Corner View - Holiday Pics - Butlin's

Hello to the Corner Viewers!  Since a large proportion of this blog already consists of a fair amount of my vacation pics, (enough already, right!?) and because this week's theme was chosen by our itinerant Brit, Ian, at An Englishman Abroad, I thought I would share somebody else's idea of vacation pics.

These come from a book called "Our True Intent is All for Your Delight" (2002) and it is a book

of photographs taken at a number of England's Butlin's Holiday camps* in the 1960's and 1970's 

by the Irish photography studio, John Hinde.  Mr. Hinde (a descendant of the original "Clark" of Clark's Shoes), later handed over actual photographic responsibilities to the following:

Elmar Ludwig, Edmund Nagele and David Noble.  The studio produced these highly saturated

picture postcards that inspired a young Martin Parr, now a

very well-known English photographer specializing in similarly highly saturated and almost hyper-real 

photographs of English people enjoying their leisure activities.  (As here, in the company of the Queen's swans.  Did you know that every swan in England has been declared to be her property?  Now you do.)

Butlin's is still in operation as you'll see if you click the link above, but does not remotely any longer resemble these pictures, sadly.  And most Brits just hop on a plane to Spain or Italy these days.

I keep hoping someone will open a vast cocktail bar in Honolulu or Los Angeles that looks like these pictures.  (I would settle for San Francisco.)  How fun would that be? Meanwhile the book, with an introduction by Martin Parr, who declares himself on a "mission" to share these photos with the world, is still available on Amazon UK and elsewhere. Just google: "Our True Intent is All for Your Delight".  The publisher is Chris Boot Ltd.,  photography publishers in England.

Cheers!

*  Holiday Camps were more like resorts with little cabins and large shared recreation facilities.  You would see reference to them in movies like The Who's Tommy and in the English (shown on PBS in the U.S.) comedy show, Hi-De-Hi 

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