Skegness Magazine

BAPTISMAL SERVICE AT ST. PAUL’S
The Baptist denomination which purchased St. Paul’s iron church about twelve months since, have now obtained a firm footing in this town, and under the able ministrations of the Rev. Geo. Goodchild, the resident minister, is satisfactorily progressing and gaining a large number of adherents.
The first baptismal service was held on [...]

Home of Rest
A new “Home of Rest” for lady teachers and members of adult classes connected with the Nottingham Sunday School Union was reported officially opened in the 28th July, 1893 edition of The Skegness Herald.
The article described the Rest Home as situated adjacent to Hiley’s Dining Rooms, overlooking the Pleasure Gardens and the Sea. [...]

An Eccentric Visitor
AN eccentric person “blew in ” to Skegness from foreign parts the other day.
He is amusing himself in original and weird ways. He has been seen about the streets arrayed in the head-gear of his maiden aunt, bonnet and pompoms of ancient design. He has ridden a sands pony, urging the animal on [...]

THE Skegness Clock Tower shops’ development, replacing an “eyesore” site in a central seafront position and a smart attractive rounding-off of South Parade and Drummond Road, is a milestone in the growth of a firm of Skegness builders from one-man odd-job man with a handcart to a modern, progressive company employing over 30 workpeople. And [...]

FISH CAFE CLOSED
AFTER being a feature in Lumley Road, Skegness, for almost 38 years, Trevitt’s Fish Cafe has closed.
Mrs. Florence Trevitt, who founded the cafe in 1927 with her late husband, Arthur, has retired, and her son Barry, who has been in the business since 1954, has bought a caravan site at Ingoldmells.
Before 1927 the [...]

Funny Mirrors Go Automatic
THE long, the short and the tall—in the laughter trade in the past it was all done by mirrors.” But now it can be all done by ONE mirror with the invention of two Skegness businessmen.
The idea to revolutionise that popular funfair attraction, the Hall of Mirrors, came to local business partners [...]

Historical Find
A BURIAL chamber which a Burgh man dug up at the bottom of his orchard is thought to be a relic of the Roman occupation of England.
The “find,” unearthed by Mr. Henry Sanderson, of Cock-hill House, Burgh, is being investigated by archaeological experts from Lincoln.
The chamber consisted of over a dozen baked clay tiles. [...]

When Adam Faith got a letter from eight-year-old Malcolm Wardle, 46 Castleton Boulevard, Skegness, asking if it would be possible for Malcolm’s mother to take him to the stage-door of the Arcadia Theatre in his wheelchair for Adam’s autograph, Mr. Faith went one better and paid a surprise visit on the young boy with the [...]

WHEN Skegness’ long-awaited “Dancing Waters ” show opened on Monday, few of the audience realised that behind the scenes the brains and money of two continents had combined to give them the spectacle. For the technicians behind the display are two Germans, father and son, Herr Paul Meuller and Herr Hans Joachim Meuller, both working [...]

SKEGNESS LEADS THE COUNTRY
Butlin’s get first-ever monorail at a cost of £50,000
BRITAIN’S first-ever monorail went into action this week at Butlin’s Holiday Camp, Skegness—at a cost of £50,000. The idea has been based on a similar structure featured in America’s ” Disneyland.”
Although it is The Butlin Monorail, Skegness has a certain amount of claim for [...]