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Title: HOLIDAY CAMPS
By: Kathryn Ferry
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0747807752
ISBN 13: 9780747807759
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Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 19 May, 2010
Series: Shire Library No. 591
Pages: 56
Description: 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. This title celebrates the communal and the kitsch, grandmother competitions, chalets, Redcoats and the other well-known symbols.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: Illustrations (chiefly col.)
Publication: UK
Imprint: Shire Publications Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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