Wakey Wakey Campers

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1. A few errors here, some of them down to PC and broadcasters' guidelines on smoking! At 55 years of age, I speak from experience (Butlins and Pontins, 1959-64). 1. There were no black or Asian campers. Sadly, they would not have felt comfortable in a white working-class holiday camp. And a 'coloured' pinkcoat (Butlins redcoat / Pontins bluecoat)? Ridiculous! 2. Nearly all adults would have been smoking constantly. Ash trays in the plastic pub would have been overflowing. Smokers' chalets stank. 3. Young males DID go to camps together, and DID occasionally get drunk and violent. And there WAS illicit, premarital sex, or so I am assured by ex-campers a few years my senior. 4. Sorry, series researcher, but the barman WOULD have had cherries! They were required for a port-and-lemon, a Cherry B, and a Babycham! 5. There are not enough participants to portray just how CROWDED the swimming pool, dining room and pub would have been. Chock-a-block! 6. The overbearing major is a ridiculous anachronism. He's from the camps of the late Forties and early Fifties, not the Sixties. In the decade of mods and rockers, he would have got a smack in the mouth! 7. The DA (duck's arse) haircut they gave the boy is from the mid- and late Fifties, not the Sixties. 8. The pub is serving modern beer, including quality bottled beers! No way! A Sixties pub, whether on camp or in the High Street, did not have such a range, and did not have such quality. Appalling concoctions like Double Diamond and Watney's Red Barrel posed as beers in those days!

   Posted by Pete J Garbett on 22/11/2009 17:36:45

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