Skegness Magazine

Talented young Skegness children enact fairy story in French
Tennyson College Pupils
A happy group of Tennyson College pupils after performing “Cendrillion” the French version of the popular fairy story, “Cinderella” at the school’s fourth annual party in April, 1935.
The play was translated and arranged by Miss M M Jackson, one of the joint principals of the [...]

RITA COOPER TO JOIN “ARCADIA FOLLIES”
Skegness-Born Artiste for Mr. Fred Clements’ 1935 Show
GIRL WHO BECAME FAMOUS IN A NIGHT
Sensational Promotion from Chorus to Drury Lane Lead
Rita Cooper, the Skegness born actress who two years ago achieved fame in a night by her sensational promotion from the chorus to the feminine lead in the Drury Lane [...]

Skegness Men Signal in Morse Code to Lost Bomber
WEDNESDAY,, JANUARY 30th, 1935
SKEGNESS MEN GIVE HELP TO LOST BOMBER
Morse Signals Sent With Mirror and Car Headlight
INGENUITY OF POST OFFICE SUPERVISOR
Story that Splashed Skegness in the National Newspapers
THREE MODEST MEN
A first-class news story of how three Skegness men established communication by visual signalling with an aeroplane which [...]

THE ” BUY BRITISH ” VAN ARRIVES TODAY
Parade for Promotion of Patriotic Purchase (1935)
A strong plea for the increased use of Home and Empire products will be made in Skegness to-day (Wednesday), when the “Buy British” electric slogan display van, which is now on its second tour of Great Britain, will visit the resort and [...]

CAR HITS LAMP-POST CAUSING GAS LEAK (1935)
Early on Saturday afternoon last a car owned by Mr. E. Tinkler accidentally collided with a lamp post in Grosvenor Road.
We understand that the driver in avoiding a dog, swerved to the side of the road, and unavoidably crashed into the lamp post, which was laid low.
The gas pipe [...]

Historic Personal Injury
Source: Skegness News 1935
CHRISTMASTIDE TRAGEDY FOUND LYING WEDGED IN BARREL.
Retired Builder’s Fatal Fall While Building His Own Bungalow
Inquest Theory of Slip Leading to Seventeen Feet Fall
VERDICT OF “DEATH FROM MISADVENTURE.”
The sad story of how a well-known Skegness resident was found by his daughter-in-law lying injured after he had fallen, with his legs [...]

BUILT ENTIRELY OF SKEGNESS BRICKS
1935
The resources of the Skegness Brick and Tile Manufacturing Co., whose works are situated on Burgh Road, Skegness, were called upon in connection with the contract. This concern specialises in hand-made facing bricks, which can be produced in a variety of colours, and the handsome appearance of those facades of the [...]

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9th, 1935
GRUESOME DISCOVERY BY SCHOOLBOYS
Body Of Unknown Child Found Wrapped In Brown Paper Parcel
SIGNIFICANT MARKS ON NECK
Doctor’s Suggestion Of Death By Strangling
INQUEST ADJOURNED
The suggestion that an unknown baby boy, whose partially decomposed body was found wrapped in a brown paper parcel on the Skegness sand hills last Thursday morning, had been murdered by [...]

THOUSANDS of regular visitors to Skegness recall the original entrance to the Pier and are also familiar with the transformation which has been effected. Here is a photograph which shows the between stage, taken just after the Christmas holidays of 1935.
The photograph shows how the old pay-box, Pier manager’s office turnstiles, and the kiosks which [...]

April 1935 (Please note – this story is a flashback)
John Hassall receives silver model of his Jolly Fisherman creation
Coun W Hudson (then Chairman of the Skegness Council) handing Mr John Hassall a silver model of his Jolly Fisherman creation.