The Viennese Building

The Viennese Building

Ground Floor includes: Newsagents, Camp Post Office, Amusements Arcade, and Shop; Blinking Owl Bar.
First Floor includes: Viennese Ballroom, Viennese Coffee Bar and Viennese Bar.

Most of the Butlin buildings were of very basic construction and on the outside looked like they could do with renovating as the decor was somewhat faded. However, the entertainment indoors usually made up for this and you tended to forget that the Camp was past its heyday.
The Blinking Owl Bar was on the ground floor with its entrance via an arcade of the Viennese Building.

The Blinking Owl Bar

The Blinking Owl Bar was often home to afternoon bingo sessions; two fat ladies, legs eleven, kelly's eye and more...

Butlin's Post Office

	Also in the Viennese Building: Butlin's Clacton even had its own Post Office so that you didn't have to leave the camp to draw cash from your Post Office Savings account or to carry out any important transactions, while you were on holiday! It was only later in the 20th century that postage stamps could be bought at somewhere other than a Post Office (stamp vending machines notwithstanding).

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