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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