Skegness Magazine

Retired Skegness estate agent Mr George Ball, in 1968, explained for the first time the meaning of the letters he had used after his name during the last three months of his business – M.A.O.F.B.
“It means Member of the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers”, explained 60-year-old Mr Ball, “and froth blower means beer drinker”.
The letters [...]

The Skegness Standard 25th September1968
Photograph by Anon
Parade Hotel Storm Damage Gusts sends iron pinnacle crashing 50 feet
Extract from the Skegness Standard:
Parade Hotel Skegness damaged in gusts of wind
‘Part of a cast iron pinnacle on the roof of the Parade Hotel, Skegness, crashed 50 feet to the ground on Friday morning. It shattered in the forecourt [...]

New headquarters for the Skegness Air Training Corps was built near the water tower in Burgh Road.
The picture shows two workmen sorting the asbestos sheets which was used for the outside walls.
The Flight Lieutenant said it was an up-to-date building. They had used the previous building in Wainfleet Road for the past 17 years [...]

Local author, Margaret Dickinson, real name Margaret Muggerson, has her first novel published by Robert Hale.
Miss Dickinson went on to be a successful authoress and the photograph of her below was taken recently with the Earl of Scarbrough at the Royal Renaissance Hotel in Skegness.

Below is a picture of Margaret Dickinson as appeared in the [...]

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 [...]

Buried Alive – 101 Days in a Coffin in Skegness
A woman was buried alive in a coffin for 101 days in a Skegness amusement park…

EMMA IS ‘BACK FROM DEAD’
Coffin ordeal proves what a woman can stand, she declares
MINER’S wife Emma Smith surface last Tuesday after 101 days in a coffin under a heap of soil [...]

Who remembers The Marbles 1960s pop group? Or perhaps you remember their 1968 one-hit-wonder, ‘Only One Woman’? We’re sure you will when you play the video below!
The Marbles was a pop duo, Graham Bonnet (born Graham Bradley, 23rd December, 1947) and Trevor Gordon (born Trevor Gordon Grunnill, 5th May 1948), who were cousins.
Whilst both were [...]

Joan Hassall, Daughter of Jolly Fisherman creator opens exhibition
Daughter of Jolly Fisherman Creator John Hassall First Visit to Skegness
May 1968
MISS Joan Hassall had planned a quiet walk along the sands, nothing like the Jolly Fisherman’s sprightly gallop, just a quick look at the beach that has been a family word in the Hassall family for [...]

Wainfleet bombing range Lincolnshire”
Wainfleet Bombing Range Attacked – by a Flamingo!
Just another day for the Wainfleet bombing range look-out in October, 1968? – erh, no – “Attack from above, chaps! Is it a Plane? Is it Superman? No, it’s a…FLAMINGO?”
BOMB RANGE LOOK-OUT SPOTS … A FLAMINGO
LOOKING out of the control tower on Wainfleet bombing range [...]

Jolly Fisherman goes on beer mats
In 1968, SKEGNESS made a step forward in the field of tetestology — a study known to most people as beer man collecting.
The Jolly Fisherman, in his 60th year, found his way on to beer mats produced by Watney-Mann.
The Town Hall has received a block order for 400 of them [...]