The Butlin or Butlin's Holiday Camp opened to the public at Minehead on 26 May 1962. TV reporter Clive Gunnell joins Mrs Sotherton on the chairlift, a new addition installed in 1965, to gauge her opinion of the all amenities holiday town. Minehead was the eighth of nine mega-holiday camps and theme parks built by Butlin from 1936 to 1966, which offered full-board all-inclusive holidays for all at coastal locations in the UK with fairground-style attractions.