Swalecliffe, Seaview Holiday Camp c.1955
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S545019
Photo ref:
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Swalecliffe is two miles east of Whitstable and a popular area for holidaymakers. Here campers queue up at the camp shop for their daily newspaper, milk, bread and so on. Three other campers enjoy the pleasure of riding a four-wheeled cycle.
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Memories of Swalecliffe, Seaview Holiday Camp c1955
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Swalecliffe, Seaview Holiday Camp c.1955
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You'll all go "Oh yes", when I jog your memory that Seaview was formerly named 'Kite Farm Camp'. It changed its name to Seaview around '61/62 when Arthur Fitt the garage owner on the other side of the station bought it from Old Mr Prout. I was born in 1955 and my mum and her step father (Oscar French from Chatham) had a caravan each. They were both of treated hardboard and were wonderful to us kids (the ...see more
My mum still has a caravan on this site and must be the longest tenant/owner as I am now 60 and she first bought a van on that site 50+ years ago. I remember the gas lights, walking the overnight pee bucket to the toilets, filling up the water bottle under the van. Her name is Eilleen Hayward and our departed dad Jeff, caravan N6. I have not been back to that site in 22 years as I live in Oz. ...see more
My memories of the caravan site go back to the 1940s when my parents had a caravan there. It was situated at the edge of the site where there is an open field and a footpath.
I went back last July for the first time in about 60 years and the memories came flooding back.
The caravans used to be very well spaced out with plenty of room to fly kites between the rows.
We spent most weekends there in the summer and had ...see more
My nan and grandad Ott had a caravan here at Seaview, they bought it the year I was born, 1964...
I can see it as if it was yesterday, if I remember right, it was number G8...It was opposite the toilet blocks, no hot water in the early days, but I remember the camping site having a new block built, with hot showers, I think the laundry block had showers.
I can even remember the old gas lamps ...then the ...see more
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