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	Butlins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Butlins camps are noted for their famous "Redcoats" who provide entertainment and organisation at every level.
		In 1968 Billy Butlin's son Bobby took over the management of Butlins and in 1972 the business was sold to the Rank Organisation for £43 million.
		Butlins Minehead underwent its first set of improvements through the 1960s when problems with flooding were treated and a miniature railway 1964, chairlift 1965 and monorail 1967 were added to the camp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Butlin's (1334 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - Top Stories - THE DARK SIDE OF BILLY BUTLIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Billy Butlin became a byword for wholesome family fun when he revitalised the leisure scene with his first holiday camp 70 years ago.
		Butlin, who was knighted in the 60s, came from a family of fairground owners, a notoriously rough business where violence was often the first resort when dealing with the competition.
		Sir Billy came up with the idea for the glamorous granny contests when he bumped into actress Marlene Dietrich in America in 1964 and was stunned to find she was a gran.
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/topstories/tm_objectid=16949529&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=the-dark-side-of-billy-butlin-name_page.html' (1094 words)

	Holiday Camps
		Billy Butlin had stayed in a holiday camp in Canada and saw the benefits of this form of holiday.
		Butlin's was not the only organisation to use modern design to boost the image of its camps in the 'sixties.
		Butlin had stayed in Hawaii and noticed that the weather could be pleasant - sun shining - birds singing but that, all of a sudden, it could change.
	www.seasidehistory.co.uk /camps.html (2798 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Butlin's Holiday Camps - a British Institution
		The first holiday camps in the UK were the masterplan of entrepreneur William 'Billy' Butlin, who had seen some lakeside holiday centres during a visit to Canada during World War I and realised that they were something that could easily be introduced to his native Britain.
		Billie, along with Kay Berry and Norman himself, became the first of a long line of hard-working people who would run the camp, organise entertainment and activities, help campers to adjust to the Butlin's way of life and generally act as hosts for the holidaymaker's week away.
		As Billy Butlin's success grew, so too did his tax bill and after leaving the country to become a Jersey-based tax exile in 1968 (despite accepting a knighthood from the Queen just four years earlier), his son Bobby took over the management of the Butlins Empire.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/hub/A855245 (1340 words)

	Butlin's History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Billy Butlin, a fairground worker from Canada, set up his first holiday camp at Skegness in 1936.
		The Butlin's Empire...Hotels at Blackpool, Margate and Brighton
		Funded by the Lottery, this project is seeking to gather all of your memories of Butlin's Filey.
	www.lightstraw.co.uk /butlins/history1.html (337 words)

	Remember Filey Butlins
		In 1938, Hunmanby Gap farmer George Milner sold Billy Butlin 120 acres of farmland for his third camp, Butlin’s Filey.
		This gallery reveals the camp through the decades; the 40’s and 50’s post war austerity faced by Britain’s population was temporarily forgotten in Butlin’s decadent ballrooms and bars.
		In the 1950’s and 60’s the photographs show children experiencing the freedom of the carefree camp, the luxury of the heated indoor pool and the overwhelming choice of rides and amusements to entertain.
	www.rememberfileybutlins.co.uk /gallery.html (435 words)

	The early history of Billy Butlin
		Butlin had the good fortune to have a choice of two paths from which he could choose for his future.
		Butlin's Bank was established in 1791 but was absorbed by Lloyds Bank in 1868.
		It is here the story of Billy Butlin really starts for it was here that the traveling fair came to visit and William Butlin and Bertha Hill met for the very first time and by all accounts, it was love at first sight.
	www.butlinsmemories.com /billybutlin.htm (4165 words)

	Skegness Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
		William Heygate Colbourne Butlin was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 29th September 1899 to William, the son of a clergyman, and Bertha, the daughter of a small town baker who had become a travelling showman.
		Billy Butlin, a travelling fairground worker from Canada, set up his first holiday camp at Skegness in 1936 having identified a need for all-weather recreation for holiday-makers.
		Billyâs mother died of complications arising from a chill in 1933 without seeing her sonâs greatest achievement â“ the camp that he built on 200 acres of farmland near the village of Ingoldmells.
	www.skegnesstoday.co.uk /mk4custompages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=17195 (1771 words)

	How did Butlin's start? in The AnswerBank: People & Places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Butlin designed the camp: 1,000 people in 600 chalets with electricity, running water, 250 bathrooms, dining and recreational halls, theatre, gymnasium, swimming pool and boating lake.
		Butlin planned another camp, at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex and it was built in 1938 after initial local opposition.
		Sir Billy Butlin died in June, 1980: his headstone at St John's cemetery, St Helier, Jersey, adorned with images such as a holiday camp scene and a Skegness fisherman.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1363.html (531 words)

