Skegness Magazine

MYSTERY OF SKEGNESS POLICEMAN’S DEATH
WHAT CAUSED MOTOR CYCLE TO BURST INTO FLAMES ?
MOTOR ENGINEER’S THEORY
DECEASED’S COMRADE COMPLIMENTED BY CORONER’S JURY
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A public inquiry into the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of Police Constable Walter Mapleson, a native of 11, Henry Street, Lincoln, and stationed at Skegness, who died on Wednesday last as the result of burns [...]

UNUSUAL SUICIDE CASE AT SKEGNESS.
Fruit Hawker Collapses and Dies in Police Station.
“I HAVE TAKEN 200 ASPIRINS.”
Fatal Sequel to a Fit of Depression.
How a Skegness fruit hawker committed suicide by the unusual method of swallowing a large number of aspirin tablets was related at an inquest on the death of George Bricknell, aged 41, living in [...]

Strange Provision in Disputed Will
BON-FIRE BEQUEST FOR HORNCASTLE
Echo of French Invasion Scare
The remarkable will of the late Mr. George Jobson, of Aden Villas, Horncastle, who died last year, contained a bequest of a certain sum of money for “the provision of a bonfire every fifth of November for the amusement of the children and townspeople [...]

Season’s Foreshore Litter
4,958 SACKS OF WASTE PAPER
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Coun. R. J. G. Dutton presided over the monthly meeting of the Foreshore Committee, held in the Parish Hall last week.
The Sands Inspector (Mr. T. P. Smith) reported that the total takings of the Foreshore Conveniences amounted to £848, and Hawkers’ Licences £110. The respective figures for the previous [...]

Two rare photographs of Butlins Amusements on North Parade,  Skegness.
The pictures were taken in 1928 when Billy Butlin’s Pleasureland occupied the site where Lindis Court is today.
The original photographer was not credited.
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Source: Skegness News 20th June 1928
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Another Big Multiple Firm for Skegness
Messrs. BOOTS FOR LUMLEY ROAD
Messrs. Boots, Cash Chemists, have purchased the business of [hidepost] Mr. A. E. Crofts, ironmoner, 62 and 64 Lumley Road, Skegness and their present intention is to take  possession at the beginning of June.
Everybody, of course, knows Boots.
While they are styled as chemists they do a [...]

Ten years after WW1, a very-much-alive ex-soldier living in Skegness, is told that his grave has been found in Belgium after an identity mix-up! But WHO is the soldier in the grave?

Skegness Man’s Surprise
ON LEARNING THAT HIS GRAVE HAS BEEN FOUND IN FRANCE
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It would come as a shock to most people to learn that they [...]

“Empty-Headed Girls”
Condemnation by Skegness College Headmistress
A thought-provoking article appeared in a 1928 issue of “The Factorient”, the magazine of the Orient Girls’ College, Skegness.
Headmistress of the college, Miss Nimmo LLA, wrote:
“Let us look for a moment at … that army of empty-headed, shallow-hearted girls seen everywhere now-a-days in our towns and seaside resorts, whose minds [...]

Wainfleet Magdalen College School Party, 1928.
Click on the images to enlarge.

The two Skegness Lodges of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes erected a new Club and Institute on Briar Way Skegness in 1928.
The local “Buffs”, the John Robinson Lodge and the Charles Farmer Lodge, were the second in the country to possess a building devoted exclusively for the use of ROAB members.