Butlins Funcoast World Holiday Camp, Skegness in 1988 80 years of Butlin's Pictures Pics
The golden age of the British holiday camp started in Norfolk in 1906 when the first camp opened in Caister-on-Sea, near Great Yarmouth. Inside Out takes a look back at the country's oldest.
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After the end of the war and into the early 1960s the holiday camps prospered. According to Wikipedia Warner had fourteen camps, Billy Butlin opened his tenth in 1966. By the 1970s the market steeply declined as people started to take advantage of relatively cheap package holidays. By the 1980s many of the camps closed. Continue reading "'Everything is Free and Easy' - British Holiday.
The Funfair and Gardens at Butlin's Filey Holiday Camp pictured in this postcard from the late
The first holiday camps. Butlin's in the 1930s. Holiday camps in the 50s & 60s. Butlin's in the 1960s.
In pictures the golden era of the British holiday camp Telegraph
The great British seaside holiday came into its heyday in the post war years, the 1950s and 1960s. Now affordable to many through paid annual leave (thanks to the Holiday Pay Act 1938), the destinations of choice depended largely on where you lived.. B&B or hotel, whilst many would head for the holiday camps such as Butlins or Pontins.
Vintage images of Norfolk's Caister Camp Britain's oldest holiday park through the ages
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Girls jumping for the ball during a lineout at a Butlins holiday camp in 1954 Camping Spots
Journal of Environmental Psychology (1988) 8, 257 265 Goodnight Campers: The History of the British Holiday Camp. By Colin Ward and Dennis Hardy. London: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1986, ISBN -7201-1836-. Reviewed by Mark Blades, Department o f Psychology, The University o f Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. Colin Ward was formerly Education.
Nostalgic, colourful photographs of Britain's most famous holiday camp in the 1980s Creative Boom
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Holiday camp. This photograph of Butlin's in Mosney shows the rows of chalet accommodation found at the company's holiday camps until the 1980s. A holiday camp is a type of holiday accommodation that encourages holidaymakers to stay within the site boundary, and provides entertainment and facilities for them throughout the day.
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Early British holiday camps which ones did you visit? Silversurfers
Many of us have family stories of holidays to Butlin's and other beloved British holiday camps — but how did holiday camps start?
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Pontins Osmington Bay Holiday Camp, Weymouth, England, UK, Circa 1980's Stock Photo Alamy
By the 1980s, after decades of immense popularity, the great British holiday camp was in terminal decline. The huge camps founded by Billy Butlin and Fred Pontin — the chalets, the dining hall.
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Extract. The rise of the holiday camp sits at the forefront of a new era of commercialized leisure in twentieth-century Britain. Like other forms of popular recreation which flourished during the inter-war period—the cinema, broadcasting, and seaside resorts—the holiday camp became a focus for fierce contemporary debates about the risks and benefits of mass leisure.
The Heated Outdoor Pool at Butlin's Pwllheli Holiday Camp in 1964... Butlins, British holidays
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Vintage pictures of Butlins holiday camps in the 1950s Daily Mail Online
Liverpool Daily Post | 22 March 1939. By 1937 The Sphere had published an article entitled 'The New Holiday - The Advent of the Giant Summer Camp.'. It describes the benefits of the Summer Camp - one being that 'they are weather proof. In boarding houses the day is spoilt when guests are driven indoors by the bad weather into over.
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For example, Butlins (0845 070 4734; butlins.com), long the standard-bearer for the British holiday-camp experience, is introducing a new range of modern chalets for 2015 - some 117 in total.