I Took this picture at the back of the beach in Skegness, if you look closely at the far end of the mock castle walls you will see a giant slide :)
Turning the photograph black and white gave this other wise mundane photograph and edgy feel, I really like it. love the seagulls above the castle walls didn’t realise they were there until I got home and view the picture on my laptop, that was a nice surprise :)
I do like this structure, it’s interesting, shame it’s in the quiet part of Skegness where no one hardly goes, tucked away out of sight.
I’ve lived in Skegness for a number of years now and I don’t know what this structure is, was it a real castle at one time?.
I’ve tried to find out online but I’ve found nothing about it, my guess it is a Victorian structure meant to resemble an old castle.
There are lots of stone and concrete structures in Skegness left over from the Victorian era the boating lake used to have two big concrete island connected by a bridge in the middle of the lake, but all that is left now is two ugly concrete blocks.
Hi really liked your pic, used to play around the walls in the 60/70s when i lived close by.
In answer to your question, they were purpose built it was a theme that ran all along the front connected by the waterway and then onto the fairy dell.
A friend of mine’s relative was project manager for them employed by the local council.
Thanks for the info Ginette I always wondered why there was half a castle wall in Skeg :-)
I’ve been looking up old photographs of Skegness and it looks like there was a theme (like you said) of rockery gardens which connect the north and south foreshore. In the photographs I have seen Skeg looked fantastic with its rockery gardens but now these big concrete structures look sad and out-of-place, a forgotten age but great for us photographers :-) thanks again for a filling in the history.
I love the old castle wall, one of the most interesting structures in Skeg.
Marie