MABLETHORPE’S MAGAZINE FOR MARCH 2020

tidings is printed at the Coastal Centre 32 Victoria Road LN12 2AQ

admin@theboatshedcharity.org.uk 01507 479 165

THE COASTAL CENTRE:

MABLETHORPE’S TOURIST INFORMATION POINT

Keep up to date with all that’s happening… on line at www.coastalbreeze.co.uk

Download each issue of tidings from www.mablethorpe.info

Just some of the many people who were once brought to Mablethorpe by train

On October 3rd 2020 it will be 50 years since our station closed. In this issue there are details of how this anniversary will be marked,

of how our rail heritage can currently be explored in our Library, & of plans being prepared towards

THE RETURN OF OUR RAILWAY

Sandilands Pet Care Pet Sitting - Dog Walking - Mobile Cattery

Friendly & Reliable Service Fully Insured

Contact Wendy & Tim on 07891 065 943

THE FLOWER BOX 23 Victoria Road, Mablethorpe LN12 2AF

01507 472 239

Member of Direct 2 Florist

www.theflowerboxmablethorpe.co.uk

www.choiceproperties.co.uk

21 Victoria Road

Mablethorpe LN12 2AF

If you are thinking of moving,

why not give us a call?

01507 472 016

Kurnia AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

www.kurniaap.co.uk

Pete Green & Sons

Coastside Plumbing

2 Knowle Street Mablethorpe LN12 2BG

01507 472 817

mob 07748 483 761

Bathrooms

Showers

Plumbing spares

Radiators

Design

& installation

services

A FAMILY RUN CARAVAN PARK

ideally situated in North Mablethorpe

next to the sand dunes & beach

perfect for picnics & play

with pitches

for privately owned holiday homes

& a select number

of touring caravans & motorhomes.

The Tow Bar is open to the public

for a quiet drink in comfortable surroundings.

01507 473 327

www.holivans.co.uk

Dents-Direct Paintless Dent Repair

Howard Turner 34, Marine Avenue Sutton-on-Sea

07977 093 824

dentsdirect@talktalk.net

Covering East Lindsey

A Convenient Mobile Service

For Both Private & Trade Customers

Mablethorpe Weekly Market

For a real ‘street market’ experience

A wide range and variety of

stalls and goods available

MABLETHORPE & SUTTON TOWN COUNCIL The Council will next meet at 7pm on Monday 23rd March & Monday 27th April

in the Library & Community Access Point’s Community Room Stanley Avenue LN12 1DP.

Members of the public are welcome & encouraged to attend both of these meetings.

Visit every Thursday

throughout the year

Operated by Mablethorpe & Sutton Town Council;

For further information please call 01507 613 646

or e-mail admin@mastc.co.uk

BREAKFAST, COFFEE, LUNCH, TEA ON THE HOUSE

(although donations will be welcome!)

The Mablethorpe Area Partnership is hosting a drop in session at the Coastal Centre on Saturday 29th February… the extra day the Leap Year gives us. It will give us the opportunity to take stock of the many ideas coming forward inspired by the offer of up to £25 million from the government’s Towns Fund. On offer as well is an investment in opening a railway line to Mablethorpe, & an expression of interest in this has been lodged with the government.

MAP holds regular leaflet swops so businesses & community groups can let others know what they are planning. This swop will be used to give everyone the opportunity to all to think about our future & take part in shaping it.

