Skegness Magazine

Death of Mr George Morley
Thirty-four Years a Local Tradesman
Source: Alford, Mablethorpe and Skegness News 1916

It is with sincere regret that we this week chronicle the death of Mr George Morley, of Algitha House, Skegness, which occurred at his residence shortly after noon on Friday last.
Whilst the news was heard with gereral regret it did not [...]

Here is an old photograph which revived many memories and when published locally in 1939, interested not only those who are depicted but also a great many more who knew or were associated with the “young life” of Skegness in the days of the war.
It is a photograph of the pupils and staff of the [...]

A rather nasty accident occurred on a Tuesday morning in 1919 to Mr Richard Heaton. It appears he was standing on a small roof cleaning the windows of the Council Chambers when his foot slipped and he rolled along the roof into a fanlight in the conservatory which gave way and he fell a distance [...]

A shocking gun accident occurred at Spilsby last Wednesday evening, a little boy named Jacky Dodds, son of Mr Leslie Dods, a Spilsby ironmonger, being accidentally shot by Mr J H Goodhand, a painter of that town.
It appears that the latter has an old shed in his garden in “Blind Lane” just outside the town. [...]

Miraculous Escapes
Exciting Adventures of a Former Skegnessian
Many men have met with exciting experiences, ashore and afloat, since the outbreak of war, yet we question whether those “enjoyed” by Mr Albert Tippet, a brother of Mr V H Tippet, Assistant Clerk to the Skegness Council, do not deserve a high place.
We give below a brief outline [...]

Those Rumours
Coun S Moody said persistent rumours were being circulated to the effect that all Skegness inhabitants had received orders to leave the coast and proceed inland. Only that afternoon a telephone message had come through asking if the family of one of their Councillors was safe.
Last summer they enjoyed a good August because Coun [...]

Lost Hats
It is rumoured that 47 people lost their hats in Skegness last Saturday night. Well, we saw more than one who had got a “tin hat” on!
Source: Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News 1916

Blown Up by a Mine
Sad Fate of a Skegness Young Man
Only Two of Crew Saved
Deep sorrow entered another Skegness house last week, when the sad tidings reached here of the death of Mr Hira Grunnill son of Mrs E Grunnill of 3 Sea View Terrace, who was killed whilst serving his country “Somewhere in the [...]

Roll of Honour
In distant climes lie many brave,
Far from the spot they thought to rest,
Often, no mark to point their grave,
Or rude cross of wood at best.
No shells of elm their bones enclose,
Nor pillowed is their wearied head;
Their winding-sheet is but their clothes
Blood-stained in war: heroic dead!
Why death claimed them, and others spared
To pass unscathed, [...]

Simply Hell on Earth
Skegness Man’s Account of Huge Bombardment
[Extract from letter from Sergt. G. A. Forsyth (son of D. C. Forsyth, of Holyrood, St. Andrew's Drive, Skegness and London).]
16/12/1916
Dear Mother, – This is the first real opportunity I have had of writing for nearly a week, as we are now back in camp. We moved [...]