Talk:Skegness

Much though I love Skeggie (I'm off there for the bank holiday in a couple of weeks), I think it ought to be pointed out to potential visitors that the pier is now considerably shorter than 1843 feet. About 1750 feet shorter, if I remember correctly. There is a reason why pictures of the pier online only show the amusements on the landward side! --Andrew Norman 16:40, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Style & content

Advertising on this page?

In the Skegness Today section Royal Renaissance Hotel seems to be advertising supplying its phone number.

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The Royal Renaissance Hotel is family run and committed to providing a professional service from the moment you arrive, ensuring that you will visit Skegness and the Royal Renaissance time and time again. Please telephone 01754 76XXXX for more information.--

I don't think this is appropriate for an Encylopedia

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Neutrality and factuality

This is concerning "Skegvegas" and the "rising chav population". This sounds to me like an un-neutral point of view, and there are certainly no citations to back up the claims. What's the general consensus on this? (go easy on me, I'm still not sure how to go about things yet) Blacksilkandy 17:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

"Skegvegas" Is a comical term made up by the recent youth of skegness, due to the similarities to Las Vegas. I.E entertainment based resort with fruit machines and oversized night life. Also like Las Vegas, Skegness is a holiday resort. Spookster809 14:19, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Although the term 'Chav' is recent, the underclass it represents has been around for some time. Skeg and its surrounding areas of population has always been largely populated by a continuous infusion by chavs who move to the promised land. However, there seem to be a noticeable increase in 'Chavvus Estatus' over the last few years, with the new estates being largely populated by scum who visit and find its climes suitable. Certainly Chapel St. Leonards is suffering greatly since I grew up there some 20 years past, lots of youth/drug problems. I think skeg is much the same by all accounts. By the way, I also know of many social workers who refer to Skeg as 'Paedo-on-sea'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.52.194 (talk) 17:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Travel guide banner

I've read the article carefully, and am not sure that the {{Travel guide|date=July 2008}} flag is justified. Skegness is a resort. (According to Bob Monkhouse the Last Resort), and if you said nothing about the hotels, slot arcades, and Pier then the whole atmosphere of the town would be unrepresented. The discussion of the shopping areas is a little idiosyncratic, but a sentence or two explaining that normal shopping cannot be in the High Street because of the preponderance of tat shops would sort that out.

I think that the addition of a bit of detail about the permanent population (link the schools to ofstead results, local sport or social clubs, a bit more history such as market days, WW2, etc.) would be opportunity enough to remove the banner.--Brunnian (talk) 06:26, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

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