More info on page 5 >>>

Quebec Road Mablethorpe LN12 1LT

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“BEST FOR VALUE”

★ PERFORMANCES DAILY ★ TWO SCREENS ★ AIR CONDITIONED ▶ Disabled access available in both screens

★ CAR PARKING AVAILABLE ▶ Parties welcomed: including popcorn & drink

★ PREMIER SEATS ★ DOLBY SOUND

RIVERDANCE 25TH ANNIVERSARY

7-30pm on Tuesday 3rd March 3pm on Sunday 8th March

Marigold Cottage Garden Hotchin Road, Sutton-on-Sea LN12 2NP

Gratitude to the 901 visitors in 2019 who helped raise £2,228.99 for charities through the National Open Garden Scheme Plant Sales continue through the Winter!

www.rabylee.uk/marigold or ring 442 151

The Louth 01507 479 834 www.thelouth.co.uk

The Louth is the friendly pub in Mablethorpe town centre, just a short walk from the beach. A great place to eat, drink and be entertained

whether you are a local or a holiday maker

exploring the Lincolnshire coast.

We host Darts on Tuesdays & Thursdays, Dominoes on Wednesdays & Pool on Sundays as well as Disco Karaoke

from 10pm on Wednesdays & from 9pm on Fridays & Saturdays.

Philip Ross Accountants Limited Mablethorpe Accountants and Business Advisors

Personal tax return after retirement? Running wages?

Accounts? VAT returns? Book-keeping?

If you think we might be able to help do get in touch:

01507 472727 Mobile: 0777 841 0000

Paul Nicholson Joinery All Domestic work carried out including repairs, kitchens, bedrooms, windows, doors, fencing, decking, 1st&2nd fix & more

07780945622 / 01507443867 pnicholsonjoinery@gmail.com

WE BUY YOUR UNWANTED GOLD & SILVER

TURN YOUR GOLD & SILVER INTO CASH BEST PRICES PAID FOR A FREE QUOTE TODAY

VISIT FORTY WINKS 17 VICTORIA ROAD 01507 478 236

Feet First Lincs helping your feet one step at a time

Do you SUFFER DISCOMFORT with your feet? Are your feet TIRED and ACHING? Are you DIABETIC? Do you have DIFFICULTY cutting your own toe nails?

Nail trimming and shaping Ingrown toenail treatment Hard Skin and cracked heel removal Corns and Callus removal Nail Infections treated (Fungal, Thickened) Diabetic foot care

For PROFESSIONAL treatment in the comfort of your OWN HOME call Roy on 07387 073083 or e-mail feetfirstlincs@gmail .com

Roy Gibson SAC Dip FHP (Advanced)

“Challenge” is a great word with many connotations. We physically challenged ourselves to dig deep holes in some of the densest jungle & rockiest terrain imaginable. We challenged ourselves mentally, travelling in ways we aren’t used to, staying in accommodation we would have never deemed to be safe & living in a new culture that is so vastly far removed from our own. Lastly we challenged ourselves emotionally. Seeing sights we will never forget, fighting our moral compass on cultural behaviours & being left emotionally drained after shedding tears for the Ugandan people living in the most unimaginable poverty.

AND NOW …ANOTHER CHALLENGE

Sarah Louise has been invited by ELDC to chair the Board that has to prepare the PLAN which has to be presented to the government by next summer so it can be considered for an investment of up to £50 million, half for Skegness & half for Mablethorpe. Sarah Louise’s appointment together with that of Chris Baron, Resort Director at Butlins, as Vice Chair, was unanimously endorsed by a show of hands at the first meeting of the Board held at Sutton-on-Sea’s Bacchus Hotel on January 27th.

Although entering the terrain of our sea-side resorts might be compared to entering an African jungle Sarah Louise does not have that far to travel as she helps run her family business, supplying eggs to our major supermarkets, from her home just outside Alford in Bilsby. And from here, as a mother of four, it has been pretty natural to bring them to our resort for breaks during the holidays.

The new Joint Board has been named the CONNECTED COAST BOARD … and, so it can examine in depth the needs of the two distinct resorts two “PLACE REFERENCE GROUPS” are being set up.

◀These are the words of Sarah Louise Fairburn,

seen above [RIGHT] with a fellow volunteer taking part in the challenge to plant 1,000 trees in Uganda. ………………………………………………………………….. In its Prospectus the government emphasizes the need for local & private business involvement. The Board itself has to be business-led & the ELDC has to take ultimate responsibility for spending any forth-coming funds: but the TOWN PLAN has to be generated at a local community level.

