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Mablethorpe Bibliography
Foster Library
Lincolnshire Archives
References to items available in Lincolnshire Libraries &/or Lincolnshire Archives,
for location contact the following:
Lincolnshire Archives, St Rumbold St, Lincoln, LN2 5AB
01522 526204
Lincoln Central Library, Free School Lane, Lincoln, LN2 1EZ
01522 782010
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury is available at Lincoln Central, Boston,
Grantham, Sleaford & Stamford libraries, not at Lincolnshire Archives.
Patchett, Thomas Selby The history of Mablethorpe County School since the
beginning of the C19 with reference to the early growth of education in the
Lindsey Marsh area and the development of the urban area of Mablethorpe.
Mablethorpe: Mablethorpe County Primary School, 1968
Nicholls, Lorna Mary "Beside the sea". Concerning the growth of the East Coast
Resorts from around 1870 to the beginning of the Second World War and the
people who helped them to grow up.
Certificate in Local History: Bishop Grosseteste College, 1978
Swaby, John Tales of a Lincolnshire parson [born at Withern 1911].
Louth: Louth Naturalists', Antiquarian and Literary Society, 2004
Ruscoe, E H Ruscoe's illustrated guide to Mablethorpe, Sutton, Louth, Alford,
and district season 1890 2nd ed.
Louth: E. H. Ruscoe, [1890]
Blagg, Thos M Lincolnshire parish registers. Marriages vol IX.
London: Phillimore, 1913
Lincolnshire: county of the parts of Lindsey. "The Sea Fisheries
Regulation Act, 1888." Minutes of council and evidence collected
by the Sea Fisheries Committee 1889.
no details, [1889]
Walter, J Conway The destruction of St Peter's Church,
Mablethorpe by the sea AD 1287, a poem.
Louth: Advertiser, 1906

Davies, Susan A record of goods sheds still standing in
Lincolnshire in 1976.
North Carlton: The author , 1976
Barnett, Michael N S Barnett's Lincolnshire street atlas.
Barking: G. I. Barnett, [1997]
[Sermon in aid of the Convalescent Home at Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 1 Mar 1872 p4column 6
[Lincolnshire Convalescent Home under construction in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 10 Dec 1869 p5 column 4
[Details of the proposed re-building of Mablethorpe Promenade]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 11 Feb 1898 p5 column 4
[Presentation of screen for Mablethorpe Church Bell Ringers by Mr. Nesbitt J. P. ]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 12 Aug 1887 p5 column 5
[Two youths drowned while bathing in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 12 Aug 1898 p3 column 7
[A petition from land owners in Mablethorpe, Theddlethorpe and Withern to the
Court of Sewers complaining of inadequate drainage in the area]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 12 Dec 1828 p1 column 6
[Railway line opened between Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 13 Jul 1888 p5 column 3
[Intended application for an Act to build the Alford and Mablethorpe Railway].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 13 Nov 1863 p1 column 5
[Proposed railway from Alford to Mablethorpe].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 14 Nov 1873 p5 column 1
[Magic lantern explodes at the "Book-in-hand Hotel", Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 14 Sep 1888 p5 column 2
[New parish school to be built in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 15 Dec 1854 p2 column 7
[Services for the re-opening of the Wesleyan Chapel in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 15 Jul 1881 p5 column 3

[Opening of new Primitive Methodist Chapel in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 15 Jul 1887 p5 column 4
[Opening of new Wesleyan Chapel in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 15 May 1868 p5 column 2
[Proposal to build a pier at Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 17 Aug 1883 p5 column 4
[First anniversary of Mablethorpe Wesleyan Chapel]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 18 Aug 1882 p5 column 1
[A new coach "The Enterprise" to run between Mablethorpe, Alford and Louth]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 18 May 1855 p2 column 9
[Two youths drowned while bathing in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 19 Aug 1898 p5 column 1
[A petition from land owners in Mablethorpe, Theddlethorpe and Withern to the
Court of Sewers complaining of inadequate drainage in the area]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 19 Dec 1828 p4 column 6
[Proposal to build a pier at Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 19 Jan 1883 p5 column 4
[Shark washed up at Mablethorpe (under heading of Grimsby)]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 2 Jun 1893 p5 column 4
[Railway line opened between Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 20 Jul 1888 p5 column 2
[Preliminary meeting of the Louth inhabitants interested in the proposed railway to
Mablethorpe].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 20 Oct 1871 p5 column 2
[Railway line opened from Louth to Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 20 Oct 1882 p5 column 2
[The Alford - Mablethorpe Coach Service has ceased to run].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 21 Sep 1855 p2 column 9
[The story of two rival families in Maltby and Mablethorpe in Norman times]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 22 Dec 1882 p7 column 1

