The Lost BUTLIN'S FILEY Station - What Remains?

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Join me for this series looking at the Hidden Secrets and History of the old abandoned Butlins Filey Holiday Camp that closed in 1983. Over the next three videos, we will look at various locations on the site, and show how it used to look and search for any remains today.
In this video, we will be exploring the remains of Butlins Filey Holiday Camp and searching for any remains on the site of the old Filey Holiday Camp Railway Station and the associated Subway under the road. We also take to the skies for a look at the site as it is today.
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0:00 Introduction
0:33 NORTH CAMP ENTRANCE
2:06 STATION HIDDEN SUBWAY
6:12 BUTLINS FILEY STATION EXPLORE
9:28 BUTLINS TRIANGLE RAILWAY JUNCTION
10:30 BUTLINS FILEY FROM THE AIR
13:20 GOODNIGHT CAMPERS
13:38 Outro

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@malakai651 2 года назад

After it closed it was demolished and that was the saddest sight. Sir Billy butlin provided an incredible amount of fun and happiness to an awful lot of people post war, something many people today will not really understand. Wonderful piece of nostalgia, Thankyou.

@BillyButlin123 2 года назад

All three parts are fabulous. As a Butlins collector this is wonderful. Particularly like the fading in/out of “now and then” photos. 10/10.

@ChristopherAnnesley 2 года назад

When I was around 3 or 4 years old, (1970/1971) me, my baby sister, mum and nana visited Filey Butlin's. I don't remember it as I was too young. My mum has a photo of me stood in one of the fountains and my sister sat on the side. I mentioned to my mum about your videos, I asked her what she remembered about it, she told me that because my sister was under 2 years old she was taken off by Butlin's staff at meal times so parents and older children could eat their food without having to feed a baby too. There were staff who listened out for babies crying too at night, if their parents were in the social club a sign would light up saying "baby crying in chalet 10" or what ever number. She also has a pic of us waiting for the train after being dropped at the station by puffing Billy. Another brilliant miniseries, thank you for sharing

@noswaluk 2 года назад

Really enjoyed that. About 20 years ago my dad took me into the abandoned Butlin’s site a lot of the buildings were there and the pools and fountains. It was fascinating

@tonycasey3183 2 года назад

I have really enjoyed this mini series. Every year my family woul holiday in a static caravan at primrose valley - the caravan we stayed in was right up against the fence to Butlins. As a young child, I would watch the Butlins campers riding the chairlift to the beach. One year, aged about eleven or twelve, i found a gap in the fence and crawled through to experience Butlins. My intention was to try and ride the chair lift, but I was too scared of getting caught! Instead, I simply wandered around, looking at the lido, the boating lake, the chair lift and playgrounds. A favourite play area at Primrose Valley was the abandoned, cliff-top, Second World War Pill-Box, now collapsed and in pieces at the bottom of the cliffs. There was, also, a children's metal slide down the cliff to the beach with a footpath next to it it for the parents. Happy days.

@jordylyons4648 2 года назад

Only disappointing thing it’s the end of this series😪❤️

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

There might be more in winter. If I can get to do what I am planning.

@tracya4087 2 года назад

i know this a been a smasher

@sharonformella9433 2 года назад

Thoroughly enjoyed all three episodes of this series. A tremendous amount of research went into it, and the information and layovers are fabulous. Never went there personally, but got a real feel for the place and how it used to be. Fantastic work.

@shaunparkin3167 2 года назад

I totally agree fantastic information and layovers to see the old buttlins

@angelsone-five7912 2 года назад

Agreed also and I`ve never been there either, weird innit?

@petew8388 2 года назад

10 out of 10 for this series Darren.The old Filey camp remains very close to my heart having had the best times of my early life there. Very professionally done. I would love to build a scale model of the whole site If I could get enough detailed info to get a decent amount of accuracy.

@stephenharper9961 2 года назад

A true British arrangement lost forever, maybe to make a return one day, this could be the best video you've done yet, love it!! I'm glad all the hard work is paying off!!

@turkinchagirl 2 года назад

My husband's first ever job in the early 1960's was at Butlins Filey....Amusement Park Attendant! Great 3 part nostalgia. Thanks a million!!

