| The Playing
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| The
Playing Fields 1965-1967 |
| Outside Gloucester and Kent Dining Halls were the sunken gardens
and a grassed playing field. There were slides and roundabouts and a climbing
frame. In the photos above can be seen a rocking ship with a slide in the
background. An unusual attraction was the 'Butlin Beavers' Fire Service'
fire engine.
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On the playing fields...
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Left: Dad on the Cheese Cutter in 1965. This was one of
the first photos that I ever took.
The Cheese Cutter was 'a long plank suspended at each end which swung
lengthways'. I remember that you had to be very careful not to get in the
way of these swings. Today, these items are considered as lethal battering
rams, with the potential to seriously injure children who walk in front of
them and consequently are no longer in use.
Right: The Butlin Beavers' Fire Service. |
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The Butlin Beaver Club
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| Car Park Blue
Camp |
By 1969, as more campers drove to the camp, extra parking spaces were
needed and so the playing fields outside the Dining Halls were tarmaced
over.
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