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Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit. The churchyard contains the graves of several prisoners.

Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.

Originally the Swan, the hotel is here called the Ivelchester, the town's name until the 1930s, which derives from the Saxon 'Givelcestreand', describing a Roman camp on the River Givel.

Jax, a cheerful low-price dress shop for younger customers, replaced the more staid Co-op; Millett's, which began by selling army surplus goods, branched into camping equipment and tough outdoor clothes

The village became Increasingly popular with visitors because of its proximity to Blackpool, but caravans and a holiday camp seem at odds with a village recorded in the Domesday Book.

As caravanning grew in popularity during the 1950s, many small sites began to compete with the already established holiday camps, providing facilities, shops and often entertainment in a purpose built

Behind the pub and the house rears the wooded slopes of Anstiebury Camp, one of Surrey's finest Iron Age hillforts, dating from the second century BC; its ramparts enclose over 11 acres.

On the hill beyond stands a Martello tower and the fortifications of Shorncliffe Camp, whose construction was undertaken under Sir John Moore during the Napoleonic War.

Jax, a cheerful low-price dress shop for younger customers, replaced the more staid Co-op; Millett's, which began by selling army surplus goods, branched into camping equipment and tough outdoor clothes

Those who wanted an inexpensive holiday could book into Seaburn Camp, which even as late as 1960 looked like a film set from a prisoner of war movie, but with flowerbeds.

The main street, Watchhouse Road, may have taken its name from a lookout camp here at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

The fields of Whitecliff Farm (foreground) hosted summer camps for militia and artillery volunteers in late Victorian times.

Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family, with everything included in the cost.

Those who wanted an inexpensive holiday could book into Seaburn Camp, which even as late as 1960 looked like a German Stalag with flowerbeds.

All the way north from Burnham to Brean Down, the six miles of road behind the sand dunes and beaches has a string of bungalows, chalets, shops, caravan parks, amusement parks and holiday camps, as well

Holidaymakers at this time could be forgiven for thinking that there was something of an army camp about the site!

On the hill beyond stands a Martello tower and the fortifications of Shorncliffe Camp, whose construction was undertaken under Sir John Moore during the Napoleonic War.

During World War II British soldiers camped in the grounds, whilst the house was used by a London-based engineering company whose premises had been bombed.

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.

Originally it was the site of an Iron Age camp, then a Roman temple, and later an Armada beacon.

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.

Essendon is the nearby chaletm with the Municipal Camp Field behind (left centre). The 'Trio', a coaster, is moored in the harbour (right). The 1960s saw the building of a bingo hall (centre left).

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