Leisure
On the main seafront road, Grand Parade, is The Embassy Theatre, fairground rides, amusement arcades, novelty outlets, a crazy golf course, fish-and-chip shops and other takeaways, and bars.
Skegness holds an annual carnival in August, which includes a week-long programme of events throughout the town. East Lindsey District Council previously operated the carnival procession but handed control of the event to a group of volunteers, who now run it on a smaller scale.
During the summer, since 2009, Skegness has held a music, art and cultural event, the SO Festival, which coincides with a switch-on of seafront illuminations.
On 16 August 2007 a fire at an entertainment and shopping complex on seafront destroyed a nightclub and an amusement arcade. Because of the severity of the fire, what remained of the complex had to be demolished. There are now plans to build a hotel on the site. In late 2008 a further fire at a building on the seafront destroyed public houses and a fish-and-chip shop.
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“Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market.
He has no time to be anything but a machine.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)