Butlins
About Butlins
Butlin's is a chain of large seaside resorts in the United Kingdom, incorporated as Butlins Skyline Limited. Butlin's was founded by Billy Butlin to provide affordable holidays for ordinary British families.
On the show — 3 mentions total
One of the things that they had a lot of with dustbins, all the bins that were around for this place, and one person went and bought them all up or most of them, and that was a guy called Billy Butlin who runs Butlins. If you ever went to Butlins in the late 50s and possibly through to now, the bins that you're putting your rubbish in are the bins that were at the Festival of Britain.
from 417: No Such Thing As A Guide Dog Called Neil, 2022-03-11 at 00:16:11 · read transcript
Other times Butlins came up
Yeah. It's like, it's, you know, particularly like a lot of the like old school guys who do lots of gigs at like Blackpool or sort of Butlins will call us front of curtain. We were basically just there to stop the audience from getting bored. Sometimes obviously had the opposite effects.
No Such Thing As The Metal Bloke, 2026-06-18 · listen
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