Butlin learned from the experience of Warner, and employed the workers who had constructed the Seaton camp to build his first camp under the Butlins name at Skegness, Lincolnshire in 1936. By the outbreak of World War II, Butlin had opened another camp at Clacton-on-Sea, and was in negotiations to build two more (at Ayr in Scotland and Pwllheli in Wales). Cunningham’s was still open by the time Billy Butlin opened his first camp in 1936 (and still averaged 60,000 campers on a good year). However, Mill Rythe Holiday Village stepped in last year and offered to organise and host the reunion for them as well as providing a week of entertainment that celebrated the lives of these military heroes and took them on a number of trips down memory lane, with music and events from the 1930s ’40s and ’50s. Away Resorts, which owns Mill Rythe, is committed to honouring our military heroes – both past and currently serving – and is passionate about providing the perfect location and entertainment at an affordable price, which is why a three-night half-board break starts at £95 per person.
The Show Cast entertainment team at the park will be performing the UK’s only musical and theatrical tribute to forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn. The show, which charts the life of Dame Vera Lynn from a young, up-and-coming band singer before the war to her career as radio presenter and popular war-time singer performing for the British armed forces in Burma during the Second World War. The cast changes costumes eight times during the show, with as little as 78 seconds to do so. They want houses, they want a little garden, you know, it’s almost a kind of a rural idyll they’re looking to create on the peripheries of rapidly expanding seaside resorts. Before the industrial revolution, the great bulk of the population had little o no leisure time or the wearwithall to afford seaside hilidays. A lot of it is the suburban bungalow and people just want to be beside the sea and live beside the seaside. You go to a lot of Mediterranean resorts or French or European resorts. And then of course, through the 19th century and into the 20th century, you go from just a small handful of people coming to seaside resorts and therefore beginning to have an impact on the historic environment.
The gift of gold to the Christ Child is supposed to have come from Melchior, a king from Arabia, who, legend has it, was one of the Three Wise Men. Very unusual – I’ve never come across one before. Talk about natural beauty, and Cornwall or the breath-taking highlands of Scotland come to mind. Many of the popular holiday cottage rental agents reported that last year holiday cottages in Cornwall saw a dramatic increase in the number of rented properties. What a year it’s been! Kathryn: You get to the 1930s and everybody gets terribly excited because it feels like it’s sort of new and fresh and then writers previously have said, well, and nothing really happened after that. And it’s such a sort of high point that you almost can’t see beyond it. In fact, I usually go to this area during this time of year since I know it’ll have great weather, but I recently decided to visit Vancouver Island in the winter to see what it was like.
British Airways Holidays and Universal Orlando Resort have teamed up to offer the holiday of a lifetime to Orlando for the ‘Place on the Plane’ prize winners of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. British Airways global network puts the British Airways Holidays in a unique position to offer convenient flights and secure great deals to the most amazing destinations. Allan: One of the important things about the British seaside is that they are real towns. They sort of close down for all but the summer months.Whereas the British seaside resort, they’re all real places, they’re real towns with long and interesting history and long and interesting stories behind them. They’re actually proper places where people live all year round. Hope to see you there next year! This was a period of tremendous pride in the benefits of the seaside, Kathryn says, which we can see by the scale of the building and provision being made for those who wanted to experience it – towns all around the coast were building promenades, piers, amusement arcades, cinemas, outdoor swimming pools and all manner of enticements for visitors.