Where's Noddy?

Love Letters Between Two Pontins' Bluecoats 1982 - 1984

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Martin Hill-Jones ISBN: 9781481770255
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK Publication: August 7, 2013
Imprint: AuthorHouse UK Language: English
Author: Martin Hill-Jones
ISBN: 9781481770255
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
Publication: August 7, 2013
Imprint: AuthorHouse UK
Language: English

A very British institution is the Holiday Camp. At the heart of Pontins Holidays was the entertainments teamthe Bluecoats. When not running competitions and bingo, introducing cabaret acts, acting as compre for Glamorous Grandmother and Talent shows, and performing in the weekly Bluecoat Show, they mingled with guestscamperstelling jokes, being charming, and being pretty adept at the waltz and the foxtrot. An oft-asked question was What do you do in the winter? In 1982, two Bluecoats, one from Wales, one from Scotland, found themselves working together and falling in love. At the end of the season, separated, their love letters answered this question. In an age before mobile phones, texts, social networking, digital cameras, and the Internet, these letters explore the difficulties, frustrations, doubts, and occasional hilarity of loving at a distance and surviving Thatchers Britain. The letters span the period from near the end of the 1982 season to the start of the 1984 season, and cover working at three Pontin's Holiday Camps.

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A very British institution is the Holiday Camp. At the heart of Pontins Holidays was the entertainments teamthe Bluecoats. When not running competitions and bingo, introducing cabaret acts, acting as compre for Glamorous Grandmother and Talent shows, and performing in the weekly Bluecoat Show, they mingled with guestscamperstelling jokes, being charming, and being pretty adept at the waltz and the foxtrot. An oft-asked question was What do you do in the winter? In 1982, two Bluecoats, one from Wales, one from Scotland, found themselves working together and falling in love. At the end of the season, separated, their love letters answered this question. In an age before mobile phones, texts, social networking, digital cameras, and the Internet, these letters explore the difficulties, frustrations, doubts, and occasional hilarity of loving at a distance and surviving Thatchers Britain. The letters span the period from near the end of the 1982 season to the start of the 1984 season, and cover working at three Pontin's Holiday Camps.

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