Skegness Magazine

Gertie was a 28 year old Indian elephant who was a tourist attraction at Butlins holiday camp in Skegness.
She was used to paddling in Ingoldmells pool during the winter months so she had no quarms about splashing about in the pool at Butlins in the summer. She was having a great time when suddenly she [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 27th July 1960
Photo: Wrate’s Press
Another coach arrives – the boys get busy!
Young “barrow boys” flock round a newly-arrived coach [in Lawn Car Park] offering luggage transport and guide service.
Taximen say they are affecting their livelihood.

Skegness barrow boys – the lads who carry visitors’ suitcases on home-made trolleys and old prams at four [...]

Rock Must Roll
Source: Skegness Standard 2nd March 1960
Photos: Wrates Press Photos, Skegness
Bits of debris strewn far and wide over the emptied Skegness Boating Lake provided the latest communique this week on the town’s own @Battle of the Bulge’. And ‘The Needle’, the bulge of artificial rock 25ft high and 50 tons of cable-interlaced cement and [...]

SKEGNESS’S famous Jolly Fisherman appears for the first time with his great-grandson on the new British Railways poster 2,000 copies of which are to be distributed throughout Britain for the 1961-62 season.
The sea-booted, sou’-wester’d old salt, for fifty years one of the world’s most famous seaside poster characters, went into semi-retirement in 1959 to enable [...]

The Railway Children
SKEGNESS Railway Station just before mid-day on a Saturday in 1975.

Long queues of holidaymakers are waiting for the train home. And when it comes in there will be hundreds more getting off, laden with cases and bags and often uncertain how to reach their holiday destination.
A lot will go outside to the buses [...]

Nautical theme for bars
THE Callow Park Hotel, for many years a familiar site and popular venue for visitors to Skegness, owing to its convenient situation on Grand Parade adjacent to all the resort’s main attractions, will be even more popular when it re-opened in May 1960 as the most modern and most aptly named hotel [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 11th May 1960
Photo: Wrate’s Press
Not much for half a million quid!
Workmen building the new wall and slopes down into the gardens by the Clock Tower.
Skegness Foreshore Director (Mr Willian Bosworth) overheard two visitors talking about it thus:
First Visitor “That’s the new sea wall.”
Second Visitor: “it doesn’t look much for half a million [...]

Old Skegness Gas Lamps For Sale
Source: Skegness Standard 1960
Photo: Wrates Skegness
Want a lamp post for the garden?
COUNCIL’S ‘BARGAIN’, OFFER
PSSST ! Want to buy a lamp post ? If you have a couple of guineas to spare, and want to decorate an odd corner in your garden, Skegness Council can offer you a genuine, cast-iron [...]