Meeching Court Farm Caravan Park

c1950
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My parents used to camp there before the Second World War, they used to go most weekends. My first memories of Newhaven were of camping after the war I was five. We used go most weekends. My father built his first caravan in the attic in our London flat then reassembled it on the site, we used it for weekends and holidays until 1952 when my mother and father decided to move down there permantly. We lived in the little van for a couple of years while Dad built the second and bigger van. After a year my dad took over running the site for Mr Bowles and my mum ran the shop and did the bookings and van cleaning for the caravan owners. We lived there until I left school 1957. Mum and dad moved to Lancing and I was working with polo ponies at Midhurst. I took my husband back to see Newhaven and the site in 1970, we met Mr and Mrs Bowles and they seemed the same as ever. Shortly after, my husband and I moved to Australia and we have never been back. I noticed on Google Earth that it is all houses now.