By Dennis Hardy, Colin Ward
Goodnight Campers! strains the improvement of the British vacation camp from its origins on the flip of the century and tells the total tale of a desirable a part of our pop culture.
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Competitions in newspapers. With £950 from that source he joined with his brother on demobilization to start his first camp at Hemsby. From there he moved down the coast to a new site at Hopton-on-Sea in 1925 and then, eight years later, in 1933 opened nearby his famous Potter’s Hopton Beach Camp’ complete with all ‘mod. ’. ‘Gone are the days of candlelit huts. ’ In spite of the obvious improvements in the material well-being of the camp, Potter retained happy memories of the real camp spirit which abounded in the pioneer days.
6d. for each child, and they also benefited from a special rate negotiated with the railway companies to take them on Sundays to and from Derbyshire and Skegness. Families lived in chalets (‘in a general colour scheme which will be expressive of the holiday spirit’) and single visitors were accommodated in what were termed ‘cubicles’. Apart from the expansive beach on the doorstep, camp life revolved around the dininghall (with seating for 500) with its well-regarded cuisine and, when meals were not being served, the nightly concerts and dances.
PGL, the largest British company providing children’s adventure holidays (55,000 boys and girls at fifty centres by 1984) was founded as recently as 1957, when its founder, Peter Gordon Lawrence, first took canoe-camping expeditions down the River Wye in Herefordshire. Like its even more recent imitators running computer camps, it depends heavily on using preparatory and public schools during the summer holidays. All these initiatives have catered for middle-class children at middle-class prices, but there have always been those who, true to the origins of the holiday camp movement, have pressed for an extension of their use for poor urban children.