1970s
SH = Skegness Herald SN = Skegness News SS = Skegness Standard SMA = Skegness, Mablethorpe and Alford News SM = Skegness Magazine (skegness.wordpress.com)
| 1970 | SM | Mods & Rockers Riots Skegness 1970 Video | |
| 70/74 | Sheffield Beauty Queen Game Show Hostess | ||
| 1970 | Jan | Fravigars sweet factory moves to Grantham | |
| 7/1 | Demolition of kiosks, Grand Parade entrance to Tower Gardens begins | ||
| 14/1 | SS | Oh Buoy! | |
| 28/1 | SS | Fravigar dies in bike crash | |
| 18/2 | Swimming baths nothing new (by Winston Kime) | ||
| 18/3 | Figure 8 amusement ‘bites the dust’ | ||
| 15/4 | SS | Landladies Larks advert picture | |
| 13/5 | Demolition men reveal Michael Angelo painting | ||
| 13/5 | SS | Squatters in litter bin | |
| 13/5 | SS | Human skeleton mystery unsolved | |
| 20/5 | Wall of Death | ||
| 20/5 | SS | Crocheted Queen’s portrait | |
| 20/5 | SS | New waterway boat is launched | |
| 10/6 | SS | Collecting specimens for Natureland | |
| 17/6 | SS | Mr Sparkes hires Auster to find lost model plane | |
| 24/6 | SS | Mr Sparkes gets his model aeroplane back | |
| 24/6 | SS | Mr Dutton dies | |
| 24/6 | John Noakes visits Natureland | ||
| 1/7 | SS | Jane Hardy is the first Miss Skegness of the season | |
| 8/7 | SS | New Solarium Tents fad hits Skegness | |
| 15/7 | SS | Sun castle pianist quits after 25 years | |
| 12/8 | Sparky the elephant switches on Illuminations | ||
| 19/8 | SS | Doctor’s son rescue (Pendrigh) | |
| 26/8 | SS | Mystery war medals | |
| 26/8 | SS | Man stung by giant jellyfish | |
| 2/9 | SS | Coun Walker at the bowling greens | |
| 23/9 | SS | Killer cat | |
| 23/9 | SS | Switchback Skegness band – Sid Dennis | |
| 7/10 | Pier head demolished | ||
| 7/10 | SS | Sun castle organist presentation | |
| 7/10 | SS | Skeleton of 15 year old girl found at Chapel St Leonards | |
| 28/10 | Remember the old days (goats round Clock tower) | ||
| 28/10 | SS | Mystery crash at St Clement’s Church | |
| 4/11 | SS | Pam Curtis and Roger Smith wedding | |
| 11/11 | SS | Horror field death girl | |
| 16/12 | SS | End of the line | |
| 18/12 | New miniature railway | ||
| 30/12 | SS | Janice Sutton Wizard of Oz | |
| 1971 | 6/1 | Pier entrance takes shape | |
| Graham Cripsey joins father’s Wall of Death | |||
| 13/1 | SS | Warehouse fire Arcadia Road | |
| 13/1 | SS | Missing boy | |
| 20/1 | Cafe Dansant is demolished | ||
| 3/2 | SS | Valuable old plate found in drain | |
| 24/2 | Rasmussen’s shop Vivo | ||
| 17/3 | SS | Royal Scott train | |
| 17/3 | SS | Chairman Walker decides to quit | |
| 24/3 | SS | Royal Scott train | |
| 31/3 | Jolly Fisherman joins charity walkers | ||
| 7/4 | SS | Ship Inn manager tragic death | |
| 14/4 | All aboard new miniature railway | ||
| 21/4 | SS | Pictures of councillors | |
| 19/5 | RTK supermarket opens on Drummond Road | ||
| 26/5 | Pier Head, Variety Bar and Information Centre opens | ||
| 2/6 | SS | Prince of Wales visits Gibraltar Point nature reserve ?? | |
| 2/6 | SS | Ray Clemence wedding | |
| 23/6 | SS | Dolphins too costly for Natureland | |
| 30/6 | SS | First pelican crossing opens at Clock Tower | |
| 30/6 | SS | Mystery of the Missing Circus | |
| 7/7/ | SS | Rowing boats used as flower containers | |
| 7/7 | SS | The Elite restaurant | |
| 7/7 | SS | Pelican crossing picture | |
| 7/7 | SS | Mayor presents Jolly Fisherman statue at Skegness Hospital | |
