Skegness Magazine

The Skegness Herald printed transcripts of the monthly Local Board meeting and from these it is possible to piece together part of the history of Skegness.
The following is a transcript from a Local Board discussion about the piece of land, and the lamp and fountain, in front of the Lumley Hotel near the railway station [...]

Skegness Herald 1888
Death of First Local Board Chairman Col Iremonger
Sudden Death of Colonel Iremonger, the first ‘Mayor of Skegness’, or Chairman of the Board, as the position was then called.
Great gloom has been cast over Skegness by the sudden death of Col Iremonger, chairman of the Local Board, which sad event took place about a [...]

MEMORIAL WINDOW TO THE LATE COLONEL IREMONGER, the First Mayor of Skegness in St Matthew’s Church Skegness
Source: Skegness Herald 21st December 1888
The relatives of the late Colonel Iremonger have just placed a handsome stained-glass window in the east end of the south aisle of St. Matthew’s Church, in memory of the gallant colonel.
There are [...]

Skegness Herald 1888
PERILOUS VOYAGE IN A CANOE
On Saturday last Mr. Fieldsend, proprietor of the museum on the beach near the pier, experienced a very unpleasant trip in a canoe. It appears that he left the beach in one of these small craft -with a view to securing a few sea gulls.
Unfortunately he ventured too far [...]

Source: Skegness Herald 1888
ENGLISH NEW YEAR SUPERSTITIONS
At Christmas parties in the country the young men have the privilege of kissing any of the opposite sex they can got hold of.When Sir Roger de Coverly is danced the chief guests are expected to dance with the cook and butler.
All peacock feathers must be thrown out before [...]