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Easter 1936

Billy (Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne) Butlin opened his first holiday camp at the bracing East coast holiday resort of Skegness in Lincolnshire.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1958

The first real up-market Chinese restaurant in London was opened, in a boom that spread Chinese food across Britain, into every Butlins holiday camp, and into towns which had previously had no restaurant as such.

Grove, Peter, and Colleen Grove. “The History of the ’Ethnic’ Restaurant in Britain”. Curry, Spice and All Things Nice: the what—where—when.

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