| 7/7 | SS | Seathorne swimming pool | |
| 14/7 | ‘Jungle’ cleared for police station | ||
| 14/7 | Map | ||
| 21/7 | SS | Prince Charles visits Gibraltar Point nature reserve | |
| 21/7 | SS | Vicky Bonnett meets star | |
| 4/8 | SS | Eartha Kit | |
| 11/8 | SS | Space Mission David Nixon Skegness illuminations switch on | |
| 13/8 | RNLI flower display | ||
| 1/9 | Planes thrill Skegness | ||
| 15/9 | Butlin House to be demolished | ||
| 20/10 | SS | John Palmer missing for 6 weeks | |
| 3/11 | SS | Janice Sutton dancer joins the Bluebells in Paris | |
| 10/11 | SS | Parade for sale shock | |
| 10/11 | SS | Crash horror | |
| 24/11 | SS | Palmer mystery phone call | |
| 1/12 | Lion on Algitha Road | ||
| 1/12 | Lumley Road of the future | ||
| Old Foreshore Kiosks Demolition | |||
| 15/12 | SS | Palmer appeal | |
| 1972 | 12/1 | SS | Palmer body found |
| 12/1 | SS | Two die in car crash Hussey and Burton | |
| 19/1 | Butlin House demolished | ||
| 26/1 | SS | Fred Clements biography | |
| 9/2 | SS | Astroglide built | |
| 16/2 | SS | Windsor School of Dance | |
| 1/3 | SS | Woman fell through window | |
| 8/3 | Hedley Grunnill | ||
| 8/3 | SS | Pop Williams old Skegnessian | |
| 8/3 | Co-Op roof extended | ||
| 8/3 | SS | Skegness Clay Pipes factory | |
| 8/3 | SS | Rummage sale St Matthew’s Church Hall Ida Road | |
| 15/3 | SS | Firemen’s fancy dress party Parade Hotel | |
| 29/3 | SS | Tramp Party at the Sun castle | |
| 12/4 | SS | Arcadia girders | |
| 12/4 | SS | Local Butcher disappears | |
| 19/4 | SS | Local butcher’s body found | |
| 3/5 | SS | The FIRST astroglide in Skegness (flashback) | |
| 3/5 | SS | Janice Sutton dancers | |
| 17/5 | SS | Murder, blackmail and sex scandal | |
| 17/5 | SS | Friends save woman at sea | |
| 24/5 | Sky Sentinel plans ditched | ||
| 7/6 | SS | Ray Clemence | |
| 28/6 | SS | Flipper the nervous dolphin | |
| 5/7 | SS | Lovesick dolphin | |
| 19/7 | Sun castle flood (flashback) | ||
| 2/8 | SS | Father of 3 dies in crash horror (Mr Clynes Edward Amott) | |
| 16/8 | SS | Ulster soldier collars youths in Roof top drama | |
| 6/9 | John Woodward signs £5m contract | ||
| 13/9 | SS | Patches disco | |
| 27/9 | SS | Mary the dolphin girl | |
| Sept | Girl hides dead baby in her bedroom | ||
| Oct | Hagworthingham church tower collapses | ||
| 4/10 | Children from Inglewood School Skegness | ||
| 4/10 | Downs Syndrome boy falls to his death from Skegness boarding house window | ||
| 11/10 | Police station | ||
| 25/10 | Train mows down 21 stray sheep | ||
| 1/11 | Fire Station completed | ||
| 8/11 | Skegness Landladies on Russell Harty TV show | ||
| 15/11 | Arcadia theatre gets new switchboard | ||
| 22/11 | Parents of Skegness-born famous footballer, Ray Clemence watch their son play on TV | ||
| 29/11 | SS | Woman found dead in sea | |
| 20/12 | Christmas lights switched on in Lumley Square Skegness | ||
| 20/12 | Arcadia Theatre saved from demolition – officially opened as Arcadia Centre by Rt. Hon. Viscount Eccles | ||
| Dec | Skegness Lifeboat’s last trip to Lynn Well lightship | ||
| 1973 | 10/1 | Michael John Curtis & Linda Nottingham wedding | |
| 17/1 | Mauritius pinches our Skegness Jolly Fisherman | ||
| 24/1 | Skegness rock band Seesaw member Richard Turland wedding | ||
| 24/1 | William Way named after Royal visit | ||
| 31/1 | Landladies Larks | ||
| 14/2 | New beer machine for Bateman’s brewery Wainfleet | ||
