WW2 Relic Discovery Skegness Beach
Chance find reveals a wartime crash tale
A CHANCE discovery on Skegness beach has unravelled the story of a wartime crash.
Richard Bainbridge, from Hall Lane, Stickney, uncovered a brass plaque while he was metal-detecting on the beach last winter.
He said: “My first thought was it was a 12 inch ruler – but then I noticed the [...]
Commonwealth War Graves St Clement's Church Skegness
Name
Rank
Service
Regiment
Date Of Death
Age
Grave/Memorial Ref.
ABLITT , W
Private
2156
Suffolk Regiment
24/04/1916
Unknown
Grave
ALSOP, SAMUEL HAYWOOD, S H
Sergeant ( Pilot )
1006349
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
12/10/1941
19
Plot 35. Grave 16.
ATKINS, WILLIAM EVAN, W E
Warrant Officer ( Pilot )
741156
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
21/01/1943
Unknown
Grave 843.
ATKINSON, HERBERT ANTHONY, H A
Company Serjeant Major
12/838
York and Lancaster Regiment
09/07/1916
34
BARLING, SYDNEY ROY, S [...]
World War Relics Trail
The east coast of England was a popular point of attack from the German forces in World War 2, being just across the North Sea from Denmark. There are many examples of evidence of defense to be found on this stretch of coast, particularly around the Skegness area. I hope to report on more of [...]
Civilian War Dead Skegness
This page is an ongoing project in which we are investigating the civilians who lost their lives in Skegness, and the stories behind their deaths.
The list below is chronologically ordered and the names are clustered into the losses during each enemy attack. Up to present, we have found six separate bombing raids which resulted in [...]
D-Day WW2 Re-enactment Skegness Video
VIDEO NOW LIVE!
Skegness travelled back 65 years to witness a re-enactment of the greatest military invasion of the 20th Century – the 6th June, 1944 Second World War D-Day Re-enactment last weekend.
Operation Neptune took place on the Beaches of Skegness on the 19th and 20th September, 2009.
In addition to the amazing displays on the ground, [...]
Wartime Evacuees Anniversary Reunion in 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 [...]
Remembrance Day Skegness
Video of the Remembrance Day Parade in Skegness, 2008.
Video of the 2009 Remembrance Day Parade in Skegness
Video of the Remembrance Day Service conducted by the Rev Malcolm France at the St Matthew’s Church War Memorial, Skegness, 2009.
Remembrance Day Skegness Photos
Pillbox Hogsthorpe Lincolnshire
WW2 Pillbox Hogsthorpe
Skegness Video
2 min 22 sec – Feb 5, 2006
World War Relics Trail Top Level Page
War Defense Gas Pipes?
Still at Gibraltar Point nature reserve, a large area of the sand dunes has an underground network of criss-crossed gas pipes.
Sometimes, parts of this network are exposed at the bottom of the many creeks around the area.
It is thought that during a sea-borne invasion, these pipes would have released phosphorous gas.
Whilst on our relic [...]
Our First Pillbox
Pillboxes occur frequently in this area and the one here is at Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve which is possibly three miles south down coast of Skegness. The location of this pillbox is plotted as an orange dot on map B.
The pillbox is a concrete hide, in this case, built in and concealed by the [...]