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Shirley

@charleysays2753 Год назад

As a kid we never went to Filey but that didn't stop me watching all three episodes... We did go to Barry Island though and I have been back there during lockdown... Most of it is a newish housing estate but the main entrance is still there and turned into a public car park so you can just wander in and look around... There are still plenty of things left see and armed with a map and photos as you have done here you can work out the locations of many of the buildings including the outdoor swimming pool and the cable car station... I did get an incredible tingling feeling being there, walking on the same ground I had walked on in 1976...

@paulwatson2886 2 года назад

I use to attend the Filey Christian Holiday convention in September. This film puts a lump in my throat. Thank you so much for sharing this. I would love to stand on the sight of the Gaitey Theatre one day.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Paul.

@JT4CD 5 месяцев назад

My dad was in the house band at Butlin's Filey for the 1960 summer season. He was only 16 at the time and always talked about it being one of the happiest times of his life.

@jeffallinson8089 2 года назад

Wow this was a real spine tingling nostalgia trip for me. I don't ever recall seeing the railway station because we lived about an hour and a half away and used to arive at the Filey camp by car. Many thanks for your effort in putting this tremendous series together. I loved the haunting music you used and the fabulous drone footage and superb overlays. Great work.

@micksymonds108 2 года назад

I have recently been to the bay holiday complex at Filey with my wife and two friends. We stayed there for the first week in September and had a lovely holiday. It was the first time any of us had been to Filey. We were aware a Butlins holiday camp once existed somewhere near Filey but never realised we were staying on it. It wasn't till I got home that I decided to do some research and I came across your superb videos which the four of us enjoyed so much. They told us everything we wanted to know and more besides and they were so professional, amongst the best I have seen. Thanks once again for answering our questions, for making the videos so entertaining and for all your work.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Mick. Glad it helped.

@catherinegreen225 11 месяцев назад

Many thanks for your brilliant videos. I only stayed once at Butlins Filey, probably in 1972, i was 12 and i went with my Mum. I thought it was wonderful, it must have been the year of tank tops because i remember wearing a yellow and purple one. I loved the mini rollacoaster for kids, i remember Crocodile Rock blaring out of the speakers around the camp, i remember the chalets, very basic, beds, toilet, wash basin and bath, small stove i think. I can't remember going through a tunnel in the train but i vaguely can remember the station. We went with my own family in 1994 to Haven and all those years after finally returned this year. I tried to figure out where the private caravan would have been when we stayed in 1994 but Haven is so vast now, it felt impossible. We went down the original beach access road that we had used in 1994 so we could get a good view of Sir Billy Butlin's White House and other properties down there. We walked back up the new Haven beach access road. On out last night there we ventured further afield to an entrance which led to a quite wide beach access road and i did wonder if this was in fact the same beach access road as the Filey Butlins, but i couldn't be sure. Does anyone know please? As we came back from our walk there was a party of about 20 children and adults all with torches who were making their way down to the beach. What an adventure for them. I feel really sad that Butlins Filey is no more, but thankful that we can still visit Haven at Primrose Valley 🎉

@dancedecker 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant. Your attention to detail and research again, is second to none. An absolutely invaluable document of such an iconic and now sadly lost, world class attraction. Much respect and many thanks for your hard work. Cheers

@craigedgar8647 2 года назад

Fantastic trio of videos, quite sad really but as I said once before, you are putting this all down on record so it will never be lost and forgotten. The quality of your filming just gets better and better with each one.

@Mr_wayne0805 11 месяцев назад

About 45 years ago, I remember staying in Primrose Valley holiday site in a family friends caravan. I was about 6yo. We used to play along the edge of Butlins fence line and marvel at the cable cars that gave all the guests a lift the beach cliff tops. Oh how privileged we thought they were. 😢. Cool to get an insight into Butlins with the old photos. Never made in there as a kid. Feel I missed out.