| 14/2 | Janice Sutton dancers | ||
| 21/2 | Navy probes into beach bomb find | ||
| 21/2 | Natureland gets new van | ||
| 21/2 | Skegness Landladies Larks on TV | ||
| 21/2 | Coun Harold Fainlight with girl guides | ||
| 28/2 | Phone pervert says he’s from Oldrids Boston | ||
| 28/2 | Telephone exchange | ||
| 28/2 | Fury at Grand Parade hotel building plans | ||
| 7/3 | Graham Kerr Seacroft Hotel chef | ||
| 7/3 | Frankie Vaughn at Festival Pavilion | ||
| 7/3 | John Woodward launches campaign after daughter diagnosed with cancer | ||
| 7/3 | Stand-in lifeboat for Skegness | ||
| 14/3 | New Skegness ballet school | ||
| 21/3 | Landaus will soon disappear in Skegness | ||
| 21/3 | Opening of the Mardi Gras nightclub in Skegness | ||
| 4/4 | Scouts make way for the dead at St Clement’s Church graveyard | ||
| 25/4 | SS | Dolphinarium disaster | |
| 2/5 | Lion goes for walk on Lumley Road | ||
| 4/7 | SS | Indian toy danger | |
| 24/7 | SS | Annie Goose missing mum | |
| 31/7 | SS | Bear mauls circus man | |
| 12/9 | SS | Dore sister drown at Skegness | |
| 17/10 | SS | Scouts master | |
| 23/10 | New police headquarters Park Avenue | ||
| 14/11 | SS | Death crash car spun in air | |
| 14/11 | SS | Laundry fire Roman Bank | |
| Ban The Exorcist from the Tower Cinema | |||
| Train horror – 21 sheep mowed down and killed | |||
| Skyride construction | |||
| SF | Mountain Slide and Tarzan Glide | ||
| 1974 | 9/1 | Harold Fainlight painting presentation to Skegness Football Club | |
| 30/1 | Skegness Landladies Pier Performance | ||
| 6/2 | The Thirty Club Castleton Boulevard closes its doors | ||
| 13/2 | Memorial clock presented to Arcadia Theatre | ||
| 6/3 | Professional footballer Ray Clemence returns to Skegness | ||
| 6/3 | Scouts chief alleged assault on young boy | ||
| 6/3 | Cox Ken Holland fires maroon to mark 150 years of Lifeboat | ||
| 6/3 | Wedding of Clock Tower builder’s descendant (Curtis) | ||
| 20/3 | Jolly its a Knockout cloth | ||
| 30/3 | Ode to Winter local poem | ||
| 30/3 | Miss Anglia posed for local businesses advert pictures | ||
| 31/3 | Skegness Urban District Council ceased to exist, Skegness now becoming part of the East Lindsey District Council | ||
| 3/4 | Bay City Rollers at the Variety Bar | ||
| 10/4 | Coun Harold Fainlight opens King George V Walk (from Burgh Road to Winthorpe) | ||
| 24/4 | Fenland Laundry Plant goes up | ||
| 24/4 | It’s a Knockout practice | ||
| 24/4 | Bob Kerr is Jolly Fisherman | ||
| May | It’s a Knockout in Skegness | ||
| 8/5 | Lion Hotel interior photo | ||
| 8/5 | Coun Harold Fainlight | ||
| 15/5 | Inglewood Private School | ||
| 15/5 | Miss Knockout beauty queen | ||
| 29/5 | SS | Jolly Fisherman posters with SUDC stamp | |
| 5/6 | Fire at Butlin’s Camp | ||
| 12/6 | Butlin’s Princes Building destroyed by fire | ||
| 19/6 | Graham Kerr | ||
| 16/6 | Patches nightclub reopens | ||
| 19/6 | Blaze on High Street | ||
| 4/7 | Indian toy danger | ||
| 24/7 | Annie Goose missing mum | ||
| 24/7 | Double yellow lines on Grand Parade | ||
| 31/7 | Bear mauls circus man | ||
| 7/8 | SS | Snow White puppet show outside Embassy | |
| 28/8 | Pier crammed with people for Norman Wisdom show | ||
| 12/9 | Dore sisters’ tragic drowning | ||
| 18/9 | Seacroft train station stationmaster’s house turned into Pet Crematorium | ||
| 2/10 | SS | Herbert Sharpe retires from lifeboat crew | |
| 17/10 | Scout master sexual assault | ||
