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© Mr Brian Harris
IoE Number:
196037
Location:
GARDENERS OFFICE BY ADDLETHORPE AVENUE, BUTLINS HOLIDAY CAMP, SEA BANK (east side)
INGOLDMELLS, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Brian Harris
Date Photographed:
08 November 2001
Date listed:
30 April 1987
Date of last amendment:
30 March 1987
Grade
II
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TF 56 NE INGOLDMELLS SEA BANK
(east side)
7/36 Gardeners office
by Addlethorpe
Avenue, Butlins
Holiday Camp
II
Former holiday chalet, now gardeners' office. c.1936. Timber
frame with asbestos panels, slate roof with overhanging eaves and
bargeboards. Single storey, 3 bay front, the projecting gable is
corbelled out on timber brackets. Central half glazed panelled
door, flanked by tall 2 light glazing bar casements. To the
sides are single similar windows. This is the last remaining
chalet of the original pre-war site built by Sir William Butlin,
the first Holiday Camp in Britain. It opened Easter 1936 for 500
campers arriving for a week's holiday paying £2.10s. a head. The
camp was used by the Royal Navy as a recruit training
establishment, HMS Royal Arthur, during the 1939-45 war. Source:
Lincs. Life 8/86.