Camp close to Filey?

[gabbo]

When i was a child and we used to drive to Butlins Filey i always knew we were almost there when we came through Scarbourgh and soon passed a holiday camp that was on the right as you headed south to filey.

It had flags outside, a big reception building and some chalets that looked like Butlins flatlets and i think carvans. I have not been that way for years and i don't know if it still there but does anyone remember what it was and who owned/opperated it. i seem to think it was a warners but it could have been ladbrookes thinking about it.

Anyone any more info?

[david lythgoe]

You are talking about the old Wallis's camp. They demolished it a number of years ago, they paid for its demolishion by renting the main building to a film company for "Little Voice" starring Michael Caine.
The camp is now called Cayton Bay and was origionally a Haven site before being taken over by Park Resorts. This site is also losing alot of its land to the new By-Pass for Osgoodby.

[filey mad]

i remember it well it used to be a great camp with lots to do but the same with anything else they start shutting parts bit by bit. The accomadition went then they shut the club only 4 it to be used in the film .Last time i went by it had all be demolished on that part ,everything is now based on one side of the road instead of 2 now.Its a shame as the club used to stay open while 2 in the morning i staggered out of the many of times.
keep smiling filey mad

[gabbo]

Your right, it was Wallis's i remember now. Another one bites the dust by the sound of it. How many other camps did Wallis's have, or was that the only one?

[filey mad]

just to point out the main part of site is still open it just the part with the big club and flatlet type accomadition which has gone .
heres a picture hope it brings back memories i pick this up from a carboot sale .
keep smiling filey mad

[worldwidewebs]

thank you for posting that picture.

reminds me of happy holidays with my mum and dad (we couldn't afford Butlins) and used to drive down from Sunderland in our Motorbike/Sidecar combination. If I remember correctly in the early days accomodation was in chalets not in caravans.

That entertainment centre building was at one time the largest on the entire east coast (bigger than any at Butlins so I was told).
I certainly remember coming second in a yo-yo competition and several games of "Simon Says".

A few years ago Vera Duckworth (Liz Dawn) did an excellent small TV documentary about the place (she had appeared there and had a holiday home in Scarborough)