["The Enterprise" (coach) now runs between Mablethorpe and Alford only]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 22 Jun 1855 p3 column 9
[Joining of the Willoughby-Sutton and Louth-Mablethorpe railways].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 22 Jun 1888 p5 column 3
[Mablethorpe to be visited by the Poet Laureate, Alfred Tennyson]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 23 Jul 1880 p5 column 3
[Proposal to build a pier at Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 23 Nov 1883 p5 column 4
[Proposal to extend the Wainfleet and Skegness Railway to Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 25 Sep 1874 p4 column 4
[Alford & Mablethorpe railway scheme abandoned].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 27 Feb 1874 p4 column 7
[Preliminary meeting of the Louth inhabitants interested in the proposed railway to
Mablethorpe].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 27 Oct 1871 p5 column 4
[Proposal to build a pier at Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 28 Sep 1883 p5 column 4
[Opening of new lifeboat house in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 28 Sep 1900 p4 column 7
[Erection of Mablethorpe Pavilion]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 29 Aug 1884 p5 column 2
[Notice of intended drainage through Mablethorpe Gowt and outfall to the sea]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 29 Jan 1830 p1 column 1
[Mablethorpe fast becoming a popular bathing resort]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 29 Jul 1859 p5 column 2
[Pleasure boat the "Olive Branch" capsized at Mablethorpe with loss of 6 lives]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 29 May 1885 p5 column 3
[Meeting at Louth to discuss the best means of securing the construction of a
railway line to Mablethorpe].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 30 Jan 1874 p5 column 3

[The Lincoln and East Coast Railways and Dock Co's Bill is before Parliament; it
provides for the acquisition of the Louth and Mablethorpe line at a cost of
£82,500].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 4 Feb 1898 p5 column 4
[Monthll tickets issued by the G.N.R. Company for journeys btween Boston and
Skegness or Boston and Mablethorpe].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 4 Jun 1880 p4 column 5
[Mablethorpe Pig Club established]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 5 Jul 1878 p5 column 2
[Mablethorpe Railway to be opened shortly]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 5 Oct 1877 p5 column 2
[Four shops burned down in High Street, Mablethorpe - James Snowdens'
butchers shop - Mr Robson's fried fish saloon - Mr Hancock's refreshment room
and Gray Brothers fish merchant and greengrocer]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 6 Jul 1900 p6 column 2
[Proposed improvements to public walks and the promenade in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 6 May 1898 p5 column 4
[Meteor sighted at Mablethorpe].
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 7 Jan 1859 p5 column 2
[Magic lantern explodes at the "Book-in-hand Hotel", Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 7 Sep 188 p5 column 2
[Busy Bank Holiday in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 8 Aug 1879 p5 column 2
[New lifeboat launched at Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 8 Jun 1883 p5 column 3
[Lincolnshire Convalescent Home opened in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 9 Jun 1871 p5 column 1
[Lincolnshire Convalescent Home opened in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 9 Jun 1871 p5 column 3
[Wesleyan School buildings opened in Mablethorpe]
Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury 9 Nov 1888 p5 column 3

