1940s

SH = Skegness Herald SN = Skegness News SS = Skegness Standard SMA = Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News SM = Skegness Magazine (skegness.wordpress.com) NEP = Nottingham Evening Post

1940	3/1	SS	Lifeboat man Matt Grunnill death
	3/1	SN	Double wedding at St Matthew’s Church (Buck)
	3/1	SN	Company placed under escort
	3/1	SN	Houghton death in Winthorpe
	3/1	SS	Marie’s Academy of Dance teacher’s wedding – Loasby
	3/1	SS	Death Overton
	10/1		Wartime DOs and DON’Ts for women
	10/1	SN	Godfrey Winn visits HMS Royal Arthur
	17/1		Death of William Plasket Moody at his home 27 Ida Road
			What to do in an air raid
	17/1		Air raid warning sirens tested in Skegness
	17/1		Seathorne to be abolished
	17/1		Steam Laundry annual dinner County Hotel
	24/1	SN	Stratosphere Girl crashes to her death
	7/2	SN	Dennis Bee death 73 Lumley Road
	12/2		Death of Skegness Farmer John Olivant Smith
	14/2	SN	Twin boy’s sad death – Marvell
	21/2	SN	3-year-old’s death – Lilley
	24/2		Death of Kezial Grunnill
	28/2	SS	Royal Arthur officers wed
	6/3	SS	Bullet-hole body washed ashore at Skegness
	6/3	SN	Haslam Home in London
	13/3	SS	Mayor Hudson’s secret wedding – picture
	20/3	SS	Old Skegnessian remembers Crimean War
	22/3		‘Peggy Gadsby’ (Frank) professional pier diver convicted in Skegness Magistrates Court
	27/3	SS	Dutton Family dinner party picture
	27/3		First ‘War Easter’ Skegness is busy!
	27/3	SS	Coun Frank Evans resigns (picture)
	3/4		Two Skegness men fined for violating wartime blackout rules
	3/4		Free repairs to gas masks
	10/4	SS	Body in back garden well At Myrtle House Skegness
	10/4	SS	Alan Grunnill wedding – picture
	24/4	SN	Mayor Chester
	22/5	SS	Supt Ackeril retires – picture
	29/5	SS	Death of Charles Lane furniture store proprietor
	29/5	SS	Harry Smyth death
	29/5	SS	Overton death – transported mail to Burgh
	29/5	SS	Skegness airman killed in action – Hewett
	19/6	SS	A Skegness Officer’s wedding – Stanley Crawshaw
	3/7	SS	War guns tested in Skegness
	3/7	SN	Rev Mack’s young daughter
	10/7	SS	Dump war effort bones and scrap in Lumley Square
	10/7	SS	Butlin’s polar bear to be evacuated or shot
	17/7	SS	Butlin’s polar bear saved after other zoo animals were destroyed in WW2
	21/7	SS	Long lost medal (Fred Smalley)
	24/7	SS	Dr Walker JP death – picture
	3/8	SM	Death of Keith Kime
	7/8	SS	Keith Kime drowns in boating lake
	28/8	SS	Children killed in Red House bombing
	28/8	SS	Red House children’s funerals
	4/9	SS	Air raids on Skegness
	11/9	SS	Spilsby Grammar School fined for breaching black-out regulations
	18/9	SS	Incendiary bombs fall through garage roof
	9/10	SS	German plane brought down
	9/10	SS	Bombs and bullets
	16/10	SS	German Bomber on display in Tower Gardens
	16/10	SS	Dastardly attack on Miss Kitty Houghton
	30/10		Air raid shelters at Skegness Infant School ‘inadequate’
	30/10		Skegness Council’s message to Hitler
	30/10		Red tape hinders lifeboat launch
	6/11		First World War II air raid in Skegness
	6/11		Fined for leaving a bicycle on the pavement
	6/11	SS	More senseless bombing
	13/11		Mobile Canteen set up by WI to help air raid victims
	13/11		Wainfleet bombings
	13/11	SS	Bombings
	20/11		6th air raid on Skegness
	20/11	SS	Bombing on Skegness beach
	27/11		Incendiary bombs dropped on Skegness
	27/11		More paper – thanks to Hitler
	27/11	SS	Crimean War Russian gun removed from Boston for war metal
	4/12	SS	Death of Skegness waterworks founder
