Skegness Magazine

1909 saw the Skegness Council discussing the possibility of erecting a new Winter Gardens in the town. It was suggested that holidaymakers had little place to go if it rained, other than the glass shelters on the seafront, and this new building would be the answer to this problem.
The newspaper article covering this story appears [...]

Mrs P M Appleyard, formerly of 30 George Street Skegness recalled:
“As a young shop assistant at Duttons, later became Liptons Supermarket, I watched with excitement across the [Lumley] road as Crofts the ironmongers was being taken over by Boots the Chemist.
“Later when the news got around we were to have a ‘Woolworths Store’ the town [...]

Update – giant glass window panes installed – video
Update – crane dismantled video, photos below!
Well, after the Great Fire of Skegness back in August of 2007, which burned down the Parade Complex on Grand Parade, Skegness, the new building which has replaced Lucky Strike Amusement Arcade is almost finished.

The lower two floors of the new [...]

Remember back in 2006 when Skegness was excited at the ‘historic find’ of Victorian hydrotherapy equipment in the cellars of the Royal Renaissance Hotel in Skegness? Let’s take a trip down memory lane and find out what all the excitement was about…
Victorian Hydrotherapy Equipment Discovery at Royal Renaissance Hotel Skegness
Historical Find
news story date 21st November [...]

The ‘village school’ is listed as being on County Bank in 1841. The building has since been demolished (sometime before 1932) but was situated opposite the Methodist church (now the Old Church second-hand shop) on Roman Bank.
The schoolmaster was Joseph Jepson age 40, who was born outside Lincolnshire. His wife, Martha, aged 30, son George, [...]

Built around 1770 and called the Skegness Inn, Thomas Enderby took over in 1828 and renaming it Enderby’s Hotel.
The 1851 census records reveal the name of the hotel as ‘The Vine’.
Though the building is very old, it is not a listed building, presumably because it has suffered substantial structural alterations over time,
1929 – [...]

Photos of Lumley Road are commonly found on old postcards of Skegness.
The image below, supplied by the Mayor of Skegness, Coun Phil Kemp, clearly illustrates the Lion Hotel in the left of the foreground.

The hotel was opened in 1881 and the 1881 census for the Lion Hotel shows that the landlord was Samuel Clark.
On the [...]

From skimming through the censuses of Skegness, it seems there were two buildings connected with the coast guard. The first is Lifeboat Cottage and the second is a terrace of five abodes, numbered 1-5, collectively called Coast Guard Cottages. They are situated off St Andrew’s Drive, north of Skegness.
Lookout Cottage is east of the Coast [...]

The National School was situated on Roman Bank in Skegness, and our image above was produced not long after it opened.
Mr Abraham Porter was the headmaster of the National School from its opening until his death in 1921.

Facts
The National School opened in 1880 and closed in 1932
The headmaster was Mr Abraham Porter. A memorial window [...]

Mid 1980s, plans were made, buildings were demolished, the path was paved for a new indoor shopping mall in Skegness.
On September 17th 1988, the Hildreds Shopping Centre was officially opened. But why was it named ‘Hildreds’?
Well, let’s look at one of the buildings that was demolished.
One of the first hotels in Skegness was [...]