Pre 1880
Pre 1880
SH = Skegness Herald SN = Skegness News SS = Skegness Standard SMA = Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News SM = Skegness Magazine(skegnessvideo.com) EO = Topographical and Historical Account of Wainfleet and the Wapentake of Candleshoe, in the County of Lincoln. With Engravings. Oldfield, Edmund 1829 D = Ancient and Modern Skegness and District by George H. J. Dutton, F.B.P.S. LDS = Latter Day Saints www.familysearch.org TT = The Times HG = Holiday Guide PI = Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times (London, England) CM = Caledonian Mercury MC = Morning Chronicle DM = Derby Mercury TE = The Examiner HP = The Hull Packet and Humber Mercury BM = Bristol Mercury FJ = Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser NS = Northern Star and National Trades’ Journal MT = Manchester Times PG = Preston Guardian DN = Daily News TE = The Era NC = Newcastle Courant PM – The Pall Mall Gazette LM – Leeds Mercury JO = Jackson’s Oxford Journal IJ = The Ipswich Journal GD = A Derby Gentleman’s Diary StM = Stamford Mercury HBP – Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette LC – Lincolnshire Chronicle BNP – Bury and Norwich Post LJ = Leicester Journal SA = Sussex Advertiser CCJ = Cambridge Chronicle and Journal NM = Northampton Mercury LI = Leeds Intelligencer LA = Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser NEP = Nottinhham Evening Post
| c890AD | EO | Alfred is said to have divided the county into Wapentakes, creating the Wapentake of Candleshoe (deriving its name from Candlesby), which embraces parts of Lincolnshire, including Skegness | |
| EO | “The Marsh Division (includes Skegness) has in general been considered unhealthy; the inhabitants being subject to agues and intermittent fevers, produced by the effluvia usually termed marsh miasmata, generally supposed to proceed from the stagnant water of the marshes and fens.” In contrast to “the wold division, which is generally considered healthy; in almost every parish, fine springs of water are seen issuing from the hills, and the air being, free from the noxious effluvia of the marsh division, is pure and salubrious.” | ||
| SM | Pre-Roman finds at Ingoldmells | ||
| 1287 | SS | 7/1/1953 | Forest and village under the sea off the Lincolnshire Coast |
| 1291 | SM | Dominus Gilbert was Parson of Skegness | |
| c1300 | EO/SS | 3/9/1969 | St Clement’s Church built |
| 1100s | D | Skegness Castle | |
| 1199 | EO | Early Skegness Landowners | |
| 1300 | SH | 15/1/1892 | Who was bathing in the sea in the 1300s? |
| 1500s | LDS | 16th century Baptisms in Skegness | |
| 1526 | Skegness completely washed away by tides and storm | ||
| 1526+ | Stones from original St Clement’s Church, which stood about half-a-mile into the sea, salvaged and used to rebuild a new church. (A whitewashed cottage stood where the car park is today. Unsure of date this cottage was built but it was before 1787) | ||
| 1545 | SM | Henry VIII’ Charter of Incorporation for Boston | |
| 1595 | How salt was obtained at the seaside | ||
| 1600s | LDS | 17th century baptisms in Skegness | |
| 1600s | EO | Old Wainfleet-issued coins (tokens) | |
| 1607 | Guildhall Museum Boston (Pilgrim Fathers) | ||
| 1650 | EO | The Friskney Witch | |
| 1700s | GD | Life in the 1700s | |
| c1718 | EO | Old spire removed from Wainfleet All Saints church | |
| 1765 | DM | 9/8 | Poisoning at Friskney |
| c1770 | Skegness Hotel is built (known as the Enderby Hotel in 1828 and later became the Vine Hotel) | ||
| 1777 | Capital Punishment in the Last Century | ||
| c1780 | SS | 12/2/1930 | Skegness House (Moat House) was built by Rev Edward Walls and occupied by his daughter, Mary Walls |
| 1785 | LI | 20/12 | Rector of Skegness is Rev John Parsons |
