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Butlin's is a chain of large seaside resorts in the United Kingdom, incorporated as Butlins Skyline Limited. Butlin's was founded by Billy Butlin to provide affordable holidays for ordinary British families.
The architecture seen in this 1985 photograph of Butlin's in Ayr was typical of most camps before refurbishment. Note the rows of chalets in the distance.
Billy Butlin receiving Filey camp back from the RAF, who ran it as RAF Hunmanby Moor during the Second World War
The Butlins camp at Pwllheli in 1961
Blue Skies Apartments in Minehead
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Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne Butlin was an entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with the British holiday camp. Although holiday camps such as Warner's existed in one form or another before Butlin opened his first in 1936, it was Butlin who turned holiday camps into a multimillion-pound industry and an important aspect of British culture.
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Butlin visiting a munitions factory on behalf of the Ministry of Supply
Billy Butlin, and Sergeant John Caffrey, VC, one of the Commissionaires at Filey Holiday Camp
Butlins Bognor Resort in 1962