@roadsandrails 2 года назад

This has been a great series, I’ve actually watched it all twice! I didn’t know much about the holiday camp. I watch your videos mainly for the Leeds railway content. But learning about Butlins Filey was really interesting, and I now feel sad that it’s no longer there, and sad that I never got to experience it. I’ve been to butlins at Skegness, and even though it was past it’s best, it was still a great place, so I can only imagine what Filey would have been like at it’s peak. It must have been quite an experience getting off a train and riding the land train through the tunnel to start your holiday. Even though there’s some nice stuff on the site now, it doesn’t seem the same knowing what was there before it. It’s a shame none of the old buildings could have been saved and integrated into the new developments.

@rain7bow437 2 года назад

Im sure my grandparents took my dad and auntie to this holiday park around 1965. Wow. Love this👍👍👍

@robertparks3975 2 года назад

Visited Filey in 1971 and have amazing memories. I wish Butlins was still here. Everything was free. No greed in those days. I remember they used to have midnight cabaret for an extra charge and whilst i was there it was Hughie Green & Monica Rose. They used to play a song every afternoon over the tannoy system called who wants an ice cream now, now, now, gotta have an ice cream now. Wonderful days.

@elainethomson5826 11 месяцев назад

Many time I have walked along that walk way and watch the folk in the swimming pool I do remember the reception area with the tiled floor was very ornate and the the outdoor swimming pools were fabulous loved the chair lifts that took you to the beach happy days .

@AdventureMe 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing

@lumpygravyalfresco82 2 года назад

I went to Filey Butlins for 9 years on the trot. Remember arriving at the designated station and riding on the land train. The feeling of excitement and exhilarating emotions of going through the tunnel and Butlins being right there in front of you was overwhelming. There was so much to do....and it didn't cost a penny! We as a family always argued over what events we'd attend, cause there was so many....Many fond memories and even though I was only young..( 16 ) when the gates closed.......I was absolutely gutted! Does anyone remember the Princess ballrooms and the tote horses racing.....I knew mum and dad would be there and would check in with them so they knew I was OK.....They let me roam free...They said it was my holiday too. I could be me. Miss that feeling. Thanks pal...cracking videos.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks for the memories.

@aligiff17 2 года назад

Excellent video, love the drone footage & the way you morph the images together, could watch these all day, just wish they were longer, thanks for putting these films together, thoroughly enjoyable viewing. 👍😊

@too-da-loo Год назад

Parents brought a caravan at Primrose Valley. We used it almost every weekend. Great place, great shows.

@waynewaite4906 7 месяцев назад

Brought back wonderful memories of my childhood when we used to go to Butlin's Filey. Have to admit, also some sadness too of what's been lost. They were wonderful times in life.

@herridge819 Год назад

This was a lovely video and Sir Billy must have really lifted the nation after war and depression. You really have put a lot of effort and care into this video, well done.

@leew2199 2 года назад

Wow spent most of my childhood holidays at butlins Filey have so many fantastic memories rip Filey 🥲🥲

@stevencockroft6455 2 года назад

Brilliant video it takes me back to 1978 when I remember as a 9 year old .It was the first time I remember seeing punk rockers . I remember going to see a film at the picture house it could have been the theater I remember grandma going to the tv room to watch coronation street . I remember the indoor swimming pool you could also watch people swimming through glass windows . I used to love going on to the Dodgem cars my favorite oh I wish I could visit again but luckily have a good memory of been at this special place ..

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Steven. Thanks for the memories

@user-qb3tn6hm5h 8 месяцев назад

Loved all 3vids. Especially like the old photos faded over the top of the present. Good job. I went to Filey butlins 82 and 83. We were there for the last season.

@AdventureMe 8 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@corrinapett 10 месяцев назад

I had soooo many amazing childhood memories at Butlin's Filey. Thanks for your great content ❤

@AdventureMe 10 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@lampiekat 10 месяцев назад

We stayed at Primrose Valley last year (2022) and saw a few little bits of original things but seeing your vids has shown more

@shirleylynch7529 2 года назад

Brilliant. Nostalgic. Quite moving. Thank you for an excellent series. Said before will say it again this should be a tv documentary. Well done

@bxl_lad9952 2 года назад

Only went here once a child at the end of the 70s, but this brought back some long lost memories. Really interesting to watch this series. Thanks

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks mate

@fredhylton2345 2 года назад

Excellent ,,went there in 1973 with my wife and two yr old daughter ,great memories ,your vid is a real gem and shows lots of things i never knew about .