| 1791 | SS | Lord Torrington (John Byng) visits Lincolnshire diaries | |
| 1792 | Joseph Dickinson is landlord of the Skegness Hotel (Vine) | ||
| 1795 | NM | 24/1 | Fatal Accidental Shooting at Skegness |
| 1796 | EO | A written account of the Submerged Forest | |
| c1799 | EO | 1829 | A Roman pitcher was discovered whilst digging in the cellar of the Angel Inn in Wainfleet, and, in 1829, was in the possession of Mr. Adlard Booth |
| 1800 | A Strange Incident at the Wragby Inn | ||
| 1801 | Lincolnshire Villages Population Statistics Early 1800s | ||
| 1802 | SS | 11/8/1943 | “Sunday Wickedness” in Skegness “The Penroses of Fledborough Parsonage” diaries |
| 1804 | Ann Salter is proprietor of the Skegness Hotel (Vine) | ||
| 1807 | EO | 1829 | Old silver pennies found at Tealby |
| 1810 | Advert for a guest house appears in Stamford Mercury – McKinley House, more widely known as the Moat House | ||
| 1810 | 18/5 | John Stafford’s Skegness Hotel and Bathing House Advert | |
| 1810 | BNP | 26/12 | The Peace and Plenty, a Humber keel, was wrecked last week off Skegness., and her crew, consisting of two or three hands, perished. (no story) |
| 1811 | CM | 3/1 | The ‘Peace and Plenty’ wrecked off Skegness in a severe gale |
| 1811 | Lincolnshire Villages Population Statistics Early 1800s | ||
| 1812 | 12/6 | Thomas Melson’s New Hotel (Hildred’s) Skegness 1812 Advert | |
| 1812 | MC | 6/8 | Old advert – Sale of farm land in and around Skegness |
| 1813 | Autumn | Tom Melson, landlord of the New Hotel (Hildred’s), adds 10 new bedrooms to the hotel | |
| 1814 | LJ | 20/5 | Advert Thomas Melson’s New Hotel |
| 1816 | A 24-pounder brass mortar for firing lifelines established at Skegness, on the recommendation of Captain George Mamby, its inventor | ||
| 1816 | CCJ | 9/2 | Treasure Find at Ingoldmells |
| 1819 | SA | 8/3 | Sea Eagle Shot at Ingoldmells |
| 1820 | EO | Old Wainfleet All Saints church demolished | |
| 1820 | EO | Foundation stone of new Wainfleet All Saints church laid | |
| 1820 | DM | 13/9 | The Skegness Hotel (Vine Hotel) to let – advert – due to the retirement of John Stafford |
| 1820 | StM | 7/7 | Inquest by Mr. Mastin at Spilsby on a body which was washed ashore |
| 18/8 | Inquests by Coroner Mr. Mastin at Winthorpe William. Sargason | ||
| 1821 | Lincolnshire Villages Population Statistics Early 1800s | ||
| 1822 | TE | 29/9 | A wicked Reverend banned from the Skegness Hotel |
| 1824 | StM | 2/1 | Lincolnshire Coast Smugglers |
| 1824 | StM | 28/5 | Call for a Lifeboat in Skegness |
| 1824 | StM | 4/6 | Inquests by Mr. Mastin at Spilsby on the bodies of Edward Waller and Capt John Hack ford |
| 1824 | IJ | 11/12 | Compensation for Skegness Farm (court case) |
| 1825 | Skegness Lifeboat and Coast Guard introduced – boats of the Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association | ||
| 1825 | Oct | Lifeboat stationed at Gibraltar Point | |
| 1825 | Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is William Scupholm | ||
| 1825 | Ancient Bully Beef | ||
| 1826 | An early 1826 engraving of Skegness (source: old postcard) | ||
| 1826 | StM | 13/10 | Bottle Fish Washed Ashore at Skegness |
| 1827 | HBP | 28/7 | Mrs. Walls, mother of Rev J Walls of Boothby Hall dies at Skegness (no story) |
| 1828 | Joseph and Sarah Hildred took over as landlord of the New Hotel (built early 1800s and the second hotel in Skegness) later called the Hildred’s Hotel | ||
| 1828 | Thomas and Mary Enderby take ove the Skegness Hotel (Vine) | ||
| 1829 | SM | Village school opened on west side of Roman Bank | |
| 1829 | Picture of Spilsby Grammar School 1829 | ||
| 1830s | Ship Hotel is built at the junction of Burgh Road and Roman Bank Landlord Thomas Hutton | ||
| 1830 | StM | 22/1 | Several casks of tallow, sundry timber and staves, were driven on shore near Skegness, supposed from vessels lost off the coast during the late gales. (no story) |
