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Last night an accident occurred on the Figure Eight, on the North shore, as a result of which a Territorial attached to the Sheffield Engineers, who are camping at Skegness, sustained severe scalp wounds.
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A new ride opened today at Botton’s Pleasure Beach, Skegness, and Lincs FM Presenter, John Marshall was first in line for its maiden voyage.
Skegness’s latest attraction is called Extreme Speed, a four-armed Tivoli Extreme Orbiter type amusement park ride, costing half-a-million pounds, and designed to deliver ‘extreme’ thrills and spills, and is the first new [...]

Fred gave rollercoaster its final dab of paint in 2002
LEGENDARY steeplejack Fred Dibnah was “painting the village red” when he visited Fantasy Island on Wednesday.
For health and safety reasons Fred was persuaded to swap the cloth cap he is famous for with a hard hat as he put the finishing touches to the Jubilee Odyssey [...]

Figure Eight – good for a Healthy Liver
Since the erection of the Figure 8 at the North Shore in 1908, it has always been a popular form of amusement for the visitors, whilst residents are fond of taking a trip in the speedy cars.
This year the public appreciate its jollity and thousands daily pass the [...]

Midnight Blaze at Skegness
Joy-Wheel Burnt Down
Source: Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News 1915
Following upon the fire alarm on the Tuesday evening previous, the residents of Skegness experienced a similar thrill in the early hours of Sunday morning, when between one and two o’clock the shrill noise of the fire buzzer and the shrieking of engine whistles [...]

Rockin’ Roller in action Bottons Pleasure Beach
Local news story date 28th June 2006
Back in May, Skegness News on Video captured on video the new ride being constructed (see below) by the Italian Group Fabbri, at Bottons Pleasure Beach.
The 33 feet high ride replaced ‘The Storm’. It is named the ‘Rockin Roller’ because the artwork on [...]

The Cake Walk emerged in fairgrounds just after the turn of the 20th century. It was named after a dance which was in vogue at the time.
The mechanism consisted of undulating bridges and gangways driven by cranks, The driving belt was often connected to the organ which meant that a speed up of the music [...]