From the old we travel to the new!
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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!
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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.
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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! 😄
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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.
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I must admit that just stood back and let them get on with it, and in that I found the humour. Perhaps I'm just funny that way. I still wish that many of those that have disappeared were still posting on here. There were lots of knowledge members who provided good advice but have now gone, unfortunately.
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A lot of water has flowed under the bridge in 10 years, Nellie.
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I can not go as far back as gas mantles or foot pumps but my first caravan had little in the way of heating, just a gas fire and no oven just a three burner hob. Who remembers the double skillet which could be used as an oven replacement? We still have ours and it is still in use even though we now have an oven. Other items we still have and still in use today, 35 years later, is, a nest of sauce pans and all the drinking (plastic) glasses.
peedee
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I was very proud of our fresh water Jerry can. It had given good service over 40+ years,since our first camper van, until this spring. I foolishly left it outside full of water with the top screwed firmly on. It’s amazing how much 12l of H2O expands on freezing. Funny how we can be so sentimental about such objects.😊
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Funnily enough, we almost bought a new Jerry Can earlier this year Micky. Something else we found useful when camping were old ex military ammunition boxes. Great as a little valuables box clamped into Land Rover. We used to use them at work as well. Back before the days of electronic banking, we used to put the days takings for each pool and leisure centre into one, locked, then it was collected and taken to Bank. They were known as “Ferret Boxes”, locals around here, including my BIL’s, used them for transporting pet ferrets around. Holes drilled out of course, but a lovely cosy ferret nest🤣
(I have holidayed with ferrets, the blood thirsty side of the family had a ball lamping and working ferrets, thinning out the bunnies each year up at Carradale)
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After out tenting and trailer tenting days, outr first caravan was an ABI Marauder. There was a little room fir the toilet, but no 'fitted loo'! We bought a 'porta-potti' .. 🤣🤣 We had a gas fire, but none of this Alde central heating... or enen the 'blow-air' heating...
David
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