From the old we travel to the new!

Our first ‘stove’ was a Bleuet connected to a Campinggaz cylinder. Maybe before Calor got their act together to dominate much of the industry.🤨

Electricity - we just had a 12'  lead connecting caravan cable to car towing socket - then we bought a caravan battery.

Like an earlier post on here, the gas cylinder sat on the A-frame

These photos were taken in about 1959 at Brighouse Bay. It was my uncle's caravan - we had only just got a car - no towbar, so he took it there for us. It's a Bailey re the label on the inside of the door, but that's all I know. Toilet tent and water carrier outside. My mother didnt really take to roughing it, so the next time I caravanned was in our own in 1976. 

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Our gas cylinder used to just stand next to the drawbar on the grass. There was no locker & I think my dad used to transport it in the boot. 

I recently found his old primus stove in my garage, it still had meths in it and after a bit of spit & polish, fired straight up. We used to get down early to Newquay harbour in the 60's in order to get a parking spot, and then first job was to get the kettle on the stove burning in the boot of the car!

I feel I've stumbled into a Monty Python sketch by accident.🤣

Fast forward a few decades, well quite a few actually, and who remembers the very first days of CT? Those Champions, the infamous stars and some exceptional characters joined the ‘clan’ in the following years. Finding our way around CT in the early days was a bit of an adventure yet still the topics flooded in. A few threads remain today but some have been lost in the ether. Bless all contributors, past, present and departed.

Oh yes! I remember it well. I’ve been here from almost the start when everything seemed to be a jumble. Eventually sections were created and the mods moved discussions into an order. As for some of the early posters, wow! 😄

Could do with a few of them back, TW, to cheer the place up a bit. CT is very dry and without humour these days, IMO of course.

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I don’t remember much humour, Nellie. Fights, yes, but not humour on the whole.