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thank you. I really enjoyed doing this one. Lots more exciting things to come soon.

@MrJasdog107 2 года назад

Great video and commentary we took our family there 1981/82 . Got quite emotional at the end with the drone footage and music.

@stevenwade7466 2 года назад

Hello what condition was the camp I at this time ? Many thanks Steve .

@MrJasdog107 2 года назад

@@stevenwade7466 Didn't close till 83 then it was taken over by Yorkshire business man and called it Amtree Park but folded in 1986. Park was fully intacked but stood decaying for many years after 86.

@Dan23_7 2 года назад

I’ve just binged watched all 3. Wow very interesting. I’ve been to primrose valley when I was about 12 and remember it being HUGE

@Steve_Wardley_G6JEF 2 года назад

Before the North entrance got it's impressive towers from Primrose Valley company, you drove in to what was a makeshift caravan touring site they had set up and around to the left the tunnel entrances were still exposed and you could park up outside them. It looks like they have dumped tons of soil in front of them to landscape the area. That's probably how it will now remain unless the tunnel ever becomes unstable and has to be filled in. Great series Darren, many memories.

@OmarAlohaDude Год назад

Thank you, your videos are amazing and I have always been fascinated by the Butlin experience.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thank you very much. Much appreciated. Darren

@kevingreen9428 2 года назад

A really good documentary well done. It’s so sad to see it is no longer Butlins

@johnhankinson1929 Год назад

how many millions of people had a glorious time there ? ,all distant memories now . Lovely film . keep 'em coming

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks John

@biggles50405 2 года назад

Very interesting series, I never knew it had been an RAF training base in the second world war. My brother used to work in Filey in the early Eighties, I used to stay with him in his digs in Hunmanby and would occasionally walk the 3 or 4 miles into town to have lunch with him. On one of these occasions I took a detour and walked along the old track bed to the Station, most of the lamps were still on the platforms and the tunnel was gated off but I could see the other side. I never visited the Holiday Camp, as a kid we always went to Mablethorpe but that was the closest I got to Butlins Filey.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks mate. More to come.

@grahamvince1943 2 года назад

that series was absolutely brilliant.i wandered way down that main road looking for the station,never found it and it was right opposite,wish i was smart like you,but thank you for taking me there

@garyrawson5208 2 года назад

A recent subscriber to your channel after watching your Butlins Videos. I've been catching up on your past videos and really enjoy your old railway line adventures. just finished off at the missing Castleford station. It is something i did as a kid when i went out with my dad or grandad along the many old lines in the Barnsley area looking to find things that had been left behind and I guess I still do to an extent today I usually lookout for old embankments, buildings and architecture. My favorite bit of your videos is when you can add old photos to compare what it use to be like really adds to the history and the story you are telling. Keep up the good work and look forward to more videos. P.S. you would be spoilt for choice with abandoned lines and pits in the Barnsley area should you need a new area to cover.

@keithmyers7309 2 года назад

Brilliant videos so much detail brought back a lot of memories.

@ericgeorge5483 Год назад

Seriously mate that was top notch. Bloody sad at the same time as I had several holidays there as a kid and the memories come flooding back.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks Eric

@chrismcerlain1664 2 года назад

Going tomorrow, this has given me something to go look for. thank you for posting these videos

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Hope you enjoy it!

@chrismcerlain1664 2 года назад

@@AdventureMe Thanks, going to check out ravenscar also while we are over there

@Thurlby99 2 года назад

A brilliant series brought back many happy memories of holidays i had their as a youngster. Great overlays and pictures coupled with great info and research.

@johnknight8096 2 года назад

for me the fading past to present and vice versa is what makes the videos come alive,.....pictures on their own don't always do that....... the best short films I've seen for doing this stuff...

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks John. My speciality

@philreed1605 2 года назад

Possibly the best composites of historic and modern photographs I’ve ever seen, well done.

