The Lost BUTLIN'S FILEY Station - What Remains?
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- Join me for this series looking at the Hidden Secrets and History of the old abandoned Butlins Filey Holiday Camp that closed in 1983. Over the next three videos, we will look at various locations on the site, and show how it used to look and search for any remains today.
In this video, we will be exploring the remains of Butlins Filey Holiday Camp and searching for any remains on the site of the old Filey Holiday Camp Railway Station and the associated Subway under the road. We also take to the skies for a look at the site as it is today.
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0:00 Introduction
0:33 NORTH CAMP ENTRANCE
2:06 STATION HIDDEN SUBWAY
6:12 BUTLINS FILEY STATION EXPLORE
9:28 BUTLINS TRIANGLE RAILWAY JUNCTION
10:30 BUTLINS FILEY FROM THE AIR
13:20 GOODNIGHT CAMPERS
13:38 Outro
After it closed it was demolished and that was the saddest sight. Sir Billy butlin provided an incredible amount of fun and happiness to an awful lot of people post war, something many people today will not really understand. Wonderful piece of nostalgia, Thankyou.
All three parts are fabulous. As a Butlins collector this is wonderful. Particularly like the fading in/out of “now and then” photos. 10/10.
When I was around 3 or 4 years old, (1970/1971) me, my baby sister, mum and nana visited Filey Butlin's. I don't remember it as I was too young. My mum has a photo of me stood in one of the fountains and my sister sat on the side.
I mentioned to my mum about your videos, I asked her what she remembered about it, she told me that because my sister was under 2 years old she was taken off by Butlin's staff at meal times so parents and older children could eat their food without having to feed a baby too. There were staff who listened out for babies crying too at night, if their parents were in the social club a sign would light up saying "baby crying in chalet 10" or what ever number.
She also has a pic of us waiting for the train after being dropped at the station by puffing Billy.
Another brilliant miniseries, thank you for sharing
Only disappointing thing it’s the end of this series😪❤️
There might be more in winter. If I can get to do what I am planning.
i know this a been a smasher
Really enjoyed that. About 20 years ago my dad took me into the abandoned Butlin’s site a lot of the buildings were there and the pools and fountains. It was fascinating
A true British arrangement lost forever, maybe to make a return one day, this could be the best video you've done yet, love it!! I'm glad all the hard work is paying off!!
Thoroughly enjoyed all three episodes of this series. A tremendous amount of research went into it, and the information and layovers are fabulous. Never went there personally, but got a real feel for the place and how it used to be. Fantastic work.
I totally agree fantastic information and layovers to see the old buttlins
Agreed also and I`ve never been there either, weird innit?
I have really enjoyed this mini series.
Every year my family woul holiday in a static caravan at primrose valley - the caravan we stayed in was right up against the fence to Butlins.
As a young child, I would watch the Butlins campers riding the chairlift to the beach.
One year, aged about eleven or twelve, i found a gap in the fence and crawled through to experience Butlins. My intention was to try and ride the chair lift, but I was too scared of getting caught! Instead, I simply wandered around, looking at the lido, the boating lake, the chair lift and playgrounds.
A favourite play area at Primrose Valley was the abandoned, cliff-top, Second World War Pill-Box, now collapsed and in pieces at the bottom of the cliffs.
There was, also, a children's metal slide down the cliff to the beach with a footpath next to it it for the parents.
Happy days.
10 out of 10 for this series Darren.The old Filey camp remains very close to my heart having had the best times of my early life there. Very professionally done. I would love to build a scale model of the whole site If I could get enough detailed info to get a decent amount of accuracy.
I use to attend the Filey Christian Holiday convention in September. This film puts a lump in my throat. Thank you so much for sharing this. I would love to stand on the sight of the Gaitey Theatre one day.
Thanks Paul.
Wow this was a real spine tingling nostalgia trip for me. I don't ever recall seeing the railway station because we lived about an hour and a half away and used to arive at the Filey camp by car. Many thanks for your effort in putting this tremendous series together. I loved the haunting music you used and the fabulous drone footage and superb overlays. Great work.