| 1830 | Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is Samuel Moody | ||
| 1830 | StM | 27/8 | Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association orders the Lifeboat station be moved to Skegness from Gibraltar Point (to where Lifeboat Avenue is now) |
| 1830 | HP | 26/1 | Ships wrecked |
| 1830 | 30/1 | Dramatic rescue at sea (‘Thomas & Mary’ of Wells) | |
| 1830 | StM | 10/9 | Seal Captured |
| 1830 | StM | 22/10 | Landlord of Ship Inn Gibraltar Point dies – Joseph Fell |
| 1833 | Hidden Mysteries of Skegness Beach (ship wrecks lying off the coast of Skegness) | ||
| 1833 | SH | 4/8/1882 | Early rescues by the Skegness lifeboat 1833-1860 |
| 1833 | DM | 11/9 | Great loss of lives at sea |
| 1833 | DM | 11/9 | Margate Pier and jetty blown up in gales |
| 1833 | 31/8 | Great storm at sea lifeboat saved 10 lives 20 bodies washed ashore | |
| 1834 | DM | 18/6 | Advert for the New Hotel in Skegness (Hildred’s) |
| 1836 | Roman Bank Primitive Methodist Church Stone Laying Ceremony | ||
| 1836 | Old Chapel built on Roman Bank | ||
| 1836 | StM | 22/1 | The Earl of Scarbrough sent 10/ to be distributed amongst the poor of the parish of Skegness. (no story) |
| 1837 | BM | 7/10 | Insult to the Queen |
| 1838 | HP | 2/2 | Ship wrecked off Skegness reports of lives lost |
| 1838 | LC | 2/2 | The sloop Boyne of Google driven ashore by gales lives lost |
| 1838 | HP | 9/2 | People reported to be dead in recent ship wreck have turned up safe and sound |
| 1838 | StM | 23/3 | Inscribed Mahogany Washed Ashore |
| 1838 | StM | 8/6 | Advert Marine Villa To Let |
| 1841 | Census taken | ||
| 1841 | White’s Directory 1842, states that in excess of 6,000 tons of coal were landed in the coal yard which stood on the site of the present-day Tower Gardens | ||
| 1842 | StM | 27/5 | Advert Sea Bathing Skegness and Ingoldmells |
| 1842 | FJ | 25/10 | Extraordinary fish caught at Skegness (sunfish) |
| 1842 | HP | 12/8 | Revenue cruisers decommissioned |
| c1843 | HP | 11/11/1881 | A mirage seen at Skegness |
| 1843 | 26/2 | Brutal murder at Croft (Evinson) | |
| 1843 | 6/5 | Mother severs baby’s head (Jessop) | |
| 1844 | LC | Martin Luther Wedding Ring Mystery | |
| 1844 | Great Fire of Boston | ||
| 1844 | FJ | 6/3 | Skegness lifeboat rescues City of Carlisle steamer crew |
| 1844 | HT | 11/3 | A shipwreck (Iris of Hull) and shocking inhumanity |
| 1845 | HP | 24/1 | Extensive seizure of tobacco by Customs & Excise |
| 1846 | LC | 2/1 | Inquest on the body of John Pickering, aged 75, found dead in bed at Winthorpe |
| 1846 | NS | 3/1 | Loss of Skegness brig, Young Adam, and crew |
| 1847 | LC | 12/2 | Death of Mrs Mary Enderby of the Enderby Hotel Skegness (Vine) |
| 1848 | LC | 4/2 | Wreck salvage dispute between Samuel Moody of Skegness and Marshall Henley of Croft |
| 1848 | Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built south west High Street | ||
| 1858 | LC | 3/11 | The galliot Anna Maria of Hull ran on sandbank. Rescued by Skegness Lifeboat. |
| 1849 | MT | 1/5 | Strange incident at the Wragby Inn (Turnor Arms) |
| 1850 | Thomas and Mary Enderby leave the Skegness Hotel (Vine) | ||
| c1850 | Enderby Hotel renamed Vine Hotel after being taken over by Joseph Clarke | ||
| 1851 | PG | 6/9 | Deathbed murder confession – Enderby, Milnes, Taylor |
| 1851 | PG | 20/12 | Curious incident (wallet washed up) |
| 1851 | Census taken – 366 inhabitants of Skegness | ||
| Arkin Moody, carrier, took goods and passengers to Spilsby market every Monday | |||
| 1853 | LC | 11/3 | Accident at Sykes Farm Gibraltar Point |
| 1854 | HP | 20/1 | Lindsey Sessions 1854 at Spilsby |
| 1855 | Sarah Hildred greatly enlarges the New Hotel (Hildred’s Hotel) | ||
