BRITAINS OLYMPIC ' HOPEFULS ' AT TRAINING CAMP Over 200 athletes , coaches , officials and observers gathered together at Butlin ' s Holiday Camp Clacton on Sea for the first pre Olympic " Get Together " in British History . This enabled our Olympic Hopes to get to know each other , thereby improving the eventual team spirit and comradeship of the British Team Photo Shows ; Some of Britain ' s hopefuls in the Olympic Games , " limbering up " at Clacton on Sea 18th April 1948