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Set in a Butlin's-style holiday camp on the English coast in contemporary post-war Britain, a working class London family have their first visit to a summer holiday camp. It was the first film to feature the Huggett family, who went on to star in "The Huggetts" film series.
The south entrance to Butlins' Filey Holiday Camp on Moor Road between Filey and Bridlington in Yorkshire. This footage is also seen in 'When the Bough Breaks' from the same year. The old Butlin's Filey site is now occupied by the Haven Primrose Valley Holiday Park, and Neil Webster found the entrance. Capture 5.
Holiday Camp: Directed by Ken Annakin. With Flora Robson, Dennis Price, Jack Warner, Hazel Court. The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
The opening scene of the train arriving at the station was in fact filmed at Sandsend, just above Whitby in North Yorkshire. Butlins Holiday camp at Filey had its own purpose built railway station, but this was a rather austere site, and was located a distance from the sea.
Set in a Butlin's-style holiday camp on the English coast in contemporary post-war Britain, a working class London family have their first visit to a summer holiday camp. It was the first film to feature the Huggett family, who went on to star in "The Huggetts" film series.
The holiday camp used in the film was Mill Rythe Holiday Village on Hayling Island in Hampshire. The railway station scene was filmed at Radlett. The water skiing scene was filmed at Ruislip Lido. [citation needed]
Holiday Camp (1947) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
