1972: 84 year-old woman has an INDOOR CARAVAN | Nationwide | Classic BBC Clips

Jack Pizzey tells the amazing story of Mrs Mary Anderson, an 84-year-old camping enthusiast who keeps two caravans (they're Birmingham tourers, since you asked) in her house. She sleeps in one and uses the other as a guest room - and has a third one parked outside for when she fancies a more authentic camping experience.
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[@jamiew6438]

Mrs Anderson , born 1888 and made it onto You Tube .

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

A year older than Hitler

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

@@crazyforcoffee5950 But Hitler gets a lot more views!

[@-NINE-THREE-]

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 And he had WAAAAAAAY more "subscribers*

[@jacobrobson8920]

Same year Jack the Ripper was terrorising Whitechapel

[@basilbrush9075]

@@-NINE-THREE- What a wonderful world we'd be living in if Mrs Anderson were more popular than Hitler

[@The_New_Abnormal_World_Order]

It warms my heart to see people who aren't afraid to be a bit different and eccentric.

[@coffeejack7458]

Had a teacher like that, guy would finish work during winter , put on his skiis and race down a neighboring road (even if it was just ice there) Really interesting guy and fun to be around.

[@theurbancrystalhealer6952]

The sun rises in the East not the West

[@JoDo777]

Yes! We're not robots. People need to disconnect from AI and start thinking for themselves.

[@Captain_Aardvark]

She was sectioned 20 minutes after this interview

[@The_New_Abnormal_World_Order]

@@Captain_Aardvark 😂😢

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

What a great woman. She had the wisdom of age to know 3 caravans was too much. That’s what the garden is for. The overstock.

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

This is a Monty Python sketch! the voice over is clearly a young Michael Palin!

[@hansbambach4854]

lol

[@Van_Der_Lay_Industries]

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 She had 2 caravans inside, and she mentioned that she was thinking about putting another one inside, and ever since her friends have called her Mary "Three Caravans" Anderson.

[@bronazlin4955]

So funny ,I love it!!

[@Nina-vv3ev]

1 is too much lol

[@antman5474]

But Mrs Anderson, why do you have two caravans in your house? Well you see we had to get rid of the third one.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@EmptyGlass99]

Reminds me of Only Fools and Horses when someone asks Rodney why Grandad is watching two televisions. "Well, the other one's being repaired"

[@henryottis295]

Two sheds. Monty Python.

[@OffGridInvestor]

By get rid of she means park outside.

[@OffGridInvestor]

@@EmptyGlass99 my parents had 2 in the 70s. One for picture and the other for sound.

[@agt155]

@@OffGridInvestor What sound did they get out of a caravan?

[@rexthesheep]

This is the level of quirkiness i aspire to have when I'm elderly.

[@bobloblaw9679]

same!

[@smadaf]

Have it now! Don't wait to live!

[@grinsko6741]

Let’s face it, Rex the Sheep: sadly, none of us is a Spring lamb any more.

[@Alphoric]

She was born in the 19th century

[@MeiGunner]

@@smadaf This is What i Say About Jesus , Dont WAit, except him Now , he did not Sin , he lived a Perfect life , ask him to Forgive you , and Make the Creator of the universe Your GOd ! And i will see you in heaven

[@luvit7567]

84 and still as well spoken as ever, what a lovely woman.

[@yippee8570]

I *love* people who are just living their life, happy with who they are and what they have. We need more people like this in the world 😊

[@cottage_pie]

Me 😊

[@coffeejack7458]

@@cottage_pie Your profile picture gave me terminal bone marrow cancer but Hey, live love laugh (or whatever the hell its said)

[@bingsterdc]

I fear Mr. Anderson may have been telling his wife a tall tale regarding indoor campers in America. It's absolutely unheard of. But what a sweet old thing she must've been. Bless her, wherever she is.

[@laska907]

I have personally lived in my camper van in a shop and in the garage below my sister’s house so your statement is invalid

[@alec4672]

You've never seen a garage big enough for a camper??

[@ebikecnx7239]

Trailers inside structures like in Mexico, you build shade around it. Like a big barn.

[@ebikecnx7239]

You haven't watched the movie "The Accountant" yet, have you?

[@bingsterdc]

@@alec4672 The camper wasn’t in her garage, it was in her living room.

