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A Caravan Holiday in 1932
A great little caravan book full of nostalgia - hardback or ebook
Great reviews on Amazon
Len Smith - an accredited WW1 war artist - hired a caravan in 1932 and during the two-week tour of the West Country he sketched and took photos and kept an amusing diary of his exploits. This was in the early days of caravaning when you could pull up at a farm and stay overnight in the orchard for a shilling - or less. Chances are there would be a quart of milk still warm from the cow in the morning.
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A Caravan Holiday in 1932, also available as a hardback gift book, transports the reader back to an age of innocence when the caravan was a thing of novelty. It was a journey made before even the first motorway was built. Packed with watercolors, photographs and captivating text by Len Smith, it provides a wonderful snapshot of Britain in the 1930s. It is the perfect present for anyone with an interest in caravaning.
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What they say on Amazon about A Caravan Holiday in 1932 - where it has a four and a half star rating...
What a delightful diary of a family holiday during the inter-war years. The book follows a couple holidaying with two friends in a caravan and is based on a diary kept by one of them, who was an artist. His illustrations are delightful and the picture of life on a journey to the west of England, long before the arrival of the motorway, provides a real insight to a time when the pace of life was so much slower than today; right down to the details of their budget! Radken
My 87 year old father in law got this book for Christmas and loved it. Nothing much in that you might say, but this man is notoriously hard to please and has been caravanning for most of his life; for him to say he thoroughly enjoyed the book is akin to it winning the booker prize. I also enjoyed the brownie points it earned me.
If you like caravans or are just interested in the history of them then this book is definitely worth a read. If you have someone who loves caravanning, especially the history of it then this is definitely the book for them. AvidReader
Malcolm Allsop: Read this and be transported back to another age when people delighted in simple pleasures and were actually nice to each other. This book is not just for caravanners. It is life affirming.
I bought this book as a result of a recommendation in a club newsletter and can say it didnt disappoint. It brings back an age long gone, an age more simple and basic, without the trapping of our modern lives and fast, overloaded roads. The drawings and paintings are very well executed along with simple photographs taken on the trip. At the end there is a brief overview of caravanning that adds even more than I expected to this excellent book. It won't take long to read but loses nothing in being fairly brief in dialogue. You have to remember it is a holiday diary, how many of us bother with that in this day and age. If you'd like to read and see an insight into 1930's caravanning I can highly recommend this book. Atlantic 1952.The watercolor diary of the First world War by Len Smith is published by Harper Collins
with the title 'Drawing Fire'.