My husband's first ever job in the early 1960's was at Butlins Filey....Amusement Park Attendant! Great 3 part nostalgia. Thanks a million!!
Thanks Shirley
I have recently been to the bay holiday complex at Filey with my wife and two friends. We stayed there for the first week in September and had a lovely holiday. It was the first time any of us had been to Filey. We were aware a Butlins holiday camp once existed somewhere near Filey but never realised we were staying on it.
It wasn't till I got home that I decided to do some research and I came across your superb videos which the four of us enjoyed so much. They told us everything we wanted to know and more besides and they were so professional, amongst the best I have seen. Thanks once again for answering our questions, for making the videos so entertaining and for all your work.
Thanks Mick. Glad it helped.
Fantastic trio of videos, quite sad really but as I said once before, you are putting this all down on record so it will never be lost and forgotten. The quality of your filming just gets better and better with each one.
Absolutely brilliant.
Your attention to detail and research again, is second to none.
An absolutely invaluable document of such an iconic and now sadly lost, world class attraction.
Much respect and many thanks for your hard work. Cheers
This has been a great series, I’ve actually watched it all twice! I didn’t know much about the holiday camp. I watch your videos mainly for the Leeds railway content. But learning about Butlins Filey was really interesting, and I now feel sad that it’s no longer there, and sad that I never got to experience it. I’ve been to butlins at Skegness, and even though it was past it’s best, it was still a great place, so I can only imagine what Filey would have been like at it’s peak. It must have been quite an experience getting off a train and riding the land train through the tunnel to start your holiday. Even though there’s some nice stuff on the site now, it doesn’t seem the same knowing what was there before it. It’s a shame none of the old buildings could have been saved and integrated into the new developments.
About 45 years ago, I remember staying in Primrose Valley holiday site in a family friends caravan. I was about 6yo. We used to play along the edge of Butlins fence line and marvel at the cable cars that gave all the guests a lift the beach cliff tops. Oh how privileged we thought they were. 😢. Cool to get an insight into Butlins with the old photos. Never made in there as a kid. Feel I missed out.
As a kid we never went to Filey but that didn't stop me watching all three episodes...
We did go to Barry Island though and I have been back there during lockdown...
Most of it is a newish housing estate but the main entrance is still there and turned into a public car park so you can just wander in and look around...
There are still plenty of things left see and armed with a map and photos as you have done here you can work out the locations of many of the buildings including the outdoor swimming pool and the cable car station...
I did get an incredible tingling feeling being there, walking on the same ground I had walked on in 1976...
Many thanks for your brilliant videos. I only stayed once at Butlins Filey, probably in 1972, i was 12 and i went with my Mum. I thought it was wonderful, it must have been the year of tank tops because i remember wearing a yellow and purple one. I loved the mini rollacoaster for kids, i remember Crocodile Rock blaring out of the speakers around the camp, i remember the chalets, very basic, beds, toilet, wash basin and bath, small stove i think. I can't remember going through a tunnel in the train but i vaguely can remember the station. We went with my own family in 1994 to Haven and all those years after finally returned this year. I tried to figure out where the private caravan would have been when we stayed in 1994 but Haven is so vast now, it felt impossible. We went down the original beach access road that we had used in 1994 so we could get a good view of Sir Billy Butlin's White House and other properties down there. We walked back up the new Haven beach access road. On out last night there we ventured further afield to an entrance which led to a quite wide beach access road and i did wonder if this was in fact the same beach access road as the Filey Butlins, but i couldn't be sure. Does anyone know please? As we came back from our walk there was a party of about 20 children and adults all with torches who were making their way down to the beach. What an adventure for them. I feel really sad that Butlins Filey is no more, but thankful that we can still visit Haven at Primrose Valley 🎉
I went to Filey Butlins for 9 years on the trot. Remember arriving at the designated station and riding on the land train. The feeling of excitement and exhilarating emotions of going through the tunnel and Butlins being right there in front of you was overwhelming. There was so much to do....and it didn't cost a penny!
We as a family always argued over what events we'd attend, cause there was so many....Many fond memories and even though I was only young..( 16 ) when the gates closed.......I was absolutely gutted!