[First Mablethorpe Carnival]
Lincolnshire Chronicle 10 Sep 1932 p3 column 5
Owen, A E B Coastal erosion in east Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire Historian vol 1 no 9 Spring 1952 pp330-341
Owen, Arthur E B Mablethorpe St Peter's and the sea.
Lincolnshire History and Archaeology vol 21 1986 pp61-62
Coastal floods [Eyewitness account of the 31st Jan 1953 flood at Sutton; flood of
1287 with poem by J.Conway Walter; photo of tree stumps at low tide in
Mablethorpe].
Lincolnshire Life County Annual 1965 pp76-78
Robinson, David N Poachings. A Mablethorpe explosion [Book in Hand, lantern
lecture 1888].
Lincolnshire Life vol 11 no 10 Dec 1971 p16
Robinson, David N Poachings. St Mary's Church, Mablethorpe.
Lincolnshire Life vol 11 no 2 May 1977 pp38-39
Water colour of Mablethorpe beach circa 1900 [A.R. Quinton's postcard of
Mablethorpe's South Shore tents].
Lincolnshire Life vol 12 no 3 May 1972 p49
Robinson, David N Poachings. Mablethorpe or Sutton 60 years ago, W.E.R
"Hallgarth Collection".
Lincolnshire Life vol 13 no 1 Mar 1973 p40
Burton, R Letters to the editor. Those gallant performers [Clements Concert
Party, Mablethorpe, 1914].
Lincolnshire Life vol 13 no 9 Nov 1973 p55
Hunt, Ruby In search of a church [St Mary's, Mablethorpe].
Lincolnshire Life vol 14 no 5 Jul 1974 p38-41
Bell, V Letters to the editor. Arcadia. Among my souvenirs... [cast of Clements' at
Mablethorpe Theatre].
Lincolnshire Life vol 15 no 10 Dec 1975 p49
Read, A J Letters to the editor. Clements' Pierrots [photo of Clements' Concert
Party 1907].
Lincolnshire Life vol 15 no 12 Feb 1976 pp37 &42

Robinson, David N Poachings. Mablethorpe... [photo of Mablethorpe beach
c1910].
Lincolnshire Life vol 15 no 4 Jun 1975 p22
Mather, G Letters to the editor. Mablethorpe Cottage [mud and stud].
Lincolnshire Life vol 15 no 5 Jul 1975 p42
Robinson, David The Clements story as told by Jack Clements [Skegness
entertainment proprietors].
Lincolnshire Life vol 15 no 7 Sep 1975 pp32-36
Kaye, David Centenary of the Louth to Mablethorpe railway line.
Lincolnshire Life vol 17 no 7 Oct 1977 pp28-29
[Photo of Edwardian High Street Mablethorpe].
Lincolnshire Life vol 18 no 4 Jul 1978 p29
Robinson, David N Poachings. A Lincolnshire cowboy.
Lincolnshire Life vol 18 no 7 Oct 1978 p55
Short, Peter H Letters to the editor. Memories of Mablethorpe and Sutton.
Lincolnshire Life vol 19 no 5 Aug 1979 p45
Smaller, J [Photo of interiorof St Mary's Church, Mablethorpe after rebuilding].
Lincolnshire Life vol 21 no 11 Feb 1982 front cover
Woods, David The rebuilding of St. Mary's Church, Mablethorpe.
Lincolnshire Life vol 21 no 11 Feb 1982 pp22-23
Robinson, David N Poachings. Mablethorpe Motor Museum [photo of owner
David Durose with Mayor & Mayoress Pat & Roger Ash & a 1929 Morris Cowley].
Lincolnshire Life vol 22 no 3 Jun 1982 p42
Wright, Gilbert Mablethorpe 1916.
Lincolnshire Life vol 23 no 2 May 1983 p22
Codling, D J Mablethorpe 1953.
Lincolnshire Life vol 23 no 2 May 1983 p23
Bell, J H Letters to the editor. Mablethorpe whale [Sep 1926 inc photo].
Lincolnshire Life vol 23 no 8 Nov 1983 p47
Kaye, David Mablethorpe and Skegness illuminations.
Lincolnshire Life vol 23 no 8 Nov 1983 pp18-19

