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The first batch of files have now been uploaded to our new Butlins website. We've still got more items to add and any additional contributions are most ...
minitrain2000
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Dec 1, 2001
5:46 pm
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Anyone here think that Butlins ain't as good as it used to be? I'm 23 and been goin to Butlins since I was 10. Maybe its because I'm older but it just ain't...
bobjbob2
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Dec 19, 2001
1:52 pm
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Since I haven't been to Butlins in quite a few years I suppose I can't say for sure that it's gone downhill but from the looks of it, it has and I don't really...
cindi_774
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Dec 19, 2001
9:30 pm
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I used to go to Butlins two or three weeks every summer when I was younger (mid 70s to late 80s). What a great time I had! There is absolutely nothing like it ...
rfranklin1us
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Dec 19, 2001
10:45 pm
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Seems to me that most comments I have read on the internet by people who used to go to Butlins in its hey-day are NOT at all impressed by the changes that have...
rfranklin1us
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Dec 19, 2001
11:09 pm
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I'm 30 now with 2 children and i've thought about going to butlins for a week but its just so expensive and you have to pay for virtually everything on ...
araggedtiger
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Dec 19, 2001
11:31 pm
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I agree with your sentiments expressed here and decree that Butlins should immediately rebuild the Filey camp, as it was in the 70's!<br><br>As you rightly...
stevo0861
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Dec 20, 2001
10:55 pm
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Tried to post the map as requested to the address you provided, got it returned saying address not known. Did you receive it?...
golfhappy8
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Dec 21, 2001
1:07 pm
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In looking at the correspondence, with regard to this item, it strikes me that Butlins should re-create and dedicate a month to 'The way Butlins used to be'. ...
golfhappy8
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Dec 21, 2001
1:27 pm
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I think dedicating a month to the 'The Way Butlins Used To Be' is an excellent idea. I'd certainly go.<br>I'd also like to see the camps that Haven have taken ...
cindi_774
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Dec 21, 2001
7:57 pm
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My pics from the October Bognor 2001 holiday are posted on the following site (for those that haven't come across it!)<br><br><a...
rfranklin1us
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Dec 21, 2001
9:28 pm
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Thanks golhappy, received the file OK. My mail server (British telecom) has been playing up, for almost 4 days!...
stevo0861
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Dec 22, 2001
12:20 am
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Remember the large animals and things that used to be scattered around the camps? I thought they were well cool at the time, but looking back it seems pretty...
rfranklin1us
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Dec 22, 2001
10:39 am
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Well, I managed to get two of the three Butlins books I was after for Xmas - Hello Campers! and the life of Billy Butlin. I couldn't find the Filey Memories...
rfranklin1us
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Dec 27, 2001
1:01 pm
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Anyone fancy raising or donating a few million quid so we can but back filey and open it back to how it was in the 70's & 80's!!!!!! (i wish)<br>Just got the...
araggedtiger
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Jan 2, 2002
8:47 pm
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Funny you should mention that. I'm entering the lottery this Saturday and any money I win will be going towards building a 70s style Butlins!<br><br>I went to ...
rfranklin1us
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Jan 2, 2002
9:48 pm
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If anyone wants any pics of Skeggy Butlins (or any questions about changes since the 70s80s to today) as it is now, let me know. I photographed just about...
rfranklin1us
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Jan 2, 2002
10:07 pm
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fancy chipping in a million or two with me then if i'm a winner as well, i'm sure we can come up with plenty of ideas!!!!!!<br>i wont go to skeggy again as...
araggedtiger
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Jan 3, 2002
6:39 am
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i'd love some photos of skeggy or any butlins in fact, let me know about them and i'll be able to add them to mine, which i am trying to find the time to scan...
araggedtiger
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Jan 3, 2002
6:44 am
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Some really excellent Minehead pictures have gone on the Butlins Memories site (link below)! Some of my recent Skegness ones are likely to appear on there too...
rfranklin1us
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Jan 3, 2002
8:49 am
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Hi,<br><br>I am interested in purchasing an old redcoat jacket as I am a keen collector of Butlins memorabillia <br><br>If anyone has one for sale please...
rickylynam1
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Jan 20, 2002
8:14 am
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Great '83 photos. Does anyone have anymore? I'm writing a film script set in Butlin's in 1983 so any photos/info of the period would be very gratefully...
g_reece2002
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Jan 29, 2002
2:57 am
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What type of film are you doing? You ask for 1980's photo's but which centre? Can you give a greater idea of the film, so that I can look at history...
sylviaendacott
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Jan 29, 2002
3:43 pm
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The film is about someone who's goes to work for a summer at a Butlin's centre in Wales in the early 80's but at this stage, having never been to one myself,...
g_reece2002
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Jan 29, 2002
8:25 pm
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If we could T A L K perhaps it maybe interesting as I was a Personnel Manager for the firm in the late 70's.<br><br>Any help??...
sylviaendacott
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Jan 29, 2002
9:52 pm
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I'm sure it would be very helpful to be able to speak. Unfortunately I'm writing in Australia so it would be very expensive. Can you talk via MSN?...
g_reece2002
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Jan 31, 2002
4:10 am
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Hi!<br><br>I have just been looking at the butlisn memories site and found out that they have just launched a brand new reunion page where all butlins staff ...
rickylynam1
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Feb 3, 2002
9:22 am
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No I don't have MSN - at present. I will try and accumulate information and send to you, what is your deadline....
sylviaendacott
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Feb 3, 2002
2:58 pm
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As far as I am aware Bobby is still alive and well, Bobby also had a sister Cherie (check spelling) who was last in Australia. Bill also had 2 other children...
ldduk
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Feb 6, 2002
1:56 am
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Hi Sylvia , I sent some photo`s to Butlins Memories recently ,there from the season of 1980 at Skeg,are these the type your looking for?. <br>...
mkexdj
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Feb 6, 2002
8:48 pm
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