Mr. Clarke with a view to the the better regulation of exposing goods for sale. Proposed that goods exhibited for sale be allowed to extend 2 feet on the pavement from the shop front and no more. Beyond the two foot, the footway should be kept clear. Mr. Rowley seconded the motion which was carried.…
Only a week or 2 ago, we recorded an accident which occurred to a little schoolboy. Harry Ainsworth aged 4 and a 1/2 years who resides with his parents on the Wainfleet Road Skegness on that occasion. The little fellow was run over by a horse and cart. But fortunately sustained no serious injuries. Yesterday…
A House To LetIn the section for tradesmen’s heavy turnouts other than motor, Messers Parsons Bros and Snape secured the red riband for a dray flanked by two huge lumps of the commodity, and surmounted by a couple of miniature railways trucks on lines.Second award was gained by Mr F W Walker, Burgh Road, with…
Source Skegness Standard 1960
Skegness Standard 10th April 1963 Chatta Box Cafe on High Street up for sale.
Last view of the gas retort house from Skegness railway tracks before it was demolished later that month. Source: Skegness Standard 28th September 1960
GERMAN BOMBER ON VIEWFor Skegness Spitfire Fund ONCE in a squadron that was the pride of Goering’s much-vaunted Luftwaffe, but now lying humbled on the sward in the Tower Gardens at Skegness, the cynosure of many spectators of all ages, is what remains of a Junkers 88 dive bomber. Ungainly monster, bearing scars of battle,…
The first reference I can find to Lumley Terrace, Skegness, is an advert for the sale of the newly-built houses in 1877. Source:Â Grantham Journal 25 August 1877 Photo: Lumley Terrace just after completion in 1877.
I’m adding this post just as a reference to the first old newspaper article I can find that mentions the Skegness Cricket Ground. This was in the 22 August 1874 issue of the Herts Advertiser – St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, where it refers to the NEW cricket ground at Skegness. This suggests it opened in…
The Warming Apparatus at Skegness Church The furnaces for heating the church have not been entirely successful in operation. The fire was put in them one Saturday morning, and on Sunday the smoke was so dense that nobody in the Church could see the clergyman. The workmen had unfortunately left an opening in the wrong…
The New Fountain Workmen are busily engaged in erecting the fountain and lamp-post on the plot of ground near the railway station, and already the large cast-iron base is fixed. The base, which is a splendid specimen of casting, has been cast by the Staveley Iron Company, is ten feet square and weighs upwards of…
The business of the Earl of Scarbrough’s estate is now transacted at the new offices in Algitha Road and Romasn Bank. The offices of Messers Tweed, Stephen and Dashper are also removed there. Source:Â Boston Guardian 10 October 1879 The picture of the new Estate Offices appeared in the Views of Skegness
The following photo, by Wrates of Skegness, depicting the opening of Skegness Cottage Hospital, appeared in the Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian 24 May 1913: The following article appeared in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph 20 May 1913. It describes the opening ceremony, telling us that the architect was Mr Parkinson of Blackburn, who presented the Countess of…
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