Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Billy Butlin NPG x88629

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Entrepreneur and philanthropist. Butlin was brought up in Canada and served with the Canadian Army in the First World War. He settled in England in 1921, working as a travelling showman in fairgrounds. In 1936 he opened the first Butlin Holiday Camp, outside Skegness, but it was not until after the Second World War that his business boomed; by the 1960s his camps were catering for up to a million people a year.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.