In 2014 Mablethorpe Area Partnership won government funding to set up the Coastal Community Team. Its open general meetings have ensured it has on it key sector representatives & they have already been engaged in much preliminary spade-work. It was very much due to these efforts that our MP Victoria Atkins was able to put our resort forward as one of the smallest towns to be considered for this amazing funding.

The CCT Treasurer Janet Stubbs of Woodthorpe has been invited by ELDC to be a business rep on the Board & she has been active networking with many of our local businesses to identify their concerns.

Cllr Helen Matthews, the Chair of the CCT & of MAP, was invited by ELDC to chair the Place Reference Group. Our Mayor Cllr Carl Tebbutt was elected to the Board to represent the Town Council, while I was elected to it at an open meeting of the CCT. We will be present just about all day at the MAP DROP IN on February 29th when we hope to start exploring the many exciting ideas now bubbling up. PLEASE DO COME WITH YOURS!!!

Adrian Benjamin, Chair at the Coastal Centre

Nearly 1,700 people living in Mablethorpe have Type 2 diabetes. That’s more than one in every ten people! So we are arranging weekly help sessions on Saturday afternoons at the Coastal Centre 2 to 4pm starting March 28th. Further Info from Kate: 07415 891 724

Meanwhile all of us can try some of these tips…………………………………..

TESCO has recently announced it is reviving plans to build a SUPERSTORE on the land which it owns off Golf Road.

Before submitting its full planning application TESCO is seeking the views of residents & so is inviting everyone who might be interested to come & view the plans as they currently stand. SO CHECK THE DATES BELOW WITH YOUR DIARY….

PUBLIC CONSULTATION

ON THE NEW

! COMING TO MABLETHORPE !

DROP IN & HAVE YOUR SAY

AT THE

DUNES COMPLEX

[to the left at the top of the main pullover]

Thursday 5-30 to 7-30pm

Friday 10am to 7pm

Saturday 9 to 11am

If you are not able to attend send your comments to

mablethorpe.feedback@tesco.com

Grange Farm Park Maltby-le-Marsh

LN13 0JP www.grangefarmpark.co.uk

EVENTS raising funds for

A DEFIBRILLATOR in the Park

The Stables, located on an award winning holiday park, is open every day from 8am for park guests & the public.

The Stables with its ✦ relaxed bar, ✦ outdoor terrace

with lake views, ✦ pet friendly eating area ✦ large children’s play area,

really is the perfect place to dine.

The Stables is committed to serving the best

locally & ethically sourced homemade seasonal dishes.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

5th March

QUIZ NIGHT with John Marshall

3rd April

FAMILY RACE NIGHT with John Marshall

7th May

QUIZ NIGHT with John Marshall

7th July

LEE PASHLEY IS

ROBBIE WILLIAMS

1st August

PARTY IN THE PARK

Advance bookings advisable

CARPET FITTING SERVICE

Carpets supplied & fitted: 40 years of experience

Very reasonable prices & cheaper than the shops

as I bring the samples to your home or workplace.

I’m happy to fit your own carpet

& do repairs or re-stretching

For free no obligation quotations please call Gary on

01790 753 770 or mobile 07711 008 868

CORRESPONDENCE FROM A CARTOONIST

Hello ,

My wife and I have visited Mablethorpe many, many times over the last thirty years or so. We have a caravan at Saltfleet & in many ways consider Mablethorpe & Sutton to be our second home for much of the year.

I have been creating & supplying single panel "filler" cartoons to community magazines such as yours for the last few years. The idea is that these will fill space where you have not been able to recruit a suitable advertisement.

They have proved popular in other areas & I am offering these cartoons at no cost to yourselves. The only thing I would ask, if you do choose to use them, is for you to post a copy of the first print edition to me for my files.