@tracya4087 2 года назад

hear hear , top bloke

@tracya4087 2 года назад

smashin little series

@br164 Год назад

This is fascinating to me. I go to the bay in Filey and never knew this was sat on an old Butlins site. It’s hard to believe it only closed 40 years ago? The remains of it look way older.

@AdventureMe Год назад

They do for sure

@tharkthax3960 2 года назад

Been so long since I've been to Filey. This is a fascinating video. How times change. If I was a wealthy man I would restore these old places for preservation sake. Great video, thank you!

@gemlou763 2 года назад

I am so glad I came across these videos, slightly obsessed looking at Butlins filey maps. I happen to be staying at Primrose valley next week, so looking forward to searching for the areas shown.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Gem. Glad you enjoyed

@bevgibson1734 2 года назад

That was amazing to watch I learn lots bout history of butlins I enjoy watch them all

@christophermcgarry7760 2 года назад

Brilliant mate love things like this, worked at Pontins myself 1984. Brean sands Weston super mare lovely memories.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Christopher

@andyhenly1538 2 года назад

Thank you so much for these three videos. I have a kind of obsession with old British seaside holidays and holiday camps right up until the 70s, which was the time when I used to go with my parents and brother. A real bonus there is an old station here, as I love old railway history as well. I love to see how things used to be back in those days, and imagine all those excited people enjoying a holiday before heading back home to humdrum daily life again. Makes me a bit melancholy as well, if I'm honest. I can imagine there are a few ghosts still enjoying their holidays at Butlins, Filey, and I hope Charlie is resting peacefully!

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Andy. Glad you enjoyed

@moxymagic 2 года назад

another fantastic set, we love Filey and have just come back from a week in our caravan, it was great to know some of the history.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks mate

@orbitboi63 2 года назад

This is a well made mini episodes of the holiday park. Showing the then & now photo's would have brought memories back to people who went there. It would have been a great place to visit. Well done.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks mate

@adrian.g. 2 года назад

Awesome videos we used to every year in the 70s I remember everything there we stayed in the chalets closer to the beach it's all gone now but this video brings back brilliant memories. so much to do never got bored thanks for sharing theses brilliant memories awesome stuff

@Bigaitch 7 месяцев назад

Wow, fantastic videos and so professionally done and very evocative. Why is it people on RU-vid can put together such informative and interesting videos yet the mainstream broadcasters in the main seem incapable of?

@AdventureMe 7 месяцев назад

Too many chiefs and London centric bosses.

@davidthornton9214 2 года назад

Wow Darren. That was amazing yet so sad at the same time. We spent many summers at Skeggy Butlins. The music at the end took me right back to my childhood.

@louiseprice3811 2 года назад

Wow - 3 amazing videos of times gone by. Filey & it’s beautiful beaches is such a treat xx

@gillianwareing8297 2 года назад

Watched all 3 of your videos, brought back some great memories of visiting Filey with my family when I was at lot younger x

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Gillian

@davebrannan499 2 года назад

Brilliant video my friend being a teenager in the 70s and living a mile away in filey we used to sneak in most wks thro the fence at primrose valley got fantastic memories o knew every inch of that site still do avnt time to put everything down on here but its was an amazing time and i mean amazing if only i could write a book got millions of stories but maybe some day thanks again great series loved it cheers

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Dave.

@mikeepb 2 года назад

Quite a few years ago when we were staying on Primrose Valley, the backfill for the tunnel under the road had indeed collapsed and there was a hole around where you are stood in the video around 3:38hrs. At that point there was nothing around it, and I recall telling security nearby that they might want to put some barriers around it. The tunnels themselves were open on the other side of the road where the station used to be.

@ukchris64 11 месяцев назад

Just glad I have found your video's, got me wondering about the big charlie buriel site and the story behind that

@stevemyers1071 2 года назад

Brilliant video Darren. I’ve just found an old photo (from a slide) of me in a pushchair at Butlins Filey in 1969. It’s got ‘Butlins’ painted on the back of the pushchair and number ‘54’. Apparently parents could hire / borrow (?) pushchairs for their kids. Billy Butlin really did think of everything to make sure ‘campers’ had a positive holiday experience didn’t he.

