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The Skegness camp contained all the standard Butlins entertainment ingredients: Butlins Redcoats, a funfair, a ballroom, a boating lake, tennis courts, a sports field (for the three legged and egg & spoon races and the donkey derby), table tennis and snooker tables, amusement arcades, a theatre, arcades of shops, a chairlift system and a ...
How to Land an Airbus A330 (In his book, May describes how one would go about escaping from a Butlins Holiday Camp). Hodder Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-340-99458-0. There have also been a number of children's fiction books which include Butlins as a location or an integral part of the story. For example: Richards, Frank (1961). Billy Bunter at Butlins.
Butlins Resort Minehead is a holiday camp operated by Butlins, located in Minehead in Somerset, England. It opened in 1962 and remains in use today. It opened in 1962 and remains in use today. It was known as Butlin's Minehead until 1987, and as Somerwest World from then until 1999, when it reopened as Butlins Minehead Resort.
Butlin's Bognor Regis is a holiday camp in the seaside resort of Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England.It lies 55.5 miles (89 km) south southwest of London. Butlin's presence in the town began in 1932 with the opening of an amusement park; their operation soon expanded to take in a zoo as well.
Mosney was the first Butlin's camp outside the UK. In most ways Mosney was identical to Butlin's existing camps. Multiple complaints appeared in the Catholic Standard, warning that holiday camps were an English idea that was not desirable in Ireland.
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Butlins Ayr seen in 1984, The outdoor pool was demolished in the 1990s. During the Second World War the Admiralty, who had already taken over his camp at Filey, asked Billy Butlin to construct two new camps; one in North Wales and the other in Scotland. Butlin found 85 acres (34 ha) on the coast neighbouring the Heads of Ayr and opened a camp ...
In 1946, after the war, Butlin took back ownership of the camp from the Admiralty and Butlins Pwllheli was opened to the public after some reconstruction work. The holiday camp expanded during the 1950s and 1960s with additional chalet lines and facilities. At the peak in the late 1960s it could accommodate 12,000 campers, serviced by 1,500 ...