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Those Were The Days by Peter Hopper
Memories of the 1953 Skegness Floods by Peter Hopper
Memories of a Teenage Skegness News Reporter by Peter Hopper
WW2 Child Evacuees in Skegness photos shared by [...]

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. [...]

Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre
Re-opens in Skegness
news story date 11th April 2006
The Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre re-opened in Skegness today after a £80,000 refurbishment.
Skegness Video went along to capture the grand occasion.

The ceremony was introduced by the organizer, who firstly invited the Mayor of Skegness, Councilor Brian O’Connor to say a few words.

The Mayor of Skegness (above) [...]

After over 70 years, the Burgh Bypass finally came to fruition in 2007. Watch our video (password ‘burgh’) for interviews with the Mayor of Burgh le Marsh and Coun Neil Cooper.

Full story of the opening of the Burgh Bypass may be seen at the Burgh le Marsh [...]

UPDATE: Today, 6th Jan, 2010, is the 1st anniversary of the closure of the Woolworths Store in Skegness!
The Skegness Lumley Road branch of Woolworths closed its doors to customers for the last time on Tuesday, 6th January, 2009, after the well-known chain store went into receivership a few weeks ago.
The closure means that the thirty [...]

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 [...]

65 fireman and 11 fire engines are still fighting a blaze that started around 5.30pm this evening at the Square Peg pub on Skegness seafront.
Fire fighters have been drafted in from Skegness, Alford, Wainfleet, Spilsby and Mablethorpe.
Water from the pond in the Tower Gardens is being pumped out to fight the fire and firefighters have [...]

Situated in the ornamental garden to the rear of the 1770 built Vine Hotel in Skegness is ‘Tennyson’s Tree’.
The plaque next to the tree stump reads:
“Falling victim to Dutch Elm the remains of this tree bear credence to Lord Alfred Tennyson favouring the Vine Hotel and its gardens.
While in residence here during the early 19th [...]