Skegness Magazine

SHOWING the way for local people in the town’s 1974 “It’s a Knockout” effort was 77-year-old Mr Reginald Cooley, of 94 Hoylake Drive, Skegness.
For in March 1974, Mr Cooley handed over a table cloth which he had embroidered himself to “It’s a Knockout” chairman Mr Ronald Williams as his contribution to the effort.
Embroidering was Mr [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 1974
RAY Clemence, Liverpool and England goalkeeper and daughter Sarah Jayne (14 weeks) complete a four generations family picture at Skegness on Saturday.
Holding the baby is Ray’s grandmother, Mrs Lucy Scott. She lives with her daughter — Ray’s mother Mrs Muriel Clemence — at 91 Hoylake Drive.
The occasion was Mrs Scott’s 91st birthday [...]

This old 1974 newspaper article gives account and shows a photograph of the erection of the Skyride in the North Parade Amusement Park Skegness.
Source: Skegness Standard 30th October 1974
Photo: Wrates of Skegness
New Skyride erected
Workmen guide a girder into position as it is lowered by a crane.
This was the scene on the North Parade Amusement Park, [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 24th April 1974
Photo: Wrates Skegness
Bob Kerr selected as “It’s a Knockout” Jolly Fisherman Mascot
The Skegness “It’s a Knockout” team’s Jolly Fisherman mascot Mr Bob Kerr (second right) with other would-be Jolly Fishermen after he had been selected as the team’s mascot at the “It’s a Knockout” Dance which was held at the [...]

Seacroft Train Station becomes Pet Crematorium
Disused station now a pet’s crematorium
THE FORMER stationmaster’s house at the disused Seacroft Station, Skegness, was turned into a pet’s crematorium in 1974 by Mr Brian Russell, of 14 Norwood Road, Skegness, proprietor of 5555 Services:
No structural alterations have been made. Inside is a reception room, office, records room and [...]

6th March 1974
Maroon marks 150 years of sea rescues
THE BIRTH of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution on 3 March 1824, was marked at midday on Monday – exactly 150 years later — by the firing of a maroon from the Skegness Lifeboat Station.
A board at the station tells the public that in that time 94,000 [...]

‘Miss Gibraltar 1974′ visits Gibraltar Point
In BRITAIN for the Miss World Contest on 22 November, 19-year-old Patricia Anne Orfila, who will be representing Gibraltar, visited the Gibraltar Point nature reserve at Skegness to present a commemorative shield on Monday.
A small plaque above the colony’s coat-of-arms stated that she had made the visit to bear the [...]

AFTER 23 years at the Thirty Club in Castleton Boulevard, Skegness, licensee Mr Bob Hardy and his wife said goodbye to their members at a special party one Sunday night in 1974.
One-hundred-and-fifty People were treated to a buffet and disco by the Hardys on their last night before going into retirement. They are going to [...]