McCartney Times

HOLIDAY staple Butlin’s has just celebrated its 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, author and historian Kathryn Ferry has published new book The Nation’s Host: Butlin’s And The Story Of The British Seaside (Penguin). Kathryn tells Bill Gibb the Honest Truth about the old favourite. Where was the first camp? The first Butlin’s opened at Skegness in Lincolnshire, a place where Billy Butlin already had a very successful seaside amusement park. In the 1930s, people got the right to paid holidays for the fi

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