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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