It will be refurbished by the Home Office and SERCO for housing our uninvited 'guests', just like several other Pontins camps. It is all part of the plan to get them out of the 4* hotels.
This will be used to house immigrants from outside the continent of Europe. They did the exact same thing here in Ireland. We used to have a similar family resort called Mosney, previously owned by Butlins. The government bought it and is still housing illegal immigrants. The Irish Government is stripping away every piece of Irish culture we have.
They are not illegal immigrants. They are migrants who have arrived to our country, awaiting assessment, seeking asylum in the UK. Once assessed, they will either be granted asylum in the UK or deemed here illegally and required to leave. Please have some compassion and correct information.
So sad to watch. I remember staying there when I was 9 years. Back in 1976 I had toothache throughout the holiday. But in them days we just had to put up with it hoping it will go. Went to the dentist the following Monday. Didn't have to make long awaiting appointments back then . Best of times.
Hope someone buys it soon and gives it a good makeover. It’s a shame because it’s bigger than a haven or Parkdean resort, all that space going to waste. Butlins could probably do a great job on it, modernise the chalets, bring the closed activities back to life. And just look at that coastline…it could be amazing just needs a thorough makeover!
Really sad seeing it in such a dilapidated state. I stayed there as kid in the 90s a few times. We lived in Blackpool and often went over to Southport for a week, or abroad. RIP Captain Croc, thank you for the great childhood memories. ❤
It's a hole by any stretch... I particular like the bug infested swamp in the middle. However, put some razor wire fences and guard towers up and it would make a good migrant holding camp. And it's near the sea which they all seem to like so much.
Had some great times here and met some amazing people memories to last a lifetime it may look run down but the weekends here was amazing it makes me sad looking at this hoping a Butlin’s or someone like that refurbs it with that beautiful coast ❤️
@@paultetlow5367 Paul, people have become greedy and materialistic. They are holiday snobs. These holiday centres were perfectly good enough for people in the 60's and 70's. I don't like what people have become. Spain isn't even good enough now! If it's not on the other side of the world then it's not keeping up with the Jones's.
@@neilhilton35 ,wouldn't know, never been. I left school in 1986, and all the money I have left after the government has had their share, I've spent in the UK.
Sad to see it going like that, I worked there at end of the 80's into the 90's for five seasons in the Games Room, the shop, and bike hire place, met some lovely people, guests and staff. It was run by Scottish and Newcastle Breweries then, who did a decent job in my opinion. I also helped out, out of season and remember having the job of cleaning all of those front Chalet windows haha took me a week started at Chalet 1 and worked my way around, and then started again, great little job the Sun out and my radio on then started again. Pontins were great, for giving staff they trusted out of season work, I couldn't complain and have great memories from 35 years ago, which can never be taken away ❤
Stayed here for a couple of nights (4.5 years go). Two nights was all I could stand. Went back home early. Maybe that's the deterrant for our new arrivals.
Holidayed there several times in the 70's as a kid. Great times, I remember riding round on those twin bikes with a canopy and bench seat! So sad its come to this...
Good to see the layout . A typical build for 70's/80's, like a council estate. Flat roofs also. Such a shame. Memories must be good, for lots of people who visited here, in its heyday. Keeping up with maintenance and new health and safety regulations, is a costly game.
Pontins Camber Sands was the pits. Popped in there once about 10 yrs ago as we were using the beach nearby and thought we would have maybe an overnight stay there. Took one look and drove straight back out again.! Such a shame because back in the 90s it was a fantastic place.
Went on a sun holiday when kids were little. There were a couple of chalets that had been renovated, others were rough. Plastic chairs, cheap stained mattresses and they had replaced the top opening window with pvc but left the rest as wood. Cooker was ancient and shower looked like something out of phsyco. Nice view of the skips though.
My family went to this location in 71-73 it was nice n new back then, fond memories, The Chalets were perfect just like all other Fred Pontin's locations, they were good cheap fun holidays, its sad but typical of how these sites get over time, I can see it getting turned into a caravan park or knocked down for home builders.
Been hear oh my what a funny and a rough rusty place. Remember seeing the dump and trashy bins even from the window sight. The food was a tasted like it fell off a lorry.
Having driven past here many times I had no idea how big it is. My wife is from Southport and said she went to an overnight rave here about 30 years ago 😂
Only thing to do with that is either strip all the rooms back to bare bones, fix any issues and upgrade everything to modern standards as everything is so old, out dated, poorly maintained, etc... OR knock it all down and build a fresh new complex.
It needs a complete refurbishment and not demolition. The ecology of this planet and it's limited resources means we cannot just bulldoze and waste materials any longer.