[@Craggle88]

When he said “£10 thousand pound bungalow” it hit me with a wave of depression. I bet it costs 3.4 million now

[@TheGramophoneGirl]

Allowing for just inflation £10k in 1972 would be £140,000. But we all know that houses have increased way way above inflation. What I want to know is why have two caravans inside your house?!?! lol

[@grinsko6741]

That struck me as a really high price for 1971. My Mum and Dad moved to the Isle of Wight in 1976, and the tiny bungalow they bought was £14,000.

[@Nick_Jarrett]

"£10,000 in 1970 is equivalent in purchasing power to about £164,825.52 today, an increase of £154,825.52 over 52 years. The pound had an average inflation rate of 5.54% per year between 1970 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 1,548.26%."

[@JohnRowley]

People seem keen to point out inflation to craig but let's face it, even taking inflation into account you aren't getting a decent house anywhere much for less than £250k these days. Anywhere in the more desirable parts of England more like £350-400k and in London it would be more like £500k+.

[@jemmajames6719]

@@JohnRowley Someone said the average price in London is over a million

[@heresjohnny602]

For someone who was 84 she didn't half zip about like a fly. What a trooper.

[@misst.e.a.187]

Lovely perky woman

[@GB-jk4vt]

Nothing out of the ordinary, Proper generation of hardy people! Not like you see today...

[@C-Here]

Ikr? And great looking healthy legs on her!

[@raraszek]

All people from her generation aged this well. It's their organic diet and vigorous livelihoods. Today we eat all chemically processed foods with various hormones and toxins, and most live relatively sedentary lives using their phones and laptops.

[@rossvaneldik3562]

@@raraszek Also, they weren't vaxxed and medicated to the hilt.

[@rushymoto]

The world needs odd people like this who do what they want instead of following the norm. If it wasnt for the town and country planning act more people will have found alternative ways to live.

[@audie-cashstack-uk4881]

It's annoying I met women who had FLED a old pedo liar she shared a narrow boat with middle of no where ex concrete factory canal slip down the road from Lemington spar people on bots in sheds in cabins in half caravan sheds Dutch boats and campers all living almost fre and no council tax entire place was on lease to a young hippy dude who brought the old house turned the entire place into the coolest place to live ever

[@addo2419]

Yes, could've been good

[@johnnymcblaze]

Alternative ways of living SHOULD be illegal. Where would landlords be without tennants? It's all a part of the natural order of things. Like with weapons. They SHOULD be removed from the poor, or the 99% or whatever you call them, because they simply would not do whatever they were told if they had more than just pitchforks. It's a lesson thousands of years old and still just as relevant today.

[@addo2419]

@@johnnymcblaze Wow, you guys in the States still have trolls? We don't get them so much here anymore, they don't work, people aren't ignorant anymore and this one johnnymcblaze isn't even very good, lol 😆

[@scotsam7590]

Oh I do wish they had retained this as a museum. This is just the kind of quirky cleverness I'd like to visit. Also, the comments for this video are so lovely.

[@josephcarrington8834]

What happend to it

[@bobsmith3291]

A bungalow with space for two caravans inside is now surely worth millions

[@grumpyoldmanjoe9735]

"But now she is 84 and settling down." We should all be so lucky.

[@rowan7658]

You’re name is very fitting.

[@mariaevans5793]

Wonderful Wonderful women, she lives as she pleases ,not how other people think she should!!!!!!!😁🇬🇧

[@CharityS-Minnesota]

She and her husband were way ahead of the times!! Absolutely love it 🥰

[@Godwinpounds4333]

Hello 👋 how’re you doing?

[@tjp353]

Why have 2 caravans in the house? Because 3 is too many!

[@misst.e.a.187]

😂😂

[@mrlotusmic]

She would be 134 now. I was two when this came out. Great clip and shows society and the way things look didn’t become as futuristic as we imagined.

[@eyeballpaul1792]

Sorry if this makes u feel old but my dad want even born 😂😂😂

[@JOHNNYCRAIG]

I was 2 as well 😆

[@HVS-gk7oo]

@@eyeballpaul1792 It makes you young, not us old.

[@daftirishmarej1827]

Yes, forget about 'Tomorrow's World"!!!

[@g.6991]

What do you mean ? When she was alive people just died from bad hearts now we have machines that make tiny machines that are installed in your heart with a machine operated by a surgeon there's so much advancement in technology this film had to be restored to be uploaded to a website .

