Skegness Magazine

Source: Skegness Standard 30th July 1942

Skegness Hotel Accident

About 3 o’clock on Monday morning a Skegness police sergeant on night duty heard a crash of breaking glass and screams emanating from the rear of the Lion Hotel, and on rushing to the spot he found a woman lying on the concrete floor among shattered glass.
The victim of the unfortunate accident was Miss Jessica Cook, aged 20, who same from Hull a few weeks ago to take up employment as a barmaid at the Lion Hotel.
She occupied a bedroom on the top floor of the north side of the hotel, and in her fall from the window she crashed through the glass roof which covers the whole of the yard and converts it into a garage for customers’ cars.
A telephone message was sent from the post office nearby to the police station, and within a few minutes two other police officers were on the scene. The sergeant and these superintended the removal of the young lady to hospital by motor ambulance. She had, of course, sustained injuries including laceration by glass. Probably, however, these injuries would have been much more severe, or even fatal, but for the fact that her fall had been partly broken by the heap of sandbags which surrounded a cellar window directly beneath the bedroom window.
Yesterday her condition was reported to be ‘comfortable’. At the moment it has not been established how she came to fall out of the window.

Photo below show the window of the Lion Hotel through which the young girl fell, and the cellar, which at the time was surrounded by sandbags, where she lay injured.