Talk:Billy Butlin

message: Found Some Public Domain Photographs of Billy in his Heyday on the Imperial War museum Homepage, If anyone has better Quality ones they would be appreciated. Also since his headstone is pretty distinct if anyone can upload photographs of it to commons they'd also be appreciated. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 15:27, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: Discovered this source from the 1952 Sydney, Sunday Herald.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18509519
It has a lot of detail I've not seen anywhere else, I don't know if that makes it unreliable or not - if anyone has opinion It would be appreciated. It's good because it's a secondary source that backs up the biography at butlins-memories it does however have a few conflicts with  (his place of birth is the first) advice appreciateStuart.Jamieson (talk) 17:41, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Took decision to use judiciously where it doesn't conflict with other sources. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 23:40, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunday Herald Article 

message: According to the cayman islands link, Billy's estate was in part to go to Frederick T Devine - seemingly Sheila's Son from before they married, I'm looking for sources that clarify the relationship with Billy if anyone can find one.Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 19:46, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading through the Trustees of the Billy Butlin Trust, it looks like Frederick Terry Devine relates to Sheila's brother (known just as Terry) who was the General Manager of Butlins Bognor in the 60's and went on to run Butlin Jersey Enterprises when Billy retired. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 22:43, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frederick Devine 

message: * Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. 
* Article is about a person, please add person data See WP:PDATA along with the required parameters to the article - see Wikipedia:Persondata for more information.
* Dablinks - Billy Butlin links to 2 different disambiguation pages. Nassau, Tiverton.-- .  Shlok talk   . 06:21, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think all three of those have been improved upon. The lead may require to be tightened up but I think it fairly summarises the article. Person Data added and DabLinks sorted. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 09:33, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some Tips 

message: Coverage of Butlin's involvement with this is missing. He promised £5,000 bonuses to Donald Campbell for breaking the record. The structure of these bonuses, and the way that they were awarded for quite small increments over the previous record had a significant influence on Campbell's tactics, encouraging repeated small advances on the record, rather than a single large push (although these small-slice tactics eventually led to Campbell being written out of the Wikipedia land speed record article!). Campbell collected the bonus four times, which made a massive contribution to his personal finances, and his funding for further record attempts - Donald Campbell was never the rich man his father Malcolm had been.
There's a whole chapter entitled "The Butlin Years" in Tremayne's The Man Behind The Mask bio of Campbell. If I have time (which is unfortunately short) I might try to add a section. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:23, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Water speed record]] 

message: A big factor in the success of his first holiday camp was the new law that obliged employers to provide paid holidays. (See his memoirs). 86.183.206.77 (talk) 16:03, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timing of launch 

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