a friend and i worked as chalet maids in 1965, in minehead. it was an unforgettable experience. we could, after work, use all the facilities, see the shows , go on the fairground rides. we were fed very well in a huge self service canteen with as much as we could want to eat. this canteen closed after 6 pm so we couldnt get a free coffee after that time . . our problem was we had no money for the first two weeks so we couldnt buy a drink in a bar. not even a coffee. we smoked at the time and we never knew when we would get the next ciggie. silly now but at the time these little money problems were quite annoying.. and also we had to work 7 days a week. no day off. when we got our first wage packet, we went to town with it .got very drunk and ended up in the pool fully dressed after midnight. so we got sacked. one of my big regrets is the fact we messed up.

I love you butlins you have done lots for the UK and the world butlins is the best company in the UK Thank you Sir Billy Butlins long live butlins

I went to Filey 1953/54 I can still smell the disinfectant in the chalets, and enjoy the music of the times.thank you Billy Butlin.

Absolutely lovely tribute to Sir Billy Butlin watching this brought back so many memories of butlins at Filey although at the time I never actually visited butlins Filey or any of his camps my late parents and late aunt had during the late 70s had 2 static caravans on Primrose Valley next door and I recall seeing butlins Filey In it’s latter years and the sad sight of it in the mid 80s during its closure and subsequent decay in later years before it was totally demolished and redeveloped as The Bay Filey and the remains of the chalets looking so sad and in states of decay but in its prime butlins Filey must have been a amazing camp

i worked at bognor for 2 year when i left school great times and brilliant memories.

Anyone here in lockdown wishing they were at butlins on holiday 🙌🕺💃💐

I knew Sir Billy and his daughters when I was younger. He'd get out of his Rolls Royce, big bushy beard a Hawian shirt ,scruffy jeans and sandals. Some years later I was working on Exmoor , and looking for a summer job. I was asked do you want to work at Minehead?, so ask the obvious Doing what ? Catering, came the reply. I pointed out I knew sweet all about catering and was told, you can feed cattle cant you?

My Grandmother lived near Minehead, she always said Butlins was rather "lower class" so my mother and I never got to stay there 😂

i worked at butlins cleaning aged 14 lol.. used to go on the rides all day eat in the staff canteen.. pick up my 5 quid and hop back on the free bus back to taunton😂😂 sorry if you stayed at minehead in the mid 80’s and your chalet was dirty!

I remember the Minehead Butlin's. I got banned from the amusement arcade so I spent most days wandering round town shoplifting

Love butlins as kids been too all 3 n now still as adults 35years later I go with my boyfriend too butlins skegness as we both love it love butlins n we go on 6 of Feb Monday 2023 we can't wait love butlins skegness 😊🥰😎xxxx

I was present at the start of the short lived Amtree Park site at Filey - they threw pennys at a mega project - even tried selling the old chalets as holiday homes - doomed to failure Cheers p Rob

I was sound and lighting technician for butlins bognor 2007 /2008 and such a great place to work

Billy made peoples live great.

i went to butlins at minehead in 1992 i was 4 i love it 😀

Filey butlins was the best butlins shame it closed 😭

Lovely happy memories xx

I first went to butlins in filey, it was 1980, we came home on the day charles and diana got married. The helium balloons had just come out and we brought them back home, i tied mine to my pushbike handle bars and showed it off up and down the street 😂

Loved butlins as a kid holidayed at barry butlins a few times, Bognor once and minehead loads. Been since over the years with my own kids and it's just not the same. Anything worth doing is no longer free and I spent more time at the atm constantly taking more money out than enjoying the holidays. That said I did it a few times with my kids as there's a big age gap. They enjoyed but it just didn't have the attractions or value for money appeal and atmosphere it had when I was young. I've also done the adults only at minehead which I thoroughly loved.

