Skegness Magazine

DEATH AT SKEGNESS
INQUEST ADJOURNED FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS
The death occurred with tragic suddenness Thursday last of Percy Harescough, bookeeper, of the Seacroft Garage, Skegness, and an inquiry into the Town Hall on Friday last by Dr. the cause of death was opened at the F. J. Walker, Coroner for the District sitting without a jury.
Robert B. [...]

Former Skegness Man’s Fate
Body Found Floating in French Dock
Year-old Mystery Solved
Almost a year after death, the body of an Englishman found floating in a dock at Boulogne was identifed in 1924 as that of Skegness hotel proprietor, Mr Francis William Naylor, aged 62.
Mr Nayor, who was well known in Skegness as the proprietor of Hildred’s [...]

The report of the Spilsby Brewster Sessions, occupying nearly three pages of an old Skegness newspaper issue in 1923, was taken down wholly in Dutton Shorthand, the invention of our fellow townsman, Mr Reginald J G Dutton.
The great feature of the system, the newspaper reported, is that a practical business speed can be obtained in [...]

Source: Skegness News 14th November 1923
Various news articles appeared in the local newspapers regarding the erection of a War Memorial to the Fallen in Skegness:
WAR MEMORIAL – ORDER GIVEN FOR ITS ERECTION
After a long delay the suggested Public Memorial to the, Skegness men who died in the Great War will become an accomplished fact.
Since the [...]

Source: Skegness News 1923
Lucky Black Cat for Baby
PRINCESS MARY ACCEPTS GIFT from SKEGNESS GIRL
MISS KITTIE HOUGHTON, a clerk at the Skegness Farmers’ Dairy Company, has made a splendid wool black cat and sent it to Princess Mary as a gift to her son.
The following kind expression has been received by Miss Houghton:
The Lady in Waiting [...]

1923

On the afternoon of Saturday last; October 20th, the Rev. William Gerrish, Master of Magdalen College School, Wainfleet, peacefully passed away in his apartments at the above school.
Seventy eight years of age, he had been in failing health for the past two years, though he still continued with his work in connection with the school.
During [...]