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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.
Bognor Regis: 1960: Current: Known as Southcoast World 1987–1998. Still open as Butlins Bognor Regis. Clacton: 1938: 1983: Demolished, now a housing estate. Small area yet to be redeveloped. Filey Holiday Camp: 1945: 1983: Operated independently for six weeks in 1986, but the venture failed and it closed. Gradually demolished between 1988 and ...
An exception was the venue at Westover Road, Bournemouth venue which retained the ABC brand until its closure in early 2017. The Odeon on the same road closed later that year. [ 11 ] In 2004, the Odeon chain was sold to Terra Firma Capital Partners who had recently purchased UCI cinemas and over the next six years all the Rank people were ...
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 ...
People from Bognor Regis (2 C, ... Butlins Bognor Regis; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (UK Parliament constituency)
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The Butlin's holiday park in Bognor is closing to day visitors as a precautionary measure.
From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, Hinde worked on his most widely known production: the Butlin Holiday Camps postcards. Billy Butlin had founded the camps as a place for working-class people to go for vacation, complete with high excitement and low cost. Butlin hired Hinde to produce postcards that reflected the spirited and enjoyable ...