Notable badges include ' Skegness 1936 ' ( the first badge issued ) and ' Filey 1945 ', which features the ' V for Victory ' in its design and is an exception to gap of the war years as the camp was the first to reopen after the war just in time for the end of the season in August 1945.

The name would appear to indicate that Skegness has its origin in the Danish period of settlement of England although there is no reference to a village named Skegness in the Domesday Book.

At the end of Lumley Road is the town's prominent clock tower, its most well-recognised landmark, built in 1898-99 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee back in 1897 and funded through public subscription and along side the towns " Jolly Fisherman " mascot is the most recognised symbol of Skegness although its official name is the Diamond Jubilee Clock Tower it is simply referred by locals and holiday makers as " The Clock Tower ".

Skegness Water Leisure Park, a short distance to the north of the town, near Ingoldmells, has its own airfield, with two runways.

The councillors were soon won over when they learnt that the local traders in Skegness had seen an initial dip in custom after its construction followed by a rise as campers had visited the town and seasonal workers had come to spend their pay.

Skegness gets its weather recorded from the automatic equipment at Wainfleet.

In 2008 Skegness Grammar School celebrated the school's 75th anniversary of the move from Wainfleet to Skegness and the 525th anniversary of its original founding.

Skegness, however, kept its railway station.

Despite the mast being shortened it can been seen in daylight on clear days from most areas close to and within the Lincolnshire Wolds and on clear nights its bright red aircraft warning lights can be very widely seen across much of Lincolnshire from as far north as the River Humber and Grimsby and from west of the county it can be seen clearly from both Lincoln, Gainsborough and Grantham and from the south of the county it can be seen clearly as far away as Spalding and Bourne and can also be very clearly seen in the east of the county as far away as Skegness, Mablethorpe and most areas along the Lincolnshire Coast.

UKIP came third in Boston and Skegness in the 2005 election, with one of its strongest showings in the country.

Boston railway station is served by East Midland Trains on the Poacher Line from Grantham to Skegness.

In 1934 a proposal was made with the support of Malcolm Campbell, the famous racing driver and world speed record holder, to build a 15 mile long racetrack on reclaimed land from Boston to Gibraltar Point, near Skegness.

The camps at Skegness & Clacton opened in 1946, Ayr and Pwllheli in 1947 and Mosney on the east coast of Ireland in 1948.

The 1947 film Holiday Camp was filmed mainly on location at Butlins Filey, although the establishing shot was of Butlins Skegness.

The ' Skegness is so Bracing ' poster featuring The Jolly Fisherman helped to put Skegness on the map and is now world famous.

The object was caught on video by Skegness Police.

The clock tower became the subject of a hoax in the Skegness Standard on 1 April 2009, when the newspaper claimed that it was about to be dismantled and moved to a museum.

Skegness had a 1, 843 foot ( 562 m ) long pier which was opened on Whit Monday 1881 at a cost of £ 20, 840 and was at the time the fourth longest in England and was originally a T-shaped pier with a saloon / concert hall at the Pier head.

For several years following the storm these two isolated structures remained as features on Skegness beach whilst plans to try to repair the pier and relink the structures were sought but this failed citing the costs as simply too high and in 1983 the eastern shelters were dismantled and demolished.

Skegness Hospital has two entrances-accident and emergency on Dorothy Avenue and the main entrance on Lincoln Road.

* Skegness Academy ( formerly known as St Clement's College & the Earl of Scarbrough High School ) is a secondary modern on Burgh Road.

* Skegness Grammar School on Vernon Road.

* Skegness College of Vocational Training on Wilford Grove and Grosvenor Road.

* The Skegness Standard is a paid for newspaper, also released on Wednesdays.

The former tabloid editor Neil Wallis started his journalistic career in the 1960s on the Skegness Standard.

* On the internet, there is a lively discussion forum used by both local people and visitors to Skegness, at the Visit Skegness website, and a new website, Skegness. com, is being developed to provide local information, what's on listings, a business directory and other content.

* Skegness Guide-what's on, things to do, news

It crosses the River Witham, before heading up the hill on the north side of the Lincoln Gap, and heading in the direction of the A158 as Lindum Road ( for Skegness ), where it is crossed by the Viking Way near Lincoln Minster School.

" Soon, family outings to Skegness became an excuse for the future artist to " trawl ... round some of the more remote backstreet newsagents " for comics to store on an overflowing " bookcase I'd made in school woodwork especially.

A reserve of sand dunes, salt marsh and brackish pools situated on the coast south of Skegness.

It was one of the saddest events to hit Skegness and debris from the wrecked pier was left scattered for several miles around with souvenir hunters quickly coming into the area to see what they could find.

At the national level, the town is part of the Boston and Skegness parliamentary constituency, currently represented by Conservative Mark Simmonds.

The scene where the Dutch coast is crossed was filmed between Boston, Lincolnshire and King's Lynn, and other coastal scenes near Skegness.

One of the very first chalets is still standing at the Skegness resort, and is now heritage listed and a historical display only.

Skegness and Minehead also have an outdoor toddlers pool that is open in the summer months.

Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

The town is popularly known as Skeg, Skeggy, Costa del Skeg or Skegvegas or " the Blackpool of the East Coast ", and has a famous 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.

Skegness railway station is the terminus for the Grantham to Skegness Line.

The track from Boston to Skegness, although once part of a busy longer-distance line, is not suited to large heavy trains, therefore line speeds are generally restricted to a maximum of 30 mph ( for locomotive-hauled trains ).

A golf course occupies much of the west dunes ( the inland side ) at the Skegness end of the area.

The first Dodgems in Britain were available in his park at Skegness ; other showmen bought Dodgems from Butlin.