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17/06/2008

In response to the Editor's comments on a Butlins holiday (eNewsletter June 9th) - there is absolutely NO WAY would I entertain a 'Butlins style' holiday today.

Our family - mum, dad and three kids - when I was young 60 years ago holidayed in Butlins' 'hey day' immediately post war. The experience means I would never contemplate taking a holiday at Butlins (or its ilk) ever again - not even if petrol was treble the price it is now.

Perish the thought of a holiday camp holiday.

Jim Tilley, British Pensions in Australia Inc

 

Tell us readers, do you hark back to the "good old days of British family holidays" - or do we look back with rose tinted glasses at the sack races and knobbly knees competitions? Email editorial@maturetimes.co.uk

 

 

YOU RESPOND

 

I can remember as a lad of 13 in 1957 we spent a week in a pokey ramshackle chalet in smelly Jaywick, and would walk into nearby Clacton most evenings, passing Butlins Holiday Camp on the way.

My younger bother and I would peer enviously through the high 'Stalag railings' at the 'rich kids', who were having such a wonderful time whilst we were slumming it.
In my twenties I did make it to Pontins at Brean Sands, with the then current girlfriend; but that was a different sort of wonderful time.

Brian Goodliffe, Leighton Buzzard