Skegness -
thriving resort on the East Coast of England.
**Get the very latest Skegness Hotel Offers HERE!** The town's tourist industry mainly caters for holiday-makers
and day-trippers from the Midlands. Skegness has been named
"the Blackpool of the East Coast" or "Nottingham by the Sea".
It has a famous mascot, the Jolly Fisherman (designed by John Hassall in
1908 for the Great Northern Railway). The town is also
known as Skeg, Skeggy or Skeg-vegas. Further North up the coast are the other
holiday resorts of Ingoldmells, Chapel St Leonards,
Sutton-on-Sea and Mablethorpe.