Record

Performance TitleButlin's Festival of Reunion Tenth Anniversary (1945-1955) - Holiday Princess Competition Finals - Most Glamorous Grandmother Competition
Performance Date2 February 1955
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersAir Training Corps

Old Time Formation Team Trophy:
New Brighton Team,
Slough Team,
RISCA Team,
Manchester Team,
London Team

Glamorous Grandmothers:
Isobel Scott,
Elizabeth Armstrong,
Flora Harrison,
Dorothy Dimmock,
Mrs E M Hands,
Linda Davis

The Bombay Troupe,
Sandra Michaels,
Butlin Young Ladies,
Heather Pullen,
Joyce Keane,
Lauri Lupino Lane and George Truzzi,
Harry Sloan's Clowns and Circus Novelties,
The Butlin ''Redcoats'',
Sea Cadets,
The Butlin Pageant Girls,
Army Cadet Force,

Holiday Princesses:
Patricia O'Hara, Janet Scott, Pamela Wiggins, Dorothy Pullen, Marien Pols, Celia Riches, Doreen Osborne, Erica Rose, Joyce Cooke, Pearl Hedgecock, Dorothy Holmes, Amy Kelly, Moira O'Reilly, Diana Farrington, Pamela Griffiths, Valerie Watts, Ida Gillet, Marlene Brown, Brenda Hirst, Joyce Butler, Josephine Done, Enid Matthews, Phyllis O'Connor, Audrey Windows, Christine Brown, Blanche Tomkinson, Patricia Byrne, Audrey McMurdo
Secondary PerformersPatricia Butler,
Archie McCulloch,
Leslie Frewin,
Susan Stephen,
Dennis Price - judges,
Arthur Wantling,
Albert Billington,
Joseph L Campbell,
Michael Gwynne,
Douglas Hall,
Joe Stead,
Charles Jacobs - adjudicators,
W E Butlin - prize giver
Orchestra or BandBand of HM Royal Marines (Portsmouth),
Eric Winstone and His Orchestra,
Butlin Concert Orchestra,
Al Freid and The Butlin Concert Orchestra
ChoirsButlin Choral Society
ConductorsCaptain K A Mclean,
Eric Winstone,
Glyn Jones,
Al Freid
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesFilm footage of 3 February performance (Sportsmen's Night) is available from British Pathe (Film ID 503.13). Running time 1min 29secs.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1955/11)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1955/11Butlin's Festival of Reunion Tenth Anniversary (1945-1955)2-5 February 1955
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iororolaig_BuvButlin's Festival of Reunion Tenth Anniversary (1945-1955)5
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2955Air Training Corps (ATC); 1941-; British military youth group
DS/UK/1903Butlins; 1936-; British chain of holiday camps
DS/UK/6364Lane; Lupino (16 June 1892-10 November 1959); English actor and theatre manager
DS/UK/8642Sloan; Harry (fl 1920s-1950s); English circus performer
DS/UK/6530Army Cadet Force; 1859-; British youth organisation
DS/UK/9196Butlin; Sir; William Heygate Edmund Colborne "Billy" (1899-1980); South African-born British entrepreneur
DS/UK/9206Orange; Wilfred (fl 1940s-1980s); British dance director
DS/UK/11551Edwardes; Jack (c.1913-2001); British actor
DS/UK/592The Royal Marines School of Music; Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, Portsmouth (Royal Band); 1861-; British military band
DS/UK/6874Winstone; Eric (1913-1974); English big band leader, composer
DS/UK/12546McLean; K.A (fl 1950s-1960s); British conductor
DS/UK/9751Jones; Glyn (fl 1950s); Welsh conductor
DS/UK/7594Al Freid and The Butlin Concert Orchestra; fl 1940s-1960s; British light orchestra
DS/UK/18570Truzzi; George (1924-1994); British actor
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