My only other objective is to spread a little light humour.

Look forward to hearing from you. Best Rgds,

T. Noons

MANY THANKS! At the moment we are fortunate in quite a number wanting to

advertize in TIDINGS: But that’s no excuse for nor squeezing in a little light relief!

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Easy access baths•Accessible kitchens

Every day living aids•Wheel chairs & scooters

To arrange a FREE home visit call Steve

01472 753 435 or 07947 392 228

Or visit us on Facebook @aquacaremobility

The Bar, Dance Club & Night Club at

5-7 Victoria Road LN12 2AF

01507 479 818

Open 11am to midnight

JESTERS

We will be offering

the following entertainment & events

throughout the season:

Monday & Tuesday: 12 NOON to 6pm

GRANDCASTLES AT THE DUNES

Wednesday: 6 to 8pm: KIDZ CLUB

Friday nights: Family fun night

Activities start 7.30pm

then throughout the night…

Karaoke & Pig/dog/horse racing

Quizzes & fun competitions inc

“Do you know your partner???”

Saturday nights:

6 to 8pm: KIDZ CLUB

live entertainment from 8.30pm

Sunday

Lunch Carvery : 01507 479 999

1.30pm - 3.30pm CASH BINGO

MABLETHORPE’S VARIETY SHOW

Saturday March 28th

In aid of two great groups

N E X T G E N E R A T I O N

D A N C E

&

R O T A R Y

Tickets

on sale soon: £5

Christopher Tack MOBILE HAIRDRESSING

Ladies & Gents Established 30 years

REASONABLE PRICES

07977 883 980

SUTTON-ON-SEA & SURROUNDING AREAS

Call: 01507 478 297

IN MEMORIAM

There was a packed church at Trusthorpe to bid farewell to Joan Bowers pictured here with her sister Mary (RIGHT wth their dog) on their way up the pullover.

Joan, described as “everyone’s best aunt” worked at the railway station & then as a school bursar but she came into her own as a Sunday School teacher. She took the smaller ones while Jack Parkinson the Rector taught the older ones.

******************** In our last TIDINGS we printed a poem by Jean Broady recollecting the Carnival of 2019 in which she had taken the part of the Carnival Queen Mother. It is so sad in this issue to have to report her death.

Joan was in the first of the Trusthorpe pantomimes : ….the 73rd “Little Red Riding Hood” is on this half term!

Jean had delighted so many people in her lifetime, especially with her poems: but at least we might say she went out in glory… riding through our streets [ABOVE]

with such enthusiasm & dignity.

A Little Love Scene captured at the Mablethorpe Seal Sanctuary & Wild Life Rescue Centre on February 10th…. Just in time for the photo to be circulated on St Valentine’s Day!

The Mayor, Deputy Mayor & Town Clerk with members of the Town Council gathering at the commemorative rock (near the Skateboard Park)

on the anniversary of the East Coast Flood: January 31st This was the initiative of Janet Shields, the widow of Bud:

the first anniversary since the death of her husband for whom the Flood was such a life-changing moment.

From 31st March the Boatshed will be formally transferred to the group currently meeting in the Old Toilet Block opposite the Loewen Cinema: The Men’s Shed…. one of 500 such groups throughout the UK. community hubs where both men & women learn new skills & form friendships.

£17,986 from Ørsted's East Coast Community Fund plus £4,796 from the Big Local Coastal Community Challenge will facilitate crucial major works on the building including new windows, extensive brickwork repair, a new boiler system & decoration throughout.

The Boatshed began its life as just that, the shed that the lifeboat was housed in. It was built & opened in September 1900. Since then it has weathered 2 wars & the Flood of 1953, seeing Mablethorpe grow from a small rural village into today’s loved resort.

