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Jolly Fisherman 100th Birthday Party in the Park
Skegness’ Jolly Fisherman sends a special birthday party invitation – everyone’s invited!
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Glorious sunshine and hundreds of people helped make the Skegness Jolly Fisherman’s 100th Centenary Birthday Party in the Park on Sunday a day to remember for the next hundred years!
People were staking their claim to ringside seats as early as ten o’clock in the [...]
Pranksters Get Jolly Fisherman Fountain Foaming
Jolly was foaming at the mouth today as sneaky pranksters, not for the first time in history, added washing-up liquid to the Jolly Fisherman fountain in Compass Gardens, Skegness.
The water feature, brimming over with foam, proved to be the latest tourist attraction in Skegness as youngsters were having foam fights, much to the amusement of [...]
Jolly Fisherman Steam Train 100th Birthday Video
It was full steam ahead for the Jolly Fisherman Steam Train when the Jolly Fisherman service blasted out of Keighley, Bradford, behind two diesel locomotives - a pair of class 20s - that used to operate the train in the 1980s and 90s.
Picture by kind permission of moonhead
The Jolly Fisherman service started operating in 1908 [...]
Jolly Fisherman 100th Birthday Souvenir
Lincolnshire Echo
The Lincolnshire Echo has launched a special publication to celebrated the Skegness Fisherman’s 100th birthday.
At a mere 60p, the special edition is packed solid with facts and pictures accounting the last hundred years of the Skegness Jolly Fisherman which was created by artist John Hassall in 1908.
We are proud to say that many of [...]
Where’s Jolly Fisherman’s Pipe?
What’s happened to Jolly’s pipe? It seems to have gone missing from the statue in Compass Gardens, Skegness. We took a glance back at our Easter picture of Jolly in the Snow and it was missing then.
Anyone know what’s happened to it? Guess it’s gracing someone’s mantlepiece somewhere!
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But this is not the first time our [...]
