BUTLINS FILEY. REST IN PEACE. 

This makes me so sad we had several happy holidays here our dad took us here my little 4 year old brother and myself. I got my first kiss in the disco there when I was 12! They should have kept it going and helped it not put MORE unwanted houses there. We lost Dad last year to the virus, I am now over 60. RIP Dad and Sir Billy for what you did for everyone - RIP Filey - you are sadly, and deeply missed.

I was there in 1967. I still wear the badge. People call them the good old days but the good old days last forever when you never grow up!! Godbless Butlins, you were the best 💘

Loved that place, had many a holiday there as a child, worked there as a student and took children there when l started teaching. Fond memories. PROFESSOR KEN.

I never went to Filey...being from south Wales. .but it breaks my heart to see these camps. .that were the BEST!!! so many millions of people have had the best times of their lives ...and can't go back to enjoy the familiar surroundings...sugar coated sweet memories. . my Dream was to work at Barry Island Butlins. .I didn't get the chance..but I worked a summer in Pwllheli. ..☆☆☆♡ I think ...people who worked at Butlins are very very special people...bringing happiness and love to all those they meet...Happy Days...sir Billy...your forever in my heart...thank you for creating your Genius Dreams..and letting us share them...✌❤

Did my first summer season ,at Filey in 1960 great times ,hard graft playing and singing in the Pig & Whistle bar 5 nights a week ,then at the weekend in the Redcoat show ,with guest stars ,i used to hand a conga drum to Dusty Springfield in the middle of their act,Dave Allen was part of the show ,and had Chas Hodges ,and Bobby Graham doing a Rock and Roll set with me ,great memories

A great place, went there in 80/81, met a beautiful girl from Doncaster, in fact that's where I became a man. Yeah, Great memories. Wish I could go back to that time and do it all again.

Best holiday i ever had was first time at Filey 1969 went there most years till 1983. Also went to Ayr in 1964 bognor and lots of times to skegness after filey closed , I still go to skegness most years its not the same but filey will always be in my memory.

We all now fly all over the World,but nothing,nothing will replace the feeling of arriving at Butlins Filey in the 60,s FANTASTIC times indeed,We are so lucky to have been !!!!

Love anything Nostalgia, especially the yorkshire coast

One of the best holidays i experienced ! 1968 Filey i was 10yrs ( family holiday ) They could nt get me off the Wild Mouse!......I am now 54 and traveled to many countries...but that! holiday was the best....! thank you for posting this video......

Oh my God. That is so sad. All those memories. Got me choked up to be honest. Thanks for sharing.

God Bless Butlins Filey 65 Years ago and still in my memories xxxx

Our first Butlins holiday was at filey . I was six at the time . It breaks my heart to see this . I'm now sixty and I still go to Butlins for our summer holiday with the grandkids . Such happy memories

Sooooo very sad 😞 soooo many lovely memories from the 1960’s

Many happy memories here in the 1960s - let’s hope someone can create a similar safe family holiday place with all the 21st century amenities.

Our happiest family holidays filey and skegness so many memories ❤️

Did Filey twice in the 70's.. This has me pretty choked.. 😥

Came here 78 and 79!!!!! Great memories!!! Had my first proper crush here in 79 she was a red coat in her early 20s and I was 10 😍😍😍

Loved Filey in the 70s....how'd it end up this way.........disgraceful

My parents took me and my brother's to Filey in 1979 and I still have fond memories of that wonderful time. It's heart wrentching to see how it was left to fall apart and end up looking like some kind of post apocalyptic city. Thanks for sharing.

Am from Los Angeles. Worked with English musicians over the years and I learned a few things about Butlin's Holiday Camp. I feel like I could have worked there at some point in the music/entertainment department. Can imagine the smells of the food, beer and the sounds of novelty bands and kids having fun and yelling out loud all the time. ha ha

I went to Filey with my parents in the early 80's and had a great time. Such a shame that it's been left like this.

Went to Filey in either 1958 or 1959, can't remember exactly. Had a great holiday, loved the indoor pool, the boating lake, everything really! I do remember my mother wasn't overly impressed with the chalet, very basic. I think the reason we went was there was a ballroom dancing festival on that year and my parents were keen dancers. Does anyone remember the dining hall, which was famous for staff dropping plates and food all over the floor; I slipped in some and landed on my backside! I was a member of the Beaver Club and for a couple of years after the holiday I used to get a birthday present from the club. One year it was a book 'Billy Bunter at Butlins'. Very appropriate!

Great memories born 1962 went every summer for a week on the train from Denby dale 😀happy days

Thankyou for the memories of my childhood holidays at Butlins Filey nothing will ever replace it x

So sad to see the remains of camp now, one of best camps we went to, when Butlins was great not like it is now. Double blow for us in 1983, we were going to go to Clacton and Filey but they closed both those camps. Been to nearly all the camps, Ayr, Barry Island, Bognor, Filey, Minehead and Skegness.

