Weekend visitors

The Chalets or huts

At the back of the old petrol pump there used to be gates, which backed on to Boss’s house, (Yew Tree House) which went down to the Mease.  Here there used to be big wooden fisherman’s huts. The ‘huts’ or chalets had two bedrooms, a kitchen and a main room that had a log/coal fire.  The bedrooms were heated by calor gas. 

Several people came from Birmingham to camp, and gradually built their own huts with gardens- a real home from home. The families included: Garfields, Averys, Ellises, Joneses, Faulkners and others.

A couple of engagements and marriages took place between visitors and villagers throughout the years.