Butlin's Clacton was bought by the Rank Group. The Clacton camp was open until 1983 when due to package holidays and changing tastes, the holiday camp was closed and sold to a group of former departmental managers at the camp who reopened it as a short-lived theme park called Atlas Park. Atlas Park only lasted a year and the land was then sold and redeveloped with housing. Butlin's Clacton Butlin's Clacton was a holiday camp located on Clacton-on-Sea in England. It opened in 1938 and closed in 1983. Clacton-on-Sea is the largest town on the Tendring Peninsula in Essex and was founded
Clacton-on-Sea Hotel, and Groom's Crippleage (which housed orphaned handicapped girls from London). Cordy's seafront restaurant has been converted to other uses. Butlins Camp has now given way to flats. The other main change on the sea front is the large wind-farm located 3 miles offshore on Gunfleet Sand, which is visible from many streets in the town and even from inland. The once famously crowded Bus Station in Jackson Road has become a car park. The Ocean Revue Theatre, where Max Bygraves made one of his first appearances, has shut. Clacton's town centre and seafront areas were struck by an F1/T2