	11/12		Police devise new way of catching ‘blackout’ offenders
	11/12		Planning a wartime Christmas
	18/12		Skegness Grammar School boy crushed in a Sheffield air raid
	24/12		Police officer shot by sentry
			Man Who Found Skegness Water
			(some below may be in 1940)
1941	1/1	SS	Married by candlelight
	15/1		George Dutton death
			Tower Cinema bombed (18th Jan)
	22/1		Another bomb raid – coastal town bombed
	12/2	SN	Memories of old Skegness
	19/2	SN	Onion crops on Skegness foreshore
	5/2		Coastguard Watch history
	12/2		Defeating the raider
	26/2	SS	Clock Tower suffers war damage
	26/2	SS	Bonnett death
	12/3		Two German bombers shot down
	19/3		Three enemy raiders brought down
	26/3		Capon death (first surveyor to the Skegness Local Board
	9/4		Moonlight air raid
	9/4	SS	Hassall is penniless
	16/4	SS	Payne emergency birth Briar Way
	30/4		Four soldiers in Tower Cafe cellar – threats with bayonet
	7/5		Headless whale washed up on Skegness beach
	14/5		Hitler comes 800 miles to kill an 8-year-old boy
	21/5	SS	Runaway fire engine (Fireman Frank Burbidge)
	4/6		Séance in Skegness to contact dead sailor
	18/6		Lone raider bombs Skegness
	25/6	SN	Skegness has its first gas test
	9/7		Enemy raider shot down
	9/7	SS	B C Hucks recalled
	9/7		Don’t use stirrup pumps to spray the garden!
	16/7		Shot through head body washed ashore
	30/7		Sleeping out in air raid shelters
	20/8		Bombs fall on Vine Walk in Skegness
	20/8	SS	“One of our Aircraft is Missing” war film shot on location in Boston
	18/6	SS	Horncastle refuses Grimsby child evacuees
	18/6	SS	Leaflets dropped by the Germans
	1/10	SS	Pier may be dismantled for munitions
	29/10		Rats ate the jam
	29/10	SS	Two Hassall sketches for Skegness War Ships Week
	15/10		Bombs fall near bowling green
	8/10		Child’s body found in a well at Petwood Hotel Woodhall Spa
	19/11		“Well done, Skegness!”
	8/11		Worship Week
	26/11	SS	Fred Clements meets film star Elizabeth Allan
			Fred Clements dies, aged 66, and is buried in St Clement’s churchyard
			Fire Engine Plunges onto Roman Bank
			Skegness Industrial Works Bombed German Broadcast Claim
			German Prisoner of War Camp on Morris School site
1942	7/1	SN	Death of Mrs Susan Blades who was the first to marry in the Methodist Church Roman Bank (1892)
	14/1	SN	Accident to Skegness business woman, Connie Dutton of Dutton’s Cash Stores, Lumley Road
	14/1	SN	Thorpe Dales fire
	14/1	SN	An alarming experience – went head-on into horses in the dark
	14/1	SN	Cow kills a farmer
	28/1	SN	Gas stops play at Skegness cricket ground
	28/1	SN	Boys must register
	28/1	SN	Support for Skegness
	11/2	SN	Butlin’s in the desert
	25/2	SN	Remarkable scene in a Skegness house
	4/3	SN	Jolly plaque
	4/3	SN	Council pays tribute to the late Digby
	11/3	SN	Skegnessian filmed with Sir Stafford
	11/3	SN	Retired police sergeant
	18/3	SN	Entertainment pioneer’s death (Will Marsh)
	18/3	SN	Beauty and Brains
	25/3	SN	Street fire party
	25/3	SN	Solving your waste paper problems FAQs
	1/4	SN	Land ploughed up
	1/4	SN	Death of Coun Hudson
	1/4	SN	Painted lips girl laughed at magistrate
	8/4	SN	Fido on guard
	8/4	SN	Plucky airman loses his life
	8/4	SN	Guy Grantham is safe
	8/4	SN	Dodgems for munitions – Billy Butlin donates amusement park rides to war effort
	8/4	SN	Honeymoon assault
	22/4	SN	Boys fell in waterway and drowned
	22/4	SN	Tribute to Coun Hudson
	33/4	SN	A Skegness loan
	29/4	SN	Call in Mr Butlin!