Does anyone remember the Princess ballrooms and the tote horses racing.....I knew mum and dad would be there and would check in with them so they knew I was OK.....They let me roam free...They said it was my holiday too. I could be me. Miss that feeling. Thanks pal...cracking videos.
Thanks for the memories.
Im sure my grandparents took my dad and auntie to this holiday park around 1965.
Wow. Love this👍👍👍
Visited Filey in 1971 and have amazing memories. I wish Butlins was still here. Everything was free. No greed in those days. I remember they used to have midnight cabaret for an extra charge and whilst i was there it was Hughie Green & Monica Rose. They used to play a song every afternoon over the tannoy system called who wants an ice cream now, now, now, gotta have an ice cream now. Wonderful days.
Parents brought a caravan at Primrose Valley. We used it almost every weekend. Great place, great shows.
Brought back wonderful memories of my childhood when we used to go to Butlin's Filey. Have to admit, also some sadness too of what's been lost. They were wonderful times in life.
Loved all 3vids. Especially like the old photos faded over the top of the present. Good job. I went to Filey butlins 82 and 83. We were there for the last season.
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent video, love the drone footage & the way you morph the images together, could watch these all day, just wish they were longer, thanks for putting these films together, thoroughly enjoyable viewing. 👍😊
Thank you, your videos are amazing and I have always been fascinated by the Butlin experience.
Thank you very much. Much appreciated. Darren
Great video and commentary we took our family there 1981/82 . Got quite emotional at the end with the drone footage and music.
Hello what condition was the camp I at this time ? Many thanks Steve .
@@stevenwade7466 Didn't close till 83 then it was taken over by Yorkshire business man and called it Amtree Park but folded in 1986. Park was fully intacked but stood decaying for many years after 86.
how many millions of people had a glorious time there ? ,all distant memories now . Lovely film . keep 'em coming
Thanks John
We stayed at Primrose Valley last year (2022) and saw a few little bits of original things but seeing your vids has shown more
Brilliant. Nostalgic. Quite moving. Thank you for an excellent series. Said before will say it again this should be a tv documentary. Well done
Seriously mate that was top notch. Bloody sad at the same time as I had several holidays there as a kid and the memories come flooding back.
Thanks Eric
Very interesting series, I never knew it had been an RAF training base in the second world war. My brother used to work in Filey in the early Eighties, I used to stay with him in his digs in Hunmanby and would occasionally walk the 3 or 4 miles into town to have lunch with him. On one of these occasions I took a detour and walked along the old track bed to the Station, most of the lamps were still on the platforms and the tunnel was gated off but I could see the other side. I never visited the Holiday Camp, as a kid we always went to Mablethorpe but that was the closest I got to Butlins Filey.
Thanks mate. More to come.
My dad was in the house band at Butlin's Filey for the 1960 summer season. He was only 16 at the time and always talked about it being one of the happiest times of his life.
Possibly the best composites of historic and modern photographs I’ve ever seen, well done.
hear hear , top bloke
smashin little series
Another interesting series into history and times that are all but gone forever. Thanks for taking the time to create these videos 👍
Going tomorrow, this has given me something to go look for. thank you for posting these videos
Hope you enjoy it!
@@AdventureMe Thanks, going to check out ravenscar also while we are over there
Earned yourself another sub as that's one of the best videos I have seen on UA-cam. The narration and side by side photo's are first class Darren
Nice work mate, keep erm coming. Love your videos but you never fail to make me feel old, my memories are now a part of history.....
Fantastic, was worth waiting for! You have produced an excellent series here full of interesting facts and information, you are definitely leading the way and setting the bar high, well done!! Thank you for all the time and effort you put in to all your work.
Brilliant ♥️ really enjoyed all the three videos xx
absolutely brilliant, just watched all three. I`ve been waiting years for footage like this, brings back so many happy memories, thank you
Brilliant videos so much detail brought back a lot of memories.
Excellent ,,went there in 1973 with my wife and two yr old daughter ,great memories ,your vid is a real gem and shows lots of things i never knew about .
Thank you. I really enjoyed doing this one. Lots more exciting things to come soon.