The Shed is open Monday to Saturday 9am to noon. For further info contact

Brian Norris: 07777 628 043 e-mail: bjnorris@outlook.com

www.mablethorpemensshed.com

THE BOATSHED BECOMES A MEN’S SHED

THANK YOU To all who took part in the GOOD NEIGHBOUR PROJECT SURVEY: Really heartening! We now have a full committee & enough volunteers to allow help to be offered when the project is up & running, hopefully this Easter. Interestingly there were more who were offering help than who were saying they needed help (the right way round for a good launch…!) & more men than women responding ! ~ Canon Chris 440 039

DOWN MEMORY LANE

…. Or should we say “Down Mablethorpe High Street?”

Mel Bloss has shared this photo of his Dad some time before 1962.

The elephant was made with a engine to drive it so he could give rides to children up the and down promenade! Does any one remember it?

And this one [RIGHT] came from Alison Freame when she was doing a clear out. Taken on Sherwood Field after a Knock Out session as part of a Carnival Week some time in the 1990s, this was the Lifeguard Team who took part (“AND WON!” Alison adds.) “Neil Herbert was the Captain (hiding or whispering sweet nothings in Miss Lincolnshire's ear) Dawn, Mark & me. Richard this right hand end but can't remember anymore names.

Barbara Hall, though, could: “Alison Brookes nee Burgess on the end think. That was the year I was a Judge & Natty Lord blacked my eye with a baton those were the days!”

◀ And here’s a more recent

memory from Bobby Baldwin… You remember those high winds we experienced in the February of 2020???

Alison Freame herself is in the middle & it was quickly noted that the photo has caught her with a

nice pint in her hand.

Please drop in any photos you would like to share

(old or new or mucked about with}

to the Coastal Centre or e-mail them to

adriansosfirst@gmail.com

ONCE UPON A TIME…

Mablethorpe Library is unveiling a new touchscreen collection of over 5000 images of the surrounding area.

Using equipment purchased through a Big Local Lottery Grant, members of Sutton Railway Group have scanned & indexed the collection of local photographs held at Mablethorpe Library & would like to welcome the public to view the launch of the new system on Thursday 27th February at 2pm at Mablethorpe Library.

Library Manager Kathryn Gowling writes “We are delighted that our comprehensive collection of local history photographs & slides will now be much more accessible to library users”.

If you would like to view the collection or contribute your own memorabilia to it

please contact Mablethorpe Library, 01522 782 010 or e-mail mablethorpe.library@gll.org

2 0 2 0 marks the 50th anniversary

of October 3rd 1970 the day we last saw a train in Mablethorpe after the implementation of the Report by Dr Richard Beeching. We were told we might have a hovercraft service linking us with Skegness… & that in any case the future was in road transport. Well the hovercraft idea did not take off…. & although we now no longer run into cows blocking the roads four times a day going to & fro at milking times

there are still the tractors to overtake on our very bendy roads. It can take two hours for us to get out of the county by car, while the line between Skegness & Nottingham ~ with only two coaches & a single line that too often makes for delays & cancellations ~ can be horrendous at peak periods. So not much to celebrate you might say!??!!

But ELR50 has been planned as a family friendly festival celebrating the Railway Heritage

of East Lincolnshire. The first public event will be at Poplar Farm in Sutton-on-Sea the week-end of 4th & 5th July. There will be an exhibition at Bateman’s Brewery throughout the summer holidays, & then, after various other events along our coast, the Festival will close in Mablethorpe, hopefully with a visit from the steam locomotive the Princess Mary Rose. ELDC has given permission for the use of the car park next to the Co-op & application is being made for an event to be staged on this site building up to the actual anniversary of Saturday October 3rd…. a feast for those who are nostalgic about the good old days of rail travel… & it will be an education on the huge impact the railway had on our resort!

”Needed a very wide angle to get the whole rainbow shot. Lucky I had my camera bag & it held out long enough for a lens change.” ~ Trevor Bradford February 16th

THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION CELEBRATING BREXIT NIGHT

MABLETHORPE