	29/4	SN	Summoned before court – two young girls – for riding two on a bike
	29/4	SN	Mysterious Wainfleet bag
	29/4	SN	New councillor welcomed Walter Cook
	6/5	SN	Royal Marine in serious charge
	6/5	SN	Ribs injured in over-zealous hug
	13/5	SN	Tribute to Skegness
	13/5	SN	Drill awards
	13/5	SN	Warning to schoolchildren
	13/5	SN	More about Royal Marine in serious charge
	13/5	SN	Housewives must save every bone!
	14/5	NEP	Lifeboat Thrills Recalled by Golden Wedding couple, Wilkinson of Ingoldmells, eployed by C F Grantham of The Hall
	20/5	SN	Public gardener’s death near bowling green
	27/5	SS	Plane kills woman
	3/6	SN	Shocking minefield tragedy
	3/6	SN	Famous ventriloquist recalls early days in Skegness
	3/6	SN	Joe Davis is coming to Tower Billiards Club
	10/6	SN	Killed by a hand grenade
	11/6	NEP	Auction Incident
	1/7		Skegness lads in India
	8/7	SN	Car machine-gunned
	8/7	SN	Jewel theft
	15/7	SN	Farmer prosecuted for destroying a bridge
	22/7	SN	Tanks for attack – Skegness inscription
	29/7	SN	Trees are natural camouflage
	29/7	SN	Savings are still increasing
	29/7	SS	Bombs on east coast resort
	30/7		Barmaid falls through top window of Lion Hotel
	5/8	SN	Mother’s thrilling experience Husband is decorated by the King
	5/8	SS	Skegness family’s sad ordeal
	26/8	SN	Blackberries – a warning!
	2/9	SN	Innocent letter to wife
	9/9	SN	Mr Major, editor of The Skegness News passes away
	16/9	SN	An “East Coast Resort” is bombed
	23/9	SN	Death from a ricochet shot
	23/9	SN	How to write to a PoW
	7/10	SN	“A new fire bomb” film released by the British Government
	8/10		Pull down St Matthew’s Church
	28/10	SN	A private hotel is hit by bombs
	11/11	SN	How to kill a rabbit
	25/11	SN	Silence is our ally
	2/12	SN	Proud of Skegness – a letter from New Zealand
	2/12	SN	An alternative air raid siren
	9/12	SN	Death of the oldest tradesman, William Brown
	9/12	SN	Skegness wife hears husband’s radio broadcast from India
	9/12	SN	Rescued from sewer
	9/12	SN	Use of your car
	9/12	SN	Business woman falls on train line
	9/12	SN	Office blaze
	16/12	SN	Jumped into water tank
	16/12	SN	Britain needs YOUR gramophone records!
	23/12	SN	Clearance of lofts
	23/12	SN	His Christmas wish
	16/12	SN	Help the war – stop sneezing!
	23/12	SN	Santa at Skegness Infant School
	30/12	SN	Trespassing on the railway
	30/12	SS	Boston grammar school pupil killed
	30/12	SN	Oldest music hall artist
			Skegness man gets war medal
			Snake Show in India Weird Thrill for Skegness Man
1943	6/1	SN	Old railings are removed for war use
	13/1	SN	Frank Charles Fowler Curtis Skegness wedding
	13/1	SN	Dirty air raid shelters
	13/1	SS	Coastal resort bombed (Mablethorpe)
	21/1	SN	Don’t wait for incendiary bombs to explode
	20/1	SN	Skegness has been free from accidents
	20/1	SS	Theo Jefferies death
	27/1	SN	Cement your slack
	3/2	SS	Skegness airman missing – Spurr
	10/2	SN	Stale bread must not be wasted
	10/2	SN	How to wake up without an alarm clock
	17/2	SN	Suicide at a Lincolnshire camp
	17/2	SN	Names on tanks
	31/3	SN	The Great Tomato Mystery
	7/4	SN	Coun Dunkley’s son in missing the bracing air of Skegness
	7/4	SN	Intruder wears husband’s clothes
	7/4	SS	Widowed by Hitler’s vengeance
	15/4	SS	Skegness man in Canada
	14/4	SN	Councillor Hudson’s will
	14/4	SN	Call to keep phone calls brief
	5/5	SS	Boys in beach no-go area
	5/5	SN	This must stop
	19/5	SS	Six sons called up – record for Skegness family
	19/5	SN	Burley death in service
	2/6	SS	Lowndes in court
	16/6	SN	Shopless bank holiday
	16/6	SN	Dutton injury
	23/6	SN	Jimmy Slater’s “Miss Camouflage” glamour show
	30/6	SS	Soldiers killed in minefield explosion
	21/7	SS	Baby left in Horncastle church
	28/7	SN	Neglected children
	1/8	SS	Aliens at Waverley Hotel
	11/8	SN	Report aliens!