| 1855 | Entry about Skegness in the 1855 Post Office Directory | ||
| 1856 | Entry about Skegness in the White’s Lincolnshire Directory | ||
| 1856 | Richard Millson is landlord of the Vine Hotel | ||
| 1857 | Crimean War Russian gun displayed in Bargate, Boston | ||
| 1857 | LC | 11/12 | On 4th Dec drowned off Gibraltar Point, Thomas Grunnill, 44, fisherman, of Skegness and Herman, son of Edward Grunnill of Skegness, 11, fisherman (no story) |
| 1858 | SH | 19/1/1883 | Rev Edward Steere curate of Skegness – see also memorial window in St Clement’s Church |
| 1859 | Coastguard Station built at Gibraltar Point | ||
| 1860 | LA | 18/2 | Sam Moody Murder of Elijah Lynn premiminary hearing |
| 1860 | TT | 14/3/1860 | Samuel Moody tried for the murder of Elijah Lynn (March 1860) |
| 1860 | Skegness man nearly filled a murderer’s grave (Samuel Moody) | ||
| 1860 | SH | 12/10/1888 26/10/1888 | Lumley Square was called ‘Leather Hill‘ and was described as the village green |
| 1861 | Spilsby Prison Inmates & Staff 1861 | ||
| 1862 | Sea View Hotel opens – owned by Hobson Dunkley | ||
| 1864 | Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association merged with RNLI due to financial difficulty | ||
| 1864 | Lifeboat station built on South Parade Skegness | ||
| 1864 | DN | 4/11 | New Skegness Lifeboat – Herbert Ingram transported to Skegness free of charge by the Great Northern Railway |
| DN | 4/11 | The Royal National Lifeboat Institution expresses concern that the Yarmouth lifeboat refused to attend a steamer in distress | |
| 1865 | HP | 24/3 | Farmer, Senescall bankruptcy files |
| 1865 | StM | 19/5 | Skegness House To Let Old Advert |
| 1865 | StM | 9/6 | Skegness Burgh Train Station Shuttle Bus |
| 1865 | JO | 11/11 | Rev J Stevenson appointed Curate of Skegness, Lincolnshire |
| 1866 | LC | 3/8 | A Visitor to Skegness |
| 1866 | LM | 10/8 | Wreck off the Lincolnshire coast |
| 1867 | DN | 5/12 | Skegness lifeboat rescues the Ant of Boston |
| 1867 | TE | 15/12 | Skegness lifeboat rescue |
| 1868 | Punch and Judy Accident in Sheffield | ||
| 1869 | NC | 10/12 | Joseph Moody gets a reward for bravery |
| 1870 | StM | 13/5 | Mrs J Morley takes over Sea View Villas Skegness |
| 1870 | LC | 23/12 | Fight Over Skegness Lifeboat Coxswain Appointment |
| 1870s | Beach Fairground Constructed | ||
| 1871 | SS | Apr 1934 | Old Ship Inn completely rebuilt |
| 1871 | HP | 6/10 | Skegness Lifeboat ‘Herbert Ingram’ renders assistance |
| 1871 | Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is John Thomas Green | ||
| 1871 | Pig Club is formed (first club to be formed in Skegness) | ||
| 1871 | A Wesleyan Chapel, of wooden construction, was in use in High Street | ||
| 1872 | Skegness Entry in Gazetteer 1872 | ||
| 1872 | DN | 27/9 | Outbreak of rinderpest |
| 1872 | PM | 28/9 | Cattle plague outbreak report |
| 1872 | LM | 28/9 | Cattle plague outbreak report |
| 1873 | HP | 24/1 | Great progress is being made with the Wainfleet to Skegness railway line |
| 1873 | NC | 14/11 | Ship and crew lost off Skegness |
| 1873 | John Borman coal merchant moves to Skegness from Withern, near Alford | ||
| <1873 | Skegness consisted of two roads only – High Street and Roman Bank | ||
| 1873 | Firsby and Wainfleet railway was extended into Skegness, first train arriving in Skegness on 28th July | ||
| 1874 | New Skegness Lifeboat – Herbert Ingram II (1874 – 1888) | ||
| 1874 | LC | 8/5 | Vine Hotel license transfer from Robert Chambers to Joseph Clifton (no story) |
| LC | 8/5 | Skegness Railway Refreshment Rooms license transfer from John Gunson to Mary Ann Brothwell (no story) | |
| LC | 8/5 | Ship Inn Winthorpe (Burgh Road./Roman Bank junction) license transfer from James Bellamy to Frederick Shearman (no story) | |
| 1874 | HG | 1903 | George Morley’s Chemist established on High Street Skegness |
