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Skegness Magazine

• Captain Samuel Moody Death
  Master Mariner and Lifeboat Crew DEATH OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL MOODY An old resident of Winthorpe passed away last week in the person of Capt., Samuel Moody, at Jasmine House Roman Bank, Winthorpe. He had reached the advanced age of 78, and had been for upwards of 40 years a master mariner, and was for nearly 20 years in [...]
• Council Tells Butlin to Remove Giant Wheel
  CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN COUNCIL AND BUTLINS STATEMENT BY TOWN CLERK THE ” Giant Wheel ” which has been erected in the Butlin Amusement Park on the Skegness seashore in front of the Grand Parade looks like leading to some considerable controversy in the Council. At the March meeting of the Council’s foreshore Committee, the Clerk (Mr. I. M. C […]
• Black or White Marble Tombstones Spoil Churchyard
  TOMBSTONE PROBLEM SKEGNESS RECTOR’S COMMENTS Writing in the current issue of the Skegness Church Review the Rector, (the Rev. G. R. Sansbury) comments: Some months ago I reminded you of  “a new threat to our churchyards,” as it has been described by an authority, namely  black tombstones. Expert opinion in the church has warned us against t […]
• Grammar School War Memorial
  DEDICATED BY CANON MORRIS AND UNVEILED BY SCHOOL’S FIRST HEADMASTER AT IMPRESSIVE SERVICE DIGNIFIED STONE PLAQUE DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT WHO WAS A FORMER PUPIL MANY students, past and present, and their friends, together with those who have a deep interest in the Skegness Grammar School, will remember for many a long day the impressive occasion that brou […]
• Escaped Slaughter-house Cow Runs Amok
  COW WAS RECAPTURED LUNCH HOUR SCENE IN SANDBECK AVENUE Traffic was held up, and crowds of holiday makers, returning for lunch, thronged Sandbeck Avenue yesterday (Tuesday) at about one o’clock, when a cow escaped from the slaughter house on Richmond Drive. The cow was recaptured just before it reached the junction of Briar Way, after dragging one of [. […]
• Sea View Walk Almost Completed
  SEA VIEW WALK NEW BEACH PATHWAY NEARLY COMPLETED The Surveyor (Mr. R. H. Jenkins) reported to the Foreshore Committee that the work of laying the footpath from the Pier to Sea View Pullover is nearly completed. The southern portion, on the west side of the stepped sea wall, which is to be of insitu concrete, would be laid [...]
• Welcome Home Dinner for Skegness WW1 Soldiers
  WELCOME HOME To the Skegness Men who Served and Won DINNER AT THE PAVILION Splendid Reception Skegness townspeople last night gave a Welcome Home to all the men of  Skegness who served in H.M. Forces during the War on Sea, Land, or in the Air, and nearly 300 were present at the dinner given in their honour. [...]
• Young Policeman Engulfed in Flames
  MYSTERY OF SKEGNESS POLICEMAN’S DEATH WHAT CAUSED MOTOR CYCLE TO BURST INTO FLAMES ? MOTOR ENGINEER’S THEORY DECEASED’S COMRADE COMPLIMENTED BY CORONER’S JURY A public inquiry into the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of Police Constable Walter Mapleson, a native of 11, Henry Street, Lincoln, and stationed at Skegness, who d […]
• Overdose Man Collapsed and Died in Police Station
  UNUSUAL SUICIDE CASE AT SKEGNESS. Fruit Hawker Collapses and Dies in Police Station. “I HAVE TAKEN 200 ASPIRINS.” Fatal Sequel to a Fit of Depression. How a Skegness fruit hawker committed suicide by the unusual method of swallowing a large number of aspirin tablets was related at an inquest on the death of George Bricknell, aged 41, living in [. […]
• “I Bequeath – Annual Bonfires to Horncastle”
  Strange Provision in Disputed Will BON-FIRE BEQUEST FOR HORNCASTLE Echo of French Invasion Scare The remarkable will of the late Mr. George Jobson, of Aden Villas, Horncastle, who died last year, contained a bequest of a certain sum of money for “the provision of a bonfire every fifth of November for the amusement of the children and townspeople [...]