Camping in the 1970s | Holiday Camps | Hayling Island | Wish you were here? | 1974 

there must of been a whole spate of staff dunkings for that sign to go up. lol

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probably when one gets thrown in there's a domino effect and the rest of the staff quickly follow.. This is what happens when the prisoners take over the camp!!!How dare they break out of their shackles!!!!!

because ppl were moving more, more still worked in physically more demanding jobs than just sitting on an office chair, and, most importantly: food was less genetically altered

People were not grazing constantly, they were smoking.

Meals were often a lot smaller and "home fried."

Weakened (intentionally) not spoiled. Weakened.

Good on ya mate.

Mablethorpe ❤

So charming as well its obnoxious?

Tsk, camp is a four letter word.

Sorry to hear that. Did he get his Wallace Arnold Bus back after the War?

I expect he was forced to participate in group karaoke, a particularly humiliating form of punishment that was practiced in those camps.

mickd6942 he was probably abused at these camps

motherland80 worse he was forced to enter the knobbly knees competition which was banned by the Geneva convention

*Centre

@@MrNobbyify It was called a "camp" in 64

Nobby Nobbyify fuck off knobby

That was probably the best thing about holiday camps, the opportunity for secret teenage liaisons.

Horny devil 👿!

I agree, if it it wasn’t for the asbestos roof I wouldn’t be interested. What’s missing in holidays these days is asbestos. More asbestos please.

The public's lungs were not snowflake back then!

That's BARE asbestos I'll have you know!

@@garymason7 It's asbestos cement which is relatively benign though you wouldn't hear anyone say that these days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_cement

I was joining in the joke until I remembered my best M8 who I had socialised with over 3,000 times died suddenly in 2014 when the asbestos that went into his lungs when he was a kid playing in his Dads Building Yard and which had laid dormant in him for 45 years suddenly came out as Cancer and he was dead within the year.

Now 58, or 59 now(?)

aldin 3103 and 8 hour a day child care wah

simon furlong Oh deer! Probably employed by the bbc! 😂😂

I think it was justified.

EdgyNumber1 that’s coz you sniff toilet seats

@@baslongstaff1819 So what?

the petitioner, at the end, was having none of it! though, i agree.. for the price and being able to take the whole family.. not too bad..

@@john6291 "Petitioner"?

"I 'ATE YOU BUTLAAAAAA!"

patrick starnes Me too,sad but true. Nostalgia overdrive.

The mini was everyone's first car, now they're like hens teeth on the roads

Notice the Wolseley going over the bridge? I wish I had had enough money and knowledge to keep my 63 16/60 which I bought in 73.

I actually winced when he said that!

Me to I used to go to sunshine holiday camp it was fantastic knobby knees competition

Michael John Dennis well you could get out in the morning and go visit some places in Spai and get to learn something

U seem to speak it well

@Michael John Dennis Oh, Michael! You have brought back a flood of memories. I was born in 1962. The youngest son of an Irishman who sought work in Manchester in 1946. Every summer we took the train from Victoria station (Manchester) to Holyhead and a train down from Houston (Dublin) to Limerick. There must have been something different in the pricing of railway food and beverages in the 60s and 70s. We always had pots of tea and plates of sandwiches and scones on the way down. Not a full meal but plated sandwiches and tea in china in the dining car for 7 would be a minor mortgage now. Two things I remember that have been lost to time. The massive number of telephone lines that ran down the side of the track. Especially memorable in Ireland. Colbert station (Limerick) had either two separate cabins inside one selling newspapers and tobacconists products. One selling tourist gift products/tat. Either that or they were one and the same. I remember my Dad buying me a penknife. Buying your son a knife, that idea has completely different connotations in the 21st Century. Both my Mum and Dad smoked I remember them getting IMCO Lighters from there. Now whether they were genuine or early Chinese knock off products? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IcTmKRPqL3E.html&noredirect=1 www.imcolighter.com/#

@Michael John Dennis That's the slow train home, for sure. Try a flight sometime Michael, especially if you're on a short visit - I hear good things about the airports in Ireland ✈.

They were pretty crap holidays to be honest, especially in economy class lol. It was only when CentreParcs raised the game then staycations started to become more attractive.

They were!

@@markedwards1515 yeh very close.Oy Do Me A Favour

What business people say in a television interview rarely correlates with what they truly feel or know. His job was to promote his British 'holiday camps' and bravado/positivity sells better than saying they're under pressure.

Except for the IRA bombings the 3 day week and all the constant strikes it was fantastic.

Sounds like that was just a walk in the park compared to these day's 😉

@@Cjbx11 And the fear of a nuclear attack by the Russians !.

And the constant fear of nuclear attack in the 80s

Luxury!

meter

About 1974,When you could get by on a small amount and you didn’t need a phone to lead you through life.id go back then any given moment ........from the bloke near the end who I don’t recognise anymore at the age of 73.

@@alfching2499 That was you in the blue shirt, Alf? Must be a trip to suddenly find a video like that after so long. Good on yourself, hope you've had a load of great holidays since.

@@alfching2499 thats awesome that its you in the video. How did you know it was on here?

mrlotusmic but much , much happier than nowadays

@@indiakhetri Rose tinted glasses, much?

Uno Honcho speaking “correctly” involves the correct use of words and grammar. The accent used to speak does not determine the correctness of what is being said. So drop the snobbish bullshit, it’s not 1950 - we’ve moved on. Muppet.

