The Caravan Shop c1960, Selsey
The Caravan Shop c1960, Selsey Ref: S91159
Memories of The Caravan Shop c1960, Selsey
The Caravan Shop
I can remember the shop well, both my grandparants had caravans on Mr Wakley's old site (the first gate on the left past the windmill). If the Greenaways shop (that was an old bus parked by the windmill) was shut it meant walking the extra bit to the caravan shop. I still have a photo taken by Selsey Photographic, Millfield Road (phone SELSEY 2604) of myself aged 13 with a shopping bag walking to the shop taken in 1960, when the our caravans were moved up to Ramparts, a beach-side site, further along West Beach, from about 1953. My Auntie Lou used to live in Mill Cottage for about 10 years, before moving to 115 High Street, Selsey.
SELSEY
I spent several holidays in a chalet with long verandah which was one of the first on the right just after a burnt out house and just before the caravans started in Mill Lane during the late 1940s and early 1950s. I remember getting off the bus from Chichester with all our luggage and there were an assortment of men with bicycles with various trailers attached and for a small fee cases and bags were loaded on and all the holiday makers followed on foot till each was taken to their holiday 'home'. We were always the first to be offloaded and I remember seeing the man cycling furiously back to the bus stop a bit later to try and catch the next load of holiday makers as they disembarked. In the 1960s when I had children of my own and we all had cars, the walk along Mill Lane was not so enjoyable as cars seemed to dash each way with scant regard to pedestrians. Both bus... Read more
West Sands Caravan Park
I spent many happy holidays at West Sands. The Embassy club - I can still smell the polished floor. I remember two of the singers. One was JIm (Murphy, I think) and another one the following year called Peter. Somewhere I have the photographs of them, taken next to my sister and myself! It also had a little TV room with about 8 chairs where you could watch Crossroads or whatever happened to be on. The fair was a short distance away with the bumper cars! You could hire out bikes and cycle all round the camp. We had to go over to a block for the toilet and shower. I met some good friends there, one of them I am still in touch with after all these years!!
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