Butlin's Beachcomber Bar, Bognor Regis, England (bar) - Locating Tiki

D Dustycajun Tiki Socialite Santa Barbara, CA Joined: Nov 16, 2007 Posts: 5295	D Dustycajun Posted posted on Tue, Apr 5, 2011 4:55 PM Name:Butlin's Beachcomber Bar Type:bar Street: City:Bognor Regis State: Zip: country:England Phone: Status:defunct Description: This is the third installment on the Butlin's Beachcomber Bar chain featuring the Bognor Regis location. Most of the postcards I have from this Beachcomber feature the inside of the bar area, focusing on the mural of the South Seas volcano. You can see the Beachcomber drink menu at the table being served by the wahine waitress. A few more postcards showing the bar area. Here is the postcard of the exterior, which featured a big neon sign and some strange looking Tiki figures. This one did not appear to have the big A-Frame structures that the other locations had. I found some information on the architect who designed the Butlin's Beachcomber Bars: Patrick Garnett was a successful architect whose practice, Garnett Cloughley Blakemore (GCB), designed memorable, three-dimensional sequences of 1960s' swinging London, and connected pop culture with a wide cross section of society - from Belgravia to Butlin's. Garnett was introduced to the film designer Erik Blakemore, who had designed the original Beachcomber Bar at the Mayfair Hotel in London. Holiday camp king Billy Butlin loved this stuff, too. As a result, in 1965 GCB were asked to design six Beachcomber bars - all bamboo furniture, fishing nets swagged from ceilings and local girls sporting sarongs - at Butlin's camps at Barry Island, Bognor Regis, Filey, Minehead and Skegness. At this time the firm also produced the Chelsea Drugstore, a large boutique completely lined in reflective surfaces that multiplied the impressions of space, light and activity, and which formed an environment sufficiently disorienting to be selected for a scene in the film A Clockwork Orange (1971). Joining the Drugstore on the Kings Road were other, smaller, eye-catching boutiques styled by GCB, and they produced themed pubs, restaurants, Spaghetti Houses, and a number of private flats for the Chelsea set. A photo of the famous drugstore. Here is a link to more info on Garnett. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/patrick-garnett-481140.html DC

Name:Butlin's Beachcomber Bar
Type:bar
Street:
City:Bognor Regis
State:
Zip:
country:England
Phone:
Status:defunct

Description:
This is the third installment on the Butlin's Beachcomber Bar chain featuring the Bognor Regis location.

Most of the postcards I have from this Beachcomber feature the inside of the bar area, focusing on the mural of the South Seas volcano.

You can see the Beachcomber drink menu at the table being served by the wahine waitress.

A few more postcards showing the bar area.

Here is the postcard of the exterior, which featured a big neon sign and some strange looking Tiki figures.

This one did not appear to have the big A-Frame structures that the other locations had.

I found some information on the architect who designed the Butlin's Beachcomber Bars:

Patrick Garnett was a successful architect whose practice, Garnett Cloughley Blakemore (GCB), designed memorable, three-dimensional sequences of 1960s' swinging London, and connected pop culture with a wide cross section of society - from Belgravia to Butlin's.

Garnett was introduced to the film designer Erik Blakemore, who had designed the original Beachcomber Bar at the Mayfair Hotel in London. Holiday camp king Billy Butlin loved this stuff, too. As a result, in 1965 GCB were asked to design six Beachcomber bars - all bamboo furniture, fishing nets swagged from ceilings and local girls sporting sarongs - at Butlin's camps at Barry Island, Bognor Regis, Filey, Minehead and Skegness.

At this time the firm also produced the Chelsea Drugstore, a large boutique completely lined in reflective surfaces that multiplied the impressions of space, light and activity, and which formed an environment sufficiently disorienting to be selected for a scene in the film A Clockwork Orange (1971). Joining the Drugstore on the Kings Road were other, smaller, eye-catching boutiques styled by GCB, and they produced themed pubs, restaurants, Spaghetti Houses, and a number of private flats for the Chelsea set.

A photo of the famous drugstore.

Here is a link to more info on Garnett.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/patrick-garnett-481140.html

Post #583531 by Dustycajun on Tue, Apr 5, 2011 4:55 PM