Skegness Magazine

Source: Skegness Standard 1996
Photos: artist’s impressions
This news story documents plans for a Weather Experience Centre which was to be Skegness’ latest tourist attraction.
The grandiose scheme never actually came to fruition but it sounded good!
DETAILED plans for the controversial Skegness Weather Experience Centre have been revealed.
The plans have been drawn up for the Skegness Development Company [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 15th March 1996
Photo: Lincolnshire Standard Group
The news story gives an account of the water feature as it was being built in Compass Gardens, Skegness. The Jolly Fisherman statue which used to stand directly on the ground, was temporarily removed until the water feature was completed. The statue formerly stood on a small [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 12th April 1996
News story about three teenage girls who went into a sweetshop in High Street, Skegness, to find that the 24 year old shop assistant had his flies undone, exposing [himself].
The man, Edward Gray admitted that he had “acted in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace”. He [...]

Source: Skegness Standard 18th October 1996
In the wake of the ‘UFO sighting’ over Gibraltar Point, Chapel St Leonards man Eddie Portsmouth has reported that he spotted a mysterious light in the sky when he was cycling to work in the early hours of Friday, October 4th.
Eddie says he followed its course for about half an [...]

Original source: Skegness Standard 19th April 1996
A son who forced his mother to wrap sticky tape round her own face so she could not breathe and beat her up because she would not stand in a bowl of water and mend a light switch has been jailed for three years.
Lee Patrick put mum Janice, 48, [...]

Skegness Standard 31st May 1996
Ghostly goings-on have been reported at H Samuels jewellers, Skegness, where a series of unexplained events have led staff to believe that the shop is haunted!
Since the jewellers first opened eight years ago, staff have noticed bizarre happenings – the number of which has intensified over the last few months.
Now, manager [...]