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Essex,2 mins

Hidden Essex: Hi-de-Hi! campers

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Janey Nice reminisces about living and working on the Warners holiday camp in Dovercourt with her family, where the Âé¶¹Éç sitcom Hi-de-Hi! was filmed. The site near Harwich opened in 1937 and shortly afterwards was requisitioned by the British government to house children who'd been evacuated from Germany by the Kindertransport programme. Picture: Jeffrey Holland as Spike Dixon and Paul Shane as Ted Bovis in the second series of Hi-de-Hi. Credit: Brian Moody/Âé¶¹Éç.

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