Great little film! Maybe another line for James May to tackle in OO gauge....

And Emsworth is Where? I love this innocent arrogance that we All know immediately where/who/ what you are talking about! it happens a lot on YT. I had no idea where Emsworth was and I have close links. Imagine what somoene watching this in North America or Australia will think. Not to mention non native speakers!

great documentary thanks visit the oyster beds at hayling islands great bird nesting site?

Excellent video and brought back so many memories. I was the guitarist in the big band at Northney in 1977 for the summer season and the guitarist in the Rivals at Sinah Warren in 1978 - 79 for both the winter and summer seasons. As an 18 year-old it was absolutely brilliant - everyone was working together happily. It was 6 days a week at Northney and 7 days a week at Sinah Warren including 1 night a week at the at the Red Night club. I could talk about this for hours - but it was such an experience for all the staff and performers, absolutely unmissable. I was so sorry to return and find Northney gone.....

Ahh, Reading on Sea! Everyone I knew went to Hayling for a holiday or just for the day.

My family went to The Sunshine Camp in the years of '55, '56, '57. I can remember the sun coming out on one occasion and the whole camp cheering as one because we'd had 5 days of constant rain. I learned to ride a bike here. They could be hired quite cheaply as well as children's pedal cars and adults four-seater quad cycles which could be taken out of the camp to the main beach. I was also entered into the kids fancy dress competition - always with the same outfit, bandages, a crutch, and fake blood and a sign saying "Wrong Chalet Number", and won every time. Later in life (1967) I did a summer season at Warners St. Clare camp on the Isle Of Wight as the drummer in the resident band, and there met my wife. We're still together after nearly 56 years. A lot to be said for the 'olden days holiday' style... Though I don't think it would work today.

I went to Coronation camp in the early 70s.

Ah, much nostalgia! I went with my family to Sunshine Holiday Camp in 1974. They served orange juice at breakfast, a habit which we imported back home.

Now day's they call them cruise ships

Warners wagtail club, wow what a memory

Loved this Documentary ...spent many a happy holiday with my parents during the 60s and early 70s at the Sunshine Holiday Camp...I still even today remember the jingle..." pack your bags and come with me down to Hayling by the sea....To the Sunshine Holiday Camp ! " ❤

Visited Sunshine holiday camp in the 60's with my parents. Only went the once as we found it to be far larger than the smaller camps like Sunbeam and Gunton Hall. The tv programme hi di hi was a very good representation of the period and if anything underplayed the atmosphere.

Didn't do the Holiday Camps but my aunt lived on Hayling and I used to enjoy going down from Scotland to stay with her in the early 70's. Loved going to Hayling, it was as if time went slower. Enjoyed the documentary.

We lived in south London and went to a Hayling holiday camp, no idea which one. It was very communal, games, dances, fancy dress. It must have been a real break for mums. The war and post war people had to work together, street parties, bunches of kids out playing on the street and the rec, in between the grime, the pig bucket van collecting food waste!

Hayling Island is beautiful. Getting the little ferry over and just walking around the island. I haven't been in over a decade, but I love the peace of that little island.

Interesting!!!

My mother used to go there for a few years as a manager of some sort

Does anyone remember a chalet camp called silver sands in Hayling Island?not a warners! I go to sinah Warren and lakeside now, we used to go northney too...but silver sands was around there somewhere, only had chalets a little shop and a small outside pool.

Went on a great Warners’ holiday camp with my dad and met up with some friends from school. It must have been ‘71. It was great fun. I entered into everything from swimming races, fancy dress and guess the hat, and possibly a few more. I won the best dressed woman as a 6’ 17 year old. It stopped there. I didn’t get hooked.

Went to the Sunshine holiday camp in the 1950s with my mum dad and brother and had a great time. Happy days.

19:33 . . . Does anyone know if that is Michael Palin on the left? (dark jacket, red trim). And starting around 26:46 what a wonderful memory seeing the women dancing with each other.

such nice people :) lovely

Absolutely wonderful documentary...

Me and my family went to sunshine holiday 1972 and 73.really enjoyed it.

As a child I always went go Buds farm in a tent on Hayling Island we loved it 😅

My first job after leaving school was at South Leigh in 1974 as a kitchen assistant.. I went to boarding school on Hayling, t was oppersit the Beachlands funfair and once been owned by the the Sandeman Port family.

Very interesting & sad in a way, just how things have changed, & not for the better!

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Sunshine Holiday Camp, Status Quo country!!!!

Hayling Island boy myself, anyone remember the Kontiki Club in Sinah Warren? used to sneek in, best crumpet on the Island!🤫

Gran had an old Railway carriage at Sandy Point went every year early 60s to 70s same 2 weeks, happy days. Remember once staying at was it Higworth caravan Park?

I remember going to Hayling as a very young child in 1962. I think it was the Sunshine Camp, which I think still exists, although under different management and a different name. I also went to the Dovercourt camp [later the same year, I think] which has long since been closed and demolished. One memory I have of the Dovercourt camp is the children's playground by a stream and a row of Poplar trees. I have recently been watching KZbin videos from the 60s of places I went to as a child. However it makes me so S A D to see the little kids playing, just realise that, like me, they will all be elderly now. Makes me want to cry.

Really interesting to watch, several members of my family in some of the still photographs, including my mother and father, aunts uncles, grandparents and even great grandmother. Mum and Dad both worked at Sinah Warren in the 60's