	11/8	SN	Resort’s origin
	11/8	SS	“Sunday Wickedness” in Skegness “The Penroses of Fledborough Parsonage”
	18/8	SS	Lord Torrington’s Lincolnshire Diaries
	18/8	SS	Silk stockings promise
	18/8	SN	Skegness man is Prisoner of War
	18/8	SN	Mayor’s call for Day of Prayer
	25/8	SN	Using air raid shelters as toilets
	25/8	SS	General Montgomery’s letter of thanks to Butlin’s
	1/9	SS	Sapper Walker taken Japanese PoW
	1/9	SS	Sudden death of Mrs Wallace (picture)
	1/9	SN	Stack fires sabotage
	2/9	NEP	Charles Cater, Skegness’ first milkman, dies
	8/9	SN	Baby’s body in dyke
	8/9	SS	Baby in drain
	8/9	SS	Threw tiles off roof
	29/9	SN	Concealment of birth
	6/10	SS	Missing sailor Rendell Bell
	27/10	SN	Dutton missing presumed dead
	10/11	SS	50 years wedding anniversary – Calcraft (picture)
	10/11	SS	Skegness Donkeys’ War Effort
	24/11	SN	Orient College headmaster dies
	8/12	SS	Baby found dead
1944	5/1	SN	Woman gassed after fall
	12/1	SN	Landlady fined for not keeping register of aliens
	19/1	SS	Soldier with mules
	19/1	SS	Child’s death – Brown
	21/1	SN	Save your bones!
	26/1	SS	Keyworth bandmaster’s son
	26/1	SS	More about mule soldier
	2/2	SS	Skegness soldier in Bethlehem
	16/2	SN	Shocking allegations withdrawn
	23/2	SN	Death of Wilfred Perrin at HMS Royal Arthur
	8/3	SN	Skegness sailor’s adventures
	8/3	SN	Chemist shop broken into
	8/3	SN	Death of Benjamin Sweeten
	22/3	SN	Skegness man taken Prisoner of War
	29/3	SN	Cigarette burn in Council carpet outcry
	29/3	SS	Skegness soldier’s work
	5/4	SS	Skegness spiritualist, Mr Kirkby gives evidence at Britain’s last witchcraft trial
	19/4	SN	Used bayonet to break into arcade
	26/4	SS	Fred Rye summon for careless driving
	26/4	SS	Coun Davis new chairman (picture)
	May	SN	Accident causes blaze
	10/5	SS	Skegness hero captures three Germans
	10/5	SN	Death of man who “helped to build Skegness” (Baker)
	31/5	SN	PoW broadcast from Singapore
	7/6	SN	Sailor slept in Arcadia Theatre stalls
	7/6	SN	Unusual accident
	14/6	SN	Boy killed by detonator
	21/6	SN	Skegness leads the way in salvaging operation
	12/7	SN	More about boy killed by detonator
	12/7	SS	Skegness soldier killed – Morley
	19/7	SS	Skegness rector dies Rev William Frederick Wilson (partially photographed)
	19/7	SN	Too much water – pumping station
	19/7	SN	Skegness blood wanted
	26/7	SN	Teacher’s death
	26/7	SN	Pilot’s death
	26/7	SN	Property damage arrangements
	2/8	SS	Skegness soldier’s death – Atkin
	2/8	SN	Leg blown off
	2/8	SN	Maternity
	6/9	SN	Penpals wanted for soldiers on tank bearing Skegness crest
	6/9	SS	New rector Clarkson
	20/9	SS	Horn golden wedding
	27/9	SS	Skegness Major in Middle East – Mitchell
	4/10	SS	Farrow’s death by bomb
	4/10	SN	Co-op purchases premises on Lumley Road
	18/10	SS	War Ordeals of Skegness
	25/10		Bombs
	25/10	SS	Baby dies after choking on milk
	8/11		Raids on the resort
	15/11	SS	Lumley Road plans
	13/12	SS	Soldier Nundy
	13/12	SS	Skegness home guard picture
1945	3/1	SN	Link with Cromwellian times – Haw
	17/1	SN	MBE for Mr Warth – pioneer in farming machinery
	17/1	SS	Keyworth brothers meet
	17/1	SS	Skegness officer killed – Green