Chambers, Peter Letters to the editor. The diver [Mablethorpe article Nov 1984
inc photo of opening of Bateson's swimming baths, Mablethorpe c1924].
Lincolnshire Life vol 24 no 12 Mar 1985 p38
Poachings. Spurn lifeboat [photo of Sydney Robinson, matchstick model maker].
Lincolnshire Life vol 25 no 2 May 1985 p5
Smaller, John Mablethorpe pullover and amusement park [photo].
Lincolnshire Life vol 25 no 5 Aug 1985 front cover
Crampton, Ted Beside the seaside at Mablethorpe [development of Mablethorpe
into holiday resort, including history of Bijou cinema].
Lincolnshire Life vol 26 no 5 Aug 1986 p33
Dulake, A Bijou Cinema [letter recording inaccuracies of earlier article on the
Mablethorpe cinema].
Lincolnshire Life vol 26 no 7 Oct 1986 p52
Louth old and new [colour slide show Ayscough Hall 1988].
Lincolnshire Life vol 27 no 12 Mar 1988 p 35
Smaller, John [Photo of John Scoley thatching Sarra Cottage, Mablethorpe].
Lincolnshire Life vol 28 no 4 Jul 1988 front cover
Kaye, David Zoos in Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire Life vol 28 no 5 Aug 1988 pp24-25
High Street, Mablethorpe [photo].
Lincolnshire Life vol 29 no 3 Jun 1989 p3
Kaye, David Mablethorpe today.
Lincolnshire Life vol 29 no 3 Jun 1989 pp27-29
Cook, Mary Between the tides [Mablethorpe out of season].
Lincolnshire Life vol 30 no 10 Jan 1990 p54
Robinson, David N Poachings. Tennyson Cottage, Mablethorpe [inc photos].
Lincolnshire Life vol 30 no 12 Mar 1991 p3
[Photo of Mablethorpe Beach 1967].
Lincolnshire Life vol 30 no 5 Aug 1990 p1
Weston, Eileen Return to Mablethorpe [1930s].
Lincolnshire Life vol 30 no 5 Aug 1990 pp10-11

Woodland, Leslie People. A shining enthusiast [David Denny, Mablethorpe
tandem seller and expert on lighting].
Lincolnshire Life vol 31 no 6 Sep 1991 p6
Chapman, Ada Treading the seaside boards [Clements' Royal Entertainers,
Skegness early c19th].
Lincolnshire Life vol 35 no 8 Nov 1995 pp38-39
Bygone gallery [photograph of Mablethorpe Convalescent Home outing 1882,
Worlaby School 1896, Scredlington Wesleyan Sunday School Outing 1912 ].
Lincolnshire Life vol 36 no 5 Aug 1996 p45
Webb, Gordon Heading for the beach [Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea].
Lincolnshire Life vol 36 no 5 Aug 1996 pp10-12
Bygone gallery [photograph of Mablethorpe beach; Navenby School fancy dress
dance 1930; Lincoln Electric Tramways service opening Nov 1905].
Lincolnshire Life vol 36 no 6 Sep 1996 p19
Crust, Linda Shelter from the cruel sea [Seal Hospital at Mablethorpe].
Lincolnshire Life vol 36 no 8 Nov 1996 pp50-51
Crust, Linda Shelter from the cruel sea [Seal Hospital, Mablethorpe run by Paul
& Linda King].
Lincolnshire Life vol 37 no 8 Nov 1997 pp50-51
Bygone gallery [photograph of Bramwell Booth preaching for the Salvation Army
in Boston 1922; Wright's the grocers Mablethorpe 1948; funeral of Henry Marshall
Gainsborough 1906].
Lincolnshire Life vol 38 no 2 May 1998 p53
Spotlight on Mablethorpe & Sutton-on-Sea.
Lincolnshire Life vol 38 no 2 May 1998 pp14-16
Robinson, David N Poachings. A pint of shrimps [Mablethorpe holiday
destination].
Lincolnshire Life vol 4 no 5 Oct/Nov 1964 pp69-70
Theobald, Judy Sea, sand and speed [Mablethorpe motorcycle sand-racing].
Lincolnshire Life vol 40 no 7 Oct 2000 p54
Robinson, David Poachings. Two hundred years ago. Leicester Children's
Summer Home. [Leicester Boys and Girls Home, Mablethorpe].
Lincolnshire Life vol 41 no 3 Jun 2001 p2

