Record

Performance TitleButlin's Twenty-First Birthday Year and Festival of Reunion - Holiday Princess Night, Old Time Formation Dance Finals, International Cabaret - Pageant Featuring 21 years of Service
Performance Date20 March 1957
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersButlin Open Amateur Old Time Formation Team finalists:
Slough Centre Team,
RISCA Team,
Leeds Team,
Blackpool Team,
Gwalia Team

Butlin Holiday Princess finalists:
Gladys Hale,
Terry Monks,
Barbara Bretherton,
Patricia Hardy,
Audrey Harrison,
Dorothy McClintock,
Jean Nunneley,
Bessie Powers,
Winifred Meyler,
Patricia Tong,
Valerie Leppard,
Eileen Summerscales,
Sylvia Jones,
Jeanne Benns,
Thelma Hursey,
Heather Jones,
Cynthia Benn,
Margaret Irene Lawson,
Doreen Nicholson,
Jean Crook,
Phyllis Avery,
Julie Bowman,
Pamela Kemp,
Ida Gillet,
Josephine Clayton,
Patricia Williamson,
Patricia Ball,
Barbara Smith,
Joyce Butler
Secondary PerformersButlin Pageant Girls,
Eleanor Beams Anniversary Girls,
Butlin Young Ladies,
Captain T J Bond,
The Seven Volants,
The Rastellis,
Johnnie Wilson and His Jive Formation Team with Betty Allen,
Butlin Skiffle Group,

Laurence Harvey,
Yvonne Mitchell,
George Baker,
Audrey Windows - judges,
Philip J S Richardson,
Harry Boyle,
Maurice Fletcher,
Albert Cowan,
Cecil Ruault,
Eric Stonehouse - adjudicators,
Charles Jacobs - scrutineer,
W E Butlin,
Philip J S Richardson - prize givers
Orchestra or BandArgyll and Sutherland Highlanders Band,
Eric Winstone and His Orchestra,
Al Freid and The Butlin Concert Orchestra
ChoirsButlin Choral Society
ConductorsGlyn Jones
Set List'God Save the Queen' (National Anthem)
Performance NotesThe event was filmed for television.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1957/30)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1957/30Butlin's Twenty-First Birthday Year and Festival of Reunion20-23 March 1957
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Owdasiogion_S_GButlin's Twenty-First Birthday Year and Festival of Reunion5
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
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/6874Winstone; Eric (1913-1974); English big band leader, composer
DS/UK/7594Al Freid and The Butlin Concert Orchestra; fl 1940s-1960s; British light orchestra
DS/UK/9752The Seven Volants; fl 1950s-1960s; British acrobatic troupe
DS/UK/9753The Rastellis; fl 1930s-2002; Travelling circus family
DS/UK/9751Jones; Glyn (fl 1950s); Welsh conductor
DS/UK/3442Richardson; Philip J.S (1875-1963); British co-founder of The Royal Academy of Dance
DS/UK/9765Harvey; Laurence (1928-1973); Lithuanian-born actor
DS/UK/9766Mitchell; Yvonne (1915-1979); English actress
DS/UK/9767Baker; George (1 April 1931-7 October 2011); MBE; English actor
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