| 6/11 | Miss Gibraltar, Miss World contestant visits Gibraltar Point Skegness | ||
| 4/12 | Janice Sutton dance school opens on Grantham Drive, Skegness | ||
| 11/12 | People queuing for bread during national strikes | ||
| Gibraltar Point Visitors Centre opened by David Attenborough | |||
| Oct | Skyride erection | ||
| Jolly Fisherman Embroidery Cloth | |||
| 1975 | 1/1 | SS | Fire at the County Hotel |
| 1/1 | SS | Morley Adams dance school | |
| 15/1 | SS | Exorcist review by John Cowpe | |
| 5/2 | SS | Nude volleyball | |
| 5/2 | SS | Beach ball ‘bombs’ | |
| 5/3 | SS | Baby death mother gets four years jail sentence | |
| 19/3 | Wainfleet Rd houses demolished for one way system | ||
| 19/3 | SS | Stewards of the Hildred’s Hotel, Seacroft Hotel and the Lily whites Club | |
| 19/3 | SS | Ray Clemence | |
| 26/3 | Wainfleet Rd houses demolished for one way system | ||
| 2/4 | Sky Ride | ||
| 16/4 | SS | Parade Hotel DJ | |
| 23/4 | SS | Lion cub at the County Hotel | |
| 30/4 | SS | Old fire station building | |
| 26/5 | Hildred’s Hotel becomes a listed building | ||
| 4/6 | SS | Sand dig kids cheat death when they’re almost buried alive | |
| 4/6 | SS | Skegness Pottery opens in John Pountney’s garage, Burgh Road (Jackson Shipley’s now) (father Frank Pountney) | |
| 18/6 | Firemen rescue fireman from Sky Ride | ||
| 16/7 | Beach train introduced | ||
| 16/7 | Future of Parade Cinema debated | ||
| 6/8 | SS | Crossroads soap star, Amy Turtle switches on Skegness illuminations | |
| 27/8 | SS | Lion cubs at Skegness zoo | |
| 3/9 | SS | Thieves make themselves a cuppa | |
| 10/9 | Mystery sand castles appear on central beach | ||
| 10/9 | SS | Cilla’s car makes history on Skegness pier | |
| 17/9 | SS | First female DJ in Skegness | |
| 15/10 | Pier alterations | ||
| 15/10 | SS | Skegness pier from the Variety Bar | |
| 22/10 | DJ Emperor Rosco at the Mardi Gras | ||
| 22/10 | Removal of the Jungle | ||
| 5/11 | SS | Boys save the pier pavilion from fire | |
| 17/12 | SS | Morley Adams dance school | |
| 17/12 | SS | Rasmussen’s fined for selling mouldy chocolates | |
| SS | Skegness music group “Wot” a success at Skegness Pier Hotel | ||
| 31/12 | SS | Councillor Brian O’Connor’s wedding at St Clement’s church | |
| Royal Marines assault course on the Pier field | |||
| 1976 | Friends of Church Farm Museum | ||
| 14/1 | SS | Town brass band | |
| 14/1 | SS | Warman School of Dance | |
| 21/1 | First shops in Lumley Road Skegness 1890s | ||
| 4/2 | Mobile units supplied by Blue Anchor for government offices on Briar Way | ||
| 4/2 | Tower Gardens pond get face lift | ||
| 4/2 | SS | Coughing fit may explain death driver (Parker) | |
| 4/2 | SS | Children take tablets after thinking they’re sweets | |
| 11/2 | SS | Briar Way Garages demolished to make way for market | |
| 25/2 | SS | Norah Canning dance class | |
| 3/3 | SS | Baffling bus shelter | |
| 10/3 | SS | Charles Lane and Frazer | |
| 10/3 | Fire at Tower gardens Pavilion | ||
| 10/3 | SS | Artist get gallery in pub bar (Woods) | |
| 24/3 | Last auction at Tower Gardens Pavilion? | ||
| 31/3 | Sands Show bar plans | ||
| 31/3 | Wainfleet Road one way system | ||
| 31/3 | SS | Berry Way named after the Berry Family of Skegness | |
| 7/4 | Arcadia Theatre seating renewed | ||
| 7/4 | SS | ‘No Digging’ rule on new Richmond council housing estate | |
| 12/4 | Parade Cinema turned into Penny Arcade | ||
