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- To go to Butlins or work at Butlins was a dream for many women of the 1950s.
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- Teddy Girls in bombed out London in the 1950s.
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- Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson is published by Penguin Viking.
Butlins Holiday Camp & Teddy Girls – Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson
Length 12.37
Tenerife was not yet on the horizon and Butlin’s offered something for everyone in the family and a true holiday from the drudgery of the possibly still bombed out home. Meanwhile, the first teenagers were born and not interested in going from little girls to full skirted women, they scoured the markets for jackets and tight trousers.
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