| 1875 | PI | 21/8 | Skegness excursion train crash |
| 1875 | H V Tippet, agent to the Earl of Scarbrough, conceived the idea of town planning Skegness | ||
| 1875 | LM | 1/7 | Narrow escape from drowning |
| 1875 | IJ | 23/11 | Gale causes ship wreck |
| 1876 | Photograph taken by Walter Smyth showing Lumley Square (which used to be called ‘Leather Hill’) and High Street. The building under construction is the Wesleyan Chapel opened that summer. The signpost points to Wainfleet, Burgh and The Sea. | ||
| 1876 | 30/7 | A brick-built Wesleyan Chapel opens at the west end of High Street Skegness, used for only six years | |
| 1876 | HP | 21/7 | Burglary at the Sea View Hotel |
| 1876 | LM | 8/1 | Skegness lifeboatmen receive rewards |
| 1877 | Charles Henry Major’s family came to Skegness | ||
| 1877 | Steam Laundry established | ||
| 1877 | LM | Skegness pier Company formed – proposed new Pier and Pier Hotel | |
| 1877 | Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is Joseph Moody | ||
| 1877 | HP | 3/8 | Woes at the Skegness Races |
| 1877 | LM | 14/8 | Fatal railway accident (Grassby) |
| 1877 | LM | 14/8 | Fatal bathing accident (Simmonds) |
| 1877 | HP | 21/9 | Attempted murder of a coastguard (Patrick Donovan) |
| 1877 | LM | 31/10 | Attempted murder by a coastguard |
| 1877 | LM | 12/9 | Another attempted murder in Lincolnshire |
| 1877 | Rare Historical Photograph 1877 Southsea Hampshire | ||
| 1877 | Wedding fashions picture | ||
| 1878 | NEP | 2/9/1943 | Charles Cater is Skegness’ First Milkman |
| 1878 | LM | 6/3 | Proposed Drainage System at Skegness |
| 1878 | HP | 28/6 | Heroic rescue at Skegness- Thomas Eley rescues Mrs Fox |
| 1878 | Skegness gasworks opened | ||
| 1878 | HP | 19/4 | Spilsby tradespeople object to the new Skegness Pleasure Gardens |
| 1878 | SS | 23/4/1999 | First Skegness town plans drawn up |
| 1878 | Pleasure Gardens opened 27th May. The Robin Hood Rifle Band played at the official ceremony | ||
| 1878 | HP | 14/6 | Athletics at Skegness, chief attraction Madame Anderson |
| HP | 28/6 | Heroic rescue by Thomas Eley – narrow escape from drowning (Fox) | |
| 1878 | LM | 1/8 | The development of Skegness as a seaside resort |
| 1878 | DM | 11/9 | Derby at the seaside |
| 1878 | LM | 24/10 | Skegness Brick and Coal Company Formed |
| 1879 | HP | 8/8 | Roman Catholic church opened |
| 1879 | HP | 28/3 | Skegness branch of the Lincolnshire Church of England Temperance Society formed |
| 1879 | DM | 23/5 | Sale of Property in Skegness (Osbourn Hotel) |
| 1879 | HP | 30/5 | Fishermen’s Orphan Homes |
| 1879 | HP | 4/7 | Fishermen’s Orphan Homes – more subscribers |
| 1879 | HP | 8/8 | Roman Catholic Church opened |
| DM | 27/8 | Sad death of a Derby Tourist in Skegness (Mr George Barnett) | |
| 1879 | Frederica Terrace completed – the only building on Grand Parade | ||
| 1879 | First foundation stone laid of St Matthew’s Church | ||
| 1879 | Sewerage works completed at Cow Bank (furthest end of Richmond Drive) | ||
| 1879 | Pavilion opened in the Pleasure Gardens, ran by Cllr. John Green (Methodist) and later Fred Trevitt | ||
| 1879 | Building of first Church of England schools commenced in Skegness | ||
| 1879 | Grand Parade completed | ||
| ? | Tower Esplanade was called ‘Beacon Hill’ (ref SS 1964) | ||
| 1879 | HP | 17/10 | Erection of Skegness Pier to be commenced at once |
| HP | 17/10 | Building erected for the Earl of Scarbrough opened for public business this week | |
| 1879 | HP | 19/12 | Fishermen’s Orphan Home |
| 1879 | NE | 22/10 | Contract secured by Messers Head, Wrightson & Co., of the Teesdale Ironworks, Stockton, for construction of Skegness Pier |
| Charnwood Tavern History (Winthorpe School) |







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