| 28/4 | SS | Church Farm Museum | |
| 5/5 | SS | Dolphin medical check-up | |
| 5/5 | SS | Memorial clock in Arcadia Theatre Skegness Playgoers | |
| 5/5 | SS | Gorilla hits holidaymaker | |
| 12/5 | SS | Co-op Arts Group | |
| 12/5 | SS | Look out on the move | |
| 19/5 | SS | Margaret Thatcher childhood in Skegness memories | |
| 19/5 | Church Farm Museum officially opened by Coun Harold Fainlight | ||
| 26/5 | SS | Briar Way Market | |
| 26/5 | SS | Hildred’s Hotel becomes a listed building | |
| 26/5 | SS | Church Farm museum officially opened | |
| 26/5 | SS | Briar Way indoor market | |
| may | SS | Sycamores house on High Street (pull-out supplement) | |
| may | SS | Woolworth’s and Skegness shops memories (pull-out supplement) | |
| 2/6 | SS | Alvin Benson fire engine | |
| 2/6 | SS | Morley Adams dance school | |
| 2/6 | SS | Bier Garten staff photo | |
| 9/6 | SS | Guys and Dolls pop group riding on donkeys photo | |
| 9/6 | SS | King Kong Cameraman is jailed | |
| 16/6 | SS | Dog shot dead when it prevent help for dying master | |
| 16/6 | SS | Morris school pupils help restore Church Farm Museum | |
| 16/6 | SS | Sands Show bar staff photo | |
| June | SS | Aerial photo of Skegness | |
| June | Skegness Lions Club formation | ||
| 23/6 | Church Farm Museum | ||
| 7/7 | SS | Vince Hill at the Vine Hotel | |
| 14/7 | SS | Debbie Jenner Skegness dancer | |
| 14/7 | SS | Church Farm museum donation of mystery object | |
| 21/7 | SS | Ray Clemence | |
| 4/8 | SS | Farrar chemist retires | |
| 11/8 | SS | Ladybird invasion | |
| 11/8 | SS | Rain dance | |
| 11/8 | Sands Show bar – death of a dream? | ||
| 18/8 | SS | Church Farm Museum steam engine in Carnival Parade | |
| 6/10 | SS | Debbie Jenner Skegness dancer | |
| 1/9 | SS | Church Farm Museum another mystery donation | |
| 20/10 | Workmen repair Pavilion after blaze | ||
| 27/10 | Honeycombed chalets appear on beach | ||
| 27/10 | SS | Seacroft Hotel to be turned into a residential home plans | |
| 3/11 | SS | Factory closes | |
| 3/11 | SS | Barber & Nichols factory job losses | |
| 3/11 | SS | Girl footballer banned | |
| 10/11 | St Matthew’s church interior alterations | ||
| 17/11 | SS | Debbie Jenner Skegness dancer | |
| 24/11 | SS | Body found in ditch – Starmer | |
| 1/12 | SS | Pier and Mitchells merger | |
| 15/12 | SS | Blaze at the Red House | |
| 29/12 | BBC Mending clock at County Hotel | ||
| Richmond County Primary School opens on the site of the former Skegness United Football Ground | |||
| Parade Cinema becomes the Penny Parade amusement arcade, owner Joe Sales | |||
| Exam Fear Girl Suicide Heather Orr | |||
| Roman Bank Pottery opens | |||
| Royal Marines assault course | |||
| 1977 | 5/1 | SS | Film making in Skegness |
| 12/1 | SS | Mitchell’s ride factory | |
| 19/1 | SS | Thorns on the beach | |
| 19/1 | SS | Ghosts in Skegness Grammar School | |
| 28/1 | SS | Youth on Parade replaces the Landladies Larks | |
| 11/2 | SS | Co-op Art Group Rose Marie production | |
| 18/2 | Wooden box office at Arcadia Theatre demolished | ||
| 18/2 | SS | Richmond School opens | |
| 25/2 | SS | Randall | |
| 11/3 | SS | Walker/Sadler pictures | |
| 13/3 | Sid Dennis band | ||
| 25/3 | SS | Fry Fred Clements | |
| 1/4 | Steibel makes Skegness centenary Jolly Fisherman lace | ||
| 1/4 | SS | Coun Gary Ellis wedding | |
| 8/4 | SS | Jolly Fisherman original sculpture presented to Skegness Town Hall | |
