Caravans played a large part of holidays for my mum and she would often talk fondly about times spent in the caravan at St Andrews. We have several photos taken there depicting various members of the family and also Dane, the Great Dane dog.
Mum wrote this following memory down of neighbour Bob Nisbet building a caravan. I’m not sure how long Bob’s caravan was used for, there may have been many caravans over the years.
I do recall the old caravan parked beside the glasshouses at the bottom of the nursery and my sisters and I spent many happy hours playing inside.
Here is mum’s story :
Bob Nisbet was the Burgh Foreman and our next-door neighbour, living at number 15 Clober Road (although at the time of the story he stayed in Balvie Road). He built a caravan up at Cloberfield with Bowaters factory or Flexible Ducting are situated now). Uncle John Thompson (Jackie‘s father) had had a long narrow building. I think it was something to do with the bleachworks at Cloberfield and he let Bob use a small section to build his caravan. I used to walk to Cloberfield with Dad to see how the caravan was coming along. I can remember it being rather square looking and it had a band about 6 inches deep right round the middle of raid tartan.
We spent one or two happy holidays in Saint Andrews in this van we went to Kinkell Braes camping site where there was about six caravans. However this one year dad decided to be a little more adventurous and take the caravan down to Deal where uncle Jim and uncle Andrew Gray had a farm. The caravan was towed by our old faithful Humber car US4965. This car had been kept at uncle John‘s premises at Cloberfield during the 1939-1945 second world war. Dad had removed the wheels and taken the seats out and it was kept like this during the war. This vehicle was checked regularly and when it was found that rats were nesting in the body of the car it was brought to the garage at Clober Road.
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