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.
Why would they keep it open? Butlins holiday camps are from a bygone era and are victims of cheap holidays abroad so they are losing money. Yes it’s sad but there is no room for sentiment in business. Time moves on.
@@Wishful-Thinking The days of cheap Holidays abroad will have run their course soon enough. And another generation will echo your own words about sentiment and time moving on.
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...✌❤
Living in Swansea and I agree with everything you've said. I visited all the camps many times except Filey....seeing the flags as we were just getting there was amazing.😊 I went 3 times to Pwllheli. What was it like working there?☺ RIP Billy and Butlins😢😭
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
Back then it was a magical holiday for parents and children. I didn't go to Filey but the other camps I went many times in the 70s. You must have had the best times back then😊 So sad to see them go 😢 I loved the chairlifts and monorail in some camps, skating, table tennis, boating pond, indoor play areas, fair wow all free and magical. Yes for staff or holiday makers we all had the best years of Butlins.⛲🎠🎡🎢🎰🎈🎱🎳🎾🏊🏓🍦🍭🍺🍷
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 !!!!
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......
I went with my family for four years in a row from 1958-61 to different camps. At the Welsh one we all got the Asian flu & spent the week in the sick-bay, but these camps gave the early teens the freedom from their parents. We were told not to go off the camp, we didn’t & could more or less go where we wanted as long as we met up for meal-times. It was the Chair-a-planes for me that was the draw, the swimming pool & the roller skating. Very Happy Days.
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
@@johnward374 always had a feeling rhat filey was a million miles away from home.. somewhere far away.. to find out in later years its only 40 miles or so along the coast.. lol
the damp chalets with dragon flies constantly flying around the one light.. making ourselves physically sick on rhe roundabout and the swings.. the twice a day dash to rhe Beachcomber Bar to watch the indoor Thunderstorm.. 50p for the Fruit machines then Jumbo Sausage and Chips for the walk back to the chalet..
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
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!
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.
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.........
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
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
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 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
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....
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
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
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
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.
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
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!)
I wish Pat. Actually 1983 was my very first season and my last. I had waited all my life to be a Redcoat and I was a victim of Butlin's cut backs. It's just the way life dealt me. Very sad really. I had just over 4 Months at the job. But I was very grateful for the experience and I really did learn a lot. I decided to try and recreate my experience through these videos with specially chosen soundtracks that highlight the highs and low's of Butlin's life. Subscribe if you wish there are many more to enjoy. Best Wishes Stuart.
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,each time I travel past the old Camp Great memories come Flooding back to the early Sixties.I recently visited Sir Billy's grave in St.Johns Jersey.The same memories came back again.The old Railway Station.My God what exciting times they were.Wonderfull,I hate people who call Butlins Filey.
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 :-(
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 ?
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!
My parents took me to Butlins in the late 1960's, I remember the swimming pool windows, but in my case it would either have been at Minehead or Barry Island. Happy days.