| SS | Why was 1977 chosen to celebrate Skegness’ centenary? (pull-out supplement) | ||
| SS | Years of growth as a seaside town (pull-out supplement) | ||
| 22/4 | SS | Children’s home on Franklin Avenue Skegness Lincolnshire County Council | |
| 22/4 | Earl of Scarbrough opens Church Farm Museum | ||
| 22/4 | SS | Earl Scarbrough Church Farm Museum | |
| 29/4 | SS | Ray Clemence book signing | |
| 29/4 | SS | New Roman Bank Pottery | |
| May | Red House demolished | ||
| 6/5 | SS | The Thor – vessel rescued by Skegness Lifeboat | |
| 13/5 | SS | Runaway steer is rescued by lifeboat then shot dead | |
| 13/5 | SS | New Mayor for Skegness Coun Harry Hall | |
| 3/6 | SS | ‘Red House’ demolished | |
| 24/6 | New Arcadia Theatre box office | ||
| 1/7 | SS | Centenary stone laid in Compass Gardens | |
| 8/7 | Osbert House | ||
| 15/7 | Blue rock – relic of the ice Age? | ||
| 29/7 | SS | Butlin and Duchess of Gloucester picture (flashback to 1939) | |
| 5/8 | SS | Missing dolphins mystery | |
| 5/8 | SS | Carnival picture- refers to Skegness Castle | |
| 19/8 | SS | Flashback picture | |
| 19/8 | SS | Kids in the swim | |
| 19/8 | SS | Church Farm Museum carnival float | |
| 19/8 | SS | Celia Warman school of dance carnival float | |
| SS | Skegness celebrates the Queen’s Silver Jubilee | ||
| Aug | SS | Billy Butlin’s last visit to Skegness – switched on illuminations. He stayed at County Hotel which was built on the site of his first amusement park | |
| 2/9 | SS | Centenary flashback – Big Dipper | |
| 9/9 | SS | Save the Jungle poem | |
| 9/9 | SS | Moody’s chemist wins Silver Jubilee prize | |
| 9/9 | SS | Bucks cafe | |
| 16/9 | Skegness Barrow Boys (and girls) | ||
| 23/9 | SS | Mrs Randall is 100 years old | |
| 30/9 | SS | Fenland laundry | |
| 30/9 | SS | Ingoldmells smithy | |
| 7/10 | SS | Vessy/Sayer marriage | |
| 7/10 | SS | Australian pen pal visits Skegness | |
| 7/10 | SS | Magic Eye for Skegness lifeboat | |
| 28/10 | Auctioneer Fred Scoggins at Pavilion Tower Gardens | ||
| 28/10 | SS | War relics auctioned (Fred Scoggins) | |
| 28/10 | SS | Doorman George’s models | |
| 4/11 | SS | More about Ingoldmells farming | |
| 11/11 | SS | Skegness to Boston bus in the 1920s | |
| 18/11 | SS | Carnival picture 1933 | |
| Original Jolly Fisherman statuette presented to Skegness Council | |||
| Arcadia Theatre Programme 1977 | |||
| 1978 | 13/1 | Contraband – Skegness jazz group | |
| 20/1 | SS | Old fire engine picture | |
| 29/1 | Pier destroyed by storms (night of January 11th) | ||
| 3/2 | SS | Ferret attack | |
| 17/2 | SS | Pet sniffs out cash | |
| 24/2 | SS | Broome family | |
| 20/3 | Pictures of the old firemen in Skegness | ||
| 7/4 | SS | Jolly Fisherman Lottery | |
| 28/4 | SS | Tony Benn in Skegness | |
| 28/4 | SS | Old picture of Burgh brewery which is now demolished | |
| 5/5 | Cyril Smith MP takes a ride in a Landau in Skegness | ||
| 5/5 | SS | Barlow’s shop history | |
| 19/5 | SS | New bus station | |
| 28/5 | Former bus station – Drummond Road (closed on 14th May) | ||
| 28/5 | Two open-top buses to run on sea front | ||
| 26/5 | SS | Firemen strike | |
| 26/5 | SS | Ghost train opens at Botton’s Pleasure Beach | |
| 26/5 | SS | Open-top bus shuttle | |
| 26/5 | SS | Drummond Road bus station | |
| 2/6 | Water tower to be demolished | ||
| 2/6 | SS | Water Tower to be demolished next year | |
