Tom's Field

The site had been a smallholding until it became a campsite. There are several old quarry heads and the recently restored Stone Room was once used as a Banker for the dressing of the stone. The shop was built from a Marley Kit in the late 1960s? The old Nissen Hut When the we took over the campsite all those years ago no one could deny that the Nissen hut was dilapidated. It was almost full floor to ceiling with piles of unimaginable rubbish and rats that nested happily and cosily in the rotting heaps.  The predecessors had purchased the hut sometime after the war [second world] for the purpose of keeping chickens, a sort of deep litter arrangement, deep litter was a habit they found to break! When it rained it was wetter inside the building than out. It was close to being derelict. It was clear, however that permission to demolish and rebuild would not be given. It had to be reconstructed. The particular construction was double skinned to give some element of thermal ins