Kids

 

This must have been the first holiday we ever had – a wet week in a caravan on Hayling Island.  At a guess this would have been 1956 or 1957.  That’s the sort of question we always used to be able to ask Babs, but can’t now of course.

These kids seem to be having a good time, despite the weather and the caravan, which if I remember correctly was very small.

Anne, Bab’s half sister, Christopher in the middle and Steven on the right obviously had something to laugh about.

Steven

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