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| Butlin's up for grabs? Yes according to reports such as this today's Sunday Telegraph |
WEEKEND media reports suggest that Bourne Leisure - owners of Thorpe Park holiday centre at Humberston - are preparing to offload Butlin's holiday parks which they also own.
The first Butlin's was opened in 1936 by leisure entrepreneur Billy Butlin who, according to some, plumped for Skegness as its location after having rebuffed by the council at a time when Cleethorpes was his first choice.
The Skegness centre survives, as do those at Bognor and Minehead, but others at Clacton-on-Sea, the Filey (Butlin's favourite), Ayr and elsewhere have closed.
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