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TV IN THE PALM COURT
NEW ATTRACTION AT INGOLDMELLS HOTEL
The Ingoldmells Hotel, pictured, has the distinction of being the first establishment of its kind in the entire area to install television for the benefit of its patrons.
A handsome R.G.D. set now stands in the Palm Court and results to date are very satisfactory. Large  and extremely [...]

SUDDEN DEATH OF A NURSE AT SKEGNESS
CORONER’S INQUEST HELD
At the Skegness Police Station on Wednesday neon last Dr. F. J. Walker) the Coroner for the Spilsby District), held an enquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Edith Blamires, aged 30 years, a probationer nurse, of Brighouse, Yorks, who was found dead in bed at [...]

FATAL ACCIDENT AT SKEGNESS.
BARMAN FOUND DEAD IN CELLAR.
MIDNIGHT TRAGEDY.
The 1934 August Bank Holiday week-end at Skegness was not short of tragedy, a fatal accident befalling a barman employed at a local hotel.
The victim was Albert Robinson, aged 46, who hailed from Kimberley (Notts.} and was believed to have resided with his brother, Mr. Joseph Robinson, [...]

Former Skegness Man’s Fate
Body Found Floating in French Dock
Year-old Mystery Solved
Almost a year after death, the body of an Englishman found floating in a dock at Boulogne was identifed in 1924 as that of Skegness hotel proprietor, Mr Francis William Naylor, aged 62.
Mr Nayor, who was well known in Skegness as the proprietor of Hildred’s [...]

THE capture of William Joyce, the notorious “Lord Haw-Haw” is but one of the many exciting incidents which have crowded into the life of Mr. Alexander Adrian Lickorish, manager of the Seacroft Hotel, Skegness.
(news article written in 1956)

His career in the hotel catering trade has taken him to most of the exclusive playgrounds of Europe, [...]

October 1929…
SKEGNESS “MARRIAGE” SENSATION
Would-be Bridegroom Vanishes – Said to be Married
TURNED OUT BY GIRL’S PARENTS
It has been definitely established that Albert Victor Fallon, who was to have been married to Miss Eva Audrey Wrigglesworth, the daughter of the owners of the Waverley Boarding House, South Parade, Skegness, left the town hurriedly last Thursday.
It will be [...]

Culprit’s Confession
The circus came to town in 1961, bringing with it a revealation – the self-confessed culprit who painted the Skegness stone lion gold!
While the first performance under the big top on Richmond Drive was in full swing, Ivor revealled the secret that he had kept for twenty-five years:
“Yes, there were three of us. Me [...]

Old Skegness Sea View Hotel turned into flats
The Housing Question
Flats for Skegness
At Spilsby on Monday, in an application by Messers Bass & Co, to delicense the oldest portion of the Sea View Hotel premises, it was stated that the owners were cognisant of the difficulty as to housing accommodation and were trying to meet a [...]

An animal fed by Mr. Bert Parrott, of the Lion Hotel, Skegness,  scored heavily at Mr. Geo. F. Ball’s Christmas Fat Stock Show on Thursday last.
The pig, which is a Middle White and  scales about 32 stones, was placed first in the open class for the best fat pig of any White Breed, over 18st. [...]

The Skegness Herald printed transcripts of the monthly Local Board meeting and from these it is possible to piece together part of the history of Skegness.
The following is a transcript from a Local Board discussion about the piece of land, and the lamp and fountain, in front of the Lumley Hotel near the railway station [...]