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The Holidays with Pay act (passed in 1937) declared that, by law every working person had to have at least one week paid holiday a year. The idea was pressed by Trade Unions around the country. This gave freedom (for a week) to many MORE millions of people. The war years, especially the 1930's, were a time of great progress within the holiday industry. 1936 saw the opening of the first Holiday Camp, Butlins, and The Butlins Somerset world Camp opened a few years later. Butlins holiday camps were the first of its kind, a package holiday. They offered transport, meals and accommodation all in one price, and so were cheap and easy to afford. They were cheep because the company could guarantee to their suppliers that they would need a constant demand of items and products. This meant that Butlins, and other companies which followed the ideal of...

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