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Holiday Camps - Kathryn Ferry
Holiday Camps - Kathryn Ferry   From the 1930s to the 1960s, millions of British people chose to spend their annual summer break at a holiday camp, taking advantage of the all-in package that included accommodation, food, and plentiful entertainment. The market leader was Billy Butlin whose camps operated on a vast scale, and offered a brightly coloured leisure land in contrast to the drabness of post-war rationing. The holiday camp story, however, goes back to the 1890s, and it continues into the present day with signs of a revival in camp fortunes. Kathryn Ferry celebrates the communal and the kitsch, glamorous grandmother competitions, chalets, Redcoats and all the other well-known symbols of an incredibly popular form of twentieth-century holiday.

  • Communal Camping
  • Going Mass Market
  • The All-in Package
  • Entertainments The Holiday Camp Phenomenon
  • Further Information
  • Index
Paperback; June 2010; 64 pages; ISBN: 9780747807759
 
   
 
   

$12.95