Butlins Clacton The Way We Were

The way we were, about Butlins Clacton with footage from 1946

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Travel & Events

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• Butlins
• Clacton
• holiday
• camp
• redcoats
• billy

[314WESTERN]

Butlins what can i say, holiday camp for working people, red coats, blue coats, the pig and whistle, kids tucked up in bed,early moning call [ good morning campers]carbolic soap, uncle Boko, the freezing out door pool, and kids crying when the week was up, to go back home to the depressing excistance of the 1950s.

[miiikkeyyyyCOD]

@oakesy68 Clacton is in Essex you dipstick.

[LadyHarrington2k]

You do know Clacton is in the South 'oakesy68'? Lol! - We dunt talk like that dun ere!

[oakesy68]

cue the hovis music .. aye it wer bludy greet clacton walk along t'pier, walk to jaywick , walk inter toon ,all we did was bastad walk!

[smudgey6120]

wow ...love this...i was there in 1974 as a six year old...won first prize in the fancy dress comp after my brother who was all dressed up to do it first changed his mind so i did it ..then won woooohoooo!!! i remember sitting in a huge hall where all the presentations took place and sitting next to another boy and telling him i was going to get one of the trophy's on display ..imagine my dismay being handed a £2 voucher lol what was a voucher to a 6 year old..till mum took me shopping with it

[englandvsa]

It sounds fun, It would be cool if it was still there.

[rammergramps]

thanks for sharing the history. this is what i would love to relive again from when i was young in OZ camp.  I had hoped to enjoy in the UK but sadly it is a disappearing saga. :(

[Markytrusler]

thanks for this fab video.

[bunglezip]

Wonderful stuff.