CAMC pitch markers
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Off topic but being on a service point only site, I've even seen someone washing their laundry in the ccep
JK
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Cheers. Talking to customers - whatever next?😀
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Can anyone refresh my memory but when did the club start to use pegs? They weren't always there and I'm thinking about 2015?
But then again time appears to blur when I'm trying to remember. OT but really true last week I had to cover an English class and they had to review the video Thriller after watching it. I mentioned to the teacher setting the work that it was about 20 years old but was gobsmacked to find it was approaching 40!
The class was equally amazed that Michael Jackson was black!
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“Rife regs”-Typo or Freudian slip Micky?!!
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Silly me!🤪
However, a few folk clearly, it appears from reading previous posts, believe that some rules are based and applied on a whim, a misunderstanding or that ‘cos I say so attitude. Don’t think it’s rife these days mind.
The point I was trying to make was that whatever rules and instructions are provided these really do need to be underpinned by logic, reason and clarity….. and then communicated effectively.
What we do have to realise though is that incorrect pitching will never be completely eliminated. Understanding this and the reasons why may be more important.1 -
Morning
I started using club sites in 2003 and there were white markers back then
JK
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We had camping bliss at one or two CLs last year…….”pitch where you want”. Easy with five outfits mind.
No use complaining about Club Sites, they are what the Members have made them. “You asked……we did”🤣
We joined in 1984. There was a peg with a number on back then. Mind, if your first attempt at pitching wasn’t spot on (no motor movers back then) you either manhandled your smallish outfit into place, or simply moved the pitch peg.😁 We were inch perfect from the off, we toured in a tiny 3.5 metre camper van, always had some dragon overseeing our antics, as inspection and demonstration of “yes, it is a proper camper” was followed up by being minutely watched in everything we did. The joys of being very young Club Members……..and with a Rottweiler🤣 It taught us fortitude, patience, how to keep one’s temper under provocation, to smile nicely at the curtain twitching neighbours, and a wicked sense of humour😉😁
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On non toilet block sites as found at Notgrove in the Cotswolds the users of such sites are mostly much more acceptable of what they have compared to the facilities sites,
Last week told to us ,how obnoxious some members are when toilet cleaning over runs because of user failures
I said to the staff member just tell them the time are a guide as we clean to a standard not a timetable
As we said they never know when the facilities are closing but they will queue when it is opening times
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There is a different ambience between the basic no facility sites, and the big, everything laid on sites. More laid back, relaxing. Less regimented and time constrained.
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I have a fair number of Site Directories from long, long ago so when I get a spare hour I'll have a look and see what mention I can find of pegs. From memory they was always some sort of marker though not a requirement to be pitched within an inch of it.
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Yes, sorry what I meant was when did pitching exactly to them start? It was definitely when the spacing rules were adhered to and even awning/non awning pitches were 'created' as before that every pitch was an awning pitch, like Old Hartley.
At one time one could pitch anyway one wanted, I always used to do caravan awning then car. I tried caravan, car then awning but that didn't work as well.
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No experience of overseas sites AD, so I can’t compare. Over here, Club Site routines can depend a little bit on facility opening/cleaning times, and the multitude of other tasks that will have Site staff busily scurrying around with or without a tractor, grass cutter, etc….. On no facility sites, there isn’t the morning rush to get to the loos, showers etc before they close, and they do tend to be quieter places. I am thinking of somewhere like Nunnykirk, compared with somewhere like Ferry Meadows, as the two extremes, then other places like Bromyard, Leyburn as in between. Purely a personal observation I might add. Some Club Sites can be like large CLs at times, Exeter Racecourse away from HS area being one example. I haven’t stayed on a Club Site with any other extras (eatery, pool, etc) so no idea about these.
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I think it will go back a good while, then possibly an incident (doesn’t have to have been Club related) prompted a Club review of spacing? The sizing of outfits exploded as well in the early 2000’s, it became the thing to have a fixed bed outfit with the resultant extra length, awnings became longer and deeper, sometimes with extensions, so pitch spacing to maintain safety became more critical. Coupled with a lot more folks taking up the hobby, so previously average occupancy Sites suddenly had to start putting the “Site Full” signs up. I know it was around the early 2000’s when we had to start booking Marazion ahead, rather than just rolling up.
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To get a licence to operate UK sites have to comply with public fire safety rules. The CAMC must have had some non compliance issues a few years back, pitches were re-ordered and some taken out of use and pegs became more important to mark safety breaks. Not a bad thing in the end as this type of safety is paramount.
The only way to ensure safety without markers is to escort users on to a pitch as the other club does in a helpful way.
I've no idea what sort of safety features are used elsewhere I suppose we're lucky in the UK to have safety in mind.
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I started early 90s but have pics of a number of stays at Alderstead where we are always across the pitch.
Plenty of pics as stays in 2009, 2011 & 2013 were known as the "Birth, Beer and BBQ" meets as we stayed to be near our daughter when she was having her 3 children.
Always asked if it was OK, which it was, but one neighbour complained to the warden even though the spacing was more than maintained.
As JK has said, if its possible why not but do wonder how many are so wedded to the peg that it never occurs to them to ask.
The reason we prefer to pitch across is that we feel its more sociable than being hidden away 'down the side' of the van.
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We started caravanning in 1982, see picture below. I am sure that is a white peg to the right of our pitch?
David
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If it’s your peg then I hope your driving has improved😂😂
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Thanks, yes. Before we caravanned we had a small boat on the canals but thought that caravanning was a safer bet when the boys came along. The only thing about the picture is that it reminds me how awful the 1.3 Vauxhall Viva was as a tow car!!!!!
David
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We had a similar caravan around 1979 and had the pleasure of a Austin allegro 1100, had to frequently drop into 1st gear in strong winds on motorways.
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Coo, that’s posh AD…..a hard standing.
Don’t the vans look tiny nowadays. We still have our 13ft Cotswold Windrush, built 1984.
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