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Chance find reveals a wartime crash tale
A CHANCE discovery on Skegness beach has unravelled the story of a wartime crash.
Richard Bainbridge, from Hall Lane, Stickney, uncovered a brass plaque while he was metal-detecting on the beach last winter.
He said: “My first thought was it was a 12 inch ruler – but then I noticed the [...]

LIGHTNING killed a six-year-old girl holidaymaker on Skegness beach one Sunday in 1979 — the day it struck twice in the same place.
But her little sister, who had stopped breathing, was saved.
The sisters were in a party of holidaymakers walking along a breakwater to paddle in the sea. All but Louise Hough, the little girl [...]

VIDEO NOW LIVE!
Skegness travelled back 65 years to witness a re-enactment of the greatest military invasion of the 20th Century – the 6th June, 1944 Second World War D-Day Re-enactment last weekend.
Operation Neptune took place on the Beaches of Skegness on the 19th and 20th September, 2009.
In addition to the amazing displays on the ground, [...]

UPDATE: This year’s Sunset to Sunrise event is sheduled for 19th June, 2010, when the Bikers 4 Macmillan will leave South Stack Lighthouse car park at 9.30pm, riding overnight to catch the sunrise over Skegness Beach at 4.15am.
Bikers 4 Macmillan,  a fundraising group promoting cancer support through motor cycling events, were in Skegness over the [...]

UPDATE: Picture of a ship wreck off the Lincolnshire Coast sent in by Peter Gregory.
Secrets of the Sea
You’re strolling along Skegness beach at the water’s edge, breathing in the bracing sea air, glancing out to the windfarm, glancing towards Gibraltar Point.
But do you know the secrets the Skegness sea holds?
As I was researching this historical [...]

Blue Flags will fly this summer!
PRESTIGIOUS Blue Flags and Seaside Award Flags will be flying in Skegness, Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea this year after East Lindsey District Council, once again, made successful applications to Encams to have the District’s beaches ranked amongst the best in the world.
Encams, the Environmental Charity, only awards their Flags [...]

Mr. Fred Smith, of Compass House, Riby Street, Grimsby, purchased the three-ton killer whale which stranded on the beach at Gibraltar Point, three miles south of Skegness, on Oct. 19th.
The tremendous task involved in cutting up this 22-ft. 3 -in. monster into sections sufficiently small to permit conveyance along the three miles of beach by [...]

We all recognise this picture of the Cafe Dansant, which later became the Foreshore Information Centre, on what is now Tower Esplanade. But did you know that it was originally called the Garden Pavilion and was owned and opened as a beach cafe by none other than the Earl of Scarbrough? Read on to find [...]

During the winter months visits will be made to the seashore by anti-aircraft squadrons for the purpose of practice. These practices may take place either during the day or night, and the inhabitants of Skegness are requested not to be alarmed whenever they may hear the reports from the guns.
Source: Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News [...]

A Bomball Washed up on Skegness Beach
Source: Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News 1918
This afternoon a “bomball” measuring about 3 feet 6 inches in diameter, which presumably contained something stronger that wind, was washed ashore at half ebb tide opposite the Helter Skelter. A number of inhabitants walked down to view it but kept at the [...]