A family-run business in Brean, near Burnham-On-Sea, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month.
Holiday Resort Unity and Brean Leisure Park, owned by the House family, began life as a dairy farm and transformed itself into one of the largest holiday resorts in the south west, now attracting more than 20,000 visitors a year.
It all started back in the mid 1940s when Frys Chocolate Factory pitched large tents over three fields of the farm for a two week period so that its employees could have a holiday by the sea.
Now the company boasts its own fun park, 18 hole golf course, indoor and outdoor pools, bars and accommodates 550 static caravan holiday homes and 740 pitches for tents and touring caravans.
Richard House, Managing Director, said: “It’s a wonderful achievement to be celebrating 60 years. Of course we could not have done it had it not been for the hard work and dedication of our team, some of which have been with us for over 25 years.”
“It is our intention to go on providing first class facilities to residents and visitors who have supported us.”
Bob Nicholson, who has worked for the family for over 25 years, added: “When Mr Bert House, who celebrated his 90th birthday last month, bought the 200 acre farm in 1946 he would have had no idea at how Unity Farm and Brean Leisure Park would be 60 years on, now that the family have created the largest fun park in the south west.”
