My mum used to take me and my brother when we were kids back in the early 90's I have great memories and nostalgia watching this video. My mum passed away in 2016 aged just 54 to ovarian cancer and I found it hard watching this especially with the emotional music. I'm 37 now and have my own children but how things change so quickly. These moments I'll never get back but will treasure for as long as I will live
That's a heart warming message. I went as a child in the 70's with my parents many times and then with my own children and the grandparents in subsequent years. I have lost both my parents now but these memories, as you say, will live on.
awe makes me flood with tears remembering most probably the happiest times of my childhood with my mum dad and my 2 sisters ..went here every year in the 70s sadly my mum dad and middle sister have sadly passed.. id give anything to have these days back 😭😭😭
Just stumbled across this clip, good stuff.My girlfriend( wife) and I worked there in 1975. Two young Aussies travelling the world, great experience. Worked in coronation and regency bars. Went back in 2009 with our daughters and security let us walk the grounds, very special. Thanks for the clip Neil
Oh to go back to the days when I was a kid. Used to go here with my mum dad n brothers and extended families. Mum died when I was ten but I have sum happy memories from here n this video just brought them all back
Ditto everything you said. My mom died when I was ten also. Our last holiday together was here months before she passed. Thanks to whoever did the video x
Very much so. The fact imagery can unlock doors in your mind you didn't consciously remember even existed is quite something to behold. I'm certainly thankful for it & the nostalgia this particular video brings, as I am sure you are x
As a kid we went there in the mid 70s , the long hot summer of 76 being the highlight, I loved the place, sad society changed making the place a no go area for families. Thanks for posting !
urbanmanc it was still great fun for families in the late 90s although the little train had gone but still a fab holiday for families sadly nothing stays the same forever ..
I worked at Butlins Pwllheli in 1962. It was a great place for the holiday-makers and for the staff. The entertainers on the Butlins circuit were very good. Dennis Lotis, Michael Holliday, Emile Ford and the Checkmates, are just some that I remember - well it was sixty years ago. We also had a group of Finnish students working with us that year. They were lovely young people. Also, Jimmy Tarbuck was the entertainment Red Coat. Happy days!
OMG i used to come here with my parents many many years ago i think around the same time as this film was made ( almost brings a tear to my eye watching it but great memories of course as i`m 50 years old now and still remember everything there ).Brilliant old film footage so thanks for this .
Thanks for such wonderful memories. Its so sad that Butlins is no longer there. It certainly is a great loss. The new Haven site is beautiful in its own right but will never compare to Butlins and all those wonderful activities it had to offer.
Was there in 95 and will always have a special memory of coming here as I was 4 years old and it was my first ever experience of a summer holiday! and we ended up coming back the following summer in 96! memories! shame that its all gone now and just a boring Haven caravan park!
Once again, Neil, I think the use of the music more than adaquately conveys the feeling that this was something gone, something lost, something that only lives on in our memories. So well done.
Pwllheli and minehead every year in the 70s got some cracking photos and memories specially seeing that giant statue on video even got photo of me sitting on bottom of 1 leg and my brother on the other and my mother standing in the middle on floor best years of my life
My first Butlins 1953 aged 9 with Mum Dad & 2 sisters. Sadly my asthma spoiled my hol a fair bit & was a nuisance for M & D, but I did enjoy it all. Then Filey in 1954 having been told the sea air would help - it didn't! Spent every night in the sick bay!!! Modern asthma medication has been brill for me over last 30 or so years.
Happy memories of wonderful times spent at Peelyweely. Was also there a week after the big fire and spent hours scraping out burnt penny pieces where the amusement arcade had stood ! Still got all my Butlin badges.
thank you so much, bought back so many memories of racing round the cart track, going on the rides and playing snooker with my brother who is sadly no longer with us. again. thank you :)
Hi, I also worked as an enrertainer (keyboard player) back in 83 and 84. I also worked in the main front shop selling early computers and organs. When it rained, the ceiling would fall in and water poored into the shop. The ballroom where I worked was in need of a total rebuild. It was a great atmosphere though and I loved every minute. I worked 7 days a week and 6 nights. I know it wasn't everybodies cup of tea but I and thousands of other visitors and workers just loved it.
+Neil Clarke I agree so much with you Neil. We always went to Butlins with extended family, sometimes in excess of 50 people so I remember these times as being the best of my life. Now family members are gone as well as my own beloved Mum and I again wish to have these times, I cant of course. I do however look at these clips and try to remember the magical times I had there, I only wish todays kids had the same wonder filled holidays that I remember, they don't of course as kids see magic in very little nowadays
We went here in 1995 (I was only 5) and I have never really had any memories of it apart from a couple, but this video has made me remember so much more! The indoor funfair, I now remember being on that carousel, feeding the ducks by that pond, and also later seeing a Gary Glitter tribute act in one of the entertainment rooms! (well I hope it was a tribute anyway haha!) Great times, brilliant time capsule video.
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
Thank you for for sharing , oh the memories . We went back when it became a Haven site , no fair , no train , no beloved chairlift , it was just not the same .
