Skegness, Wesleyan Chapel, Algitha Road 1891

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Photo of Skegness, Wesleyan Chapel, Algitha Road 1891

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The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Algitha Road was officially opened on 13 July 1882, the fourth of that denomination in Skegness. The three earlier chapels were all in the High Street, the first opening in 1837. As the picture shows, there were few other buildings near this chapel in 1891. The ornate iron gates and railings on the road frontage were lopped off early in the Second World War to melt down for armaments. In the small hours of Sunday 16 February 1941, the church was seriously damaged in an air-raid; services had to be held in the Sunday School for some time afterwards. The pair of houses on the east side of the building were so badly wrecked in the bombing that they had to be demolished. The former Wesleyan Chapel is now the Skegness Methodist Church.

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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

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Rosberry House

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 ...see more

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60's Walsh's.

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