Pre-1880

Pre 1880

Research by Angela Gooch skegnessvideo.com
Updated: 16/1/2010
SH = Skegness Herald
SN = Skegness News
SS = Skegness Standard
SMA = Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News
SM = Skegness Magazine (skegnessvideo.com)

1287 Forest and village under the sea
c1300 St Clement’s Church built
1100s Skegness Castle
1199 Early Skegness Landowners
1300 Who was bathing in the sea in the 1300s?
1500s 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)
1770 Skegness Hotel is built (known as the Enderby Hotel in 1828 and later became the Vine Hotel)
c1780 Skegness House (Moat House) was built by Rev Edward Walls and occupied by his daughter, Mary Walls
1816 A 24-pounder brass mortar for firing lifelines established at Skegness, on the recommendation of Captain George Mamby, its inventor
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
1826 An early 1826 engraving of Skegness
1828 Joseph and Sarah Hildred landlord of New Hotel (built early 1800s and the second hotel in Skegness) later called the Hildred’s Hotel
1830s Ship Hotel is built at the junction of Burgh Road and Roman Bank Landlord Thomas Hutton
1830 Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is Samuel Moody
1830
1833
Lifeboat station moved to Skegness from Gibraltar Point to where Lifeboat Avenue is now
Early rescues by the Skegness lifeboat 1833-1860
1833 31/8 Great storm at sea lifeboat saved 10 lives 20 bodies washed ashore
1829 Village school opened on Roman Bank
1841 Census taken
1848 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in High Street
c1850 Enderby Hotel becomes Vine Hotel
1851 Census taken – 366 inhabitants of Skegness
Arkin Moody , carrier, took goods and passengers to Spilsby market every Monday
1856 Entry about Skegness in the White’s Lincolnshire Directory
1856 Richard Millson landlord of the Vine Hotel
1858 Rev Edward Steere curate of Skegness see also memorial window in St Clement’s Church
1859 Coastguard Station built at Gibraltar Point
1860 Samuel Moody tried for the murder of Elijah Lynn (March 1860)
1860 Lumley Square was called ‘Leather Hill‘ and was described as the village green
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 Skegness Lifeboat – Herbert Ingram
1870s Beach Fairground Constructed
1870 Skegness and District Pig Club formed
1871 Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is John Thomas Green
1871 Pig Club is formed (first club to be formed in Skegness)
<1873 Skegness consisted of two roads only – High Street and Roman Bank
1874 First chemist shop in Skegness opened in High Street (owner George Morley)
1873 Firsby and Wainfleet railway was extended into Skegness, first train arriving in Skegness on 28th July
1874 Skegness Lifeboat – Herbert Ingram II (1874 – 1888)
1874 George Morley’s Chemist established in Skegness
1875 H V Tippet, agent to the Earl of Scarbrough, conceived the idea of town planning Skegness
1876 Photograph 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 Wesleyan Chapel opens west end of High Street Skegness on the site of an earlier chapel
1877 Steam Laundry established
1877 Skegness pier Company formed
1877 Coxswain of Skegness Lifeboat is Joseph Moody
1878 Skegness gasworks opened
1878 First Skegness town plans drawn up
1878 Pleasure Gardens laid out
1879 Frederica Terrace completed – the only building on Grand Parade
1879 First foundation stone of St Matthew’s Church laid
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
1879 The building of the pier began
? Tower Esplanade was called ‘Beacon Hill’ (ref SS 1964)

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