Butlins Filey in the mid-Sixties 

Like so much in life,don't realise what you got till it's gone!😪Good film,I was there 1981,well remember the cable cars,happy days!

Lovely video very happy memories of Butlins Filey although I never actually visited the site during the late 70s and early to mid 80s I often holidayed at primrose valley next door as my late parents had 2 static caravans on Primrose Valley and I remember some features of Butlins Filey such as the chair lifts and the road down to the beach and from certain parts of Primrose valley you could see the chalets at Butlins Filey and I recall seeing the site in the late 80s after it had closed down a very sad sight indeed

Great Film !!!! I wish I had captured My Family on Film at Butlins Filey in the 60's The Bold Cliffs of Flamborough Head ,Speeton Bempton and Filey Brigg.Thanks for great memories of the Chairlift that I used to spend all Day on. Brilliant.

I was there in 1965 when i was 12 YO. I'm 68 now and still remember that fantastic week.i have a vid on here so take a look if you want.

I've got photos of my grandparents, sat in front of that fountain . Happy times . Unfortunately well before I was born .

Brings back memories from my childhood loved our holliday there

Butlin's Filey Pure Magic and Fond Teenage Memories :)))

Ooh! I can feel that stiff breeze coming off the North Sea right now! No wonder Benidorm became popular in later years! Thanks for sharing this evocative piece of cine film. Love and peace.

Woman nearly always wore dresses in thoses days..lovely old memories.

Lovely film. The pathway down from the former Butlins Camp still remains exactly as shown on this film. Not much else does though, although the underpass from the former Butlins Railway Station to the camp is still there, hidden away under the road from Filey to Bridlington.

Spent a week in Filey in 1964 when I was 12 years old. I spent most of the week in the cinema as they were showing A Hard Day’s Night all day, every day. Much to the dismay of my parents but being a massive Beatles fan, it was an opportunity not to be missed.

This is the first filmed footage I’ve seen of my late and much loved Grandma and Grandad, John and Vinnie. What a wonderful find. Thank you so much for making this film accessible.

Brilliant memories

Lovely memories of the past.

Legendary bit of cinematic history, First time I passed Filey was back in 1989 a while after it had closed, it was a sad picture, and resigned to the past like so many places. Butlins has a few sites as did Pontins in those days. I remember taking a school holiday at Butlins Barry Island in the mid 70's, Bognor too and even Minehead n the 90's with my first born and my parents. Those days prior 60's and 70's were tough times, but also great times of freedom. The days vents calendar dictated what one would do, but like always we made our own entertainment. The sites were clean as your movie shows, the accommodation whilst basic was always well maintained and looked after. Those days are long gone and will never return as society has changed and that of our standards too... I'd say these places never lost their appeal, but the visitors changed and so did their expectations, and well run sites were badly mismanaged too... In truth we were very lucky we were given time to live our lives, summers were long, food was fresh and TV was still for many still in Black and White..

Badge was the most precious thing.

Super memories of butlins filey ,York House beachcomber bar loved it all x

This is fantastic video. Before all this technology we've got now. 👏👏

Wow so nostalgic, all these people immortalised by the film 🎥

Great film

Looks good , very good promotional film .happy people simple souls ,easily pleased , can not see this scenery ever come back to Spoit world

Great film. I was born in 1970 and lived in London. Went yearly to Butlins Bognor Regis, from when I was 3 years old, so I remember the old Butlins. Never went to Filey, but always as a kid, when looking through the Butlins Brochure, used to say, why can't we go there one year. It looked and was so much bigger than Bognor. Of course it closed when I was 13, so never made it. Thankfully Bognor is still with us.

I love watching other peoples home movies. Thank you for sharing, as it put a smile on my face.

Mine and my cousins family went there approximately 1966. My uncle , cousin, and I went on the cable car. As we started moving , the wind started to build up and the cable car started to swing from side to side . The cars seemed to go quite fast . The higher we got , the stronger the wind blew. Suddenly, at the very highest point of the journey , the car stopped dead. , swinging violently from side to side. We had to wait until they finally started the cars moving again...quite a while afterwards. When we eventually got back, we found out the cars had been stopped because of very high winds. No one knew we were on it. Never again...