Jane Middleton I worked for Butlins as a red rider and remember working at Ayr after the storm at the camp in Wales and being sent to the site for 3 months removing equipment such as the chairs etc. The big storm killed the camp!
Had some of the best Holidays ever here in 1982 & 1983. The outdoor pool, the fairground with the giant and the chairlift. Not to mention the Empire Theatre and the glue tunnel. Magical times. Went back in 1991 & 1993, I think. A little of the magic was still there then. Virtually nothing remains now at Hafan Y Mor.
So nice to see this video, as many have said, great to remember the good times. In my opinion the BEST butlins. We holidayed at all the butlins in my youth, always preferred here. Seems like only yesterday yet watching the film shows just how long ago it really was. Many thanks for uploading :)
Amazing video! Very upsetting that it no longer exists! Would love to take my Lad on the train and the chairlift to the beach like my mum and dad did with me :(
I remember that old train i played on it for hours. The great thing around that time was almost everything was free to go on and do from all the games rooms fun fair, boatlake and of course the chair lift to the beach. Fantastic memories to treasure.
Made my day seeing this.Have been going to Pwllheli every year since 1976 up till present day.Not the same now its Haven its still good but not the same as it was.Nice to see the old camp again as videos of the old camp are like rocking horse teeth.Thanks for sharing this :)))))))))
I remember pwllheli from when I was A kid I used to go there mainly for the rollercoaster and the pool, the pool was the first I ever went too that had loads of slides and it was the first coaster that went upside down that I worked the courage to go onto!
This is such a wonderful video, but it's also very sad. It's a shame how time passes and I wonder what all the staff are doing from my year. (1985) Working at Butlins gave me fantastic memories and I'm so glad that I did.
The sports hall shown in the first part is actually still there ,exept a few years age half of it burnt down but most of its still there! this video really surprised me on how much of the park is still the same even though its now haven. i visit there quite alot considering i own a lodge there
Great video! I'm trying and trying to recognise some of the locations, but I'm struggling!!! I was there a few times with my younger brother in the early to mid 80's. There's definitely vague memories in there, but without hypnosis forget it! Lol
I was 9 years old when I arrived at Butlins .James and the Giant Peach was the latest release at the movies..1996! best memories was the train, cable cars and go karts..can anyone remember the fast food restaurant beside the outdoor pool? if so, what was the name please? best holiday of my childhood..almost brings a tear to the eye..great times!! Fantastic video
Wow unbelievable footage I remember every part of this video all locations, I went as a child then worked there in 98 before it closed for haven the staff were great, really were all party animals but I just remember great times there.
I own a caravan at the modern day haven park. It may as well of been totally replaced from the old butlins. Few Shalleys remain, the ones that do remain are soon to be knocked down. There are two entertainment places, along with an arcade, swimming pool, golf course and Burger King. But compared to the old but line, it's nothing.
Somehow the music seems at odds with the atmosphere Butlins had at that time, yet it's so appropriate in light of what's happened to the camp more recently. How sad that so much of it has been destroyed. Surely nobody actually thinks they have a better holiday offering now at "Hafen Y Mor" than was on offer back then?
When I worked there 20 years ago, every lunchtime the queue for the staff canteen went around the block! The food was terrible though, lots of us were "medically discharged" after bouts of food poisoning that many of us thought came from the staff canteen.
In 1985, I was a Redcoat and the staff were amazing. Everyone work unbelievably hard, and you only had one day off each week. Everything has changed and I believe the staff now work five days a week. I met my husband there and he drove a truck delivering chalet furniture etc. Haha. We've just celebrated our 28th Wedding Anniversary. Fantastic memories!
cant believe that this one got took over the haven, this was one of the best sites i ever been too and the first, why couldnt borne leisure invested into it instead of re-branded it to a haven site
Was there the week the Hurricane hit! Cant quite remember to hand what year that was? was it 94 or 95? Pretty cool tho! Luckily nobody was injured!! Thanks for the great video uploader!! one of the best seen so far!
I went in that year to must be when at the cinema they shown fletch lives and back to the future 2 and i remember being an arse on the dodgems hehe :) i kept hitting people ha. Iff anyone remembers the cinema empire where they showed films i was the kid in glasses and denim jacket wit heavy metal patches on hehe :)
It was amazing there at that time goggles on denim jacke maiden badges checking out the cinema and the dodgems and trashing it hehe. Met some nice people from enfield then i must of een 15 ha
Omg the memories,came here on a school holiday,I was there too watching Back to the future part II,it's the very reason I'm the film buff I am today,the wonder I felt of watching that film here.
I think Bourne Leisure who took over from Rank Group had no idea how much these camps were loved by visitors. They took everything away that was great and due to Health & Safety and costs they will never be rebuilt. Sadly lower visitor numbers caused the decline as people preferred posh accommodation to cheap functional so rubbished Butlins as out of date. How misguided they were!
@@MrClarkey01 Neil if you get chance to look on the Butlins Memories Website you will see amongst many items the personal accounts I wrote for all the camps. It was back in 2002 when the original creator of the site managed it and others have added much more material since. It’s still a great trip down memory Lane 😁👍
