Skegness Holiday Report

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MACE is the strategic lead organisation for screen heritage for the East and West Midlands regions. An independent charity based at University of Lincoln, MACE preserves and makes accessible a collection of more than 100,000 historic moving images representative of the diverse cultures and histories of communities throughout the heart of England from the Lincolnshire coast to the Welsh border.

Skegness Holiday Report

Media Archive for Central England
Skegness
1979-08-07
Sound
2m

Billy Butlin opened his holiday camp at Skegness in Lincolnshire in 1936. It was the first of many for the famous name that became synonymous with the holiday camps that boomed in the post-war years. By 1979. when Tony Maycock visited for ATV Today. the resort was still teeming with thousands of visitors from the East Midlands who enjoyed the unique brand of entertainment on offer from baby competitions to the ever-smiling Red Coats.

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