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Looking to hire a private holiday
caravan at Ingoldmells Skegness?
We have a number of quality
caravans to let
at Ingoldmells Skegness
Skegness
was, for hundreds of years, a small
coastal fishing village on the east coast of the
 country, in the
county of
Lincolnshire, an area where the local gentry occasionally "took in the sea air".
The local working class
made their living from either the sea or the land as these were the only two
main industries. Lord Scarborough, who
owned all of the area, after leasing the “Skegness” land, sold it to the
District Council
for development. This was for
 the council to plan and build an infrastructure
that would complete the town, build a proper sea front , build schools and
housing,
shops, etc. for the benefit of the local people,
this meant more employment and housing, and of course to attract more holiday
visitors.
This
was very much the way things continued for years, however, with the middle and
working class
industrial revolution having spread to
most industries, this meant increased
 wages
and leisure time,
and this started to bring more visitors to
the east coast including Skegness, they came mainly from
the Midlands and the North on day trips to paddle in the sea, sit on and picnic
on the beach and visit the few side show that were there.
The completion of the
rail link to Skegness in the late 1880 was the real beginning of the "tourist
industry" to the area. People from the Midlands and
Yorkshire now had a reasonably quick way to get to the
seaside and they started to arrive in greater numbers on days out.
The local people had not been ideal or
slow to realize that these visitors to the town needed lodging, refreshments and
entertainment and there was money to be
made. By the 1900
a large number of
small businesses
had
started,
these were the lodging houses,
    
the tea shops, the
travellers funfairs and side shows,
trips out to sea on
fishing boats, the beach donkeys, fish & chips and the beach games. As the
years went on more permanent forms of entertainment were built and the funfair attractions were
extended such as
the
Skegness Pier,
Bottons
Funfair
and the
Embassy Theatre.
Skegness continued to
grow and flourish, more people were arriving for either
a day at
    
“Skeggy” or a weeks holiday,
staying mainly in
lodging houses but hotels as well.
One
of the early entrepreneurs was a man who had seen the growing interest in the
 "holiday"
market, he was already the owner of a large number of funfair sites around the
country, one of these was the Bottons Funfair on Skegness sea front. Mr. Billy Butlin,
who was then living in Skegness, saw and leased a small area of farm land, half way between the town of Skegness and
the small village of
Ingoldmells,
and started to build his dream holiday camp. This was the start of things to
come and turned Skegness into a holiday resort. | 
Skegness
Holiday Caravans: Caravans for hire in
Ingoldmells and Chapel St Leonards at Skegness
ss, established in the mid 1800`s, into the east coast mecca
