Skegness Magazine

From “bump” reading to one of the town’s leading book and gift centres – that was the progress of Dutton’s, which, after 70 years of business in Lumley Road, Skegness, closed its doors for the last time in April, 1963.

The business was first opened in 1890 by Mr G H J Dutton who left it [...]

The Wonder Wheels, the first Skegness skating group, were formed in 1963 by the resident stater at the Festival Pavilion, Stan and Meg Darbyshir-Jones.
The group consisted of 14 girls, one of whom was from Nottingham, and one boy.
Stan and Meg hoped to work at putting on a full-scale show at the Festival Pavilion, but this [...]

The famous train gets to Butlin’s
THE Royal Scot was laid to rest on Thursday.  Restored to its pre-nationalisation livery of maroon and gold, its last journey was made at a funeral pace of 3 m.p.h. through the streets of Skegness to Butlin’s Holiday Camp just outside the town, where it will stand as a mammoth [...]

Tragedy struck in December 1963 when the top story of the Pier Hotel in Skegness was destroyed by fire.

TOWN FULL OF KINDNESS
Family who lost all in hotel fire have ‘main memory’.
WITH their world turned upside down by the fire that killed a new friend, one of their employees; destroyed most of the Pier Hotel, their [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 14th August 1963
Photo: Norman Beckett
Jolly Fisherman comes to life!
The Jolly Fisherman came to life in the sorting office of Skegness Head Post Office on Monday morning when the Foreshore Director, William G Bosworth, donned the Fisherman’s traditional clothes for the launching by Council chairman, Tom Senior, of the Jolly Fisherman postal impression. [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 1963
Closure in two years `impossible’
THE Skegness station master, 58-year-old Mr. Jim Howden, came to Skegness 11 years ago from Langworth Junction, in Derbyshire. It was his first appointment as station master.
Mr. Howden is contemplating retirement in two years’ time, and he is confident that trains will still be arriving at his platform [...]

EXPOSED World War II LANDING CRAFT WRECK A DANGER TO BATHERS
Source: Skegness Standard 1963
Army may be asked for their help again
THE recent gales may have been responsible for again uncovering the wreckage of a wartime landing-craft just north of Skegness Pier, and exposing it as a danger to bathers, Skegness General Purposes Committee was told [...]

Borman long established Coal Merchant Retires
Source: Skegness Standard 1963
A FAMILY connection of over 100 years in the coal trade in Skegness ended for Mr. John W. Borman, of 1, Lawn Crescent, off Beresford Avenue, Skegness, on Tuesday afternoon when he made out the last orders for the solid-fuel business he started in the town in [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 1963
BELIEVED to be the oldest native of Skegness living in the town, Mrs. Elizabeth Crouch, formerly of Firbeck Avenue and now staying with friends in Muirfield Drive following a serious illness, celebrated her 95th birthday on Wednesday.
Mrs. Crouch was Elizabeth Green before her marriage — one of the family that along with [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 1963
Closure in two years `impossible’
THE Skegness station master, 58-year-old Mr. Jim Howden, came to Skegness 11 years ago from Langworth Junction, in Derbyshire. It was his first appointment as station master.
Mr. Howden is contemplating retirement in two years’ time, and he is confident that trains will still be arriving at his platform [...]