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    Bunter at Butlins. In this book, there is a Redcoat known as Freddie, and Billy Butlin himself appears. A number of entertainers have been Redcoats in the...
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    the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Redcoats (Butlins), members of the staff at Butlins holiday camps in the UK Redcoat Air Cargo, a British cargo airline...
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    Butlin's is a chain of large seaside resorts in the United Kingdom, incorporated as Butlins Skyline Limited. Butlin's was founded by Billy Butlin to provide...
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    holiday camp contained all of the tried and tested Butlins ingredients: the famous Butlins Redcoats, a funfair, early morning wake up, a dining hall (with...
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    and the Butlin's atmosphere was born. After that, entertainment was the heart of Butlins, and Bradford became the first of Butlin's Redcoats. That night...
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    Butlins Skegness (officially Butlins Resort Skegness), formerly Butlin's Skegness or Funcoast World; is a holiday camp located in Ingoldmells near Skegness...
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    possessive apostrophe, changing from Butlin's to Butlins; after the refurbishment, the resort was renamed as Butlins Resort Bognor Regis, as it remains...
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    holiday camp. Pwllheli holiday camp contained established Butlins ingredients: the Butlins Redcoats, funfair, early morning wake up, dining hall (with the...
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    all the tried and tested Butlins ingredients: the famous Butlins Redcoats, funfair, early morning wake up with Radio Butlin, dining hall, indoor and outdoor...
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  • Tommy Boyd (category Butlins Redcoats)
    Timothy Leslie "Tommy" Boyd (born 14 December 1952) is a British radio presenter. From 1977 to 1980, Boyd was co-presenter of the ITV children's magazine...
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  • Russell Grant (category Butlins Redcoats)
    career path from acting to television. Grant has also worked as a Redcoat at Butlin's Holiday Camps. Grant first appeared on television talking about astrology...
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  • William G. Stewart (category Butlins Redcoats)
    him from doing so. Instead, he applied to be a redcoat with the seaside resort chain Butlins at Butlin's Pwllheli in North Wales. Stewart said of the opportunity...
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  • Jimmy Tarbuck (category Butlins Redcoats)
    James Joseph Tarbuck OBE (born 6 February 1940) is an English comedian, singer, actor, entertainer and game show host. Tarbuck was a host of Sunday Night...
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  • Rod Hull (category Butlins Redcoats)
    Rodney Stephen Hull (13 August 1935 – 17 March 1999) was a British comedian and popular entertainer on television in the 1970s and 1980s. He rarely appeared...
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    Dave Allen (comedian) (category Butlins Redcoats)
    Street, London. He drifted through a series of jobs before becoming a Butlins Redcoat at Skegness in a troupe that also included British jazz trumpeter and...
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    Jimmy Cricket (category Butlins Redcoats)
    1966 working as a Red Coat in Butlins Holiday camp at Mosney, County Meath. He spent the following two summers at the Butlins Holiday Camp in Clacton, Essex...
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  • Jill Goldston (category Butlins Redcoats)
    School in England before running away aged 15 to join a revue company at Butlin's. She was a dancer at Murray's Cabaret Club with Mandy Rice-Davies at the...
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    Michael Barrymore (category Butlins Redcoats)
    Irish mother, Margaret. Barrymore spent his early career working as a Redcoat at Butlins holiday camps and then in the West End theatre shows of London, where...
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    Jimmy Perry (category Butlins Redcoats)
    Jeffries and Robert Shaw. He spent his holiday period working as a Redcoat in Butlin's Holiday Camps. Initially working in repertory and West End musicals...
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  • Anne Diamond (category Butlins Redcoats)
    attended Worcester Grammar School for Girls. Diamond worked at a Butlins holiday camp as a redcoat and chalet-maid. She then began her career as a journalist...
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  • Isla St Clair (category Butlins Redcoats)
    Isla St Clair (born 2 May 1952[citation needed] as Isabella Margaret Dyce) is a Scottish singer. Isla St Clair was born in Grangemouth, Central Scotland...
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    Des O'Connor (category Butlins Redcoats)
    completing his national service in the Royal Air Force, he worked as a Redcoat at Butlin's holiday camp in Filey, where he met his first wife Phyllis, and as...
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    Stephen Mulhern (category Butlins Redcoats)
    was 11 years old.[citation needed] The family spent their holidays at Butlin's Minehead in Somerset, where Mulhern began performing in public. He became...
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  • Moira Anderson (category Butlins Redcoats)
    Moira Anderson OBE (born 5 June 1938) is a Scottish singer. Moira Anderson was born on 5 June 1938 in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. She was...
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    Charlie Drake (category Butlins Redcoats)
    Charles Edward Springall (19 June 1925 – 23 December 2006), known professionally as Charlie Drake, was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer. With...
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    Zoë Lister (category Butlins Redcoats)
    Zoë Lister is an English actress and writer, known for portraying the role of Zoe Carpenter in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. In 2014, she began working...
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    Johnny Ball (category Butlins Redcoats)
    air corridor. Ball began his entertainment career by working as a Butlin's Redcoat, and was an entertainer in northern clubs and cabaret. He was nicknamed...
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  • Diana Darvey (category Butlins Redcoats)
    appearance as a pantomime dancer in Bath, and a year later, became a Butlin's Redcoat. She then became part of a London ballet troupe which travelled Sweden...
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    Roy Hudd (category Butlins Redcoats)
    billing themselves as "the peculiar pair". In 1958, they joined Butlin's Clacton as Redcoats, working alongside Cliff Richard and Dave Allen. Although Hudd...
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  • Doug Hayward (category Butlins Redcoats)
    caretaker. During this period he worked a summer in Clacton-on-Sea as a Butlins Redcoat, and after finishing his apprenticeship served his National Service...
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