Skegness Magazine

The Late Mr George Jobson of Horncastle on the After-life
During the mid 1920s the cult of Spiritualim received wide attention of thousands of people from all classes of society evoked by arresting articles in leading newspapers. Interest was fueled by persons of high standing in scientific and other professions openly vowing their belief in Spiritualism [...]

Source: Skegness News 14th September 1927
Boating Lake Illuminations
For the first time in history a portion of the Skegness Foreshore was on Monday evening bathed in electric light.
The effect was certainly excellent and crowds of visitors were attracted to the boating lake, round which festoons of electric light bulbs were suspended.
The enterprise is that of the [...]

Source: Skegness News 1927
Lawrence Wright to buy Water Tower?
Wishes to save it for the Nation
Remarkable Acoustic Properties
Will Mr Lawrence Wright [photo] buy the Water Tower?
This question arises as a result of the famous composer and music publisher’s recent visit to Skegness, during which he voiced the intention of approaching the Skegness Council with a view [...]

Source: Skegness News 1927
A SKEGNESS ZOO
Messrs. Lewis, Son and Fisher have for this season enlarged their exhibition of wild animals on the North Parade, forming the nucleus of what may in time become the Skegness Zoological Gardens. Their scheme is to exhibit specimens of the rarer animals which are not to be seen in the [...]

Source: Skegness News 1927
Beam Wireless between England and Australia, via Skegness, was definitely initiated on Friday last, and on the previous day Mr. L. S. Amery, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, exchanged messages with Mr. Bruce the Prime Minister of Australia, the reply of the latter being “beamed” to Skegness whence it was [...]

Thompson’s Pleasureland Removal from Skegness North Foreshore October 1927
The series of attractions known as “Pleasureland,” which for four years have occupied a considerable section of the North Parade frontage, are being removed from the resort. The decision has arisen out of the agreement made between the Skegness Council and Lord Scarbrough, when the authority purchased [...]

Source: Skegness News 1927
SKEGNESS LAD’S MISFORTUNE
Playing around the Council’s steam-roller while it was backing into Mr Manton’s yard on Sea Road Road on Saturday, little Cyril Kirby, aged nine years, of St. Andrews Drive, had the misfortune to have one foot crushed by the roller.
He was taken to the Cottage Hospital in a car by [...]

My apologies for posting yet another Skegness person’s death, I don’t mean to be morbid, it’s just that an obituary often reveals vital or interesting information!
Remember Blackbourn’s Shoe Shop on Lumley Road, Skegness? It closed down in October 2006 to re-open as Subway Fast Foods. This news story describes the founder of Blackbourn’s Shoe Shop.
We [...]

1927 newspaper advert
Grunnill in Doan’s Back and Kidney Pills Advert
I was taken rather aback when I perchanced on this old newspaper advert for Doan’s B&K Pills as it contained a testimonial from a well-known Skegness family member, Mr M Grunnill.
This brand of analgesic and mild diuretic was advertised and distributed world-wide, so it came somewhat [...]