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SKEGNESS LEADS THE COUNTRY
Butlin’s get first-ever monorail at a cost of £50,000
BRITAIN’S first-ever monorail went into action this week at Butlin’s Holiday Camp, Skegness—at a cost of £50,000. The idea has been based on a similar structure featured in America’s ” Disneyland.”
Although it is The Butlin Monorail, Skegness has a certain amount of claim for [...]

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN COUNCIL AND BUTLINS
STATEMENT BY TOWN CLERK
THE ” Giant Wheel ” which has been erected in the Butlin Amusement Park on the Skegness seashore in front of the Grand Parade looks like leading to some considerable controversy in the Council.
At the March meeting of the Council’s foreshore Committee, the Clerk (Mr. I. M. Cule) [...]

Two rare photographs of Butlins Amusements on North Parade,  Skegness.
The pictures were taken in 1928 when Billy Butlin’s Pleasureland occupied the site where Lindis Court is today.
The original photographer was not credited.

Source: Skegness News 20th June 1928

The visit of Disc Jockey Alan Freeman to Butlin’s Holiday Camp, Skegness, in 1969 was a great success. A crowd of over 2,000 in the capacious Princes Ballroom was treated to a high-speed skilfully compered programme of pop-music.
The programme went out for a solid two hours on Radio 1 and a good 30 minutes after [...]

1971 – The train about to leave Butlin’s Holiday Camp is the 13.00 hours for the Blessingham, Steam Museum. This picture shows the “Royal Scot” all set for its last big journey yesterday (Tuesday) morning. Its first stop was at the traffic lights in Skegness, where Coun George Walker, Chairman of the Urban Council, gave [...]

Bizarre Pygmy Princess Ubangi Visits Butlins Skegness
Pygmy Princess Latest Butlin’s Amusements Attraction
I thought I was reading an April Fool’s Day article when I first read this, but no, it is definitely an issue from August!
The latest attraction at Butlins in 1932 was a Pygmy Princess from Central Africa.
Princess Ubangi was “one of the quaintest little [...]

Armed robber targets bookmakers Do YOU know this GUNMAN?
An armed robber has taken cash from a Lincolnshire betting shop after threatening staff with a handgun.
The Ladbrokes bookmakers on the Butlins site near Skegness was targeted by the male intruder late last night (Monday).
Police searched the area but did not locate the suspect and have appealed [...]

FIRE THREAT TO ZOO
ARMED POLICE ON DUTY DURING DODGE’EMS BLAZE
POLICE with loaded rifles stood guard in an amusement park at Skegness on a Sunday night in July 1953, to prevent the escape of lions, bears, and other wild animals in a zoo next to a blazing fun-fair structure.
While the police stood ready to shoot down [...]

Billy Butlin amazed the holidaymakers at Butlins Skegness camp in 1933 when he introduced his latest tourist attraction – a monster robot!
MECHANICAL MONSTER COMES TO SKEGNESS.

Butlin’s Amusement Park “Scoop.”
Alpha the Robot has arrived at Skegness! He is at present an inmate, of Butlin’s Super Amusement Park, and the other day (writes a witness) I eat [...]