Theobald, Judy Beside the seaside [Skegness].
Lincolnshire Life vol 42 no 1 Apr 2002 pp12-14
Robinson, David Poachings. FW 5696 [Stranded bus in the 1953 floods,
Mablethorpe].
Lincolnshire Life vol 43 no 12 Apr 2003 p3
Robinson, David N Poachings. A.A. Diamond Jubilee [1953 East Coast floods,
A.A. assistance from Mr. S. Larson & C. Bird with local knowledge of roads].
Lincolnshire Life vol 5 no 4 Aug/Sep 1965 p51
Simons, R Letters to the editor. Smuggling yarns [Mablethorpe,Simon brothers].
Lincolnshire Life vol 7 no 9 Nov 1967 p20
Lancaster, E A Letters to the editor. Game for strong arms [photo of 'Aerial
Flight' on Mablethorpe sands].
Lincolnshire Life vol 8 no 10 Dec 1968 p63
Foster, Grace Letters to the editor. More Clements [at Mablethorpe & Skegness,
other letters on same page].
Lincolnshire Life vol 8 no 11 Jan 1969 p44
Borrill, M E Letters to the editor. Clement's Concert Party [at Mablethorpe].
Lincolnshire Life vol 8 no 7 Sep 1968 p29
Bates, Ralph Letters to the editor. Mablethorpe's museum ship.
Lincolnshire Life vol 9 no 1 Mar 1969 p49
Arbeiters, Heather A Lincolnshire's own circus [James Brothers].
Lincolnshire Life vol 9 no 12 Feb 1970 pp14-15
Bell, J H Letters to the editor. Ships to gateposts [Hobson Bocock of
Mablethorpe].
Lincolnshire Life vol 9 no 3 May 1969 p51
Robinson, David N Poachings. Mablethorpe County School.
Lincolnshire Life vol 9 no 5 Jul 1969 p39
Robinson, David N Poachings. Mablethorpe County School.
Lincolnshire Life vol 9 no 5 Jul 1969 p39
Letters to the editor. Well known resident...[Hedley Broddle].
Lincolnshire Life vol 9 no 7 Sep 1969 p30

Jones, W A B Mablethorpe.
Lincolnshire Magazine vol 1 no 6 Jul/Aug 1933 pp203-206
Swales, T H Sight-seeing in E. Lincolnshire [Louth, Revesby, Scrivelsy, Old
Bolingbroke, Burgh le Marsh, Horncastle, Spilsby, Roman Bank, Mablethorpe,
Skegness, Skendleby].
Lincolnshire Magazine vol 4 no 4 Jul 1939 pp93-108
Notes taken in the church of Mablethorpe 18 August, 1835.
Lincolnshire Notes & Queries vol 10 no 84 Oct 1909 pp233-234
Merriman, Tony E The Louth, Mablethorpe and Sutton Permanent Benefit
Building Society.
Lincolnshire Past & Present no 49 Autumn 2002 pp13-15
Swaby, J E Memories of Mablethorpe [author was rector 1953-1960].
Lincolnshire Past & Present no 49 Autumn 2002 pp8-9
Tennyson's House, Mablethorpe.
Lincolnshire Past & Present no 8 Summer 1992 p32
Man the lifeboat !
Lincolnshire Poacher vol 1 no 4 31 Aug 1900 pp78-79
Rann, John J The "Pie-in-hand" [ship's figurehead in Mablethorpe]
Lincolnshire Poacher vol 2 no 3 Summer 1955 pp19-22
St Mary's: the Magazine of Mablethorpe Parish Church Apr 1970.
Letchworth: Home Words, [1970]
St Mary's: the Magazine of Mablethorpe Parish Church Apr 1970
[Reference to a barrel organ at Mablethorpe].
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society vol 7 p114