	24/1	SN	George Mastin funeral
	7/2	SN	Identified Jack the Ripper Victim
	2/2	SN	Boy fell through van door
	28/2		Skegness beach re-opened after minefields have been cleared
	28/2	SN	John Francis Grunnill death
	7/3	SN	Death of Lord Scarbrough
	7/3		Earl of Scarbrough death
	7/3	SS	St Clement’s Church doors dedicated
	7/3	SN	Police machine-gunned in enemy fire
	7/3		Piazza soon to be de-requisitioned
	21/3	SN	Home guard picture
	28/3	SN	Local men missing in the War
	28/3	SN	Bombs in the boating lake
	18/4	SN	Death of Clarke – Bellamy’s Bottles factory
	25/4		Brick pit not safe for sea scouts practice
	2/5		Jehovah’s Witness jailed for refusing to do war work
	9/5		VE Day
	16/5	SS	Teapot Hall fire
	16/5		Mayor of Skegness, Joseph Crawshaw, announces VE Day from balcony of Lumley Hotel bay window
	23/5		Victory in Europe Day celebrated by street party in Wilford Grove Skegness
	30/5	SN	Insult to next of kin
	30/5	SS	Duchess of Kent visits Skegness
	6/6	SN	Jack Hughes killed – picture
	6/6	SN	Last Town Crier dies – Cram
	13/6	SS	Airman dies whilst marching – Blood
	Jun	SN	First Rescue by Skegness Lifeboat (flashback)
	20/6		Piazza changes its name to the Embassy
	4/7		Skegness “gunmen” in trouble
	1/8		Still some mines in the area
	1/8		Organ pipes stolen from St Clement’s Church
	15/8		VJ Day Victory in Japan
	22/8	SN	Loss of Deeds in Town Hall fire
	22/8	SN	Street Party Alexandra Road
	22/8	SN	Street Party Cavendish Road
	29/8	SN	Street Party Tennyson Green
	19/9	SS	Four generations of the Key family – picture
	26/9	SN	VE Day Fancy Dress in Tower Gardens (picture)
	3/10	SN	First Peace Siren
	3/10	SN	Disastrous Fire at Sparkes Fish & Chip Shop
	10/10	SN	Battle for Wilford Grove house
	10/10	SN	Harry Whily court case
	17/10	SN	First female conductress at Lincolnshire Roadcar
	17/10	SN	Harry Whily funeral
	24/10	SN	Wainfleet man’s treasure trove
	7/11	SN	Japanese prisoner of war tells the tale
	7/11	SN	Cassocks from blackouts
	7/11	SN	Golden Wedding of earliest Salvationist
	7/11	SN	First post-war Guy Fawkes Day
	14/11	SN	Body on train line
	28/11	SN	Bathing costumes are rationed
	5/12	SN	Broke council windows
	19/12	SN	Skegness man at the Japanese Surrender Ceremony – Goulson
	26/12	SN	Ex-servicemen’s club debate in Council
		SM	Commonwealth War Graves St Clement’s Church Skegness
		SM	Civilian War Dead Skegness
		SM	WW1 WW2 British Military Photos
		SM	WW2 Street Party Photo (Sheffield)
			Dancer, Janice Sutton commended in local newspaper
1946	2/1	SN	Death of Knocker Hancock
	9/1	SN	Death of Caroline Freeman Salvationist
	9/1	SN	Japanese Prisoner of War – A Skegness Woman’s Story
	9/1	SN	Posed as health official
	9/1		Crane School of Dance
	9/1		Drury death (school of cookery)
	16/1	SN	Requisitioned houses
	16/1	SN	Dealt with dangerous mine
	23/1	SN	Bigamy at Skegness
	23/1	SN	DSO medal for dealing with dangerous mine
	30/1	SN	Butlin’s ultimatum to Skegness Council
	30/1	SN	Foreshore manager’s sudden death – Coulson
	6/2		Moody death
	13/3	SN	Royal Arthur Hotel on Roman Bank proposal (webmaster’s note – filed in 1918)
	24/4	SN	Gunby Hall handed over to the Nation
