Holiday Camp

Date: 1947
Director: Ken Annakin
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures

Stars: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Dennis Price, Flora Robson
Location(s): Yorkshire

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Storyline:

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp where they get involved with crooked card players, a murderer on the run and a young couple expecting a baby.

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Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson

 

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  • 04 Sep 2021

A train bringing holidaymakers arrives at the coast. Sandsend station on Lythe Bank, Sandsend in Yorkshire. Closing in 1958, the station stood on the long since dismantled line that ran along the coast from Saltburn to Scarborough via Whitby West Cliff.

JC returned to the station to find that it has been massively renovated over the years by the Mulgrave Estate and it's now back to being used and loved which is great to see.

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  • 28 Aug 2023

Doors start to open as the train slows to a halt. Sandsend station, Yorkshire.

With access to the station site still not possible, to further prove the location Neil Webster took this shot looking along the old trackbed, now part of the coastal path.

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  • 28 Aug 2023

Passengers queue for buses as porters deal with luggage. Lythe Bank outside Sandsend station in Yorkshire confirmed by Neil Webster.

Neil captured a closer view of the distant buildings on Lythe Bank with the white house looking relatively unchanged.

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  • 28 Aug 2023

Fully loaded buses pass through the gates of the holiday camp. The south entrance to Butlins' Filey Holiday Camp on Moor Road between Filey and Bridlington in Yorkshire. This footage is also seen in 'When the Bough Breaks' from the same year.

The old Butlin's Filey site is now occupied by the Haven Primrose Valley Holiday Park, and Neil Webster found the entrance.

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Mrs Ethel Huggett (Kathleen Harrison) and her husband Joe (Jack Warner) are jostled in the crowd. A studio shot included for completeness.

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The camp radio noisily bursts into life. Filey Holiday Camp in Yorkshire. The camp closed in 1983 and was gradually demolished over fifteen years from 1988 to be redeveloped as holiday homes and leisure facilities.

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The film crew had a better holiday than the stars who stayed in the studio. The corner of Edmund Drive and South Theatre Road in Filey Holiday Camp with the reception building's clock tower to the right.

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At the end of their stay, the holidaymakers queue for transport back to the station. Filey holiday camp was Butlins' largest and operated as RAF Hunmanby Moor during the Second World War.