@jessgerrard2792 2 года назад

Great series of videos, thanks for posting. I'm staying at The Bay next week and have an interest in old railway lines/tunnels hence I found your videos. Thanks again for taking the time to produce them.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks jess. Enjoy

@matildamartin2811 2 года назад

Oh such memories of happy holidays spent here with our children. I love history and love the way you superimposed the original buildings, but so sad that people will never imagine what was on the site previously unless they watch your video, which I hope many will do. Thank you for this nostalgia on a wet and miserable Saturday morning, which as I remember now was the same weather on the Saturday of our first holiday there. A young lad absolutely soaked to the skin, I assume a schoolboy trying to earn a few coppers, helped us with our luggage .

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Matilda

@paulgarbutt5482 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this video. I worked here a couple years back under Haven. Wish I could have seen it in it's full glory all those years back

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thank you paul. I really enjoyed doing this one. Lots more exciting things to come soon.

@groovydonkey 2 года назад

A really fascinating video and showing what was where and all these people living on a bit of history. It's a shame so much is gone or concealed/buried. A true institution of times gone bye and nothing like that we will ever get to see or experience again. Thank you.

@allanbarton9217 Год назад

well done all your time and much effort has paid off. thing were so simple back then i enjoyed every second of your channel PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO MORE.

@AdventureMe Год назад

I will don't worry

@GarrattFamily 2 года назад

Great video to close the series (though as already discussed a visit to the site again this winter might reveal more details of a few things). Bit by bit things have been nibbled away at, such as the tunnel under the road, which survived as you say until very recently (I wonder who decided to fill that in? The farmer who owns that land got fed up with people investigating or Scarborough council on the grounds of health and safety?). Thank you for taking the time and having the passion to do this. Filey was not the only Butlins camp to be lost; Clacton and Barry Island were others that were built over. In the case of Barry, I think there might be a few things still around to see if you ever fancy researching that one and a trip to Wales! Clacton was built over relatively quickly after closure - interestingly they tried to keep it going like Trevor Guy did with Filey but that did not work either. I suspect ZERO evidence at Clacton of what used to be there since it was a small camp anyway. These days that land at Clacton for development would be gold-mine. Anyway, I digress.... what a superb mini series. Thank you again.

@alanrogers1937 2 года назад

Incredible and emotional. Thank you for this

@gary6916 2 года назад

Thank you so so much on compiling these videos , a hell of a lot of research has gone into them. Such nostalgia and memories along with sadness that not much remains of this once great site , but the joy and happiness that Butlins Filey gave to me as a child will live with me forever.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

I felt the magic whilst there and loved making these videos.

@davepayne586 7 месяцев назад

you have done a very good job as well.@@AdventureMe

@simonsays335 Год назад

Great video and love the overlays of the old pictures against the modern day site, they give great context.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks Simon

@NJPurling 2 года назад

I remember having a look at that station in 1981 when we were staying at Primrose Valley. Just walked in through that gate & fastened it behind me. The tunnel was blocked on the Butlins side of the road by a fence only back then. From the debris in the tunnel I found a fork from one of the dining rooms. All were indelibly engraved 'BUTLINS' in script form. We had actually stayed there in 1976 & on an all-in package. The poor waitresses carried racks of plates and inevitably there were some accidents, which inevitably drew resounding cheers from the holidaymakers. I rode the minature railway and the chair-lift to the beach. Climbed the fountain at the outdoor swimming pool (naughty)! What a shame that there is so little left. But I can understand why there was nothing worth keeping. It was all terribly out of date & holiday tastes had changed a lot when we stayed there. I believe Sir Billy pitched his camp straight at the working man. 'A week's holiday for a week's pay'.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Yes happy times, a shame. But you are right, times have changed and moved on.

@hudsonrobert49 2 года назад

I have enjoyed all 3 of your videos they were outstanding thank you Darren

@daveryme9203 2 года назад

They used to use the Butlins triangle for turning the big steam express locomotives round from Scarborough as the turntable there was to small for them in Scarborough

@brianscales9912 2 года назад

Another very good and informative video! As a child I/we used to go to Butlins @ Bognor Regis (nearest as we lived in Kent). I do remember The Filey camp in the Butlins brochure along with Clacton and 2 more in Wales. Sad times when they closed them down!

