Has the 6 on the first piece been cancelled to convert it to a 10p token?
Mosney, with its own railway station, is on the coast, about 10km south of Drogheda.
The camp has now closed - but there was talk of it being used as a detention camp for illegal
immigrants.
Butlins holiday camp in Mosney, Co. Meath first opened its doors in 1948. Billy Butlin brought his tried and tested holiday formula from Britain where the numerous Butlin camps had proved to be a big success with the post-war, post-austerity population. All of Butlin's camps were designed to exactly the same specifications, and all had to include a boating lake - something Billy Butlin had a mild obsession about. Although the site in Mosney was smaller than its British counterparts, it still included the trade-mark tin-roofed chalets, huge dining hall, amusement arcade, theatre and swimming pool. Butlin's camps offered "A week's family holiday for a week's wages", and the company never stinted in offering achievable and affordable glamour for a mainly working-class clientele. Although an immediate hit with people from all over the country, the Catholic Church went into a state of near apoplexy when the camp opened. The Catholic Standard newspaper stated quite unequivocally that: "Holiday camps are an English idea and are alien and undesirable in an Irish Catholic country . . . outside influences are bad and dangerous." The Irish people blithely ignored the Church's concern for their moral welfare but Butlin, wary of how people actually used to listen to the Church back then, built a Catholic Church in his camp to placate the hierarchy. Butlin's sold Mosney as a going concern in 1983.
Mosney also issued a number of badges, which are highly collectable.
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