Skegness Magazine

Interviewer, Paul Gooch talks to a Volkswagen enthusiast at the Skegness VK Viva Skegvegas fest in 2007.

Party Time after Skegness Fire
Video of the party celebrating the re-opening of Grand Parade, Skegness, after it was closed due to the Great Fire of Skegness in August, 2007.

Television interviews with Taj and TK Bola, and Inspector Steve Hill of Skegness Police Station after the Skegness Fire of August, 2007.

It was a great day in Skegness when the first charity Santa Fun Run was launched in December, 2007 – hundreds of Santas running like little ants around Skegness!
Two years have passed since I videoed this event and STILL I can’t watch it without tears in my eyes! The display of community spirit in Skegness [...]

Elvis has NOT left the building!
…at least he hadn’t at Christmas 2007, when he sang “Can’t Help Falling in Love” at the Pensioners’ Hall, Skegness!

Check out this amazing quilting work, named ‘Plane Crazy’, by Mike Hodgson, a member of the Skegness and Horncastle Jolly Quilters.
Mike has incorporated images of aeroplanes into his design.

Emergency on Tower Esplanade! Bruno the landau horse was having difficulty with his shoes!
Local blacksmith, John Nuttall was summoned immediately.
Quite a crowd gathered round to see Bruno being refitted with new horseshoes.

John, who owns the award winning Nuttall’s beach donkeys in Skegness, began his work by removing the old horseshoes and paring away excess hoof [...]

May 2007
Investiture of Councillor Ken Milner to the office of Mayor of Skegness, by retiring mayor, Coun Phil Kemp, in the council chambers at Skegness Town Hall.
Investiture of Councillor Neil Pimperton as the Deputy Mayor of Skegness.

Photos of the Mayor’s Banquet after the mayor-making ceremony, held at the  Suncastle Skegness.
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It’s party time is Skegness!
2007
Skegness held a Grand Party today to celebrate the re-opening of Grand Parade after the Skegness Fire.
And what a grand party it was!
Crowds gathered around the Clock Tower and on Grand Parade.
The procession made its way along Tower Esplanade, round the Clock Tower and into Grand Parade.
Cheers, applause and whoops of [...]

The V (Variety) Bar was taken over on Monday by Taj and TK Bola (left), owners of the Parade Complex in Skegness, which was destroyed by fire last year. The aquisition of the bar, which is in a promintent position in Skegness, is the first of many planned by the Bola Brothers.
The pair are considering [...]