Skegness Magazine

Skegness Steam Laundry
Built on the site of an old Brick Pit on Roman Bank, Skegness, Fenland Laundry started out life almost 130 years ago in 1880, originally being named Skegness Steam Laundry.
The business kept the original name right up until 1958 when it changed its name to Fenland.
The Fry family bought the laundry in 1929 [...]

The Nottingham Poor Girls Holiday Home was situated on Brunswick Drive in Skegness. Our photo below shows the building which is the smaller erection immediately after the row of terraces on the right.

When war broke out in 1914, the girls then in residence at the Skegness Home had to return to Nottingham when the people [...]

Okay, wiseguys, which one of you said this looks like hubby after a night out in Skegness?
This Skegness postcard was designed by Frank Evans the Art Master and Fish Cafe Proprietor, High Street, Skegness.

But apparently, Mr Evan’s postcard designs caused him a few problems when he advertised them on a poster in his cafe window…
Cafe [...]

Do you recognise any of these Barrow Boys waiting for punters at the Skegness Railway Station in 1958?

Fire closes club
Bar damaged in Skegness blaze
QUICK thinking on the part of residents in Drummond Road, Skegness, early on Monday morning probably saved a whole block of shops from being wiped out by fire.
The fire broke out in the early hours at Dot’s Club in Drummond Road. Miss E. Woods, who lives just opposite, was [...]

Images of the 1958 Skegness Holiday Guide

In 1958, the BBC Tested Skegness Signal Strength for TV Broadcast.
TV DIRECT FROM SKEGNESS ?
TESTS BY B.B.C. FROM SEAFRONT SITE
BUT RESULT SECRET
OFFICIALS of Skegness Foreshore Department waited to hear the result of tests carried out in the resort in 1958, by engineers of the B.B.C.’s Television Outside Broadcast Department.
The tests were to determine whether or [...]

1958 Skegness local news
Going . . . going … wait for it . . . bump !
That’s another landmark gone!
—not one that Hitler knocked about a bit, but it’s a ruin now.
This wartime observation post at Jackson’s Corner, Ingoldmells, was demolished on Saturday by Messrs. Greetham, Skegness.
During the war an adjacent gun and searchlight battery [...]

1958
MACHINERY FOR LACE FIRM
Skegness venture
THOUSANDS of pounds worth of machinery arrived at Skegness yesterday afternoon for the opening of the plant which is to be set up here by Stiebel and Co., of Nottingham, manufacturers of curtains and furnishing fabrics.
The firm have acquired premises off Drummond Road, Skegness, which will be known as Nesco Mills, [...]

House hit by lightning
CHILD UNHARMED
In the heavy thunderstorm which hit Skegness on Monday evening, a house in Wainfleet Road suffered some damage by fire, but an eight-yearold boy who was alone in the house at the time of the incident was unharmed.
The house, No. 6 Wainfleet Road, is the home of Mr. Alan Berry, of [...]