From the old we travel to the new!

mickysf replied on 15/07/2023 19:47

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Posted on 15/07/2023 19:47

Who remembers those mops and buckets in the showers, the piped music in the loos, the triangular JCloths at every sink? Who recalls when campervans and motorhomes were so rarely encountered on sites they caused much comment and interest. Who remembers waving to every caravan you passed on the road before arriving at site and those Caravan Club pendants flying in most van windows. Who remembers the obligatory fire buckets place by the Jockey wheels of all caravans on site. Any memories of sites now long gone? Happy days! Any other nostalgic recollections, folk?

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Cornersteady replied on 15/07/2023 23:24

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Posted on 15/07/2023 23:24

The future Mrs C on the left, she tells me her bunk, which was really just a stretched canvas on two poles, was next to a window, in the morning her sleeping bag would be wet where it touched the glass windows.

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Tinwheeler replied on 16/07/2023 00:04

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Posted on 15/07/2023 23:24 by Cornersteady

The future Mrs C on the left, she tells me her bunk, which was really just a stretched canvas on two poles, was next to a window, in the morning her sleeping bag would be wet where it touched the glass windows.

Posted on 16/07/2023 00:04

That was a modern caravan in the 60/70s, Corners. A Sprite and it might have been a Sprite Major. The car reg is 1966.

There is a caravan just visible in the bottom left of your pic a bit similar to our 1949 Bluebird.

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MikeyA replied on 16/07/2023 06:51

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Posted on 16/07/2023 00:04 by Tinwheeler

That was a modern caravan in the 60/70s, Corners. A Sprite and it might have been a Sprite Major. The car reg is 1966.

There is a caravan just visible in the bottom left of your pic a bit similar to our 1949 Bluebird.

Posted on 16/07/2023 06:51

You can just make out the word 'Musketeer' near Mrs C's shoulder.

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Tinwheeler replied on 16/07/2023 08:45

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Posted on 16/07/2023 06:51 by MikeyA

You can just make out the word 'Musketeer' near Mrs C's shoulder.

Posted on 16/07/2023 08:45

Cheers. 👍

eurortraveller replied on 16/07/2023 08:47

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Posted on 16/07/2023 08:47

Some sites didn’t even have electric hook ups.

mickysf replied on 16/07/2023 12:28

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Posted on 16/07/2023 12:28

Braithwaite Fold was another CC site we used in the past. Now managed I think by another organisation. Have a vague recollection of another near Kendal.

MikeyA replied on 16/07/2023 12:41

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Posted on 16/07/2023 07:37 by

This is my first van, a 12 ft Lunar probably dating from early 70s. Foot pump portapoti, glass windows etc.

Bought SH in 78 , picture by lake Bala that year and alongside the Mediterranean following year.

Posted on 16/07/2023 12:41

Which is which?