Yes me. Childhood memories. My bucket list 😍

Billy Butlin will be spinning in his grave at the rundown state of Butlin's Skegness. The exterior paintwork is peeling and in disrepair, the blocks could do with being jet washed. The Skyline pavilion covers need to be renewed.

its 6am i havent slept cause im watching butlins videos..... 2020 fucked me up man

2:05 I went in that pool about 10 years ago while visiting friends who were staying there. We were all told to exit the pool after a kid had done a bit dump in it. Quality place. You just dont get that standard of customer elsewhere.

My Grandfather worked at Skegness from it opening in 1936 until his death in 1938

There's a board they put up in my village years ago, it has a picture of Billy Butlins car pulled up, it was a picture worthy moment back then lol, also the pub next to my arcade and the pool we manage are where one of the black lace videos were filmed because my old landlord was their manager at the time, literally just down the road from Butlins in INGOLDMELLS(/seathorn-winthorpe maybe technically as well) not Skegness lol

As a child growing up we went to every Butlins apart from Scotland...it was bloody awful !!!

I remember Security were always strategically placed so you could never escape until your time was up.

Went to the Bognor Regis Butlins. The best bit was when I got the train back home.

We loved it at Butlins

My first Butlin's was in 1959 and 1960 when I was just a very young lad. Think it was Bognor but not 100%. Too young and long to remember. I remember winning a second or third prize (not first), again can't remember what it was, for wearing this flamboyant red Grenadier Guard costume and I had to march around the hall guarding the little girl who came first in the girls costumes. Can't remember what she wore. At that age I wasn't paying attention to girls , but I always loved the big red Butlin's toffee apples.

Very interesting - fingers cross for Butlins to grow and grow - with hopefully more than 3 resorts existing in 20 years time. Like the mini fair ground attractions "Within"; perhaps growing a bit more in size and extending open for day visitors to use more of its attractions and facilities.

I started going to Butlin’s Skegness in 2011

I've Used To Go To Butlins Resort In Bognor Regis In West Sussex In England In May 2017 I Was 24 Years Old. Thanks Mate. X

Love all things butlins now - hated it on my one and only holiday there lol cheers Rob

Still got photos of family on donkey's we loved it the beach Comber bar baby contest kids at Christmas getting a presant of santa on stage arriving at Christmas getting your turkey christmas dinner to cook in your chalet. We went there loads of times loved it .not the same now .R.I.P.😇 BILLY BUTLIN YOU MADE CHILDREN VERY HAPPY 💜💜💜

Would love to see butlins footage from minehead in the early 90s - my parents use to take me and it was the best memories. If anyone has any or can link me some more videos would be much appreciated.

When I was a kid in UK back in 60's we went one year and I was a Beaver. I now understand what they were calling us , I think.

Been there done that 🇬🇧

Loved watching this xxx

2024 Anyone? 👇

When I was 4 I almost drowned at a Butlins. I also remember being terrified by that bear mascot.

I thought I would hate this, but it's actually pretty interesting. An important part of Britain's cultural history.

My great grandad went skegness during the war to stay and he said he hated it and that he would never go there again

I have pictures of my grandpa, organist at Pwllheli with the stars, Bob Monkhouse, Ken Dodd etc. May I post them somewhere?

I go every year now Lol

i will never forget butl;ins as a lk kid i never 4 get butlins

all inclusive was great . but the bar screwed you . in 1979 in pwllheli it was £1 a pint . my bloody wages was only £16 per week . also most camps had done away with the all inclusive .

Weeks pay for a weeks holiday they use to say not any more absolute joke way to much money to stay there cheaper to go abroad crazy

We went to Skegness with the jazz band my sister met her husband to be he moved to consett to be next to her later on got married had 2 girls and a boy

Filey wasn't the flagship of Butlins at all as it all started in Skegness

went to Butlins with a group from old peoples home with my wife their warden, got a knock on the door at 2am for making to much noise we liked to go sequence dancing my wife first husband r did his basic training at Skegness when it was a stone frigate.