[@garyknight3979]

This is how we'll need to live to keep warm soon

[@feydespiel.]

British eccentricity at its finest....hats off....

[@susanblackman2190]

Wow Mrs Anderson was in fine form and walking around so well for someone who was 84 ! I wonder what happened to her beloved caravans when she passed . Such a great uplifting film x

[@fridgemagnet9831]

Nacy polosi age

[@briansmaller7443]

What a wonderfully eccentric woman she must have been,.. The Granny we all wished we had.

[@pgstorey]

She was actually my granny & I often stayed there

[@briansmaller7443]

@@pgstorey Hold on to those memories my friend.

[@mrn13]

What an elegant personality 🏆

[@Jjudes9665]

Only the British can be this quietly eccentric and firmly believe they are doing everyday things in a perfectly normal way, no different to anyone else.

[@electrictroy2010]

She said she got the idea from crazy Americans

[@AnalogPipeDream]

@@electrictroy2010 I think she heard we had garages in America and got a bit confused

[@daftirishmarej1827]

... like any country "Doesn't everyone do this?", whether it comes to diet, traditions and culture...

[@OffGridInvestor]

And JUSTIFIES it by saying "the AMERICANS do it"....

[@OffGridInvestor]

@@AnalogPipeDream NO. She was talking about you guys doing it during the war. The precursor to OWNING A DOUBLE WIDE....

[@Wulfenburg]

Oh my goodness she is such a sweetheart.

[@mohawksixx]

She's a legend 👏

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

I love caravans as much as she does! I have two inside my bungalow too! Except mine are models that my Dad made me. One is a Gypsy wagon and the other is a replica of the caravan we had through my childhood and into adulthood. . We'd go away most weekends if the weather was nice. My most excited feeling was coming in from school on a Friday and finding my Mum packing towels and clothes and supplies into the caravan on our driveway. I'd be so thrilled to know we were off for a couple of nights. I'd go have a long fun bath for over an hour, then put on my clean nightdress ready for my Dad to get back from work. He'd get the car hitched onto the caravan and I would help letting him know if the indicator lights were working at the back, winding down the towbar connection and cranking up the four legs. Oooh I'm getting excited even remembering it! . We'd only go about an hour's drive away from our home in West Sussex, maybe drive to Kent or Hampshire, if it was just for Friday and Saturday nights. But we'd also go away for a week or more a few times a year, and go all over the UK and into Europe. I loved when we'd pull onto a ferry at Portsmouth, Newhaven or Dover and go over to France! I still remember the ports! Portsmouth to Le Havre, Newhaven to Dieppe and obviously Dover to Calais. . From going all over France, we also toured Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland. Sometimes just in France for a week or two, sometimes doing a few nights in France, 7 nights in Germany and a few nights in France before coming home. Different destinations and durations each time. We'd also sail from Portsmouth to The Isle of Wight...so following caravans, my next love is ferries and the sea. . But we also went all round England, went to Wales and Scotland too. I was born in 1970, and in 1976, which was the hottest British weather recorded at the time, we were caravanning in The New Forest when spontaneous forest fires started! That was a bit hairy getting out! . That reminds me, in total contrast, one time in France we were at a campsite beside a river. It rained and rained and the swollen river broke it's banks and whooshed across the road and flooded the whole campsite! Our outdoor caravan step was below the surface of the water, and my Dad had to move quickly that morning when we realised, before it rose too high to get out. There were people wading across the grass to catch their tents or sleeping bags, the site was full of Gendarmes, (military police officers) rowing in canoes and small dinghies. They had horses and big vans (?) to help pull or tow where necessary. . So many people lost their belongings, particularly those in tents. Luckily we were pitched right on the front entryway of the site, just tucked round by some trees near the road. We were on a patch of more gravelly ground, so my Dad had pretty firm footings for the car tyres to grip to, and we managed to get out relatively easily before the water reached inside the caravan door or flooded the car engine. . Other caravans pitched on the opposite side of the camp were not so lucky, because they were on grassy areas that just churned up mud on the spot and they were stuck. We all knew it had been raining all night, but the river bank giving way happened so suddenly, no one would have expected that. It was surreal, scary and thrilling all at once! . I have so so many caravanning memories that are still so vivid and detailed. I was gutted as a teenager, around 17, when my parents sold it! 😭 I'd love to have THAT exact model to renovate. I don't drive so I couldn't take it anywhere, but I'd put it in my garden as a kind of summer room. Actually it could be my craft and sewing room! I would so love that. I'd find it such a comfort to have it with me, as it was such an integral part of my childhood. . I TOTALLY understand this lady, needing to keep those caravans nearby. I wouldn't go so far as to put a caravan inside my house though, as I think that would take something away from enjoying it. For me, it's the fact they are a compact self-contained home, all on their own! Separate from your everyday home and location. So I would want mine outside, to get that feeling of being somewhere else. . What a lovely, memory-inducing, far-too-short video this was! Having 3 caravans seems perfectly normal to me! 🤪 I'd have a whole campsite of them if I was rich! All to myself. 😁😁😁

