Skegness Magazine

Graham believes in a guitar and originality (1962)
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD with his eyes on the top – that’s Graham Bonnett, of 26, Albany Road, Skegness. And if a musical ear, an encouraging mother, and loads of ambition have anything to do with it, Graham could soon be following local boy Doug Sheldon along the rough road [...]

Ships and Seaside Scenes in a Bottle
Jan 1962
Most people discard their empty glass bottles, but in the 1950s and 1960s, Ingoldmells man, John Phillipson had other uses for them.
John was a model-maker and used the bottles to display his models inside. What must have been his grandest effort came in 1962 when he made a [...]

Skegness donkeys cannot be allowed to work through the day without a mid-day break!
They should be taken off the beach and to grazing grounds between 1pm and 2pm.
This suggestion was put to Skegness Council by the RSPCA in 1962.But donkey owners complained that this was unreasonable. The three-quarters of a mile each way trip meant [...]

Images of the original 1962 Skegness Pier Pavilion, Ted Dwyer’s Follies on Parade entertainment programme.

Source: Skegness Standard 20th February 1962
Photo: Norman Beckett
This photo and its caption is part of a longer article about the Skegness Director of Foreshore, Entertainment and Publicity Officer, Mr W G Bosworth, who appeared on the television programme, ‘Points North’. The programme was about publicity posters and the interviewer was Geoffrey Wheeler. I’m going to [...]

Corrie Star Elsie Tanner Skegness Lights Switch On
Man dies waiting for Elise Tanner Skegness Illuminations Switch On (full story below)
A thronging multitude, crammed around the Clock Tower, awaited the Skegness Illuminations switch-on by ITV Coronation Street Star, Elsie Tanner in 1962.
Every possible policeman was on duty, struggling to control the crowds all along the seafront, [...]

GIANT CO-OP ESCALATOR
Sunday morning’s big -operation
ONE of the biggest loads ever delivered in Skegness, and certainly the only one of its kind, a 40ft. long, eight ton escalator, was installed at the Nottingham Co-operative Society’s Co-operative House in Lumley Road early on Sunday morning.
The machine was made in Hamburg and after being delayed two weeks [...]

IN a town where old buildings are something of a rarity, it is a sad occasion when one of the few disappears.
In March 1962, what was believed to have been the oldest original boarding house in Skegness crumbled under the hammers of a demolition gang.
The familiar old building, with its ground floor below pavement level, [...]

The original Juke Box Jury show was hosted by David Jacobs and included a panel of celebs who rated new release pop records as a ‘hit’ or a ‘miss’. Remember it?
Skegness staged its own Juke Box Jury at the Embassy Centre in April, 1962. The panel included local music and dance school founder, Miss Janice [...]

Skegness mother’s torment when two-year-old son was abducted by Syrian father, 1968:
Skegness Child Abducted by Estranged Syrian Husband
WORRY OVER `UNIFORM’ PHOTO
Mother fights on for return of her son
MORE than four years after Mrs Jean Hurst’s son was taken from her by her Syrian husband she has received a photograph of him — in mock uniform [...]