From the old we travel to the new!

We go back further than that with the gas mantles, metal single glazed 'flat' windows and a foot pump on the floor.  We do still put out a 'FIRE' bucket - just habit.

Does anybody out there remember Captain Boon?  We first encountered him at the Southport Site when he checked your noseweight and took you to your pitch on a moped.  He scared the life out of us youngsters and we arrived at York some time afterwards only to find he'd moved there.

Yes, I too recall those, Jill.  I remember my dad reminding us not to touch those unlit mantles and the condensation they caused on those glass windows when lit on cold days. Oh, and the pedal pumped water from a bucket outside, basically a rubber bulb you trod on. 

I remember the days before footpumps 😁

Do you remember the touring caravans with 2 doors - nearside front and offside rear. A friend of my parents had from memory a Fairholme New Dawn I thought it was really posh. 

Memory is not what it once was and these are certainly relatively recent ones but I do have a vague recollection of a CC site at Lady Cross near Egton, also one at Market Rasen racecourse.

The memory of that distinct hiss and smell issuing from the gas lighting is so evocative alongside music coming from that old ‘Tranny’ radio, Programmes like ‘Sing Something Simple’ to listen to on those wet days. Such fun!

I remember gas mantles and foot pumps. I remember buckets and mops and j-cloths. I dont remember pennants.

They were little green flags with a horseshoe CC emblem on them if I recall correctly. Think some also had the  local centres names on them.

I can remember all of those mentioned above, and caravans with solid wooden floors, "bucket and chuckit" loos too.

I remember as a 13yr old, sitting on the Elsan bucket in our toilet tent in a howling gale, and desperately hoping that I could get the business done before it took off.

Mum using an 'oven' that sat on top of the gas burner, and having to scrape ice off the inside of the windows in the morning

The first caravan we had in the late 80's had a separate "bathroom"; however, it just contained a sink, no shower and no toilet.  We had to buy a PortaPotti! Once we got a "posh" caravan a few years later (early 90's) it had a toilet and we sold our PortaPotti for £10

I also remember the foot pumps and gas mantles, and the single glazing, complete with condensation.  No blown air or Alde heating, just a gas fire. 

You had a gas fire! That’s really modern.

Ours had no fire, no tap and just two gas rings and grill. No toilet, no nuffin - not even a gas locker.