	1/5	SN	Found hanging on stairway
	29/5	SN	Stables ablaze
	19/6	SN	German prisoners of war to clear obstructions on beach
	19/6	SN	Butlin’s Riviera idea
	3/7		School for backward children
	10/7		Ex-servicemen get ‘home’ on Grand Parade
	7/8		Skegness paragraphs
	14/8	SN	Baby found abandoned on beach
	14/8		Smacked child
	21/8	SS	Resort scoured for missing child
	21/8	SS	Baby’s body found under train seat (filed in 1948)
	28/8		Crane dancing school
	4/9	SN	Goods train fire Seacroft Station
	11/9	SN	German PoW found hanging
	18/9	SN	BBC theatrical manager summoned to court
	2/10	SS	Break-in at Skegness fire station
	23/10	SN	Tragic cot death
	30/10		Dog clubbed to death
	20/11		Grammar school boys set bombing range on fire
	27/11	SS	Animals put to sleep by electrocution at RSPCA Prince George Street
	4/12	SN	Wainfleet Road Playing Fields
	4/12	SN	Butlin’s action suddenly withdrawn
1947	8/1	SN	Wainfleet Road Playing Fields
	15/1	SN	Child’s body dug up in a Stickney garden
	15/1	SS	Skegness airman’s grave
	22/1	SN	Child’s body in flames
	22/1	SS	Skegness girl guards Nazis
	5/2	SN	Wainfleet Road Playing Fields
	12/2	SS	Sea gives up its…GRAPE FRUIT
	5/3	SN	Eresby Mansion burned down
	5/3	SN	Skegness lifeboat battles through ice
	19/3	SN	Wainfleet Road Playing Fields
	2/4	SN	Betting arrests
	9/4	SS	Eggs offence
	16/4	SS	Another eggs offence
	16/4	SS	Lincolnshire dialect
	30/4	SS	Boys’ tragic find
	7/5	SN	Skegness wins Best Laundry Girl competition
	7/5	SS	Old Spilsby house destroyed by fire (picture)
	14/5	SS	Rumpus at Tower Cafe
	21/5	SS	Skegness is first in country to have frozen food
	25/5	SN	“No water for fire” firemen exclaim after Eresby Mansion fire
	4/6	SS	Coun Frank Evans exposure
	4/6	SS	Boat overturns
	11/6	SS	False birth register
	18/6	SS	Turner’s Corner advert
	18/6	SS	Chapel Sands Inspector retires (picture)
	18/6	SN	Children slept in baths or cellars
	18/6	SN	Boy drowns after being cut off by tide
	25/6	SS	Gibraltar Point bombing range protest
	25/6	SN	Assault on Lumley Road
	25/6	SS	Laurel & Hardy at Butlin’s
	2/7	SS	Bigamy charge
	2/7		New head for Skegness school
	2/7		Comedians Laurel and Hardy visit Skegness
	9/7	SS	Registration of child (follow-up)
	6/8	SS	First screening in the world for Skegness cinema
	27/8	SS	Foster wedding (The Hall Roman Bank)
	10/9	SS	Carnival queen
	17/9		Eric Watson story
	24/9	SN	German prisoner helps woman cut off by tide
	1/10	SN	Incident in Tower Gardens
	15/10	SS	Gunby Hall squire dies
	15/10		Battle of the new raised hemline fashions – vox pop
	29/10	SS	Blazing hut tragedy (Senescall)
	19/11	SN	Poem to Princess Elizabeth
	2/11	SS	No permit for saccharin
	31/12	SN	Squatters at Gibraltar Point
			Nottingham Convalescent Home taken over by NHS and renamed Seely House after its benefactor
			Wilfred Perrin takes over from his father, George as coxswain of Skegness lifeboat
			Picture of Richmond Drive in 1947
1948	11/2	SS	Knott (Garage) death
1948	3/3	SN	Nowhere to put school children
	10/3	SN	Warth death
	10/3	SN	Hassall death – how Skegness heard the news
	13/3	SS	Death of John Hassall
	13/3	SS	Patchett suicide
