Penny Parade for an Old Cinema
Source: Skegness Standard 12th April 1976
Photo: Wrates Studios
For as long as anyone can remember Skegness councillors have fought to preserve a different character on the west side of the parades from that on the east.
Amusements went on the foreshore, leaving the front’s mixture of hotels, guesthouses, shops, clubs and restaurants.
But after an appeal, the owners of the defunct Parade Cinema managed to get permission to turn it into an amusement arcade. This is what it looks like now under its new guise of the Penny Parade.
THE PARADE CINEMA. yes I have watched a few films there in the past, and at one time they held a school choir contest and I was in this representing the Lumley school believe it or not. It didn’t really suit me though – didn’t do much singing just moved my mouth pretending lol.
…probably just as well – I’ve heard you sing!