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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Ian "H" Watkins (category Butlins Redcoats)
Steps, Watkins worked as a Bluecoat at Pontins, then later as a Redcoat at Butlin's. In May 1997, Watkins became a member of the British pop group Steps...
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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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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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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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Colin Crompton (category Butlins Redcoats)
engaging in lucrative concert work in Lancashire Clubland, is not accepting a Butlin offer of a resident job commencing July 6 at Ayr Camp. "Much as I love the...
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