Skegness Magazine

Old photo of the Skegness Train Station LNER staff in 1931. Click on the image for large size picture.

The growth in the work of the passenger staff at Skegness Railway Station is indicated by the following figures of special excursion trains to the resort from April to September inclusive:
1925     252
1926     197
1927     410
1928     379
1929     515
1930     744
1931     [...]

The Australian Air Mail reaches Skegness in 1931!
Mrs. J. W. Moore, of “Holmwood,” St. Andrews Drive, has received three letters from her eldest daughter, Mrs. R. W. Latimer, who is resident in Melbourne.
The distinctive envelopes bear the reproduction of an aeroplane on a blue ground in the left-hand corner, beneath the words “By Air Mail” [...]

The Central Hall, presently the Bingo Hall on Roman Bank, Skegness, turned into a skating rink in 1931 in response to the roller-skating boom which had hit the seaside town.
The enterprise was masterminded by Skegness’ “rock king”, Mr A Haywood.
The hall was divided into two floors, the lower of which had been extended by the [...]

Mystery surrounded a serious mishap to a 10 year old boy staying at the Nottingham Poor Boys home on Roseberry Avenue, Skegness, which occured in the summer of 1931.
A party of boys from the holiday home were walking on the beach at Gibraltar Point, under the supervision of one of the officers, when Frank Buckland [...]

“Daredevil” Leslie Gadsby had an unfortunate accident in 1931 which resulted in him losing a hand.
Leslie was the son of “Daredevil” Peggy Gadsby, the one-legged high diver, both of whom were well-known in Skegness for their stunt diving performances off Skegness Pier.
After leaving Skegness, the pair went on to perform at Weston-super-Mare and Peggy Gadsby’s [...]

UPDATE: Picture of a ship wreck off the Lincolnshire Coast sent in by Peter Gregory.
Secrets of the Sea
You’re strolling along Skegness beach at the water’s edge, breathing in the bracing sea air, glancing out to the windfarm, glancing towards Gibraltar Point.
But do you know the secrets the Skegness sea holds?
As I was researching this historical [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 30th September 1931
Photo: not credited
Death of the Countess of Scarbrough
Skegness extends sincere condolences to the Earl of Scarbrough in the death of his wife, the Countess of Scarbrough. who died on Thursday night at 8.50 at her Yorkshire home, Sandbeck Park, Rotherham.
It was only yesterday week that Skegness people, assembled for the [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 1931
For the second time within the space of a few weeks the “West End” of Skegness has the distinction of housing a couple who have achieved fifty years of married life, and who like a familiar advertising figure, are still “going strong.”
The fine couple depicted are Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fravigar, of [...]

Rousing Skegness Welcome for Royal Midgets.
Shortly before 7 o’clock on a night in September of 1931, a casual passer-by might have been excused for enquiring what was afoot, seeing that little knots of people were beginning to assemble in Lumley Road and there appeared to be a general air of expectancy about. The knots rapidly [...]

Here are two newspaper stories giving an excellent account of the Skegness Cattle Market. The first article appeared in the Skegness News 28th November 1923 and tells us of the first opening of the cattle market. The second article appeared in a 1931/1932 Skegness Directory published by George Ball.
OPENING OF THE CATTLE MARKET MR GEORGE [...]