Skegness, The Pier 1904
Photo ref:
51763
Photo ref:
51763
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This was the original entrance to the pier, which was completed in 1881; the side ramps were for prams and bathchairs. Admittance through the tollgate cost a penny, but a bathchair and attendant was 6d and a perambulator and attendant 3d.
An extract from Skegness Town and City Memories.
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I can remember staying at rosemary house for 3 weeks. evey year with my older sisher and to brothers really didnt like the place and never add a understand why we was tuck there .i do now
Me and my 3 sisters went here , late 70s early 80 can’t remember exactly, what I do remember was how we had to share baths and be checked for head lice , they wrote with black marker on our underwear , a colour and number , even while we was wearing them ,one of my sisters was next to me on the bottom bunk and her top bunk partner stole her pillar and I remember talking , asking my sister what’s wrong , the girl named ...see more
Walsh's in the 60s was a very happy time for me and I have great memories of when Mum and Dad,me Grandma and Grandad shared a caravan for a fortnight.The caravan was tucked away in the corner behind the arcade situated next to a ditch.
I can always remember laying on the bed/settee listening to the bingo numbers being called and nodding off to the tones of ''top of the shop 90''.It always seemed an adventure fetching ...see more
1978 at rosemary house
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