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When Navy trainees stayed at Butlin's
Billy Butlin's holiday camp near Pwllheli was the first to host more than 100,000 guests in a season, but holidays were far from the minds of the first occupants. Billy built the camp for the Royal Navy during the Second World War, as you can discover by scanning ..
the new HistoryPoints QR codes beside the coast path at Penychain. More than 100,000 recruits, from various countries, passed through HMS Glendower before the site was repurposed for holidaymakers in 1947. For more about the camp's history and to see old photos of it, use your mobile phone to scan the QR codes where the Wales Coast Path passes what is now Haven's Hafan-y-Môr camp, or click here