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Yes indeed Brian

@jrushen4235 Год назад

Loved this. Your video editing and music choice is first class. A great deal of work went into this. All so sad. Thanks.

@AdventureMe Год назад

Thanks mate

@kiaarahjenkins6390 2 года назад

This is an amazing little series full of fascinating details. The overlay is excellent, very well done, I can even see where the chalet was that I stayed in back in 1982. For over 20 years I have stayed on Primrose Valley for my holidays, I can see the caravan and where it is in relation to the old Butlins site. It makes me so happy and quite emotional to know I am still on Butlins soil. Thank you so much for your hard work and efforts in creating this little series of videos.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks kiaarah. This was one of my favourites to do.

@rar321blue 2 года назад

First class video..thank you. Stayed at The Bay (which was great) some years back but often thought of Butlins while there.

@paulrobinson3019 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant videos. Went to Butlins a few times in my youth Thanks so much for sharing 👍👍

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching

@briansadler2680 2 года назад

A great piece of Narration easy to understand and the best I've seen in a video documentary, pointing out in detail how and when things worked with video add on blended in. thank you for this.

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thanks Brian. Glad you like my style.

@algomaone121 2 года назад

It’s amazing how fast nature will reclaim a bustling area and make it unrecognizable!

@cannyuk 2 года назад

Really interest series Darren, amazing how different it all is now, you really wouldn't know they was ever everything else there other than fields and ponds, unless you knew what to look for.

@Dan_Whitehead 2 года назад

You nearly had me in tears at the end there Darren! ...nearly! I didn't know the train tracks existed until I watched a video by the North Yorkshire Wanderer as we always drove there in our Morris 1000 ...ARE WE THERE YET?!?

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Lol. Glad you enjoyed it.

@robgoldberg3401 2 года назад

Really enjoyed all 3 vids . 10/10...A nice nostalgic trip..

@davidmosley2744 2 года назад

Great video , so sad Filey Butlin's went to ruin , I went there from Essex as a teenager of 17 yrs old ! Had my first holiday romance at Filey , had great memories of the place ! We drove there in a Hillman Minx with an rear axle whining all the way from Essex ! The Humber bridge was not there in 70 s and we got ferry across the Humber river as I recall? Great times , very upsetting to know what occurred to Filey Butlin's

@kathleenrodgers4514 Год назад

Brilliant videos, I'm really enjoying them and the music on this one is wonderful and matches the pictures, thanks for your hard work 👍

@AdventureMe Год назад

Many thanks!

@MrJoffster 2 года назад

Absolutely fascinating video hard to believe what was there and its all gone now especially big Charlie's burial ground surely there should be a plaque put there somewhere to remember him and what a shame about the tunnel being filled in I bet there's loads of historic things in there thanks again for another cracking video

@marcsmith1749 2 года назад

Superb! All 3 episodes really well done. Only visited the camp once as a kid (around 1980-83ish). Many many holidays and I was practically raised in Butlins camps, and Minehead was the family favourite being based in Birmingham. So many memories and these videos have brought them all back....cheers!

@AdventureMe 2 года назад

Thank you. I really enjoyed doing this one. Lots more exciting things to come soon.

@lizzieburton5276 2 года назад

You have totally blown me away with this little series on Butlins Filey, your attention to detail & insertion of old photos is so amazing. The music is so haunting too in a good way if that makes sense! If only we could turn back time to get a glimpse of the old Butlins again! Im going to Primrose Valley next year so have been researching Butlins Filey & found your videos the very best! Thank you so much for these Darren. AMAZING!!!!

@user-yp1mv5nc7z 7 месяцев назад

This three part video is very very professional, The research is so thorough, the presentation and production are sublime and the subject fascinating. Imagine the "ghosts" of happy campers from 50 to 70 years ago wandering around what are now fields. Imagine the happy memories they made and took back home with most of them now in the grave. This is brilliant stuff.

@AdventureMe 7 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!