| 2/6 | Aerial view of Skegness | ||
| 9/6 | Painting of horse – gift to Skegness hospital | ||
| 16/6 | SS | Surfs across the Wash | |
| 16/6 | SS | Traveller’s Wedding in Skegness | |
| 16/6 | Astroliner ride installed on the Pier | ||
| 16/6 | Skegness pottery photo of interior | ||
| 16/6 | SS | Crossed Wash on Wind Surfer | |
| 23/6 | SS | Removal of seating from the Pier Theatre to Festival Pavilion | |
| 30/6 | SS | Pentecostal Church opens on Lansdowne Road (not photographed) | |
| 21/7 | SS | New pleasure trains on sea front | |
| 4/8 | Wall of Death | ||
| 4/8 | SS | Sweet Shop horror ride | |
| 18/8 | SS | Jolly Fisherman Lottery | |
| 8/9 | SS | Warman dance school | |
| 15/9 | SS | Smugglers | |
| 22/9 | Briar Way indoor market wall collapses 2 killed 14 injured | ||
| 22/9 | SS | Randall profile | |
| 6/10 | DHSS on Wainfleet Road opens | ||
| 10/11 | SS | Cromwell relics found | |
| 24/11 | SS | Skegness Urban District Council dustcart from the 1920s | |
| 1/12 | SS | Old picture of the switchback railway | |
| 8/12 | Gomersall Terrace Then & Now | ||
| 15/12 | SS | Missing Ming statue | |
| Tower Cinema changed hands – rebuilt with cinema upstairs | |||
| 1979 | 5/1 | SS | Britain’s longest strike |
| 12/1 | SS | Old Pilgrims token | |
| 26/1 | Flashback to Sept 1978 – Indoor Briar Way market wall collapses | ||
| 2/2 | SS | Cast Stone works closes down | |
| 2/2 | SS | Changing scene of North Parade | |
| 16/2 | SS | Three cinemas in Skegness (Tower Cinema Closure) | |
| 9/3 | SS | Mastin Printer founder’s death | |
| 30/3 | Adeline Lee (fortune teller) reads DJ Pete Murray’s palm | ||
| 6/4 | Old reading rooms | ||
| 6/4 | SS | National Westminster bank then and now | |
| 4/5 | SS | New amusement park rides – Zyclon and Astroliner | |
| 11/5 | SS | Margaret Thatcher’s corner shop | |
| 18/5 | SS | New owner for Skegness Miniature Railway | |
| 1/6 | Zyclon at Botton’s amusements | ||
| 1/6 | SS | Elsa Barratt retires | |
| 1/6 | Embassy Theatre | ||
| 8/6 | SS | New bridge for Tower Gardens | |
| 15/6 | SS | Roman Bank Church closure | |
| 22/6 | SS | Roman Bank then and now | |
| 29/6 | SS | Scarbrough Avenue Then & Now | |
| 6/7 | SS | Baby seal watch at Natureland | |
| 20/7 | SS | Alford – Sutton steam tramway | |
| 3/8 | SS | Girl struck by lightening Skegness beach | |
| 10/8 | YMCA Then & Now | ||
| 10/8 | SS | Oliver Cromwell’s head mystery – a Lincolnshire man’s claim | |
| 7/9 | Derbyshire Children’s home Then & Now | ||
| 7/9 | SS | Skegness railway station tea trolley | |
| 14/9 | SS | Skegness TV Station Closes Down | |
| 21/9 | Skyride Then & Now | ||
| 28/9 | SS | Miniature railway then and now | |
| 5/10 | SS | Walk marks Roman Bank Methodist church closure | |
| 5/10 | SS | Flamingo egg at Natureland | |
| 19/10 | SS | Local newspapers indexed | |
| 2/11 | SS | Madhouse | |
| 2/11 | SS | Rolf Harris at Bateman’s Brewery | |
| 9/11 | SS | Death-watch beetle at Church Farm Museum | |
| 16/11 | SS | Hardaker music shop sold off | |
| 16/11 | SS | Malcolm Epton death at 21 Wainfleet Road | |
| 23/11 | v | Seely House fate | |
| 23/11 | Salvation Army Citadel and Sycamore House old photo | ||
| 7/12 | Briar Way building collapse trial verdict | ||
| Sea Saw Skegness rock group released an LP record | |||
| The Sycamores a listed building | |||
| Lumley Road Co-op purchases adjacent building to the east ready for expansion |
Skegness Magazine 