	Resorts of Yesteryear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Billy Butlin had made his mark in England establishing "luxury" holiday camps, beginning in Skegness in 1936.
		Interestingly, when the first camp was opened the visitors appeared bored and Butlin concluded that holiday-makers required some degree of organization.
		Sir Billy's venture on Grand Bahama, which might have evolved into some sort of decorous "Club Med" in the West End if it had survived, was begun in 1948 and cost £ 2 million (about $10 million at the time).
	www.jabezcorner.com /Grand_Bahama/butlins.htm (276 words)

	Bunter at Butlins
		Billy Bunter at Butlin’s was published in 1961 between Billy Bunter’s Treasure Hunt (Number 29) and Bunter the Ventriloquist (number 30).
		The appearances of Butlin himself are no more than a paper-thin and an obvious attempt to advertise the Holiday Camps.
		Sadly, Maurice never realised the importance of research or the giving of references.) Further, extra copies were to be ordered to ensure that all children visiting the camps received a copy.
	www.friarsclub.net /Articles/butlinsbunter.htm (658 words)

	Butlin's
		Butlin’s Holiday Camps were conceived by Billy Butlin during a wet holiday week on Barry Island while locked out of his unwelcoming boarding house.
		Billy Butlin started his first holiday camps in 1936.
		On the day after Britain’s declaration of war against Germany, he completed negotiations with the Ministry of Defence to build several army training camps around Britain at a discount price – subject to his being able to recover the camps as holiday centres as soon as war was over.
	www.joylandbooks.com /books_new/ourtrueintentpreview3.htm (180 words)

	Bognor Regis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Billy Butlin opened one of his famous Butlins Holiday Camps in Bognor in 1960.
		The camp later became known as Southcoast World until 1998 and is now known as Butlins Bognor Regis Resort.
		In 2004 Butlins erected a large pointed roof.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bognor_Regis (640 words)

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		Holiday Camp king Billy Butlin congratulates the driver of the first Butlin Express which travelled from King's Cross to Skegness with hundreds of campers on Saturday.
		Butlin's Holiday Camp, Skegness opened for the season on Saturday with an intake of 2,000 campers.
		Billy Butlin and several of his high ranking executives on a tour of the Camp in the afternoon".
	www.leytransport.i12.com /npaper.htm (1199 words)

	Butlin's Clacton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was called Butlin's and was the second site that (Sir) Billy Butlin had bought in 1938.
		Butlin's always had a far greater choice of meals and activities, but if you strayed from the standard all - in - tariff, then you would expect to pay for the extras.
		E.g the dining hall food was a set menu each day, but it didn't stop you having a fish supper in the Fish Restaurant or other snack of your choice at one of the many snack bars, milk bars, and restaurants within the camp amenities.
	lightstraw.co.uk /butlins (380 words)

	Butlins - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		In 2005, a new £10m hotel was unveiled at the Bognor Regis resort, which moved away from the Hi-De-Hi perception, adding hi-tech equipment and luxurious furniture in each of the 160 rooms.
		As a result, Butlins Skegness camp saw the first Dodgems cars in the UK in 1923.
		This article about an entertainment-related, leisure-related, sports-related or tourism-related corporation, or about a hotel or a chain of hotels, is a stub.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/b/u/t/Butlins.html (342 words)

	the john hinde butlin's photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Butlin’s Holiday Camps are a unique British institution conceived by Billy Butlin for post-war Britain.
		In the late 1960s and early 1970s the photographer, innovator and entrepreneur John Hinde, a key figure in the development of the colour photograph as a postcard, set about recording the ‘social revolution’ that was Butlin’s.
		In the 1960s Hinde’s success attracted the attention of Billy Butlin who commissioned him to develop a range of colour postcards of his holiday camps.
	www.ffotogallery.org /ff-exhib-recent/Hinde.htm (292 words)

	Butlins Holiday Camps were founded by later Sir Billy Butlin... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Butlins Holiday Camps were founded by later Sir Billy Butlin...
		"Butlins Holiday Camps" were founded by (later Sir) Billy Butlin Billy Butlin (William Heygate Edmund Colborne Butlin), September 29 September 29 1900 1900 - June 12 June 12 1990 1990 to provide economical holidays in Britain.
		The growth of the business was spurred by the Second World War when a number of camps were requisitioned for use as training camps, generating revenues for a post-war boom.
	www.biodatabase.de /Butlins (150 words)

	Billy Butlins
		Billy Butlin founded his holiday camps to provide economical holidays in
		Billy Bunter at Butlin was published in 1961 between Billy Bunter Treasure
		Butlins Holiday Camps were founded by (later Sir) Billy Butlin to provide economical
	www.park-heaven.co.uk /billy-butlins.htm (135 words)