	17/3	SS	Pier appointment
	24/3	SN	Sand hills Butlin’s camp
	7/4	SS	Boys killed in explosion Hill of Firbeck Avenue
	21/4	SN	Battle of Winceby recalled and an eerie gravestone
	28/4	SS	Cllr Fry Mayor of Skegness (picture)
	28/4	SN	Council and Co-op sued by Skegness butcher
	5/5	SS	Pier workman’s rescue
	2/6	SS	Civilians on Skegness war memorial proposal
	9/6	SS	New rector for Skegness – Rev Graham (picture)
	9/6	SS	Jim Crawshaw suicide
	16/6	SS	Funeral of Jim Crawshaw
	16/6	SS	New Butlin’s aerodrome official opening
	16/6	SS	Plane lands on Skegness beach
	30/6	SN	Prime Minister visits Skegness (partly photographed)
	30/6	SN	Napier New Zealand Modelled on Skegness after Earthquake
	7/7	SS	Schoolboy drowned
	7/7	SS	Beach tragedy (maybe previous story)
	21/7	SS	Bombed Park Avenue house
	21/7	SN	Child drowned in Ingoldmells well
	28/7	SS	Famous dog in fire
	28/7	SS	Child drowns in well at Ingoldmells
	25/8	SN	Chimp learns to ride a bike at Skegness
	1/9	SS	Babies galore – record number of babies born in Skegness
	8/9	SS	Dunkley death
	8/9	SS	Man shot at rifle range mystery
	8/9	SN	Man shot at rifle range mystery
	8/9	SS	Arcadia blaze
	15/9	SS	Carnival queen
	15/9	SS	Garden incident
	15/9	SN	Death of George Garner Dunkley JP
	15/9	SS	Funeral of George Garner Dunkley JP (not photographed)
	29/9		Jumping from air balloon at Butlin’s
	6/10	SN	Mrs Green boat builder’s wife dies
	13/10	SS	Iron Lung Grammar girl dies
	20/10		Death of popular entertainer, Jimmy Loft
	20/10	SN	Singing in the Street – Skegness Photographers Fined
	20/10	SS	Fainlight’s crisps factory approved
	27/10	SS	First Double Wedding at St Matthew’s Church
	27/10	SS	New burial ground proposal
	24/11		Call to close Isolation hospital
	24/11		Skegness girl in new film
	3/11	SS	NOT the First Double Wedding at St Matthew’s Church!
	17/11	SN	War victim found dead in drain
	24/11	SS	Skegness Star
	24/11	SS	Proposal to close the isolation hospital
	8/12		Town crier is back in Skegness
	8/12		Risk of braining the baby at St Matthew’s church
	8/12	SS	Wife found dead
	22/12	SN	Sick & Dividing Club disbanded after 51 years
	22/12		Skegness girl in new film
	22/12	SS	June Kennedy Skegness famous dancer
	22/12	SS	Former fire chief’s golden wedding
			Skegness ghost stories
1949	5/1		Mods & Rockers Riots Skegness 1970 Video
	5/1	SN	Wireless set burst into flames
	5/1	SN	First ambulance hoax
	12/1	SN	Cartoon – price of railway tickets to Skegness
	12/1	SN	Daring rescues aerodrome crash
	12/1	SN	Council Chairman wears jewel of office for first time
	2/2		Fowl worrying
	2/2	SN	Red Letter Day recalled – Eliza Hickson
	2/2	SN	50 years with NCS – Harold Wilson
	9/2	SN	Accidental death – Marshall
	23/2	SN	Boy found hanging on door knob – North
	23/2	SN	Farewell dinner for publicity manager (part photographed)
	2/3	SN	Lead sheeting disappears from bomb-damaged Kings Cinema
	2/3	SN	New South Bracing damaged by gales
	2/3	SN	North and South Bracings named
	16/3	SN	Tragedy 55 Briar Way – Sturman
	23/3	SN	Fashion parade at Keightley’s (Pictures)
	23/3	SN	Jolly Fisherman at Wembley (Picture)
	23/3		How old is Castleton Boulevard?