@@simonmoore2380 - fuck off and read your Socialist Worker you bellend

@@simonmoore2380 drop the patronising bullshit, you knob

Couldn't agree more..well said (from an Irish person!)..

no your father went home to get away from the missus and the kids and get a holiday at home :)

@Wayne Gatfield : Actually looking back I think he did have a 19 year old girlfriend on the go 😁

kids and parents on holidays have such different needs! I thought Butlins was basically the promised land- - my mother despised it!

That’s a proper 70’s Dad right there! First sign of any disgruntlement, ‘fuck this I’m off!’

LOL!!! He even looks Kenny!

@@Seeker7100 I mean he must have seen it! It's like a copy!?!?!

Ha cracked up, love it memories

Allo creeps 😂

Riff raff in one, identity politics in the other

"opening next week, the BBC2 room In Colour !!"

my grandma would not have the ITV on, no way.

What's the name of the place where I can get a bottle of champagne for £3.20?

@@kelenstavis 😂😂😂

stick it on yer 2p chips too!

Ha! Good one😁

Globalised capitalism for you . All owned by multi nationals.

Ian Temple Yes, children were allowed to play freely outside and most married men and women were decent and trusted.

Try Butlins much better or we went to haggerston brilliant fun and caravan stay

Colour. TV Old = black & white. Colour = modern. 👍

@@mogznwaz I think it's a combination of things, though color is definitely one of them. The way people dressed, the way people styled themselves, the popular music of the time... and indeed the TV / film footage of the time, which is not only in color but also has better audio reproduction than 1940s footage. All of these together give the 1970s a look and feel that feels more like now than the 40s, despite being closer in time to the mid 1940s than to 2020.

Rapid social and material change in the sixties are the reasons....also culturally the UK and other nations in the West have regressed the past 25 years or so

I mean they have just enough for everyone in a prison

🤣

John Berry we used to go to Butlins at Bognor Regis. Us kids thought we’d died and gone to heaven with the free funfair! The chalets were pretty grim but you don’t care about about that when your a kid.

I hated going to Butlins every year.... Wanted to see some of the world.

@@pklongutoobe Yea me too...by the time I was 11 I thought I was too sophisticated for Butlins!

‘...I like it all round n so does me wife’. I bet she does 😆

In the rain. In brown clothes. In a terrible car. And everyone farting.

@but ton It wasn't you fucking prick.

2020s holidays: Trying to decide where in the UK you will eat sausage and chips.

@@Ozymandias1 Home or garden.

@but ton Sad, humourless, prick/slapper (I don't discriminate).

Anne Phair so was Spain etc !

I know 🤣🤣🤣

That's how we used to get our five a day.

And how bloody boring do they look!

@@bobrew461 Not very

Stringbean first thing that crossed my mind

Probably not but Oh Boy, did we have fun in those days...

What about the teens at the BG club, on the race track, without helmets. What if one of those steel framed carts over turned on you, on the soft dirt track? What if.. Oh, who cares. It looked like fun, and you could always go back to the chalet for a bath (they had hot AND cold water, you know!), before you went and had a glass of wine with mum and dad, with the evening meal. "Health and safety" - you could enjoy either one, or the other.

Don't be daft, the water was only a few inches deep.

The water was probably two feet deep.

Bollocks.

Herald - why are you so abusive you twat?!

Herald Events and Films knob

You're not very good at it. @@JohnnyPaton

@alanrtment porter FFS! It is Roger Mellie's signature word in Viz. You're a fecking idiot pal.

No. Around that time you'd get beaten up just for looking different. If a man wore a pink shirt it was considered 'gay' and they risked a beating!

Same.. good year! Don’t remember the 70’s really

@Nidgi As a kid in the 80s it was quite normal for my brothers friends to have a knife on them - they would come round and play with those butterfly knives and various other types like it was nothing. The only thing thats changed is now the press make a massive deal of it and people report it more. In the old days many people wouldnt go to the police or wouldnt speak out for fear of being called a grass.

Yeah I was born in the 70's..I went to Skegness withe the Jazz band in the 80's. I remember this program in the 80's my mam would watch it. Was it Judith Chalmers who presented it then?..not sure of her second name.

Worth pointing out though that if you went abroad on holiday and stayed at a cheap (1 or 2 star) hotel, that would normally wouldn't be en-suite either. Same in the UK generally I think.

@@misterwibble6411 Even up to very recently the ultra-low budget Formula One hotel in Liverpool (now defunct) offered a toilet-less room for as cheap as £12 per night.

In your pants or in the sea?

Whatever happened to DDT?

Wow, it lasted until 1995.

No.

They had common sense and life skills

H&S r started kicking in around 1982.

No and didn’t need it! It’s called survival and after the last few months of this shitty world it may come in handy growing up in the countryside during 70’s!

What a character....

Fuck me, I'd never wanna go back to that. And you wonder why package holidays on the continent killed the Holiday scene in the UK - at least until Centreparcs sorted it out for a while. Jeezus.

@@EdgyNumber1 You mis guided silly arse.

@@stephenroche5107 Go on then, educated me, I could do with a laugh....

@@EdgyNumber1 I will start with your grammar first you silly arse.

And fannys were covered in bushy hair

Not Always,People haven’t changed much we still really don’t like each other much,just the same as them days

He loses the foam bit off the top of his microphone at one point and is interviewing someone with a purple stick!

@@caramilne4851 Been there, done THAT. o.0

Just beware of uncle Ernie . And cousin . Kevin

Richard Curtis 😂 I shouldn't laugh.

Ann Other - We have a winner!

@@AtheistOrphan And a Loser!

Haha it was!!!