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Wish You Were Here! - The Lives, Loves and Friendships of the Butlin's Girls (Paperback)
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Wish You Were Here! - The Lives, Loves and Friendships of the Butlin's Girls (Paperback)
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Touching true stories from the heyday of the Butlin's holiday
camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked
into Utopia - it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were
lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the
breeze... There seemed to be laughter coming from every building.'
With grey post-WWII skies hanging low over Britain, factories
lining the streets and smoke stacks dotting the horizon, there was
one way that ordinary families could escape: the ever-cheerful
holiday camps of Butlin's. When Billy Butlin founded his holiday
camps in 1936, they were bastions of community spirit and havens of
luxury. Here, for one week, wives and mothers were freed from the
toil and drudgery of housework, children ran free through the
grounds, fathers and husbands hung up their work clothes.
Ever-helpful redcoats were on hand all hours of the day, dinner
halls ready with plentiful food for old and young alike, bars
stocked to quench any level of thirst, ballrooms waiting to be
flooded with shiny shoes, rustling dresses and peals of laughter.
And, as the sun went down on another exhausting, happy day, a
chorus line was ready to sing holidaymakers back to their beds.
Rich in period detail and highly evocative, Wish You Were Here!
tells the story of seven women who worked as redcoats in Butlin's
Golden Age. It's all here: Knobbly Knees and Glamourous Grannies,
the laughter and tears, hardships and heartbreaks, loves and losses
of their lives in and out of the holiday camps, and above all the
lifelong friendships they formed with each other and those who also
worked or holidayed there. Funny, moving and heartwarming, these
are the timeless tales of a community spirit that burned brightly
in a much-loved British institution.
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