Skegness Magazine

This extract from a local newspaper beautifully illustrates the cryptic methods the press employed in covering news stories during the war.
Specific places where enemy activity had occurred were not mentioned by name, but cryptic clues were given so that readers (local people) could not fail to guess the exact location.
For example, Skegness is referred to below as a “bracing Lincolnshire seaside resort”, and the North Shore Golf Course is described as “the northern extremity of a golf course which lies near the shore”.
I have found many of these cryptic clues to locations whilst researching for this website, and I will post them in due course.

November 1940
INCENDIARY BOMBS DESCEND ON BRACING RESORT
NO SERIOUS DAMAGE

Three or four incendiary bombs were dropped around the outskirts of a bracing Lincolnshire seaside resort, soon after darkness fell, on an evening during the weekend which has just passed.
One dropped near a garage on which considerable reliance has always been placed, and another dropped in an open field near the northern extremity of a golf course which lies near the shore.
The bombs broke into a bright green glare, but speedily burnt themselves out without doing any damage.
One boy’s hand was slightly burned while taking prompt steps to quench the flames which spurted from the bomb.