Skegness Magazine

SNAKE LAYS EGGS in SKEGNESS
Natural History was made at Skegness in 1934.
It is one of the reptiles that interests thousands of seasonal patrons of Chief Luale’s Snake Pit in Butlin’s Amusement Park, Skegness, and on Thursday last (July 12th) it laid 14 eggs.
There is, of course, nothing startling in the fact of a snake laying [...]

FATAL ACCIDENT AT SKEGNESS.
BARMAN FOUND DEAD IN CELLAR.
MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY.
The 1934 August Bank Holiday week-end at Skegness was not short of tragedy, a fatal accident befalling a barman employed at a local hotel.
The victim was Albert Robinson, aged 46, who hailed from Kimberley (Notts.} and was believed to have resided with his brother, Mr. Joseph Robinson, [...]

The Orient Boys College was situated on Algitha Road, Skegness, between the Methodist Church and Rutland Road.
This news story, which appeared the local newspaper in June, 1934, gives account of the college sports day held at the Skegness Cricket Ground.
The story reveals many interesting facts about the Orient Boys College, including the two ‘houses’ which [...]

EARL’S VIEW ON ROAD NAME.
“BOULEVARD A FOREIGN TITLE.”
COMMITTEE DECISIONS.
The suggestion made by Coun. Wheatley, that the recently-constructed thoroughfare between Roman Bank and North Parade should be styled a “boulevard” will not be adopted if a recommendation made by the Roads and Buildings Committee, consequent upon a view expressed by Lord Scarbrough is endorsed by the [...]

This news article tells of the death of Billy Butlin’s mother, Bertha Cassandra Butlin (nee Hill), in February, 1934. The article wrongly states that her age at death was 65 instead of 56, Bertha being born in the March quarter on 1878. Miss Hill married William Colborne Butlin in the December quarter of 1896 in [...]

Source: Skegness News 17th and 24th January 1934
Council Appeal which led to Jolly Fisherman Poster
The Skegness News republished this article in 1934, which was originally run in a 1911 January edition. The article gives an account of the realisation by Skegness Council that an advertising poster was necessary for the resort, the setting up of [...]

Source: Skegness News 14th February 1934
County Hotel initially called the ‘Jolly Fisherman’
This is a rather long article from which I have extracted the most revealing information.
Basically, Harry Bateman, Wainfleet Brewer, was granted a license to operate a new hotel which was to be built on North Parade, Skegness. (We are referring to what is now [...]

POPULATION. Out of season, 10,000.
AREA. 6 square miles (approx.).
ASPECT. South Eastward to the Sea.
SUNSHINE, 1934. 1,578 hours.
RAINFALL, 1934. 19 inches.
CLIMATE. Dry, sunny, equable temperature.
NUMBER OF HOUSES. 3,360.
RATEABLE VALUE. £IO2,256.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT. U.D. Council.
RATES, 1934-35. 11/8 in the C.
GAS.Town owned. The 1934 charges were based on a sliding scale at 3/9 per 1,000 ft. for consumption of [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 22nd February 1934
Probably at no other seaside resort in the country has the architecture of the main thoroughfare and its environment under one such a sweeping transformation as as been the case at Skegness during the course of a decade or so. It seems only a short while since the Tower Gardens [...]

A Skegness Comic Opera composed in 1934
“The Skegness Monster”
Magazine Night at the Skegness Wesley Guild was always an entertaining feature and an issue printed in 1934 and edited by Mr Norman Walls, was no exception to the general rule.
One of the outstanding contributions by an anonymous member of the guild was a comic opera, [...]