On the activity once known as ‘land-yachting’
On Caravans
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Vintage camping
Du Pont’s Camping Auto
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The tent car of a crooked man
Camping with The Chap
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Vintage camping and invaluable advice on how a gentleman should camp.
Vintage camping by the river
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Is this breakfast at camp, circa 1873?
The Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Were Incidental
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A review of the Woodstock music festival as a failed camping holiday.
Vintage camping in 1908
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I spent yesterday in the British Library with The Campers’ Handbook by THH Holding, published in 1908. A sepia photograph shows us the author at camp; he is a chunky and kindly chap, grey at the temples and with an amenable unkempt moustache, relaxing in a straw boater and collarless white shirt with the sleeves…
Where To Pitch A Tent
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I woke up this morning on the floor of a Hackney flat overlooking London Fields. As I lay there, mind churning to restart, I considered the question of where to pitch a tent. On level ground free of stones or roots, with soil that is not so boggy as to indicate risk of flooding. Neither…
Vintage camping
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Tom and Florence sit side by side in deck chairs: he is wearing a cap and glasses and she has her hands resting on her lap, holding a handbag. Arrayed before them, their three daughters on sun loungers, Brenda, Sheila and Sylvia. Then the two son in laws Billy and my father Eddie are in…
Video: Kites are fun
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Three generations of the family at play in this video, shot at Hever Castle in April and in Brittany thirty years ago.
