Post #316318 by Thomas on Mon, Jul 2, 2007 2:10 PM

The Financial Times recently had an article entitled, "The Smart Money Heads for the Holiday Camps" which began:
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Butlins holidaymakers pictured in postcards from the heyday of the resort chain are as culturally mysterious to the modern eye as peat bog mummies. Women with beehive hairstyles dance stiffly round their handbags in ballrooms decked with swags of purple fabric. Men in skinny ties sup pints in Polynesian-themed bars, served by waitresses whose grass skirts reveal legs a rugby player would envy...
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