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With Camp Wardens on hand to curtail anything too boisterous, this now seems a golden era – carefree youngsters left to their own devices.

Here holiday makers could enjoy the quiet attractions of the 'Constitutional Holiday Camp' well away from the bustle and bright lights of its noisier and bigger neighbour.

This building is no longer operating as a guest house; the caravan and camping park is now the main business, and it has had an indoor swimming pool since about 1980.

The board on the side of the Town Hall is for the Municipal Camping Ground.

The board on the side of the Town Hall is for the Municipal Camping Ground.

Today, of course, it has Butlins Holiday Camp to support its holiday trade.

It was here they came to escape Danish raiders in 1041, and here too they tried to flee the plague in 1637.

On the level ground to the south-west of the town stands the almost ploughed-out remains of an ancient double-ditched camp called The Aubreys.

But he warned that the 'north-west heaths belong to the soldiers', and that here were 'all the camps, training grounds and rifle-ranges that do not belong to Aldershot'.

It nestles right next to the Woodvale Airstrip, and has seen some exciting times over the years when it was a busy RAF Camp.

Having accommodated men of the United States 1st Infantry Division before they left Weymouth and Portland to land on Omaha Beach in the D-Day invasion, Freshwater Holiday Camp remains one of the busiest

Now over a century old, the camp is set in about 15 acres of woodland on the edge of Barnston village; as a registered charity its aim is to provide accommodation and outdoor activities for individuals

During the First World War, two enormous army camps were situated within two miles of the town, and in 1915 the Machine Gun Corps was founded in Harrowby Camp.

This carried a railway serving Pirbright and Bisley Army Camps, but it is no more: only the left-hand pier of the bridge remains.

Before you reach Ingoldmells, north of Skegness, you pass one of Butlins' largest holiday camps.

The site was a mile long by half a mile broad, and the scouts of all nationalities camped together.

The site was a mile long by half a mile broad, and the scouts of all nationalities camped together.

The village sits astride an ancient, pre-Roman trackway which ran from Burrough Camp, some six miles south of Melton Mowbray, into Nottinghamshire, with to its south the escarpment of the Wolds

The village sits astride an ancient, pre-Roman trackway which ran from Burrough Camp, some six miles south of Melton Mowbray, into Nottinghamshire, with to its south the escarpment of the Wolds

This post-war photograph belies the part the town played in the war, for in the district was a prisoner-of-war camp in Henllan, an RAF base at Llanon, the Land Army was based in Felinfach and parts of

An attractive village, Whitwell was home to Alan Sillitoe, the novelist, Robert Newton, the actor and Sir Francis Camps, the forensic pathologist.

will find the view beyond the castle interesting as it shows the present secondary school under construction, while the residential developments beyond have yet to take place and all we see is a large camp

When they failed to produce these, the ten men stormed back to camp, helping themselves to rifles.

By 1917 the troops had left and the camp in Gadebridge Park was converted into a military hospital.