Skegness Magazine

Source: Skegness Herald 1883

Execution at Lincoln
James Anderson, 50 years of age, was hanged at Lincoln in February 1883 for the murder of his wife at East Ferry, near Gainsborough, in the previous December.
In a quarrel between the parties Anderson struck his wife, then stabbed her in the throat with his pocket-knife. The jugular vein was severed, and the [...]

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Mr Ensor, the lessee of these Gardens, is providing great attractions for visitors at Whitsuntide and during the season. A fine specimen of the Bactrian Camel arrived here on Saturday last and will be kept in the gardens for the entertainment of the public.
A four-wheeled waggonette capable of accommodating about a [...]

Source: Skegness Herald 1883
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CHILD
On Thursday evening last week a sad accident occurred to a child three and a half years old, named Thomas Henry Hatfield, residing with his parents in High-street.
He was at play with another child in Pollard’s-yard. He had climbed a low wall from which he fell, pulling the [...]

Source: Skegness Herald 1883
THE ROOF OF ST. MATTHEW’S CHURCH
The roof of the south aisle of St. Matthew’s Church has for some weeks past been in such a state as to render it dangerous for anyone to sit underneath it, and consequently this portion of the church has not been used.
The church wardens have now fixed [...]

Source: Skegness Herald 1883
FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT SKEGNESS.
A gloom has been cast over this town by the lamentable accident which occurred here on Saturday afternoon last, and which resulted in the loss of one life and the narrow escape of many others from an untimely death. About half-past nine o’clock on Saturday morning nearly 200 [...]

Source: Skegness Herald 1883
PURE water is essential to the health of a community, and it is of the greatest importance that a town so circumstanced as our own should have an abundant supply of it.
To this end the managers of our waterworks have for some time past devoted their attention.
The strata here, however, are [...]

Source: Skegness Herald 1883
This news article from an 1883 issue of the Skegness Herald newspaper gives the best description I have yet encountered of the Victorian baths in Scarbrough Avenue, Skegness.
THE NEW TURKISH, HOT AND COLD BATHS
We have been favoured with an inspection of the new hot, cold, swimming and Turkish baths, which have been [...]

THE EARL of SCARBROUGH BRICK and TILE WORKS
These works, which are situated on the Wainfleet Road, and not from the railway station, are now in full swing.
Brick making operations commenced last week, and upwards of one hundred thousand bricks are already made ready for the kilns. Fires in these were lighted yesterday (’Thursday) for the [...]

Source: Skegness Herald 1883
THE SKEGNESS POLICE STATION
This new station which is situated on the Roman Bank has just been completed and Inspector Watkin has taken up his residence in the same.
At the Petty Sessions at Spilsby, on Monday, our new station was appointed to be used as
one of the occasional court-houses, where cases it may [...]