Nowaday, Warners holidays are far more up market. No kids allowed to stay in their places, but when I was a child, it was a different story.
Every year my parents would take us to a Warners Holiday camp. There were rows and rows of chalets. Mostly we went to Dovercourt and there we would meet up with another family, the Morlams, who my parents had met years earlier.
I LOVED the holiday camp. Dovercourt had a massive pool, or so it seemed to little ol' me! They had the ice cream fountains at each end of the pool too.
We would always stay full board, which would involved trooping off to the dining hall for breakfast lunch and dinner, or breakfast dinner and tea!! At the first meal of the holiday, the green coat (Warners entertainment team) would get up on a little platform, grab a microphone and start geeing everyone up. He would then split the dining hall in half and the people on one side were the cads and the people on the other were the college. The week would be full of competitions and you would earn points for either the cads or the college! The competitions were quite silly. King of the week, queen of the week, diving competitions, fancy dress competitions, swimming competitions.
They had a kids club, Warners Wagtails. We would do all kinds of things, go on trips, rambles treasure hunts. But the best time for me was when the horses came. No matter where my Dad was, he would appear and pay for a ride for me. Then after tea, we would go back to our chalet, get all dressed up and go to the clubhouse. I used to beg my Mum to get a 'Pims number 1' so that I could eat all the cocktail cherries and fruit.
My siister was 8 years older than me, so she would usually find someone to hang around with and I would find someone my own age.
Once I remember getting lost and going to the reception. They had a tannoy and I got rather cross because they couldn't say my middle name as I had insisted on telling them my name was Carol Ceridwen Christian. Those really were hi de hi days!
We are Warners Wagtails
Happy as can be
Loving every minute
Beside the deep blue sea
As you look around us
You always see a smile
For we are Warners Wagtails
Happy all the while!
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Hi, Lovely to hear about those days! Although not a 'Warners' camper, I've got 'holiday campitus' in my blood and it was very similar in my own holiday camp in West Sussex, which I think Warners owned at one time. Thanks for the memories. Pete http://www.ukholidaycamps.co.uk
I went to Warners Dovercourt in 1975/6 loved it but was too old to be a wagtail. I did go out with the greencoat though, happy times
There is a great facebook page about Warners Do ercourt if you are interested.
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