I remember those chair rides, I was always a bit scared when they went over the towers as a kid 😁

Love all things butlins Esp filey - keep the history alive and memories comeing cheers Rob

Love it would love to go in the old days was 2nd go back in time

I miss the classic days of Butlins. We went to Bognor and Minehead in the early sixties. I took my children in the nineties and although the atmosphere was the same, those lovely buildings had gone. The swimming pool wasn't the same without the viewing lounge and the plastic parrots. Off to Skegness in January for the rock and blues festival for about the 20th year.

I went to Filey last summer and I didn’t realise there’d ever been a Butlins there , I read a book about it whilst there and I’ve been obsessed ever since . So sad that it’s all gone it looked so good

The only things i can remember from Filey circa 1973 is 1, the bunk beds in chalet were ex-national sevice, 2, the swimming pool had windows underwater so you could watch folk swimming underwater.

I remember holidaying next door Primrose valley, in a very small 4 birth caravan and being woke up by the tanoies and being very envious off kids there with so much variety,. I pass now and again 60 years on and feel quite sad that no more little boys and girls will have that simple fun.

Lovely film - who knows, I might even have been one of the little kids in the background! I've been thinking back to those Butlins holidays quite a bit recently and wondering if you could ever recreate that kind of carefree fun again - I doubt it, but the sight of Filey Bay brings back happy memories - thanks for posting!

Sweet!

My folks Took me for a day trip there. I well remember the pool. Circa 1960

Wonderful, I was 5 years old then, just watched the vid on "what its like today"..8/6/21

Marvellous

Brilliant! The sea at Filey was never warm for swimming 😉

Great cinefilm of the age. A decade or so later when I joined the railway (not locally), I rode the camp branch line in its final year and remember the land trains meeting the real ones before disappearing into the underpass. The guard of the train down was a cheerful type, chatting and joking with families while he checked their tickets. BT Police still survives of course, as does the Hull-Beverley-Scarborough line. Are any descendants of Joseph Wilson in service today?

Love it, Happy days.

Wow I remember that fountain and taking a picture with my mum and brother sat there

Total butlins fanatic first went to Ayr in 1964 then filey skegness and even bognor one year. i worked out in almost 60 years i have been 36 times lol.its still good but not a patch on the sixties and seventies Filey

Skegness is so bracing but that North sea looks bloody cold. Sod that, I'm off to Cyprus next month.😃🥵🏊🍺🏖🌞

gosh, thats ace. a real time capsule, ae.

Gutted Butlins is no longer like this....and so many have gone like Filey.

This was Good weather in the Olden days LOL

Wonderful old film..my mum and dad took me there when i was a little boy during the 1970s...Sad to see the state of neglect it became although there are still small bits there if you look hard enough and there is also the burial site of the elephant there somewhere....

When DVD came out, I used to buy transfers of Butlin's home movies on eBay. It was great to see all the familiar childhood places again; but what a disappointment when the same annoying kid kept butting-in!

Great vid mate,I went there on hols as a kid.

magic

🥶 Just turned the central heating up.

Happy days, in a country now lost forever, both culturally and morally.

So glad i dont have to go there anymore, Salud de Gran Canaria.

It's all nothing but fields now :(

I wish today's butlins had a monorail

I'll bet the sea was bloody freezing lOL

It saddens me to think that these companies have conceded to their 'fate', worsening their image... Long live the GBH!

Hi d hi....😇😇😈😈

those were the days, not a chemtrail in sight

what a waste of footage, filming the same people all the time, was there anybody else at butlins at that time ??

Toilet/shower blocks ...middle of the night😂🕪 bing bong ...your breakfast will be ready from 8am.....all the camps were brilliant and visited all but Filey many times in the 70s....my favourite were the theater shows for children, penny arcades lol lost all my money there.😂 ⛲🎡🎠🎢🚂🎰🍭🍧🍺🍷🍦🍩🍔