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REDCOAT REUNION 2009 MINEHEAD

Wouldn't it be FANTASTIC if you went to BUTLINS MINEHEAD, walked into one of the original venues, and were transported back to the Seventies? Well that's exactly what will happen, if you come to the 2009 REDCOAT REUNION.
We've actually hired the whole of the CRAZY HORSE SALOON for the full week - for our exclusive use, and we're going to run it as if it were the seventies, with good measures of the fifties, sixties, and eighties thrown in.
The programme will be run by actual former-Redcoats, who will be on duty throughout the week to organise your favourite Games, Competitions, and Shows.
Go to this link to find details of how you can take part in this unique, nostalgic event.

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Welcome to BygoneButlins.com, the home of butlins memories, with recollections of happy times spent at Butlins holiday camps.

Here at Bygonebutlins.com our aim is to give an insight into how Butlin's has changed over the years and is still changing to this day. The result should be a regularly updated site, as lets face it Butlin's memories can be anything from the 29th September 1899 to yesterday. Please contact Bygone Butlins if you feel you have any Butlins memories to contribute to this site and hopefully between us we can produce a web site full of Butlins history and memories, along with Butlins memorabilia. There are hundreds of ex Redcoats out there so if any of you wish to share Butlins nostalgia, we would love to hear from you.

Sir Billy Butlin
Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne Butlin (1899–1980)
(Sir)William Heygate Edmund Colborne Butlin (1899–1980), paid just 30shillings (£1:50) at Lock's Yard, Bedminster for a hoop-la stall at a traveling fair. . . and his multi-million pound Rags to Riches story began.

Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1899. He came to live in Bristol as a little boy when his mother married a Bristol gas worker. He went to St Mary Redcliffe School for a while before emigrating to Canada.

After service with the Canadian army during the first World War, he worked his passage across the Atlantic to Liverpool, was paid £5 and walked 160 miles back to Bristol to join the Marshall Hill fair at its Bedminster winter base.

Billy made his hoop-la pedestals the easiest to 'hoop', gave out prizes more quickly than anyone . . . and took 10 times the profits of his stunned rivals with their penny pinching attractions as he triumphantly toured the West Country on the traveling fair circuit.

He went from hoop-la stalls to amusement parks to zoos and, in 1935, to his first holiday camp in Ingoldmells, Skegness, an idea he'd long since dreamed about after remembering a rotten holiday on the Bristol Channel when he'd been thrown out of his lodgings by a seaside landlady who wouldn't allow 'guests' to stay during the day.

Give the punters a fair deal, a roof over their heads and amusements, and they would flock in just as they had to his Bedminster hoop-la stall. And, of course, it worked

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Butlins Minehead postcard depicting typical Butlins Fountain and monorail in background.	Butlins Skegness postcard, showing monorail and outdoor swimming pool	Butlins Barry Island postcard, Depicting the open air heated swimming pool.