Skegness Magazine

Survivors remember nothing
TRAGEDY AFTER CHAMPAGNE CELEBRATION
THE INJURIES received in a head-on car crash at Burgh caused all six survivors to lose their memories of it. At an inquest on the two who died – Mr Stephen Hussey and Miss Linda Burton – at Skegness on Thursday, none of them could remember anything about the collision [...]

TWO BOYS, aged 16 and 14, defied police and firemen trying to get them down from a 40-foot-high roof in Lumley Road, Skegness, for about 1 1/2 hours in August, 1972. Several thousand people watched the drama, which ended when a soldier on leave from Ulster climbed a fire escape at the rear and took [...]

Eighty three-year-old Pop Williams, of 29 Sandbeck Avenue, believes that youngsters like him should always be ready to give the old uns a helping hand.
So ever since last summer he has been wielding his hammer on the Four Seasons’ fruit boxes behind their shop in Lumley Road to turn them into firewood for old age [...]

Skegness Dolphins
FLIPPER, a 5001b, 8ft long dolphin, arrived at Skegness’s new dolphinarium off Tower Esplanade on Friday night. If he has got used to the  new experience of being in a circular tank and has overcome his fear of going too near the edge, he should be giving his first performance today (Wednesday).
He did the [...]

Two men charged with the murder of 84-year-old John Frederick Palmer of 10 Cecil Avenue Skegness. Mr Palmer’s body was buried in a field at Louth and his clothes buried near the North Shore Hotel in Skegness.

1972
Read a connecting story:
Skegness Butcher Disappears

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Skegness Butcher Disappears
The 29-year-old driver of a mobile butcher’s shop *** his van on the sea *** at Chapel St Leonards on Thursday afternoon and disappeared without a trace.
Frank Edwin Ramsden of the Bungalow [...]

An old 1972 advertisement for the Janice Sutton Dance School in Skegness. Miss Sutton took over the premises on High Street, Skegness from her former dance teacher, Lily Crane.
Cranes Dance School Skegness

Skegness Landladies were the talk of the town in November 1972.
THE Skegness Landladies Larks were the talk of the town in London on Wednesday night when they went to record their part in London Weekend Television’s Russell Harty Plus Show.
They opened the second half of this chat show with song and dance routines and then [...]

Sky Sentinel Tower Esplanade Plans Ditched
In 1972, Skegness Urban District Council were in debate about erecting a 330 feet tower, 9 feet in diameter, at the seaward end of Tower Esplanade. The tower was to have been made in Switzerland and Germany and shipped to Skegness to be erected by a British company in situ [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 9th February 1972
Photo: Norman Beckett
The article tells us of the building of the Astroglide on North Parade Skegness in 1972. The photos depicts the amusement ride as it was being constructed.
The birth of an astroglide.
This was the scene at the North Parade Amusement Park Skegness at the weekend.
The steps leading to the [...]