Brilliant video it takes me back to 1978 when I remember as a 9 year old .It was the first time I remember seeing punk rockers . I remember going to see a film at the picture house it could have been the theater I remember grandma going to the tv room to watch coronation street . I remember the indoor swimming pool you could also watch people swimming through glass windows . I used to love going on to the Dodgem cars my favorite oh I wish I could visit again but luckily have a good memory of been at this special place ..
Thanks Steven. Thanks for the memories
Wow, fantastic videos and so professionally done and very evocative.
Why is it people on UA-cam can put together such informative and interesting videos yet the mainstream broadcasters in the main seem incapable of?
Too many chiefs and London centric bosses.
Absolutely fantastic, love the photo overlays, makes it so much more immersive.
A brilliant series brought back many happy memories of holidays i had their as a youngster. Great overlays and pictures coupled with great info and research.
for me the fading past to present and vice versa is what makes the videos come alive,.....pictures on their own don't always do that....... the best short films I've seen for doing this stuff...
Thanks John. My speciality
Really enjoyed this series, thankyou for your work in researching and bringing us these films..
A really good documentary well done. It’s so sad to see it is no longer Butlins
I am so glad I came across these videos, slightly obsessed looking at Butlins filey maps. I happen to be staying at Primrose valley next week, so looking forward to searching for the areas shown.
Thanks Gem. Glad you enjoyed
What a great series, loved it! Filey is one of the few Butlins camps that I never got to visit as a kid but thank you for your time and effort to take us back there ❤️
Absolutely fantastic video and information brilliant job really enjoyed that cheers mate 😊👍👍
Only went here once a child at the end of the 70s, but this brought back some long lost memories. Really interesting to watch this series. Thanks
Thanks mate
Loved your videos. Brought back a lot of childhood memories. It’s really sad that there’s not much left of the camp.
Your best work yet Sir.
Really really excellent work.
Wow Darren. That was amazing yet so sad at the same time. We spent many summers at Skeggy Butlins. The music at the end took me right back to my childhood.
A recent subscriber to your channel after watching your Butlins Videos. I've been catching up on your past videos and really enjoy your old railway line adventures. just finished off at the missing Castleford station. It is something i did as a kid when i went out with my dad or grandad along the many old lines in the Barnsley area looking to find things that had been left behind and I guess I still do to an extent today I usually lookout for old embankments, buildings and architecture. My favorite bit of your videos is when you can add old photos to compare what it use to be like really adds to the history and the story you are telling. Keep up the good work and look forward to more videos. P.S. you would be spoilt for choice with abandoned lines and pits in the Barnsley area should you need a new area to cover.
Awesome fella , great to watch , keep up the good work 👍
What a wonderful job you’ve done, I was there in fifties when I was three and still have vivid memories of the wonderful place, thanks for doing this.
You have totally blown me away with this little series on Butlins Filey, your attention to detail & insertion of old photos is so amazing. The music is so haunting too in a good way if that makes sense! If only we could turn back time to get a glimpse of the old Butlins again!
Im going to Primrose Valley next year so have been researching Butlins Filey & found your videos the very best!
Thank you so much for these Darren.
AMAZING!!!!
That's been a terrific wee series, matey - thanks very much!
Another fascinating and informative video. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
Wow - 3 amazing videos of times gone by. Filey & it’s beautiful beaches is such a treat xx
Been so long since I've been to Filey. This is a fascinating video. How times change. If I was a wealthy man I would restore these old places for preservation sake.
Great video, thank you!
Before the North entrance got it's impressive towers from Primrose Valley company, you drove in to what was a makeshift caravan touring site they had set up and around to the left the tunnel entrances were still exposed and you could park up outside them. It looks like they have dumped tons of soil in front of them to landscape the area. That's probably how it will now remain unless the tunnel ever becomes unstable and has to be filled in. Great series Darren, many memories.
Incredible and emotional. Thank you for this
Amazing mini series. Thank you! 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Many time I have walked along that walk way and watch the folk in the swimming pool I do remember the reception area with the tiled floor was very ornate and the the outdoor swimming pools were fabulous loved the chair lifts that took you to the beach happy days .