I WAS THERE IN 1965 FOR A WEEK WHEN I WAS 12 YO.HAD A GREAT TIME AND REMEMBER LOOKING THOUGH RADIO BUTLINS WINDOW AT ALL THAT GREAT "TANNOY"EQUIPMENT WHEN IT WAS PLAYING "LOOK THROUGH ANY WINDOW"BY THE HOLLIES.WISH I COULD GO BACK TO THOSE TIMES AND REMEMBERING REDCOAT UNCLE MORRIS WHO I HAVE SEEN A PICTURE OF ON GOOGLE.

Used to go there as a kid. Great memories

I worked on the boating lake in 82-83 seasons, best place I've worked, met some beautiful people there

So sad to see now.Went there on holiday as a kid,heartbreaking.

this was a fantastic place for all the family, i had so many good times as a child in butlins and would like to thank the Mr butlin for some fantastic memories. They have pulled down butlins but will never take away the momories ps brilliant video and the music wow,well done and many thanks.........

I worked at Filey in 1983. This video has brought back a lot of memories the shot of the theatre in ruins upset me as it is where I worked.

One of my best holidays as a kid 1980 , pissed all over Skegness . I loved every minute of it shame it shut down .

Such a poignant tribute to butlins Filey I recall it well during the late 70s early 80s my late parents and my late aunt had 2 static caravans on primrose Valley next door I recall even though I never actually visited butlins I recall it in the late 70s and early 80s and the sad ☹️ tragic sight of its decay after closing for good in 1983 though it never got the magic back as the owner Trevor Guy tried to reopen it as Amstree Park such a tragedy really

I was there on the last week in 1983 aged 9 years old.

SO SAD WHEN THEY CLOSED WE WOULD STILL GO NOW IF IT WAS THERE

That brought back so many memories. Awesome upload.

It certainly looked the part when it was at its best, it’s easy to knock butlins today but I can see why it was a big thing for people back in the 50s and 60s

I want to go back into my childhood! ..better ..more simple times

Very sad to see I spent alot of my childhood there been from brid thanks for the share

Thats a very sad, but nostalgic video, the fountains really were iconic, a lump to the throat moment. Butlins Filey was my favourite holiday destination as a kid. I've driven past it a few times since the demolition and there's always a tear shed. I believe there's still some remnants of the old place viewable in the next door camp of Primrose Valley, I did visit there a few years ago and went to look, I hope they've kept them.

It is truely sad when these fantastic holiday places are left to fall into ruin. There is and was so much history. I am really hoping to get to a camp one day. The numbers are shrinking. As well to visit one and see the true chalets feel the vibrance. That is why thank fully through You Tube and people who present to us these savings of history before they are gone for ever. Thank you for sharing.

I worked as a waiter there when I was 19. Its called a 'gap' year now. It was 1971.

Heartbreaking!

Miss you Butlins Filey.

spent a whole summer working there as a chalet maid ,best job i ever had !

I worked there in the early 70s, it was the first time I had ever left home, I started work at the huge dish wash machine, it was far better than it sounds, I worked with a lot of people who worked for Butlin's every year. I finally moved on the a new job as a waiter, I loved it. Very hard work but fantastic fun. The next year I went to Butlin's Filey and loved it even more but I got married and didn't go back, If I had known any of it was still there in 1990 I would have returned for a visit, but it would have been full of ghosts I guess, happy days

Remember camping in Filey. Woke up in the morning floating on my air bed cause we'd been flooded in the night haha. Those were the days

After years of war..and rationing these holiday camps would have looked like Disney does today..

THIS MUSIC! WHAT IS IT? Very touching music for such a touching moment in history.

worked there in 76 superb, working there was better than going on a holiday

RAISE THE TITANIC ROCKY... SOUNDTRACK FROM THE 1980 FILM I THINK ITS JOHN BARRY... THANKS AGAIN STUART G

We used to go for the day ever year, think all the Sunday schools from Bridlington did the trip (ours was St Johns Burlington). Many happy memories and I was sad when it closed, but even sadder to drive past when it fell to dereliction. While I miss the place I'm glad it's been demolished and replaced (not a good replacement admittedly) but at least we don't have to see it in poor state. Memories will live on, and so long as RU-vid don't remove this clip we can always come back for nostalgia :)

I went on holiday here as a kid in the early 60s. Then in 1975 I worked the summer season in Kent dining hall where I met my best mate. Such good memories, Filey will always have a place in my heart. Some of these pictures are very sad. Still, we move on....

Disgusting, really, how they let these bloody places go to rack-and-bleedin'-ruin like that, innit? They done the same with Barry Island!

We stayed there summer 1981,had a good week, so sad to see how the place ended up!😪

Marvellous, great compilation of archive photos and sheer genius choice of soundtrack, very emotive. Congratulations on your work.