Growing up we always went abroad for holidays but after summer going back to school I was sooo jealous of my friends that would talk about their Butlins holidays I begged my parents to take me

They might have survived if the British weather hadn't let them down that's why the costa's boomed because of not only the sun but it normally cheaper too.

35:18 Great Scotland Yard. It's The Beatles. Thanks Mate. X

My parents met at a Butlins reunion...in 1949 Harrigay i think...they went to Clacton on first day trip..

I hated the wake up call I was on holiday I wanted a ly in

I love watching these videos but watching peoples faces on these video sudden me, most of them have properly passed :(

My idea of hell 🥺

I went to Butlins Clacton as a kid Christmas 1976, stayed at an apartment with no toilet, lol, no heating in the apartment, and dinner time being served roast duck! Only my Dad would eat it 😂 But still great fun, good memories despite the duck LOL

Looks like they had everything except bathrooms.

You have to be British, middle-aged and lower-middle class to like this kind of holiday. There are no comparable facilities on the continent because they do not correspond to the "extra-British" mentality.

At 9:01, I found it funny that the guests had sabotaged the tannoy speakers, causing them to blow up because they didn't like that same old wake up record! lol😂

on our own holiday in the the1980s the chalet cleaning was minimal I think if .it was clean enough why send a cleaner to an ok chalet I joined a Que at the chalet office for replacement and cleaning, came back to find my wife had thrown out half the furniture and bent pots and pans

butlitz lol

Loved it

KZfaq seems full of sloppy doccos that ITV produced in the early 2010's.

Hi de hi

i was there about 1972 to 75

It’s sad that you can’t go at the moment maybe next year 🙏🤞

I remember when Billy stood down his son Bobby sold Butlins to Rank a few years later..

John Denver was never toted as a Country music singer... he was a folk singer.

sad when BUTLINS near Ayr in South Ayrshire, Scotland closed it's doors in 1998 later to re-opened in 1999 under the management of Haven Holidays who renamed it Craig Tara. was a great place to go till that happened miss them days out when i was a teenager jumping on a train down for the day

I used to be a red coat at Minehead back in the day. It was worse than Colditz lol

Not for me ! But it takes all sorts!

17:48

Love the video topic but 340p resolution makes it impossible to watch

6:03 Herb Alpert, but danged if I can remember the song title...

billy butlin once said about his workers give them titles and they will work for nothing

Loved butlins ,but its not the same anymore. They tried to modernise it but they did it to a point that took away its butlins originality

He changed his name to Cliff Richard?

UK's answer to Wet 'n Wild

Remember well, its a pity most of em are gone now

Wait then what have I been reading about Butlins? I read that butlins is just too bad and a dark place.

The Butlins camps inspired the 80s show Hi de hi they had the yellow coats

Had to laugh at Butlins holidaymakers 'looking for romance'. What a euphemism. More like a shag with anyone that was available. A friend of mine worked at Butlins Ayr in the mid 80s, and said the customers were all the dregs of society from Glasgow in particular. He had to clear away lots of used condoms strewn all over the lawns, spoke of people just interested in getting drunk night after night etc. Sounds like a living hell, and not the happy, friendly place that this film portrays.

Too many hotels at bustling now taken away the character

Butlins is awful now. Nothing like it use to be, i still take my kids but it’s a shadow of its former self. The funfair was magical, the kids clubs, scaletrix, monorail, the free cinema, roller skating, boating lake, beachcomber bar, ball dancing, knobbly knees and glamour Grannies, will never forget the place. Now it’s just arcades, bad entertainment and charges for everything. Nothing for kids without their parents, no clubs or gaiety theatre or free films. Just not the same at all.

Uhhh

This Shows how childish Britts are

All that I see, Is a bunch of sheep, being herded around. Very British.

PONTINS FOR ME - Not so crowded and better value.