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Explanation of 'coats'

There are lists of "redcoats" etc. Is this to do with the establishment they worked for? It should be mentioned in the relevant section. GreenReaper (talk) 19:20, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bill Owen

Bill Owen (Compo) managed a Warner camp but I don't believe he was a "coat".

Concerns with history and refs

I wanted to add a fact and a ref here for posterity which differs from the prose, without changing the mainspace content. However delving into the history raises concerns:

The first thing to note is that "Cunningham's Young Men's Holiday Camp on the Isle of Man is sometimes regarded as the first holiday camp. However, it differed from the definition above - especially as accommodation was still in tents." was entered as original research from 2004, part of the the earliest text uploads. This is not supported by the ref (formatted with red template errors), showing an authored-date of 2003 which was added in 2010.

Checking early archived versions (2006) at Wayback machine gives a better accord, so has been changed in the article.

The 1894 date of opening Cunningham's Camp, however, differs with the date in the 1960 ref I intended to add, from Look at Life (film series), episode 'Holiday Camps', by The Rank Organisation, verbal narrative of which states 1887 at Douglas, Isle of Man. 1894 was added, and Douglas was changed to Groudle in the most recent prose in this 2023 edit.-- 82.13.47.210 (talk) 01:14, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]