Skegness Magazine

Source: Skegness News 1952

Photo : Clarrie Walker, Briar Way, Skegness.

35 YEARS WITH SKEGNESS GAS UNDERTAKING
Mr. J. L. FORSTER, a Skegness Gasworks employee for something like 35 years, receives a handsome dressing case, sub scribed for by staff members, at the hands of Mr. L. B. Chapman, manager of the Skegness Group of Gas Undertakings.
The presentation was made at Skegness on Saturday to mark Mr. Forster’s retirement, and
consisted of a very fine toilet case.

Mr Forster commenced employment as a gas fitter at the Skegness gasworks —then owned and conducted by the Skegness Council on his return from munitions work during the 1914-18 war.

His association with the Skegness undertaking, however, goes back much further than that, as he was a son of an early Skegness gas manager and was actually born at the gasworks. Prior to going to munitions work in the first world war, he was employed as manager of two smaller undertakings at Burgh and Gosberton.

Gasworks Manager, John Naylor Forster’ Grave St Clement’s Church Skegness

Mr Forster (above) can be found living with his father and the rest of his family at the Skegness Gasworks on the 1891 census below (click to enlarge)

Skegness Gas Works Photo