Further expanding by opening Coronation Holiday Camp (now known as Lakeside Coastal Village) in 1937 as well as Dovercourt in Essex, Corton in Suffolk, Minster in Kent, Seaton in Devon and Puckpool on the Isle of Wight.
Yarmouth (now Norton Grange), Woodside Bay, Bembridge and St. Clare (sited next to Puckpool) on the Isle of Wight, Southleigh, Sinah Warren and Mill Rythe on Hayling Island and Gunton Hall near their Corton camp joined the list of holiday camps Warners run.
Warners was known for smaller camps than its main rivals Butlins and Pontins but included all the amenities expected such as swimming pools, bars, clubs and sporting activities.
Since being bought by Blackstone in 2021, Warner has seen investment of circa £200m, refurbishing its current portfolio and adding new ones including the addition of the 180 bedroom Runnymede on Thames Hotel in Windsor, from September 2024.
It was built around the Grade II-listed Gunton Hall on 55 acres of grounds close to the Suffolk coastal town of Lowestoft.
[citation needed] Lakeside was originally called ‘Coronation’ to mark the accession in 1937 of King George VI.
[citation needed] Bembridge Coast Hotel is on the eastern shore of the Isle of Wight, overlooking the Solent.
[7] Located on the Isle of Wight, Norton Grange was built in 1760 and has been a holiday destination since the 1930s, except for a spell as an operational base for the Admiralty during World War II.
Cricket St Thomas Hotel is a conversion of a Grade II-listed Regency mansion set in a valley in Somerset.
[8] Littlecote House Hotel in Berkshire is a Grade I-listed Tudor property with 113 acres of gardens bought by Warner in 1996.
Littlecote House is home to the Jerusalem Stairs, the Dutch Parlour, a secret passage behind the library bookcase, and the rooms where the D-Day landings were planned.
Holme Lacy House Hotel is a Grade I-listed mansion located in the Wye Valley, near Hereford.
The new owner, Francis Massey, undertook rebuilding work before the house was bought again in 1896 by Arthur Knowles, who then carried out further alterations.
Bodelwyddan Castle Hotel is a Grade II-listed Victorian folly in north-east Wales close to the Clwydian Mountains.
[10] The father of Sir John Williams, first baronet of Bodelwyddan, remodelled the site's original Elizabethan house and raised the mansion.
Bodelwyddan Castle was developed after 1830 when battlements, extensions and internal modifications were added by Sir John's successors.
The site was designed to look like a castle but was requisitioned by the army for nearby Kinmel Barracks where they used to practice trench warfare.
The Council would retain the woodland, the meadow, a car park and the agricultural lands as well as the small lodge on the edge of the property.
Their son Francis Lyttleton Holyoake, the High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1834, inherited Ribston Hall in Yorkshire from a business partner in 1833 and changed his name to Holyoake-Goodricke.
[14][15] An industry news item in November 2018 stated that the new hotel planned to offer "209 rooms, two restaurants, a cinema, bars and lounges, a spa, a range of outdoor pursuits to enjoy (laser clay, cycling, archery), and one of the largest live performance venues on the UK hotel scene".
It was used as an internment camp by the British during World War II[17] This site in Essex was used as 'Maplins' in the BBC comedy Hi-de-Hi!.
Following changes to Warner Holidays, it became branded as Shearings around 1992/3 but only lasted until 1994 before being closed down and the land sold for housing development.
First opened in 1922 as 'New City Holiday Camp' by Sir Walter Blount on the site of an old aircraft factory in Middleton on Sea near Bognor Regis.
For a time it was owned by the Dean family who had given Fred Pontin his start in 1946 by selling him their original camps at Brean Sands and Osmington Bay.