Memories of Hayling Island Holiday Camps

[@michaelhaywood8262]

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.

[@paulgoode5245]

Warners wagtails ring a bell?

[@peterboxall4057]

I was there in 62 too. Sunshine holiday camp still great memories Remember riding 3 wheeler bike round path/trackbrill

[@suemonk5064]

​@@paulgoode5245i was a warners wagtail lol

[@patriciapalmer4873]

1969 when I was at sunshine holiday camp it was brilliant different competitions knobby knees / glam grannies / my brother worked at sinah Warren that was childfree happy days 😢

[@westleyo5]

Was where HI-DE-HI was filmed it is now a residential area

[@TimmsBMWRepairsandInformation]

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.....

[@GeoffDartnell-s6j]

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 ! " ❤

[@maxustaxus]

Absolutely wonderful documentary...

[@mattandrew7834]

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

[@MillstreamProd]

Wow, that's amazing!

[@ianworley8169]

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.

[@nicholasbell9017]

You must be lost in space. What little ferry? I hope you're just having a laugh. Hey folks, there is a bridge. You can even drive a car on it. Since about 1920's...

[@chriswalford9228]

@@nicholasbell9017 The Hayling ferry from Portsmouth

[@usvalve]

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.

[@Sarah-bq7zo]

Was there for a hol around the same time still have the menu for the week somewhere. Happy holiday will Mum, Dad and cousin

[@jillraymond2394]

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!

[@expressoevangelism80]

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.

[@edwardharrington678]

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

[@patriciapalmer4873]

Me to in the 60s it was great fun

[@Susanmuir2]

Interesting!!!

[@inva9lid]

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.

[@ROYALWAND]

such nice people :) lovely

[@garycunningham4078]

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

[@ukoldgit]

Sunshine Holiday Camp, Status Quo country!!!!

[@KayeRogers-ev2bl]

My Dad was entertainment manager at sunshine and met Rick Parfit before he joined Status Quo

[@ukoldgit]

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

[@ellenthorne818]

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.

[@stevealdwin]

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.

[@vernongoodey5096]

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?

[@vincenthigginbotham8729]

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

[@jomo5242]

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

[@RobertHoward-d8g]

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.

[@simtrainz]

Warners wagtail club, wow what a memory

[@paulinedavis3660]

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

[@karenhodgson1413]

I went to Coronation camp in the early 70s.

[@AngieMorgan-tj9hx]

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.

[@senianns9522]

I remember Sinah Dormy. Was there in or about 1961?

[@davidburns34]

Thank you for reminding me of the name of this camp. Even trying to find details of it but it was only small. Remember the tiny pool in the middle with a sand pit, swings and a slide. I’m sure it was on Rail Lane near the front as we used to walk to the beach during the day.

[@RapunzelinOttawa]

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.

[@southerneruk]

Now day's they call them cruise ships