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Here the ‘camp’ title is well justified by the neatly erected tents, with two people folding ground sheets (left).

They returned to Woodcote, and stirred up the camp.

Ampthill Park was for many years the venue for large bi-annual camps organised by the Scout Movement in Bedfordshire.

The entrance to the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp and Convalescent Home is on the right, with their gardens coming close up to the pavement.

One of the huts of Blackdown Camp, with a group of soldiers and a bowler-hatted civilian.

Only a small part of Middle Row is seen here: No 12 at the east end, with Normans (Outfitters and Camping Equipment) occupying Mann's old premises.

In 1549, John Kett led his rebel peasant army from its camp on Mousehold Heath over this fine 14th-century bridge, only for his followers to be cut to pieces in the city.

This was an ex-wartime camp containing a searchlight unit and some coastal guns.

The heathland beyond is now a tank training ground attached to Bovington Camp.

Hospital staff dealt with all the relatively minor mishaps to be expected from camp life, from treating wasp stings and bruises to suturing small cuts.

Once an important market town, Blandford remains a busy shopping centre, enlivened by the presence of troops from the nearby military camps.

A number of rest camps and convalescent hospitals were situated nearby.

Here campers queue up at the camp shop for their daily newspaper, milk, bread and so on.

During the Second World War it was converted to use as a hospital serving the internment camps established at Douglas.

Bovington Camp dates back to the First World War, and is the home of the Royal Armoured Corps.

To the right is Camp Hopson department store, with its rubbed brickwork, Doric and Ionic pilasters and tile- hung gables.

This view of Northbrook Street shows the façade of Newbury's famous department store, Camp Hopson, established in 1921.

Immediately above it is the outline of the ancient Bratton Camp, an Iron Age fortification.

Several years after this photograph was taken, the East Berkshire village of Holyport became the setting for a First World War PoW camp and German soldiers were regularly seen marching through

Immediately above it is the outline of the ancient Bratton Camp, an Iron Age fortification.

The somewhat rudimentary nature of holiday camp accommodation is clear from this picture.

Blackdown Camp - now Blackdown Barracks - is at Deepcut on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke Canal.

In the summer, holiday camps were busy, such as the Romney Sands Holiday Village where the railway stopped.

A few stalwart holidaymakers are enjoying the giddy sport of roller-skating on the holiday camp rink.