I worked there for three years as a general maintenance man ..I sure would have loved spending a week there when I was a kid!!!...I was really impressed by the staff and the way the place was run..it's PGL little canada now, they had taken over about a year before I left but were still keeping up the standards..even improving them with some extra cash being put into the business.
@thenameaintjim Don't you believe it! It was a holiday camp for families probably back as far as the mid-1950s. It only stopped being a Pontins camp in the mid-90s. I was there as a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. You know the massive abseiling wall? That used to be the ballroom, where all the entertainments took place and all the campers assembled every night at tables round the sides with several bars.
@BunnyFunny2000 It's changed even more than in this old video? Blimey. I'm almost scared to ask. I still walk around the site in my head as it looked in the 1970s when it was a public holiday camp.
@thenameaintjim Have you seen the pretty dreadful ciné film I put up on my account of how it looked when it was run by Pontins in the 1980s (and, indeed, some archive footage from the 1960s on a TV show)? The staff gave me this video when I visited with my parents in 2003 - we holidayed here all the time when I was a kid and now they live not far from there on the Island, we popped over and they allowed us to walk around the site.
I worked in this damn place one summer as a kitchen dogsbody. The Italian chief chef used to loose his temper at the drop of a hat and wave a carving knife around. Everyone was afraid of him. .
i am going there is 10 years that look bad but i like the new one and that is not the pgl little cannada pgl stands for parent get lost it is a lot better then that i being honest guys that is not right i promise !!!! type up pgl little candada then that will come the pgl you will like parents i advise to go to pgl!!
I worked there for three years as a general maintenance man ..I sure would have loved spending a week there when I was a kid!!!...I was really impressed by the staff and the way the place was run..it's PGL little canada now, they had taken over about a year before I left but were still keeping up the standards..even improving them with some extra cash being put into the business.
oh wow, i'm surprised this is on here. i went here back in 2004. thanks for the upload :D
Going there in 3 days with my class! I cant wait!
We were on honeymoon there in august 1960
@thenameaintjim Don't you believe it! It was a holiday camp for families probably back as far as the mid-1950s. It only stopped being a Pontins camp in the mid-90s. I was there as a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. You know the massive abseiling wall? That used to be the ballroom, where all the entertainments took place and all the campers assembled every night at tables round the sides with several bars.
I went there 1 year ago
@BunnyFunny2000 It's changed even more than in this old video? Blimey. I'm almost scared to ask. I still walk around the site in my head as it looked in the 1970s when it was a public holiday camp.
@thenameaintjim I know, sometimes I get bored and upload all sorts of weird stuff! :o)
@markydallimore oh cool - what month?
Because this was from ages ago... It's so much better now
@thenameaintjim Have you seen the pretty dreadful ciné film I put up on my account of how it looked when it was run by Pontins in the 1980s (and, indeed, some archive footage from the 1960s on a TV show)? The staff gave me this video when I visited with my parents in 2003 - we holidayed here all the time when I was a kid and now they live not far from there on the Island, we popped over and they allowed us to walk around the site.
I worked in this damn place one summer as a kitchen dogsbody. The Italian chief chef used to loose his temper at the drop of a hat and wave a carving knife around. Everyone was afraid of him. .
Going here in 3 days XD
Going here with my class in a few months
At 011 it looks like grey squirrels not the indigenous red!
@GuildfordGhost gosh, you're well informed! v. interesting.. funny how we were never told
IM going next year (I'm in year 5 and I'm going in year 6!) MUSWELL HILL PRIMARY SCHOOL!
@GuildfordGhost oh no, i haven't seen it, but i will do now ;) that's interesting, cuz i always hought it was specially made for schools, gasp
@thenameaintjim i went in 2004 aswell o_0
@thenameaintjim ah god i cant remember now ill have to ask my mum =)
@markydallimore lol kk
@GuildfordGhost lol
i am going there is 10 years
that look bad but i like the new one and that is not the pgl little cannada pgl stands for parent get lost it is a lot better then that i being honest guys that is not right i promise !!!! type up pgl little candada then that will come the pgl you will like parents i advise to go to pgl!!
Hahaha😂