A Barry Island transformation: see what the old butlins sites looks like then and now

Butlins Barry island compilation
Butlins Barry island was one of britain's most loved holiday camps to hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
It was Billy Butlins last camp to be built and first opened its gates in 1966, the camp flourished until 23 years later when shockingly Butlins had no further plans for the camp and in 1989 sold it to Majestic holidays. majestic gave the camp another 6 years, in 1996, due to low bookings and deteriation from bad storms the gates were closed for the last time that year.
The camp was left empty and vandalised until 2005 when it was demolished to make room for 250 new homes. Whether you were a camper or a member of staff, whether you loved Butlins barry island or whether you had a bad experience and hated your stay feel free to leave your memories or your comments.
Butlins at Barry Island South Wales operated from 1966 to 1996 ( from 1987 it traded as Majestic Holidays) This is a compilation of various clips showing memories of this time, they are not necessarily in chronological order. Butlins resort, Barry fun fair, redcoats, chalets, model railway and much more.
Barry was the last-built and smallest of the Butlins Holiday Camps. Billy Butlin took out a 99-year lease on the headland at Nell's Point Building work began there in the winter and the gates opened to campers on 18 June 1966.
Barry Island holiday camp contained all the tried and tested Butlins ingredients: the famous Butlins Redcoats, funfair, early morning wake up with Radio Butlin, dining hall, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, ballroom; boating lake, tennis courts, sports field (for the three legged and egg and spoon races and the donkey derby), table tennis and snooker tables, amusement arcade, medical centre, theatre, arcades of shops and the Pig and Whistle Show bar. A 430-metre (1,410 ft) chairlift system was opened in 1967. There were 800 basic, 'no-frills' chalets, designed to modern 1960s standards, which, on the outside, meant wooden panels and flat roofs.
The camp continued to be enormously successful until the 1980s, but on 29 October 1986, Butlins announced that it would have no place in the company's future and would close after Christmas, and it did so on 31 December 1986.
The camp was then sold to Majestic Holidays and re-opened on 23 May 1987 as Majestic Barry Island but the camp closed on 7 November 1996
The holiday camp site was sold for £2.25m to Vale of Glamorgan Council, in October 1997, who demolished the camp and sold it to Bovis Homes for housing development. Now known as Bryn Llongwr, houses were built on the site between 2002 and 2003, with the remaining two original camp buildings and outdoor pool being demolished in early 2005.
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