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unusual facts about Holiday camp



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.


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Colaba

The southern tip is occupied by a military cantonment, including the large Navy Nagar layout built on reclaimed land known as Holiday Camp.

Ingoldmells

Billy Butlin opened the UK's first holiday camp at Ingoldmells in 1936, which today is major employer in the area and attracts numerous tourists.

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.

National Cycle Route 23

Beyond Newchurch lies the village of Alverstone, with a final flat crossing with the minor road there before the route arrives at Sandown, on the edge of town between two holiday camp sites.