Thanks for sharing
This is fascinating to me. I go to the bay in Filey and never knew this was sat on an old Butlins site. It’s hard to believe it only closed 40 years ago? The remains of it look way older.
They do for sure
Just amazing thank you! History brought to life, I got goosebumps at the end..."Goodnight campers..." I've been reminiscing about happy holidays at Pontins at Middleton Towers in the late 70s when we were kids. More great vids please! xx
Really enjoyed this series. Thank you for great interesting videos. 👍
Great series of videos, seen lots about the old Butlins Filey but this series is by far the best as you’ve obviously done your homework. Love the inlaid and fade in/out pictures and the drone footage and the pin pointing of former buildings and lakes etc. Well done!
Much appreciated. Thanks
that series was absolutely brilliant.i wandered way down that main road looking for the station,never found it and it was right opposite,wish i was smart like you,but thank you for taking me there
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for all the hours of research that have gone into these videos.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really enjoyed all 3 vids . 10/10...A nice nostalgic trip..
Excellent yet again ..very informative..takes you back a bit ...
its a must you watch all 3 videos re butlins so easy to follow and understand well done
Nicely put together little mini series, really interesting and nostalgic. Your vlogs get better and better, great research, excellent merges and you even found an abuttment😊👍🏻
Thanks Bob. Yes I did.
I have enjoyed all 3 of your videos they were outstanding thank you Darren
I've really enjoyed watching these 3 films. Thank you so much for creating and posting them! It's a place I've always been fascinated by. It's such a shame that it doesn't exist anymore. Really poignant seeing what the site looks like.now and imagining how it would have looked all those years ago
Brilliant video mate, enjoyed. You deserve more subs for what you do.
Thank you so much for these three videos. I have a kind of obsession with old British seaside holidays and holiday camps right up until the 70s, which was the time when I used to go with my parents and brother. A real bonus there is an old station here, as I love old railway history as well. I love to see how things used to be back in those days, and imagine all those excited people enjoying a holiday before heading back home to humdrum daily life again. Makes me a bit melancholy as well, if I'm honest. I can imagine there are a few ghosts still enjoying their holidays at Butlins, Filey, and I hope Charlie is resting peacefully!
Thanks Andy. Glad you enjoyed
Brilliant, absolutely loved this three parter. Great work.
Thanks Mike
Fantastic video again Darren. Said it before but very difficult to believe what was there before.
Superb from start to finish, the mood music and everything else that went into the production of this three parter..your best work yet
Thank you. I really enjoyed doing this one. Lots more exciting things to come soon.
Brilliant series - the time you take and effort you make is so admirable and muchly appreciated - thank you 😀
Thanks for watching, more to come.
Wow what a brilliant set of videos.Well done very interesting
Absolutetly fascinating adventure, thank you for doing the work you have done, totally enjoyed your documantation of this site
Absolutely brilliant video!
Thank you so much for all of your hard work. It is really appreciated.
Thank you. I really enjoyed doing this one. Lots more exciting things to come soon.
Loved these 3 videos. Happy memories of my Butlins holidays in Minehead. ❤️💙
fantastic work - a great 3-part series on this subject. Well researched, great narration and blending of the photos. 10/10.
Thanks for watching Marko
Awesome videos we used to every year in the 70s I remember everything there we stayed in the chalets closer to the beach it's all gone now but this video brings back brilliant memories. so much to do never got bored thanks for sharing theses brilliant memories awesome stuff
Just caught up on this Adventure. The detail & historical content is amazing. Loved watching the trilogy!
Watched all 3 of your videos, brought back some great memories of visiting Filey with my family when I was at lot younger x
Thanks Gillian
Thanks Darren. I really enjoyed this series (even though I've never been to the Yorkshire coast and never been to a Butlins!) Great work.
Loved this. Your video editing and music choice is first class. A great deal of work went into this. All so sad. Thanks.
Thanks mate
Fascinating documentary. Well made and so interesting. Have subscribed.
Brilliant videos, I'm really enjoying them and the music on this one is wonderful and matches the pictures, thanks for your hard work 👍
Many thanks!