asking him if he had any comments on the New Year’s Eve celebrations. He said he didn’t want to be filmed as he was a fire arms officer often working in anti terrorist areas. He commented that the evening was going smoothly and wished every one an enjoyable evening and a Happy New Year!

As the magical hour approached, revellers flocked to the Clocktower Monument to see in the New Year.

The Clock stikes 12!
Every one cheers, kisses abound! Whoops of joy and shouts of ‘Happy New Year!’

The patroling Policemen had just one more gruelling job to endure - new year kisses from the girls! Must be a terrible job!

Skegness Christmas Illuminations switch on 2007 by Lincs FM John Marshall

Photos of Christmas in Skegness

Meanwhile let’s revisit the Christmas lights switch on of 2005:

The townsfolk of Skegness enjoyed an evening of fun when the town’s 2005 Christmas Illuminations were switched on by Lincs FM Presenter John Marshall.

The Procession was led by the Mayor of Skegness, Coun Brian O’connor, in his stretched Limo. The Carnival Queen, the Carnival Princess and Princess Rosebud accompanied him in the car, closely followed by an illuminated train provided by Butlins.

The procession worked its way up Lumley Road to the Hildred’s Shopping Centre where the crowd was eagerly awaiting.

On the podium the Mayor of Skegness welcomed the spectators, The emblem of Skegness, The Jolly Fisherman looked on.

Mr Mayor then handed over to Lincs FM Presenter, John Marshall who did the countdown 10 9 8 …..3 2 1 and the Christmas Illuminations were switched on in Skegness!

The people of Skegness danced to Slade’s ‘Merry Christmas’ and they whooped with delight when the ’snow’ fell.

Santa then moved into his grotto ready to take orders for this year’s Christmas Presents!

John Marshall was first in line to see Santa, then the Mayor lodged his Christmas Present List.

Celebrations continued inside the Hildred’s Shopping Centre with the Withern Singers treating spectators to a medley of Christmas songs including ‘Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer’

Local shops joined in the festivities.

Skegness Superdrug gave the regular staff the evening off, replacing them by Santa
and his Elves!

Video of the Christmas Illuminations switch on in Skegness 2005

The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway is the only standard gauge steam railway in Lincolnshire which is open to the public. The location is part of the original Great Northern Railway, which opened in 1848. Currently the line stretches from Ludborough to North Thoresby, and more track is planned as funds permit. The highlight of the museum’s exhibits is the recreation of the yesteryear Steam Engine. The video shows firstly the Engine Driver stoking the fire. Here he is shoveling in the coal….

….which soon gets the fires roaring

The train driver gives a short demonstration of the levers and instruments and then with a final Whoo! Whoo!…….. ….the steam engine chugs off over the level crossing and down the line pulling its passenger coaches.

below: the levers in the signal box

above - the old level crossing controls

Initial construction of the boating lake commenced in 1924. This is illustrated in the first photo, which was taken in 1924 but appeared in the newspaper in 1932 as a flashback.

The second picture of the Norman Arch with the Lincoln Imp aloft appeared in the Skegness Standard in 1929.

The photo below is taken from the same perspective as the original newspaper picture above, as close as I could get without paddling!

The structure has remained the same, allbeit more profuse in flora.I tried to find evidence of the ‘Lincoln Imp [left] perched aloft’, as described in the newspaper caption.
We examined the south side of the Norman Arch, emulating the original perspective.
I saw no evidence of the Lincoln Imp here.

Do YOU know where the Lincoln Imp is? Is he still on the boating lake? What happened to him?

I will be photographing the north side of the arch shortly to discover if he is ‘perched aloft’ there!

Update
We inspected the south side of the Norman Arch on the boating lake.
No signs of the elusive Lincoln Imp! There is a triangular ‘heading stone’ over the arch which seems to suggest some importance.

Curiously, zooming into a picture of the northern side of the arch, we can see two wall plugs just to the right of the main stone.

I was initially looking for an image of the Imp carved into the stone, but it’s been suggested to me that the then council would have been unlikely to extend to this expense, More likely the Lincoln Imp would have been a plaque.
I must say that this does fit in with the screw holes in the picture below.
So was the Lincoln Imp removed? Stolen? Help, please!

This photo is of the extreme south end of the boating lake extension. The landing stage for the boats, as described in the old newspaper article, has now been removed. You can see the remnants of it in the right foreground.

This photograph illustrates the present day beauty of the boating lake.
Of course the Clock Tower, peeping from the background, has witnessed it all…

Mirrored in the Lake
The next newspaper article, as I recall, appeared in a 1932 Skegness Standard.
The write-up explains a dilemma that I had in tracing the exact location of a postcard scene which was donated by the Mayor of Skegness, Coun Phil Kemp.
The article reads ‘[on the boating lake there is] an island, on which is to be laid a floral representation of the Skegness Jolly Fisherman….a magic lantern was installed on a platform installed in the bed of the boating lake, and a greatly magnified slide of the Fisherman was projected onto the island, the idea being to outline the figure with pegs preparatory to planting the various flowers.’ The article continues ‘the design will be about 17 feet in length … and should be extremely effective’.

So judge for yourself - scroll down and see the finished design as it appears on the Mayor’s postcard…

Skegness Jolly Fisherman Floral Representation with the logo ‘Skegness is so Bracing’.

Image kindly supplied by the Mayor of Skegness, Coun Phil Kemp
Extra confirmation of the location of the postcards was found in the Skegness News 17th August 1932.
The photograph below was taken by Mr J H Banks of Nottingham as an entry the the Butlins Photographic Competition.

Local author, Margaret Dickinson, real name Margaret Muggerson, has her first novel published by Robert Hale.
Miss Dickinson went on to be a successful authoress and the photograph of her below was taken recently with the Earl of Scarbrough at the Royal Renaissance Hotel in Skegness.

Below is a picture of Margaret Dickinson as appeared in the Skegness Standard when her first book was published in 1968. You’ll notice the small mechanical typewriter peculiar to the era - a far cry from the modern day computer.

Margaret’s first novel was ‘Pride of the Courtneys’, a historical romance set in 19th century Yorkshire. The authoress worked at the Skegness district education offices and wrote the book in her spare time. The book took her about three years to write.”Reading trends are like trends in fashion in that they change rapidly”, she told the Standard, “But there is always a steady demand for historical romances”.
The original transcript is lodged at the Skegness library in their local history collection.