This list of the home addresses of some of the men of Skegness who fell during World War 1 might be interesting for the people that currently live at these addresses.
It might be a quite an emotional experience for them …

These statistics reveal that the population of Skegness was surprisingly low compared with the population of the surrounding towns and villages during the early 19th. century.
It was just a tiny fishing village, an activity which employed relatively few people. However, …

This article explains how a fallen World War 1 Skegness soldier whose name is engraved on the Skegness Cenotaph or war memorial was killed in action, and it includes a photograph of him.
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Generally, the names of the fallen of World War 1 which are engraved on the Skegness Cenotaph (or war memorial) mean nothing to people.
This article attempts to resolve this by describing an aspect of the life of one of the …

This ‘personal ad.’ was written by a Victorian woman who was so desperate to meet a young man and find love that she ‘advertised’ in the local newspaper.
She ‘advertised’ for romance in a letter which she addressed to the ‘letters …

This episode re-creates the initial trail of a murder that took place in Skegness during the Victorian era
It took place in the 1860s, and because of our research into historical Skegness, we have a pretty good idea of what it …

We are currently investigating a murder that took place in Skegness in the mid-Victorian era
On second thoughts, it’s a little late to investigate a murder of this vintage, so perhaps it’s more accurate to say that we are researching it.
By …

There were several reports of Zeppelins being sighted over Skegness during the period leading to the outbreak of World War 1, and some of these reports were regarded in the same way that reports of UFOs, or unidentified …

We are planning to publish a publication about the impact of World War 1 on Skegness
Perhaps surprisingly, we have discovered that the civilian population did not always support the men who were absent from the town on military service during …

How an instance of domestic violence was punished not by the law but by a mob during the Victorian era
During our research into ‘Skegness in the 1880s’ we discovered an instance of the practice of ‘rantanning’.
‘Rantanning’ was the practice of …