Skegness (GB)
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Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey District of Lincolnshire, England. On the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, the town is 43 miles east of Lincoln and 22 miles north-east of Boston. With a population of 19,579 as of 2011, it is the largest settlement in East Lindsey. It also incorporates Winthorpe and Seacroft, and forms a larger built-up area with the resorts of Ingoldmells and Chapel St Leonards to the north. The town is on the A52 and A158 roads, connecting it with Boston and the East Midlands, and Lincoln respectively.
Skegness railway station is on the Nottingham to Skegness (via Grantham) line. The line terminates at Skegness.
The original Skegness was situated farther east at the mouth of The Wash. Its Norse name refers to a headland which sat near the settlement. By the 14th century, it was a locally important port for coastal trade. The natural sea defences which protected the harbour eroded in the later Middle Ages, and it was lost to the sea after a storm in the 1520s. Rebuilt along the new shoreline, early modern Skegness was a small fishing and farming village, but from the late 18th century members of the local gentry visited for holidays. The arrival of the railways in 1873 transformed it into a popular seaside resort.
Skegness's first post office opened in 1870; it moved premises in 1888 and 1905, before moving to Roman Bank in 1929. As of 2020, Royal Mail's Skegness Delivery Office still operates there. Post Offices also operate on Burgh Road and Drummond Road in Skegness, and at Winthorpe Avenue in Seathorne.
A wireless telegraph station operated at Winthorpe Avenue from 1926 to 1939.
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Skegness
Skegness was issued with the B97 Post Office numeral in c.1887.
[The B97 cancel had already seen use in 1874 when it had been issued at Knockersknowle (sic), a suburb of Plymouth, Devon for a short period, this was a mis-spelling of the post office name which was Knackersknowle it is now named Crownhill.]
Skegness Station Office
The line to Wainfleet was opened in August 1873 by the Wainfleet and Firsby Railway. This line was then extended to Skegness; the station opened on 28 July 1873. Shortly after a Station Postal Office was created which served the towns burgeoning tourist trade.
Skegness was dubbed "the Blackpool of the East Coast" or "Nottingham by the Sea" and has a mascot, the Jolly Fisherman (designed by John Hassall in 1908 for the Great Northern Railway) and a slogan - "Skegness is so bracing" - a reference to the chilly prevailing north-easterly winds that can and frequently do blow off the North Sea. A statue of The Jolly Fisherman now greets passengers as they arrive at the station when entering through the main entrance.
Sub-Offices in Skegness
Burgh Road
Drummond Road
Roman Bank Nr Seathorne
Seaview Road
Sub-Offices of Skegness
the following are area's that came under control of Skegness PO.
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