Alnesbourne Priory Caravan Site that was is now just a gentrified housing estate and it has more speed humps that caravans. Indeed as I was looking around I believe the last van was being removed. This is where many local couples started their married life whilest awaiting a council house or a house of their own. Literally thousands of couples passed this way on their way to something more permenant and now everything is a permenant structure which was always denied the previous residents. Babies were born here, marriages sometimes ended here too and of course people died here. One terrible case I remember was when a caravan caught fire and two people and two children died if my memory serves me correctly. Now it is an estate of single story houses some of which look terrific. Now how did the caravan park owner get planning permission for these. This place really was the pits for young couples starting out in life with a near mile walk to the nearest bus stop and pushing a tripper with a couple of children and the weeks shopping put a terrible strain on any marriage. I knew many of the chaps who lived here as we went to school together and I bet many of them would be outraged to know their rents went towards creating this haven for single rich folks. Heck there is not even a shop there now nor a telephone call box where people could receive calls as much as make them. This is an insult to all who parted with money to exist here many years ago.

pete