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Nottinghamshire Poor Girls Holiday Home Skegness Camp
The Nottingham Poor Girls Holiday Home was situated on Brunswick Drive in Skegness. Our photo below shows the building which is the smaller erection immediately after the row of terraces on the right.
When war broke out in 1914, the girls then in residence at the Skegness Home had to return to Nottingham when the people [...]
Gas Stops Play at Skegness Cricket Ground
WILL RESIDENTS BE CAUGHT?
Tear Gas Caught Skegness Residents Unawares
Gas Stops Play at Skegness Cricket Ground
Source: Skegness News 1942
When the last Gas Exercises in Skegness streets were held, many residents were caught unawares in Lumley Road, and when the tear gas was released, duly “wept for their sins ” through not carrying their gas-masks.
On another occasion [...]
Malcolm Campbell Prepared to Attempt Motor Racing Record in Skegness
Source: Skegness News 1924
SKEGNESS SANDS FASTER THAN SALTBURN OR PENDINE
Malcolm Campbell Prepared to Attempt New Record in Skegness
FIVE MILE STRETCH WANTED
Mr Malcolm Campbell (left), the eminent racing motorist who a few days ago set up a world’s record on Pendine sands, Carmarthenshire, is prepared to come to Skegness to attempt to beat his mean record [...]
