Pontins Barton Hall Holiday Camp
Once the jewel in the Pontins crown, this upmarket holiday camp once had a wonderful reputation for its country club atmosphere and fine dining
The Leisure Historian
Pleasure & Leisure in the 20th Century
The Leisure Historian
Pleasure & Leisure in the 20th Century
Category Holiday Camps
Pontins Little Canada Holiday Camp
Little Canada opened on the Isle of Wight in 1930. Later transformed into a popular Pontins holiday camp but survives today as a PGL activity centre.
Warners Northney Holiday Camp
The first site in the Warners Holiday Camp empire, Northney welcomed generations of holidaymakers for half a century
Pontins Dolphin & St Mary’s Bay Holiday Camps
These adjoining holiday camps in Brixham dated from the 1930s and were acquired by Pontins in the 1960s.
Pontins South Devon Holiday Camp
Opened in 1927 and famed for its floodlit pool, South Devon Holiday Camp at Paignton thrived under Pontins before closing in 1988 to make way for housing.
Pontins Plemont Bay Holiday Camp
Perched on Jersey’s dramatic northwest headland, Plemont Bay evolved from a 19th-century hotel into one of the island’s most popular holiday camps
Butlins Hotels in Cliftonville
Billy Butlin helped revive a fading Cliftonville in the 1950s, transforming its struggling hotels into lively holiday centres complete with Redcoats, entertainment and all the familiar Butlin fun.
Leysdown Holiday Camp
Leysdown boomed as a holiday resort after the war, but the good times disappeared almost as quickly as they had arrived.
Warners Sinah Warren
From a millionaire’s dream home to one of Warner’s longest-running resorts, Sinah Warren has enjoyed a remarkable history of luxury, abandonment and reinvention.
Sunnyvale Holiday Camp, Rhyl
Sunnyvale Holiday Camp in Rhyl opened in 1934. From its pre-war heyday to its increasingly troubled later years, this is the story of one of North Wales’s long-lost holiday camps.