Skegness Magazine

Source: Skegness Standard 30th January 1987
Photos and article not credited by the Standard
Countdown to start on new shopping precinct – Shop owners sad to leave
Photo: Time runs out for the Hildred’s Hotel as the countdown for work starting on the new precinct begins.
Construction work on the multi-million pound 25-shop Hildred’s Shopping precinct fronting High Street [...]

Source: Skegness News 29th July 1987
Photos: not credited
Sky-Dive Collapses
A former school caretaker has emerged as heroine of the weekend accident in which part of the Sky-Dive chairlift at Fun City on North Parade collapsed. Mrs Iris White dashed from her tea-stall outside to help the injured and frightened.
“I love children so it all came naturally,” [...]

The Old Hall on Roman Bank stood between what is now the Lumley Square one-way-system and the Skegness library. Here is the story of its demolition.
Source: Skegness News 3rd February 1987
Photos: not credited
It’s the end! The Hall on Roman Bank has come tumbling down.
In its place, there will be a sheltered retirement development assuming planners [...]

SKEGNESS Pier is in imminent danger of collapse after high tides ravaged the support stanchions causing them to slip by two feet.
Workmen were hurrying to move fairground rides to a more secure position as the structure was declared unsafe.
A 30 foot section of the stump of the pier, which remains after the 1.978 high tides [...]