Skegness Magazine

Mystery surrounding a house in Skegness comes one step closer to being solved as new clues begin to be unraveled.
The house, 20 Clifton Grove, pictured below, is said to have fallen derelict after a mysterious tragedy befell the occupants. No one knows for sure what exactly happened, or when it happened, but many different theories [...]

Hundred years on, we reveal the name of a servant girl who died after her clothing caught fire  as she was working at the Skegness Pier View Hotel (right) in 1909.
The fatal accident was covered in a local newspaper, and astoninshingly, the poor servant-girl’s name was not even mentioned! She was merely refered to as [...]

SMALL FISH, BIG POND
(My life as a young teenage reporter)
I was 12-years-old and in my Auntie Gladys’s kitchen when she asked me the sort of question I imagine all aunties ask their nephews at that age: “What do you want to do when you leave school?”
“A reporter,” I replied without hesitation” Oh, yes, she said,” [...]

We are indebted to Peter Hopper for sharing the following Skegness memories with us. Peter was a journalist for the Skegness News in the 1950s and reported on the Dambusters Filmed in Skegness news story.
Wartime Memories
The cement mixer in my next door neighbour’s garden in Ipswich looked innocent enough, as it churned the material inside. [...]

Armed robber targets bookmakers Do YOU know this GUNMAN?
An armed robber has taken cash from a Lincolnshire betting shop after threatening staff with a handgun.
The Ladbrokes bookmakers on the Butlins site near Skegness was targeted by the male intruder late last night (Monday).
Police searched the area but did not locate the suspect and have appealed [...]

Creative Writing
Skegness Writer’s First Novel
Bill goes to X-tremes for release of horror novel
A SPINE-CHILLING thriller set in the Lincolnshire Fens has been penned by a Skegness author. Through a Glass, Darkly is the first novel published by Bill Hussey (left), the son of a travelling showman who forged his roots in Skegness.
The novel, described as [...]

90-year-old Mr Herbert Noel Crawshaw, son of four-times Skegness Mayor, Coun Joseph Crawshaw, and grandson of Joseph Crawshaw, a member of the first Skegness Local Board, and whose name is inscribed on the Skegness Clock Tower, has recently spent a week’s holiday in his hometown, Skegness.
Mr Crawshaw, or ‘Bert’, as he prefers to be addressed, [...]

Ever wondered what happened to the stone lion statue which used to stand outside the Red Lion Pub on Lumley Road, Skegness?
Well we’ve done a little digging and can reveal the answer to the mystery…
Robbed of our Heritage
But before we do, we can tell you now, January 2009, we were unsuccessful in our appeal to [...]