Skegness Through The Years

"The old toune is clene consumed and eten up with the se" (John Leland, Chronicle, 1541).

From such unpromising beginnings the tiny agricultural village of Skegness (population 132 in 1811) developed into the thriving seaside resort that it is today.

 

This book contains two volumes on the history of Skegness. The first of these brings together the main threads of what is known about the development of Skegness up to 1939.

 

The second volume examines in more depth what the village looked like in the two centuries before the arrival of the railway and how it then changed rapidly into a popular seaside resort.