Chair-Lift At Butlin's Holiday Camp (1963)

[@davepayne586]

billy bought so much joy to a lot of people.good old billy.R,I,P

[@2001JamesTV]

This is Butlin's Skegness- been going there regularly since 1992- will be heading back there in June! A fair amount of what you can see in this film was still there then (not the chairlift though, sadly), though much of it has gone since, like the old Gaiety Theatre you can see at 0:30- I remember seeing both shows (one of which in 1992 got flooded out after heavy rain!) and films there. Some is still there though, but changed quite a bit- all three buildings you can see at 2:00 are still there (though the swimming pool was long gone, even in 1992), although the left hand one has been half demolished and is now just an arcade (in the 90s it was the Beach Club swimming pool, which became the spa, and the Enchanted Castle where we used to spend many nights watching shows), and the smaller building is now a restaurant (was an arcade when I first started going, then became reception in the mid-90s, then a bar around a decade later). I definitely remember that fairground, and the rides under the roof- got some old home videos from the 1992-95 era of us riding some of the things under there. Also got videos of us on the vintage car ride you can see at 4:35! Looks like this was from before the self catering chalets on the opposite side of the road were built, which is where we used to stay when we first started going (now it's part of the caravan park). Funnily enough the north chairlift station, which you see at 1:10 is still there even though the chairlift is long gone- it's now the gold accomodation reception. The scary thing is 1992, when I first started going, is now further back in time than 1963 would have been then!

[@andyreeve3880]

The buildings you say are still there at 2:00 is that now the main entrance where the pool is?

[@tooleyheadbang4239]

The girl on the chairlift is delightful.

[@giannihallett4951]

brings back fond memories

[@MK6062]

Classic Butlins, chairlifts massive fair. Those were the days! :-)

[@stephenhiggins8821]

Great memories I remember them well thanks for sharing the video 👍🏻

[@lesleysaunders9599]

Have just arrived home after spending 5 days at The Bay Filey which is now a smart holiday village, built on the old Butlins site, I was trying to remember how it used to look in the early sixties I spent two holidays there. There is a large lake with hundreds of fish, could this have been the boating lake? also there is a wide concrete path leading to the beach, I think this was built when the R A F used this site before Butlins was built.. There are still bunkers on the beach. I couldn't find any sign where the cable cars used to be. When on holiday at Butlins first thing in the morning they played loud music on loud speakers to wake you up, the song was Zipedy do da. There were 2 sittings for breakfast as the dining room couldn't accomodste all the holidsy makers and we were told which sitting you had to go on, this was done by putting you in houses like school I was in Connaught. I can remember the entertainment was held in the Sorts Bar. The chalets were very basic more a kin to a prison cell but what a great time we had.

[@Pendlewitch]

Brilliant. Best childhood memories.

[@lindac6919]

The boy in the blue sweater, on the merry- go- round, is giving us The Bird! Cheeky fellow! This is so fun for me. I read about "Butlin's Holiday Camp" in an Agatha Raisin murder mystery, and I've been so curious about British Holiday Camps ever since then. Thank you for posting!

[@richardryan1846]

This was a fantastic park back in the days, somewhat less so now!! If you look carefully there is a very rare set of Vampire lifting jets (whole centre used to lift straight up) near the waltzer behind the carousel at the back, see 5 min 44 and several other times briefly. Happy days there in the 70's for me. Awesome footage.

[@lindac6919]

Oh, I see it. What was it? What is Vampire lifting jets???

[@rar321blue]

@@lindac6919 A relatively rare compressed air operated large ride, the modern equivalent (well its softer and more child friendly) is the "flying dumbo rides" you see these days. Imagine a flying dumbo where the centre lifts 5m from the ground as well as the arms and you nearly have it!

[@darrenking6026]

All of this was shot at Butlins Skegness. Happy memories.

[@MrJasdog107]

Spent many happy times at Butlins

[@Sarah-bq7zo]

So many happy memories of summer hols as a kid although I was more a child of the 70’s

[@petew8388]

This is a brilliant okld film of Skeggy Butlins I would have first gone there with my parents about 1966/67. i remember all the stuff in the film very vividly, even the steam loco. Very fond memories. My favourite Butlins though was Filey. It was so sad to see it all demolished in the eighties.

[@lindat2009]

Oh please someone build a little holiday cap just like this 😊

[@philbartlett8308]

My sentinement aswell, sadly never going to happen, today's holiday camps including butlins are just soulless commercial machines, although pontins sand bay Weston-super-Mare which is now adults only does retain some of the old holiday camp charm and innocence although some might describe that as run down.

[@doctorsocrates4413]

Is this the skegness camp.?...Doesn't look like the filey camp.

[@tooleyheadbang4239]

Skegness, certainly.

[@aspec42]

This place must have employed a ton of people!

[@karenclare4241]

Best days

[@ViP-r7n]

still see remains of this lift design in the Alps :)

[@michealharrison2393]

who is the girl on the chairlift.

[@RodneyBrook-xz6tc]

No it was shot at Filey ,and Not Skegness because they had the monorail at Skegness and not Filey camp

[@tooleyheadbang4239]

Film of Butlins, Skegness.

[@CyberPin2001]

Does anyone know which camp this is?

[@TheRomper55]

skeggness

[@TheBlueComposer]

Skegness I do believe

[@zachariasbennett5105]

I can imagine the people in the chairlift coming in the opposite direction to the one with the lady sitting with the cameraman wasn't very happy at one point and must have thought the lady was very rude for she was giving a rude sign with her middle finger at 1.54 😮

[@eileenflannigan709]

Are you from the U.S.? The 'middle finger' was not part of the UK insult repertoire in the 1960s - hence our term 'the two-finger salute' (index and middle finger together). She was simply holding onto the upright bar; nobody around her would have thought she meant anything rude at all.

[@filmsforallnations]

Which Butlins camp was this?

[@trevorrandom]

Everything looks like a health & safety nightmare 😁

[@lindat2009]

And yet we survived 😊

[@pattymelt-go3fv]

@@lindat2009 LOL We survived a lot!!! The only thing kids these days have to survive is eye strain and on line grooming.