[@kerrystevens3683]

What lovely memories.💖

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

@@kerrystevens3683 thank you! ☺️☺️☺️ xxx

[@abcdefg3315]

I mean this completely seriously - have you considered being a caravan salesperson? You make me want to rush out and get one 😂

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

@@abcdefg3315 awwww how sweet! Yes....go buy one, then come and grab me and let's go explore! 😁😁😁 I'm too old to work now (52) which I know isn't a dinosaur exactly, but I have health issues and receive benefits. So I'm a "lady of leisure" .. who's lacking the leisure! Well actually lacking in the lady department too truth be told! 🤣 Not so much lady of leisure and more like a woman with nothing to do! 😁 So yeah, go grab yourself a tourer and set yourself free! And if you fancy dragging me along, I can be packed in half an hour! 😜😜😜 😘

[@jitkasuarez]

This was so captivating to read! You may not be rich today, financially, but your childhood was certainly rich. Hope you're doing well

[@0utlawjase1]

If I make it to my 80s I hope I move like this lady I was born in 72 this video makes me happy and I don't really know why ,peace and love

[@thekarmafarmer608]

What a lovely old dear. A free thinker. Great comments below. She is a well loved and respected woman even so many years after her death.

[@jitkasuarez]

That she sleeps in the caravan does make sense to me, as I'm thinking of the beds that were built inside boxes with a door. You know, like Heathcliff's bed in Wuthering Heights. See, it WOULD be quiet and cozy to sleep in...in fact might help keep heating bills low during winter. It totally makes sense! What a lovely lady--and I bet her little grandson must've loved staying over

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

A Murphy bed.

[@caravanstuff2827]

God bless her... she's on holiday every day of the week!.😎💕🇬🇧

[@RinpochesRose]

Proud to see a traditional level of British eccentricity, I must say 👍

[@Captain_Aardvark]

This is normal. Two bungalows inside a caravan would be eccentric.

[@abbiereynolds8016]

"Why do you have two caravans inside your house?" "Well, we did have 3, but we figured that was too much and we needed the room." Lol british humour, you just got to love it😂😂😂

[@adambrocklehurst4211]

She was being deadly serious

[@Larry]

Why do we never hear about eccentric people like this on TV nowadays? Fed up with the same bunch of celebs over and over again.

[@geraldinegregory.1803]

Real personalities, and real characters existed back then. Everyone and everything is petty, pathetic, and fake these days.

[@tentringer4065]

@@geraldinegregory.1803 and negative, defeatist and bitter apparently too, judging by your post.

[@aloysiussnailchaser272]

A friend of ours has a caravan in his holiday home. He needed another bedroom and this was the easiest way. He’s a bit eccentric. In his younger days he seldom wore a shirt or shoes, whatever the weather, and went everywhere by unicycle.

[@Galloway8786]

It would be a good way to stay warm this winter.

[@MapleMarmite]

Nothing wrong with that! She kept a beautifully clean and tidy home with the additional challenges of the caravans. I had thought of putting a caravan inside a barn and living in that once - this is an up-market version of my thought. Well, as she did it first I guess my idea is a down- market version of hers. I was hoping to see inside the caravan in the garden, too. 👍🏻

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I thought about it to go around THOW laws. Tiny Houses on Wheels.