@@DroneLife22 they don't want them in their constituency so they're dumping a lot of them up north away from the wealthy folk. Loads up north already I've seen lots of articles where there's protests around where I live.
The one thing these places needed to survive were people. Both from the obvious economic standpoint but also to give them vibrancy, energy and sense of life that was their main selling point. Once they were mostly empty the writing was on the wall.
I went to a Clubland Weekender there a couple of years back, as a venue for what is effectively a festival it was great but crap if that was your summer holiday!
I visited around 12 years ago with my family and sadly it was dirty back then. I remember I brought a chocolate bar from the onsite shop and I was ill throughout the night
Great video….sad to see the place so run down, , can you do the nearly finished iomspco ferry berth at Liverpool, just a few hundred metres from Everton’s new ground 👍😉🇮🇲😊
@@DroneLife22 i belive berthing trials are to begin end of February beginning of March, and the terminal will be in use from some time mid March onwards 👍🇮🇲👌
Interesting place, I guess it's showing it's age and might be in need of renovating? There seems to be some flooding going on, with the fence around it? I've added your channel hopefully you'll connect with another drone pilot?
There is a drain from the old boating lake 'flooded area' into the sand dunes outside the camp, either the newer people didn't know about this drain or it was allowed to flood to enable them to claim it was beyond economical repair, with britannia I firmly believe the second option.
@@donkeykong7777 Wouldn't surprise me one bit, when they took over, I'll bet all the previous staff were laid off, that knowledge about the drain and how to maintain it would have been lost.
Let the homeless people have it. And build workshops for community building groups. Schooling for the less fortunate. And playgrounds for the worst underprivileged children. Lets try to build steps to making England great again.
I was a bluecoat when it opened ,opened Prestatyn the year later i 1972,1973 then went to pontius Barton Hall it so sad to see these great old holiday camp is now broken and deralict it doesn't seem like yesterday lm,e now 76
Sad to see went on many a holiday as a child but to Prestatyn we booked Southport one year I was maybe 10 my mother wouldn’t stay there as it was flea infested and had cupboard doors hanging off in the kitchen and what looked like chip fat all over the work surfaces she complained upon arrival and check in they moved us back down the coast to our more familiar Prestatyn then as I got older and into my teens used to go to the Pontins snooker Pro-Am tournaments! Had many a great time there!! It’s a sad shame!
Its so sad seeing all these holiday parks closing down, we had lovely memories at these pontins and Butlin's camps in the 70s and 80s , i suppose its because of cheap abroad packages these days .but this one looks like its been years not 5 day closed .
Fabulous drone footage!!. I stayed there once for an 80's weekend and lasted one night. The entertainment was great, the accommodation was disgusting 😢
Nice footage dude, it brought back some nice and not so nice memories. I worked there for over 4 years on the maintenance team around the 2010 time, shit wages but we had a great time working with some nice people and some lovely guests. It's such a shame it was taken over by the meanest, vilest, most horrible, tight arsed people imaginable, britannia. The mega millionaire owner used to visit the place in his helicopter and walk around the site in an old, stained, scruffy white suit which may have fitted him at some point in the previous ten years, he used to carry his stuff around in an old scrunched up supermarket plastic bag, a total fkin peasant. I hope someone takes it on and makes the place what it could and always should have been. It's so sad and the poor staff were treated at the end exactly the way we were all treated from the second they took over 😱
What they should do is sell everything off,pay any outstanding monies they owe,and share the proceeds equally with the laid off staff,including the managers and owners getting an equal share.
When the camp was built, the flooded area was originally a boating lake, it was only later filled in to make a grassed area. There is a drain which leads out into the sand dunes which sometimes needs clearing, i'm not sure how many of the 'new' people even know that drain exists. Or indeed if it was even allowed to flood to give them the excuse needed to say the camp is beyond economical repair.
It used to be great back in the 70’s you could buy day passes and use all the facilities, we spent many happy days there meeting lots of people (boys 😆) from all over the country. It went downhill when Brittania took over and has been a dump for years.
I think many of the comments will go along the lines of how come this place did not close down for Good over 20 years ago. It looks like a prison camp and without taking any side it will make a great detention centre. you could film some sort of dystopian movie here.
Far to many flat roofs that would need repairing on an annual basis. Plus over 65 years of internal structural damage. Unfortunately better to sell off the site and rebuild a new development on this site. Sad, but that's how big companies see these kinds of financial losses and have to make hard but sometimes unliked decisions on hard working local communities. That relay on them for their bread and butter.
