On the Beach...
On the Beach...

On the Beach 1967
This 1950s (?) scene on the left shows the 'Butlin's Luxury Holiday Camp signage displayed on the Dining Halls. The 1967 photo on the right shows a very similar scene of the sea wall and beach, but is too low to capture any view of the camp.
The Beach Gate
Access to the seafront was via a gate which only a short distance from the playing field, adjacent to the dining halls. On production of your chalet key, you'd be given a pass like the one below, so that you could easily return to the camp.

Along the Seafront
This isn't actually the beach gate, but one of several steps from the promenade down to the beach between the camp and Clacton pier.

Photo: 1967

Pass Out
On the Beach

The sandy beach has been eroded over the years and once whereby the sea wall was only a few slabs of stones, in later years there were more stones than beach!

By the cafe and ferris wheel

Making sand castles

Here the sea wall defences have been extended further onto the beach.

1965-1973

1967

1973

Sitting close to the sea wall.

Holiday snaps over the years
from 1965 to 1973

Breaker 19

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