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Post by ARENA on May 11, 2013 8:31:51 GMT
There's a chap on Angel Radio talking about Butlins.
In 1964, he, his wife and son had their first Butlins holiday @ £30...for all three of them!
There were all sorts of stars there..
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Post by scorp on May 12, 2013 10:22:57 GMT
I can see that in their day they were a godsend... I must admit to a tightening of the sphinctre when the impressionist ()Paul Melba) I was working for said that we would either be playing Butlins or a Hotel on Guernsey that summer - 1976. To my great delight - we played Guernsey... It was still something of a disaster, but at least it wasn't Butlins!
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Post by ARENA on May 12, 2013 10:57:13 GMT
I can see that in their day they were a godsend... I must admit to a tightening of the sphinctre when the impressionist ()Paul Melba) I was working for said that we would either be playing Butlins or a Hotel on Guernsey that summer - 1976. To my great delight - we played Guernsey... It was still something of a disaster, but at least it wasn't Butlins! Cor! Paul Melba - he used to be the toast of the town  |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2013 10:56:17 GMT
The best days out I ever had with my children were on a day pass to Butlins. I could not have stood it for more than a day, but it was fun.
And watching children run riot while shouting mums with arm fulls of jumpers followed on behind was a memory that sticks.
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Post by scorp on May 13, 2013 11:01:39 GMT
I can see that in their day they were a godsend... I must admit to a tightening of the sphinctre when the impressionist ()Paul Melba) I was working for said that we would either be playing Butlins or a Hotel on Guernsey that summer - 1976. To my great delight - we played Guernsey... It was still something of a disaster, but at least it wasn't Butlins! Cor! Paul Melba - he used to be the toast of the town Boom, as it were, Boom... |
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Post by jakeyj on Aug 31, 2013 7:09:50 GMT
My brother and I could not afford Holiday cams back in the 50 s. So we used to jump on his scooter and camp outside somewhere.
Then we would sneak in.
We visited Butlins at Clacton Atherfield Bay on the Isle of wight, And the Constitutional Holiday camp at Lowestoft. We were never caught. We even had several meals at two of them.
Obviously security was not the same as today.
They were the days.
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Post by scorp on Aug 31, 2013 8:06:12 GMT
Did he buy his scooter from the shop in Palmers Green - that's where I got both of mine...
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Post by jakeyj on Aug 31, 2013 9:27:52 GMT
I think he bought it from Olivers at Bruce Grove. It was a Taurus. (Taunus?). It was a two stroke and if the piston was in the wrong place when you kicked it over it went backwards.
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Post by scorp on Aug 31, 2013 14:22:51 GMT
The Taunus was the German Ford similar to the Cortina... Don't recall a Taurus scooter - especiall not one that went backwards!
I had Vespa 125,and then a Vespa GS - I used to do Nottingham to N London overnight on Saturday and back again during the day on Monday - it was horrible!
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