[@poppybean7807]

Now that made me smile from start to finish 🇬🇧

[@electrictroy2010]

She said she got the idea from crazy Americans

[@gheckopoint8846]

Its possible that those are Burlingham tourers (from Cabus, Lancashire) rather then Birmingham. Burlinghams used to hand build caravans many decades ago and the company still exists as a dealership now.

[@mrscpc1918]

The house in which I live now ( for the past 20+ years ) had a green house in the kitchen in which the previous owner spent his sitting down time. The house was so cold it made it easier to survive.

[@epicredhead13]

"Why do you have two?" "Because we didn't have room for three."

[@user-John666]

Well played that girl. Top notch Britishness 👌🏻

[@electrictroy2010]

She said she got the idea from crazy Americans

[@Seminal_Ideas]

God love her. Eccentric but with her wits about her. I hope she lived for many years after this.

[@Greenwillow]

1. How did she get them into the house? 2. Wonder where they are now? 3. Would love to see the house now? Will probably never find out any answers to these questions.😏 What a wonderful lady😉

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Excellent questions

[@straightpipediesel]

1. There's doors right in front of each. See 1:13 and 1:22.

[@pgstorey]

I can answer all those questions for you. She was my granny

[@timmanc]

“We decided 3 caravans was too much for inside the house as we wanted the room to live in” 🤣 - fair play to her at least she was happy

[@cal28kim]

This is why I love being BRITISH 👍!!!!

[@Pamela-gm5sx]

What a cutie! Good for her!

[@simonsimon325]

Getting up a ladder and cleaning the roof of a caravan at that age.

[@hurtstopee1895]

its like "UP" in reverse. also, as a kid me and my bros had a tent in our bedroom.....

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

"..but I dont think its unusual in America". Well, it is unusual but I love these type of eccentricities. Harms no one and is an amazing converation piece. Its her home and makes it how she likes it. RIP Mr. and Mrs. Anderson

[@OffGridInvestor]

Meanwhile DOUBLE WIDES are STILL an American thing. Which is 2 TRANSPORTABLE buildings stuck together....

[@TheducksOrg]

I checked the British Newspaper Archive and found an article in the 16 July 1967 "The People" Newspaper with some more info. Her husband's name was John Anderson, late of the Indian Army Medical Service and they lived in Dollar, Clackmannashire Scotland. He was still alive at that time. I found a grave record for Mary Agnes Anderson, died 5 Jan 1976 in Dollar, but not him. Unfortunately I can't find any more information, but maybe this will help someone.

[@MrClingclong]

How wonderful to be this nutty.

[@misst.e.a.187]

What a charming lady. She looked very happy with her life. Plenty of room for family to stay. Marvellous

[@robertsmith5970]

I'm in a flat and upstairs can be noisy,so I'd love one such as these to enjoy cosy quiet sleep.Ive actually wondered about putting a shed in my bedroom but this is much better.

[@ianmangham4570]

She was an amazing lady

[@simone222]

Lovely, heartwarming. God bless Mrs. Anderson!

[@Callie342k]

This lady is my hero. She had me at sewing room.

[@rachelcharris]

I absolutely love this 👍 bless her. She loved her husband and camping and looked after things very well and into old age. The end makes me giggle though, 3! 😂

[@aaronjennings8385]

This makes a lot of sense. It's a home inside a home.

[@katperson7332]

Considering the price of heating your house nowadays I can see more people trying to find a way to install a little “room within a room” to sit in with a little safe heater inside. A mini build it yourself prefab/tent/ gazebo/ . The imagination could run riot with ideas. Plus the heat wouldn’t rise up to the ceiling and come down cold!

[@ragdolly22]

@@katperson7332 Heating costs going through the roof I think it’s a feasible idea to have a room within a room. I couldn’t get a caravan in of course but a tent…… yes 👍🇬🇧

[@katperson7332]

@@ragdolly22 or even build a little hut in a room, like the plastic or metal storage kind you can buy prefabricated for your garden. Don’t think it would suit a family, though if you live alone why not? You’ll get some funny looks from any visitors mind you! They’ll think you’ve turned into one of those medieval hermits who lived in a hut in the forest!

[@ragdolly22]

@@katperson7332 I already wear my dressing gown over my clothes in the winter so I’m half way there. 😂

[@katperson7332]

@@ragdolly22 me too, and I even bought a faux sheepskin throw and turned it into a poncho to wear in the winter. That plus a heated throw over me when I’m sitting down keeps me toasty, though when you have to get up to do anything the rest of the house feels so cold in comparison. This winter will be even worse! Get the scarves and balaclavas and gloves on as well I think, even indoors.

