Skegness Magazine

1901 census showing Henry Vivian Tippet in Skegness.

Henry Vivian Tippet’s grave in St Clement’s Church, Skegness

A 70th anniversary reunion of former wartime evacuees from Grimsby to Skegness took place in the Tower Gardens in Skegness during the afternoon of Tuesday, lst September, 2009.
The Mayor of Skegness, Coun Pat Phillips attended the event.
Most of the former evacuees travelled to Skegness by coach, accompanied by Mrs Janet Layton (nee Stephenson), who has [...]

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 [...]

WW2 Pillbox Hogsthorpe
Skegness Video
2 min 22 sec – Feb 5, 2006
World War Relics Trail Top Level Page

History was made in Skegness this bank holiday weekend when the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway was back on the rails again 25 years after it was feared lost forever.
The railway was first opened in Humberston near Cleethorpes in 1960 when it transported holidaymakers to the beach and a holiday camp.
The engines and carriages were brought [...]

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. [...]

Update: 23rd February, 2009 – Our report on the “cable work” to the Inner Dowsing/Lynn wind turbines carried out on Skegness beach recently has sparked reaction from concerned parties, therefore we would ask that you read the entire page. We have amended the title of this page.

14th February, 2009
We produced the following report after interviews [...]

Can YOU help identify this mystery woman?

We have been fortunate enough for this old studio portrait photograph to have been added to our collection, but sadly we know very little about the lady in the picture.
Her name is “Rose Stilling of Skegness”, as written on the back of the photo, and the photographer appears to [...]