Skegness Magazine

Did you know that in 1904 the only building between the Methodist Church on the north side of Algitha Road and Rutland Road, Skegness was the Orient Boys College?

The photo shows the college in the left foreground, and we’re looking towards Tower Gardens on Rutland Road.

The Orient College for Boys was bombed in World War 2, and since then offices and a doctors’ surgery have been built.

The bottom picture was taken around 1985 and shows the Methodist Church car park disappearing off the left of the photo, and today one of the buildings shown is Freasons Solicitors.

Orient College (1906 Skegness Herald)
The College was opened on the 23rd February 1906, when a good number of pupils put in an appearance. It is at the special request of numerous friends that Mr Boyer has removed his school from Gosberton Hall where it has been located since 1864 and where it has been one of the most successful schools in Lincolnshire. Before removing, every enquiry was made, and Skegness was decided upon as a place highly reccommended by the medical faculty for children on account of its health-giving properties, and as being remarkably free from epidemics.
Hundreds of boys have passed through Gosberton Hall School, many of whom now occupy honourable positions in various walks of life.
The College situated in Algitha Road, has recently undergone extensive structural alterations, and has been decorated throughout by the eminent firm of decorators, Messers John Walker and Sons, of Lincoln and Skegness, so that now there is every facility for carrying on an excellent educational work, a need for which this school has already attained, and the success which has attended it unineterruptedly for nearly a century, may be maintained.