Skegness Magazine

With cheeks as red as his fire engine, a Yorkshire fireman had to be rescued by the Skegness Fire Brigade after being left stranded when a Skegness amusement park ride broke down in 1975.
Local firemen used a Snorkel to get Yorkshire fireman, Arthur Troughton, his wife and their eight-year-old daughter back down to terra-firma.
But despite [...]

Stop Pinching Our Potatoes!
The Early Riser
(to the Editor)
Sir, – It is grievous to find, that although we are called from home to help with the struggle to prevent an invasion upon our shores, yet there is still “the early riser” who persists in paying our gardens a visit and pinches the potatoes by scratching like [...]

Historic Hotel a Listed Building
Hildred’s Hotel with a 100 yards frontage on High Street Skegness has been made a listed building by the Environmental Department.
It will be added to the statutory list of buildings which must be preserved because of special architectural or historical interest.
The licensees, Mr and Mrs Charles and Vera Hunt, have received [...]

SINCE it was introduced on Wednesday this beach train has been proving popular with the holidaymakers on the central beach. Run by the District Council and a Peterborough firm on a sharing basis, the purpose-built diesel-powered engine has been trundling along the new sea walk and the South Bracing at a steady 6 mph every [...]

Skegness Castle and Walled Station
Rev Edward H R Tatham, MA, in his ‘Lincolnshire in Roman Times, wrote that he was convinced that the Romans had a ‘walled station’ at the northern entrance to The Wash and conjected that it had disappeared into the sea.
A reference to this ‘walled station’, and a ‘castle’, was also made [...]

The Railway Children
SKEGNESS Railway Station just before mid-day on a Saturday in 1975.

Long queues of holidaymakers are waiting for the train home. And when it comes in there will be hundreds more getting off, laden with cases and bags and often uncertain how to reach their holiday destination.
A lot will go outside to the buses [...]

Skegness has produced its share of rock bands over the decades, but one of my personal favourites was ‘Sea-saw’. Anyone remember the group? You should – the lead singer was none other than Sid Dennis!
The band first took to the road in 1975, with band members being Sid Dennis (Bass and Lead Vocals), Geoff Dixon [...]

Photos showing two parallel rows of giant sand pies stretching out to sea on Skegness Central Beach have arrived mysteriously at the Standard office.
A nameplate calls it ‘A Road to See’ and on the back of each photo are the words ‘with compliments of A Road to See No 7R JDCAARDJR75′.
The sand pies, spaced at [...]

Lion Cubs Skegness Zoo
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Source: Skegness Standard 1975
Feeding time at the Jungle Exotica, Skegness, for these two lion cubs born to Sheba and Leo on a farm at Stotby, near Lincoln, on 8 August.
Sheba, had four cubs but was not coping very ,well with them so two were taken to the zoo at Skegness to be [...]

It’s thirsty work – being a thief!
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SKEGNESS police were anxious in 1975 for information to help them find thieves who broke into a Winthorpe Church Hall, stole property and made themselves cups of tea.
Seathorne Methodist Church Hall was broken into on a summer’s day.
Thieves entered through the side door on the first floor and stole [...]