Posted by Mike Dennis on August 25, 2006 at 18:08:13 from 84.68.33.251 user MTD.
In Reply to: Re: I wish (it) had never happened? posted by Jock on August 25, 2006 at 07:11:46:
My 1939-40 AA Hotel Guide refers to 'on the' as does my Ward Lock guide to Clacton & North-East Essex which is pre-Second World War. It has no date but makes no references to the war, or to Butlins in any shape or form which puts it (I think) in the late 1920s.