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4 unusual facts about Butlins


Butlins

Each of the 160 rooms features floor-to-ceiling windows, twin or king-size beds, leatherette chairs, televisions, DVD players and en-suite facilities.

Frank Butcher

He met Pat Harris (Pam St. Clement) at Butlins in Clacton in 1958 and despite being on holiday with his girlfriend, June, he was attracted to Pat.

Jimmy Perry

Demobbed and back in the UK, he trained as an actor at RADA, spending his holidays working as a Redcoat in Butlin's Holiday Camps.

Rachid Harkouk

Harkouk was due to go to Butlins for a working holiday and moved to the London club despite playing illegally for a local side that played on Sundays under a different name.


Georgie Fame

After taking part in a singing contest at the Butlins Holiday Camp in Pwllheli, North Wales he was offered a job there by the band leader, early British rock'n'roll star Rory Blackwell.

Jimmy Cricket

He left school at 16 and spent the next two years working in a betting shop, before spending the summer of 1966 working as a Red Coat in Butlins Holiday camp at Mosney, County Meath, Ireland.

LMS Royal Scot Class 6100 Royal Scot

6100 arrived in the Butlins complex on 18 July 1963 piped in by pipers from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Scots.

Maidens and Dunure Light Railway

On 17 May 1947 the line was reopened again to a new Heads of Ayr station serving the then new Butlins holiday camp.


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