Whilst caching in Liverpool we were given a cache from The Mother Cache (GC15RYZ)which was placed by Team Marzipan to celebrate their milestone, the 100th cache hidden. The object is to take the ready made cache and hide it. So this daughter travelled to Jersey and to Butlins.How long will it take for Team marzipan to visit their daughter?!
Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne ("Billy") Butlin, (29 September 1899 – 12 June 1980), was the founder of Butlins Holiday Camps.
Billy Butlin was born in South Africa. His father, also called William Butlin, was the son of a clergyman but his mother, Bertha Hill, was a member of a family of travelling showfolk. After the marriage broke down Billy’s mother returned to England with her children and rejoined her own showfolk family in Bristol.
In 1911, his mother remarried and emmigrated again, this time to Canada. After unhappy times at school he left at fourteen. Eventually he got a job as a messenger boy at Eatons, Toronto’s largest department store. One of the best aspects of working for the company was that he was able to visit their summer camp, which gave him his first taste of a real holiday, indeed a taste of what was to become a very big part of his life.
After WW1 he returned to England and worked for a time running a hoopla stall for his mother’s family,discovering that he was quite successful at it. He moved to London and set up a very successful stall in Olympia outside the Christmas Circus run by Bertram Mills. By the end of the season Billy had been so successful that he could now afford to bring his mother (now widowed) from Canada.
Over the next few years Billy toured the country with the Hills Travelling Fair,leaving his mother, Bertha, to run the Olympia site. In 1927 he leased a piece of land from the Earl of Scarborough at the seaside town of Skegness. He set up a holiday fun park with hoopla stalls, a tower slide, a haunted house ride and, in 1928, a scenic railway and dodgem cars -- the first in Britain.
Later on he rented disused bus garages in Whitechapel, Brixton, Tooting, Putney, Hammersmith and Marble Arch in London and turned them all into fun fairs.
For some time Butlin had nurtured the idea of a holiday camp. He had observed the way landladies in Skegness would (sometimes literally) push families out of the lodgings between meals, regardless of the inclemency of the weather. Butlin toyed with the idea of providing holiday accommodation that encouraged holiday-makers to stay in the premises and even provided entertainment for them between meals.
He opened his first Butlins camp at Ingoldmells, adjoining Skegness on 11 April 1936. It was officially opened by Amy Johnson from Hull, who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. An advertisement was placed in the Daily Express, announcing the opening of the camp and inviting the public to book for a week's holiday, enclosing a ten shilling registration fee. The advertisement offered holidays with three meals a day and free entertainment. A week's full board cost anything from 35 shillings to three pounds a week, according to the time of year. The camp was a huge success and soon other Butlins were constructed at Clacton (1938) and Filey (1945), Pwllheli and Ayr (both in 1947), and still more at Mosney (1948), Bognor Regis (1960), Minehead (1962) and Barry Island (1966).
The growth of his business was spurred by World War II when a number of camps were requisitioned for use as military training camps, generating revenues for a post-war boom.
In the 1950s Butlin began acquiring hotels in Brighton, Blackpooland several in Cliftonville. In later years they were joined byfurther hotels in Scarborough, Llandudno, London and Spain. The camps at Ayr and Skegness also had separate self-contained hotels within the grounds.
Butlin was knighted in 1964 and as Billy Butlin's success grew, so too did his tax bill and so left the country with his family to become a Jersey-based tax exile in 1968. The Rank Organisation bought Butlins in 1972 for just over £40 million.
In 1972, he was awarded the Variety Club's annual Humanitarian Award for his services to the nation.
His generosity provided (amongst other things) a brain-scanner for the Jersey hospital and the sport and recreation facilities in St John.
Billy Butlin died on 12 June, 1980, due to stomach illness after a series of heart attacks. He is buried in the New Cemetery in St John's parish. The impressive memorial records many of his activities.
His wife, children and grandchildren still live in Jersey where they continue to contribute to local charities including the building of St Marys Community Centre.
The above co ordinates take you to his grave where an impressive memorial stands. Find the answers to the questions to give you new co ordinates to take you to the cache close by.
Look at the writing on the front of the gravestone and find which letter is located at the following
13th line 49th letter =
4th Line 19th letter =
7th Line 5th letter =
1st Line 53rd letter =
3rd Line 1stletter =
19th line 36th letter =
Using a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 etc convert your found letters to numbers
The first 3 numbers are your north seconds and the last 3 numbers are your west seconds. So N49 14 xxx W002 08.yyy