Britain’s favourite holiday camp Butlin’s has reopened for the first time in four months - and Diversity star Ashley Banjo stunned early arrivals with a VIP welcome. The dance guru, who will ...

Before the days of cheap trips aboard, families from across Ireland would flock to the camp in their droves to spend their summer holidays. The camp - which opened as a Butlins in 1948 - also ...

THE Government has taken over the former Butlins holiday camp at Mosney to house refugees at a cost of almost £15m to the taxpayer. In a five-year deal, 500 asylum seekers are to be housed in the ...

Holiday camp: Ayr, 1950s Des O'Connor's career has spanned TV, stage and music over five decades. Before finding fame, he was a Butlins red coat, a holiday camp entertainer who wears the designated ...

Butlins joins the 21st ... holiday for a week’s wage” and by one of the songs from the Butlin Holiday Camps on a 78rpm record with a ... Pwllheli, Barry (Wales) and Mosney (Ireland).

Butlins was established in 1936 by Billy Butlin, ... Along with the eight holiday camps around the coast of Britain, another one opened in Ireland and there were also Butlin's hotels in ...

Step back to Butlin's holiday camp, at Filey, North Yorkshire in its 1970s heyday A new book Butlin's Filey 1972, ... Ayr, Bognor, Minehead and Barry, as well as Mosney in Ireland.

The Skegness Esplanade and Tower Gardens, Lincolnshire is where Billy Butlin opened his first Butlins holiday camp in 1936. He came up with the idea at a Canadian summer camp in his youth.

Blackstone Inc. agreed to sell British seaside holiday resorts operator Butlins back to a former owner, the Harris family -- also a partner in the US private-equity giant’s larger UK Bourne ...

A university has teamed up with a Butlins holiday camp - to offer degrees in becoming a Redcoat. Students will learn the skills needed to entertain campers, from singing, dancing and performing to ...