Council Tells Butlin to Remove Giant Wheel
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN COUNCIL AND BUTLINS
STATEMENT BY TOWN CLERK
THE ” Giant Wheel ” which has been erected in the Butlin Amusement Park on the Skegness seashore in front of the Grand Parade looks like leading to some considerable controversy in the Council.
At the March meeting of the Council’s foreshore Committee, the Clerk (Mr. I. M. Cule) [...]
Grammar School War Memorial
DEDICATED BY CANON MORRIS AND UNVEILED BY SCHOOL’S FIRST HEADMASTER AT IMPRESSIVE SERVICE
DIGNIFIED STONE PLAQUE DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT WHO WAS A FORMER PUPIL
MANY students, past and present, and their friends, together with those who have a deep interest in the Skegness Grammar School, will remember for many a long day the impressive occasion that brought [...]
Escaped Slaughter-house Cow Runs Amok
COW WAS RECAPTURED
LUNCH HOUR SCENE IN SANDBECK AVENUE
Traffic was held up, and crowds of holiday makers, returning for lunch, thronged Sandbeck Avenue yesterday (Tuesday) at about one o’clock, when a cow escaped from the slaughter house on Richmond Drive.
The cow was recaptured just before it reached the junction of Briar Way, after dragging one of [...]
Sea View Walk Almost Completed
SEA VIEW WALK
NEW BEACH PATHWAY NEARLY COMPLETED
The Surveyor (Mr. R. H. Jenkins) reported to the Foreshore Committee that the work of laying the footpath from the Pier to Sea View Pullover is nearly completed.
The southern portion, on the west side of the stepped sea wall, which is to be of insitu concrete, would be laid [...]
Skeleton Found at Partney may be Civil War Soldier
WHILE breaking up a bump on the road, between Partney village and Scremby Crossroads, on Thursday, workmen employed by the Lindsey County Council discovered, lying in sandy soil well below the foundation of the highway and about on a level with the fields, a number of human bones, including a skull, lower jaw, pelvis bones, [...]
Wainfleet Road Playing Fields Skegness History
Wainfleet Road Playing Fields Gates Restoration Appeal
Wednesday, November 11, 2009.
Community pull together to ensure future of gates
AN appeal to preserve a part of local history has received overwhelming support from members of the community.
Mayor of Skegness, Cllr Pat Phillips appealed for donations towards the refurbishment of the memorial gates at the entrance to Wainfleet Road [...]
Tonglet Wedding
The wedding of well-known Skegness Milk-bar proprietor, Joe Tonglet and Barbara Pell took place in 1950 at St Matthew’s Church, Skegness.
Joe’s cafe on the eastern corner of Lumley Road and High Street is known to old Skegnessians as Tonglet’s Corner. The premises is now the Hot Potato Cafe.
Bomb Damaged Tower Cinema Demolished
The photograph below gives a last view of the old Tower Cinema before the front of the building is entirely re-built. Taken by Wrates Pier Snaps of Skegness, the picture shows the re-construction operations that were commenced a few weeks ago.
Unused since the balcony portion of the cinema suffered a direct hit during an enemy [...]
Corpse Seen in Creek
LOCAL MAN’S DISCOVERY
The body of an unidentified man was seen by Mr. Alvin Blanchard, a plumber, of 93, Drummond Road, Skegness, in ” Cardinal’s Creek,” Gibraltar Point, on Saturday afternoon, which he found impossible to recover.
Blanchard discovered the body lying on a mud “shelf” at the side of the creek, where the high tide had [...]
Skegness Photographer Wedding
Source: Skegness News 1950
Mr. CLARENCE WALKER, well-known Skegness photographer, assists his bride in cutting the wedding cake after his marriage, to Miss Edwina Biggins, of Seathorne, Skegness, on Saturday last. Mr. Walker is on the staff of Walfred Photo-graphics Ltd., of High Street, Skegness, by courtesy of whom this photograph is reproduced.