I love that black, white and red building at about one minute, fifty-three seconds into the clip- (very pretty building, that!)

i remember when i young and found out that there was more than just my street i set off on my bike along the cliff top past primrose valley i found a old track there i found a deserted area

Good old Butlitz. No one ever escaped you know.

My Name is Bob,Known as blonde bob from stoke on trent, worked at filey in 1968, blue coat in kent dining hall, met people from all nationality's all walks of life, best year of my life, had my 21'st birthday there, made some good friends, incl barney from hartlepool, silvia bond from newcastle, peter short from newcastle and many more from scotland,ireland and wales,if you ever read this please get intouch, i am on facebook. God Bless Billy Butlin

Excellent compilation, some great memories 😉 Sound track is from Raise The Titanic if I'm not mistaken 😉

I only went to Barry Island Butlins once, but even it holds great memories for me as I had family now passed on living nearby.

good video matey. i worked in ayr for 8 years and was glad that it got passed to haven instead of closing. Haven was hard to take but at least it was / is still open. Its tragic seeing places of such life left like that

Raise the titanic I think, great choice of music end of an era when it closed had some fabulous holidays there back in the sixties that indoor pool was great York Kent Lincoln dining rooms (can't remember the of the forth one) that cable car ride was fab sad to see it in ruins

stood in the field where the indoor outdoor pools once stood the 2 fir trees are still there consicrated ground indeed

Tugged at the heartstrings that. Just wish you’d lingered on the images for longer

Never got to go to Filey, I lived down south and was 11 or 12 when it closed. Bognor Regis, is my most visited camp. In a way, it was nice, it wasn't completely cleared until 2009, to give people a chance to still walk over the land if they wanted to and still picture the place. Clacton lovers, didn't have the chance, after it closed down.

so sad to see this for the people who worked there ,,,

Hey a wonderful tribute I went for my holidays to my uncles caravan in filey eventuality through divorce went to live with my two boys in reighton opened a flower shop in scarborough and a timber business in hunmanby,now i live in the highlands of scotland,I miss filey.but wow The bay is now the old Butlins how did that come about? xtx

Hi ben its the theme to raise the titanic film from 1980.

First camp we went too xxxxx

Vaguely remember a Leeds businessman completely renovating the site in the 1980's then strangely left it to rot...

FANTASTIC VIDEO, YOU ARE A CREDIT TO BILLY BULTIN, FANTASTIC

I worked as a hair stylist in 1965, i once slept with three girls in one day..my highlight, was singing on stage with the dawn breakers..

Hear-hear! Never went to Filey, but it looks nice on this video. I especially like the look of that black, white and red building at about one minute, fifty-three seconds into the clip- (very pretty to look at!)

So sad 😢😪

"Rocky today" - he's 64 orange pixels.

so wished i could have swamm in the outdoor pool looking at those fantastic fountins . was stuart gallaway the head red coat at filey

Remember Mr Trevor Guy and his Amtree Park idea for the Butlins site.I can remember him being on the TV I think it was either BBC Look North or Calendar on Yorkshire Television.

yes the 2 fir trees are still there as are the old train underpass and platform a piece of history indeed

Filey was my first and last experience of Butlin's, in the mid-70's. My mum thought the chalet was manky so we never went to Butlin's again.

Good to see Rocky! Who remembers Liam Kelly (Red)?..

I worked at primrose valley in 1996 and went exploring the remains of the butlins site, I got loads of photos but lost the lot, I had them on a pc that died :-(

With all these technology around kids aren’t as energetic as before and not as outgoing but we will miss you

the fountain looks very tall! how come unless its an optical illusion! thanks for sharing

...and nothing came close to replacing it - Primrose Valley? No no no

Wait also I think I remember you Stuart I was a kid there I was 8 with my mum Michel I don’t know if you remember but you toured me with me mum

had some great holidays at filey in the 70s and some great sex as well, even worked there as a lifeguard in the early 80s, never got to save a damsel in distress but once had to dive in and rescue a old guys false teeth, thanks for the memories billy :)

If anyone worked there in 1965, do you remember a giant of a man who caused trouble every night in the kent bar? was put down by a camera man that struck him over the head with a battery pack..he was a hero for 30 seconds..before being beaten to a pulp by the giants friends,,,,

I seem to remember that there was a way of distinguishing which chalet area you where staying , was it by colour ? Or Names given to each area does anyone remember ?

Experts do it again they haven't got a clue.

So sad

Visited the old site of Butlins

I so recognise this music but cant place the film?

Can somebody please tell me the title of the music and put me out of my misery? I have an idea it's the theme from The Never Ending Story, but could be wrong!

sure I went here as a kid, did it have a swimming pool with windows underwater where you could look into the restaurant and outside ?

Wow I actually found dead this really sad 😔

3:12 Rocky doesn't look well.

What's there instead?