	Billy Butlin a womaniser and gangster, claims film
		SIR Billy Butlin, who founded the family holiday camps, was a gangster and a womaniser who ran an empire "founded on sexual favours", according to a new television documentary.
		Waitresses at the holiday camps in the Fifties and Sixties often earned a second living as prostitutes, and the camps were founded on the trading of sexual favours, it will be claimed in the programme, to be broadcast in November.
		Tony Marshall, the managing director of Butlins, which is now owned by Rank, said: "I have never heard of Sir Billy carrying a cut-throat razor and I have spoken to many, many people who knew him personally in the old days.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/09/09/nhidi09.html (281 words)

	The Photographers' Gallery \| A~D \| John Hinde Butlin's Collection
		The first of many Butlin’s holiday camps opened in 1936 and they became a familiar part of British culture and folklore, famous for its hi-de-hi catchphrase, the camp redcoats, the Wakey Wakey breakfast call broadcast across the camps by tannoy, and the Knobbly Knee competitions.
		In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the John Hinde Studio produced a series of postcards to be sold at Butlin’s camps throughout the British Isles, and it was the job of three photographers, David Noble, Elmar Ludwig and Edmund Nägele to execute the photographs to Hinde’s rigorous formula and standards.
		Each photograph is innovative in its use of colour and elaborately stage-managed, often with large casts of real holidaymakers acting their allocated roles in these narrative tableaux of the Butlin’s quiet lounges, ballrooms and bars.
	www.photonet.org.uk /index.php?id=101,292,0,0,1,0 (281 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Butlins Holiday Camps - a British Institution - A846858
		Butlin selected the seaside town of Skegness, Lincolnshire, for the location of his first holiday camp, which was opened on 11th April, 1936, by celebrity aeronaut Amy Johnson
		He asked one of his staff - Billie Ditchfield - to choose a nice, distinctive uniform for his new army and she came back with a bright red blazer and white 'slacks'
		as Billy Butlin's success grew, so too did his tax bill and after leaving the country to become a Jersey-based tax exile in 1968 (despite accepting a knighthood from the Queen just four years earlier), his son Bobby took over the management of the Empire.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A846858 (1464 words)

	Butlins at Clacton, a History of the Man and the Holiday Camp Page 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Butlin altered the share structure, the 5 shilling share being reduced to 1 shilling.
		Billy Butlin Opens his first Holiday Camp in Mosney holiday camp near Laytown in Co Meath.
		Such was the demand for his food that John Koon convinced Billy Butlin to open a Chinese kitchen in every Butlins Holiday Camp with a simple menu of Chicken Chop Suey and Chips.
	members.aol.com /stephencadams/Butlins7.html (470 words)

	Bygone Butlins, For all your butlins memories, nostalgia and history
		Butlins Minehead postcard depicting typical Butlins Fountain and monorail in background.
		Billy Butlin paid just £1.50 in Lock's Yard, Bedminster for a hoop-la stall in a travelling fair.
		Billy made his hoop-la pedestals the easiest to 'hoop', gave out prizes more quickly than anyone.
	bygonebutlins.com (392 words)

	Tiki Central Forums - Topic: Butlins Beachcomber, Various locations, United Kingdom (bar) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Butlins Beachcombers were a string of Tiki Bars situated within the Butlins Holiday Camp complexes during the 1960's and 1970's.
		It's widely believed that the owner of Butlin's, Sir Billy Butlin took the idea for the bars after a visit to the Beachcomber Bar at the Mayfair Hotel in London.
		Also info of note Butlin's Beachcomber Bar Barry Island at the time of its opening 1966 it claims to be the largest bar in europe but unfortunatly burns down in 1968.
	www.tikiroom.com /tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=8270&forum=2&hilite=butlins (536 words)

	The History of Butlins Holidays.
		Billy Butlin was born in 1899 in South Africa.
		After serving in the Canadian Army during the First World war Billy Butlin returned to England where he made his living touring the fairs.
		In 1936 Billy set up his first Butlins Holiday Camp in Skegness.
	www.lieslsholidays.co.uk /Butlins_History.htm (118 words)

	Butlins at Clacton, a History of the Man and the Holiday Camp Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Billy Butlin aged 15 went his first lakeside summer camp, which gave him the first real holidays he had known.
		Billy learned that you had to speculate and give things to the public in order to make a profit.
		Billy Butlin now had 900 men in permanent employment and 2,000 seasonal workers.
	members.aol.com /stephencadams/Butlins2.html (431 words)

	eBay.co.uk - butlin, butlins, Badges Patches, Postcards items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Butlin’s Brighton 1964 Pin Badge Blue and Red
		BILLY BUNTER AT BUTLIN's 1st 1961 HOLIDAY CAMP SIXTIES
		BUTLIN'S SKEGNESS 1967 BADGE - backstamped REEVES and CO.
	search.ebay.co.uk /butlin_W0QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ2 (271 words)

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