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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 ...
Butlins Badge Skegness 1938 Butlins Badge Filey 1945 Butlins Badge Blackpool 1961. From 1936 until 1967, on arrival at Butlins each camper was issued with an enamel badge unique to that camp or hotel, to wear for the duration of their holiday. The badge granted the camper readmission to the site should they take a trip out during their stay.
HMS Royal Arthur was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, initially at Ingoldmells near Skegness, and later at Corsham, Wiltshire.During the Second World War, the former holiday camp at Ingoldmells was used to mainly train 'Hostilities Only' (for the duration of the war only) communications branch ratings and officers (signalmen, telegraphists, coders and wireless operators).
HMS Royal Arthur, Petty Officers' training school, Butlins Skegness, later Corsham, Wiltshire [32] HMS Royal Charlotte, Wireless Station , Cuxhaven, Germany. Post-WWII; Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London
Ingoldmells (/ ˈ ɪ ŋ ɡ ə ˌ m ɛ l z / ING-gə-melz) is a coastal village, civil parish and resort in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.It is situated on the A52, and 3 miles (5 km) north from the resort town of Skegness.
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The book The Butlins Girls by Elaine Everest is predominantly set at the Skegness camp in 1946, the first year of its re-opening after the war. It features the fictional redcoats Molly Missons, Bunty Grainger, Plum Appleby and Johnny Johnson. There is also a children's book from the 1960s by Frank Richards called Billy Bunter at Butlins. In ...
The town has been home since 1936 to Sir Billy Butlin's first Butlins holiday camp, and the stretch of coast just north of Skegness has the greatest concentration of static caravans in Europe. Farming, the mainstay of the Lincolnshire economy, takes place right under the shadow of the sea walls.