Butlin’s Crazy House
Consider the Crazy House once to be found in Felixstowe, UK.
These old postcard images come from the Flickr set of a fellow who uses the handle Photoaf.
The house was part of a Butlin's Amusement Park. For the history of the founder, Billy Butlin, eventually knighted for his recreational achievements, visit here.
Wouldn't you have loved to experience this park during its heyday, some seventy years ago?
Comments
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
He got knighted for building an amusement park? Geez they're handing out titles over there like we do welfare checks!
You want one? Why do you deserve it? No good reason? Okay, take it anyway.
You want one? Why do you deserve it? No good reason? Okay, take it anyway.
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 11/25 at 11:09 AM
Wouldn't you have loved to experience this park during its heyday, some seventy years ago?
Yes. Yes I would.
Yes. Yes I would.
Posted by Wenthral on 11/25 at 11:19 AM
My dream house! I have always dreamed of a house that would reflect the turns of my mind and at last I have found it!
Posted by Microgirl in Idaho on 11/25 at 02:24 PM
just think if our wu hosts lived in the uk they would be sir chuck, sir alex, and sir paul for this wonderful weird sight! 
Posted by patty in ohio on 11/25 at 07:26 PM
If it wasn't for Butlin's, the Beatles never would have made it big. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Storm
Posted by bela okmyx on 11/26 at 07:02 AM
Wouldn't it have been awesome to take a friend who's falling-down drunk to this place? (Assuming you didn't have to clean up after.)
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 11/26 at 03:22 PM
Ah, the Atlantic divides more than continents.
Butlins was ( And in a lesser form, is ) a chain of holiday camps, where city dwellers went on holiday en masse and enjoyed rigidly structured fun liek a catered and personally supervised Disneyland; OK, maybe not everybody's idea of a break, but it also allowed austerity Britain to relax cheaply, and gaurenteed good nutrition for poorer people for at least two weeks of the year.
To see what it was like check out the first twenty minute sof the movie TOMMY, or ( in a more jaundiced view from former Redcoats writing it ) the British TV series "Hi-De-Hi!"
Butlins was ( And in a lesser form, is ) a chain of holiday camps, where city dwellers went on holiday en masse and enjoyed rigidly structured fun liek a catered and personally supervised Disneyland; OK, maybe not everybody's idea of a break, but it also allowed austerity Britain to relax cheaply, and gaurenteed good nutrition for poorer people for at least two weeks of the year.
To see what it was like check out the first twenty minute sof the movie TOMMY, or ( in a more jaundiced view from former Redcoats writing it ) the British TV series "Hi-De-Hi!"
Posted by D F Stuckey in Auckland New Zealand on 12/03 at 05:49 PM
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