	23/3	SN	Roman Bank Church Jubilee – history
	23/3	SN	Jolly Fisherman goes to Leicester Football Club
	30/3		Conference Hall proposal
	?/3	SN	Joseph Crawshaw
	6/4		Skegness beach 60 years ago
	6/4		New ration books
	13/4		Prom stopped short
	13/4		Crane’s School of Dance, High Street picture of Janice Sutton
	13/4	SN	Skegness Thursday Football Club
	20/4		Plan Skegness great foreshore development
	20/4	SN	Roman Bank Church Jubilee Ceremony
	27/4	SN	Mr Stillings is a hero
	4/5		Greatest lifeboat rescue recalled (Norway)
	4/5	SN	Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee Sovereign found
	11/5	SN	Councillors – pictures
	18/5		Mrs Merryweather (old Skegness fire engine) on war work in Australia
	18/5	SN	Girl Guide presentation – Watson
	18/5	SN	Wedding – Holland
	18/5	SN	Golf winner – picture
	25/5	SN	Drowned man Robert Francis Baines, Newton le Willows (not photographed)
	25/5	SN	Death of Tower Cafe founder
	25/5	SN	21 years at Woolworth’s – picture
	25/5	SN	Skegness football team picture
	25/5	SN	Dancing at the Arcadia Theatre picture
	1/6	SN	Skegness landmark goes (brickyard chimney demolished)
	1/6	SN	In court for taking nude photos
	1/6	SN	Shades pub Lumley Road – picture
	1/6	SS	Skegness Chicks picture
	8/6	SN	Historical records buried as brickyard chimney is felled
	8/6	SN	Queues for Skegness rock
	8/6	SN	Swannery at the brick pit
	8/6	SN	Customs and Excise officer
	8//6	SN	Fire at Tower Lumley Cafe Skegness
	15/6	SN	Poutney wedding
	15/6	SN	Foreign delegates visit Butlin’s Holiday Camp
	22/6	SS	Waterway extension flashback
	22/6	SN	George Perrin
	22/6	SS	Lumley Cafe fire
	29/6	SN	Daring rescues in Lumley Road shopping centre fire
	29/6	SN/SS	South Bracing official opening ceremony (reveals who named the Bracings in Skegness)
	29/6	SN	New-born seal captured by Moody and kept on the Pier
	6/7	SN	Savage assault
	6/7	SN	Skegness Townswomen’s Guild – picture
	6/7	SN	Roman coin found at Burgh
	13/7		Pier that was
	13/7	SS	June Kennedy Skegness dancer
	3/8	SS/SN	Indecent assault – Wadds
	3/8	SN	Skegness Junior School puppet show – picture
	3/8	SN	Rock-buying frenzy – someone will get killed
	3/8	SN	Terrible noise in Court
	3/8		Peaceful prom
	Aug	SS	Drowned at Skegness – John Steel 15 years old
	10/8	SN	Pensioners Hall Grantham Drive
	16/8	SN	Perrin RNLI Certificate presentation
	16/8	SN	Granddaughter of Tennyson character dies in Skegness
	17/8		Thrilling lifeboat launch recalled
	31/8	SS	Spendlove and Lucas Grammar School teachers (formerly of Magdalen College Wainfleet)
	31/8	SN	Coal catches fire at Skegness train station coal yard
	7/9	SN	Fire at Derbyshire Miners holiday centre
	21/9	SS	June Kennedy Skegness dancer
	21/9	SN	June Kennedy crowns the Skegness Carnival Queen
	21/9	SN	Skegness Carnival floats – Haywood Rock – pictures
	28/9	SN	Duke of Edinburgh at Butlins Holiday Camp
	26/10	SS	Fire at Derbyshire Miners
	26/10	SN	Too young to marry
	26/10	SN	Fire at the Miners’ Holiday Centre
	2/11	SS	William “Sammy” Grunnill death
	9/11	SN	Link with Cromwell
	7/12	SS	Sewell fireman death and funeral
	7/12	SN	Yuletide Fayre – Dunkley picture
	14/12	SS	Sewell fireman death and funeral
	21/12	SN	History made in Skegness – first TV broadcast received by Herrick Watson
	28/12	SN	New Tower Cinema photograph (image filed in 1950)
	28/12	SS	Old Tower Cinema demolished – picture
	28/12	SN	First TV at Ingoldmells Hotel
			Diving stage removed from the Pier
			Tragic accident on Lumley Road
			Mistaken identity funeral
			Duke of Edinburgh Visits Butlins