[@21stcenturycaveman33]

Love it. It's a shame that there aren't more intriguing, quirky people like this around today. I find them fascinating. Could talk to them all day every day listening to their stories and sharing their memories. Never thought I'd pen these words but ..... thank you BBC!

[@raylarkin5004]

What a sweet elderly lady.❤

[@kasondaleigh]

The entire interview was extremely well done. The reporter was entertaining as well.

[@mantraymedicina367]

“ We did have three” God bless her.

[@SIRDKA]

Having 3 caravans in the house would just be silly.

[@welshlad6427]

Legend ❤️

[@Oj12323]

Pans over to the second one about 15ft away saying it gives you more space 😂🤨

[@eerindiraarora6921]

Brilliant! Both Mrs Anderson and the interviewer in the end, in yet another caravan! Charming.

[@numberstation]

I built two small brick houses inside my caravan having watched this. Sadly, due to the enormous weight my caravan collapsed and upon doing so the houses inside were totally destroyed, leaving me homeless. I’m now sleeping in a tent inside my shed.

[@naysmith5272]

where was your shed built inside of?

[@spookybaba]

Don't you mean you're living in a shed inside your tent?

[@-b_i_b_b_y-]

😆

[@rockabyebaby6111]

I like my fairy tales to make sense... this is bullshit

[@bossykangaroo]

🤣 Sounds like a Monty Python or Spike Milligan or Goodies sketch!

[@DaisyKayBirch]

LOVE this interview, and Mrs. Anderson. Started like a Monty Python skit-- All hail the lovingly rediculous and the eccentric! 🌿💚🌿

[@Godwinpounds4333]

Hi 👋 how’re you doing?

[@animerlon]

Why 2 caravans in the house? Why not? Love this & adore her. I googled her in hopes of finding out what became of the caravans & house after she died, but no luck. I truly hope they kept them in the family. Funnily enough, i discovered a man in the USA named Robert Anderson started a gospel group in 1947 that was named..... The Caravans. 😆

[@pamelamckenzie2685]

I love it its different that lady looks good for her age at that time

[@aqua6613]

She is 84 and settling down 😆 My kinda woman 😆 I'm sure it's comforting after losing her husband and she has many great memories in those caravan ❤️

[@grahaigh]

She was probably born in 1887. Amazing to think how much she'd lived through and seen by the time Jack Pizzey called round. Remarkable piece of film.

[@misst.e.a.187]

Live through both world wars as an adult. I wonder when she died?

[@carolynellis387]

A redoubtable Scottish lady! The best holidays we had as a family was in a caravan touring Scotland This is brilliant video and we have forgotten how to be eccentric in our country.

[@norah3810]

She doesn't sound Scottish. She's English.

[@basilbrush9075]

@@norah3810 i think she's what i call 'posh scottish'

[@OffGridInvestor]

ENGLISH.....

[@OffGridInvestor]

@@basilbrush9075 sounds more like upper class British. NOT AT ALL Scottish

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Na mate, Your all wrong. That sweet old dear has a Jewish accent. A cockney bird would have spoken very differently to her.

[@JMF247]

This is the last time that bbc news just asked questions, and reported what happened. No speculation, no agenda, just reporting on something.

[@ambrsanford3703]

She looks like a habitual smiler. 🙂

[@nazarene5680]

Good luck to the lady. She’s still doing what she and her husband did when they were younger. And happy.

[@flybobbie1449]

I slept in a tent in my living room, it was warmer than the bedroom in winter. Chucked mattress inside the tent, out of draughts.

[@uptowndisco2]

price of heating this year there might be more doing the same this year lol

[@shantelfox5742]

Sounds awesome

[@unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336]

Thank you, BBC, for posting these gems.

[@richdorak1547]

I agree. Everyone knows that 3 is too many. God bless her.

[@krisvind1715]

And then she walked outside to the third one

[@obibraxton2232]

Wow I’d like to know how her grandson is doing her grandson still be alive? Also be good to find out what happened to the house aswell as the caravans.

[@missworm]

Yea, I need to know!

[@outfromtheshadows]

I was wondering the very same.

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Good questions.

[@starcorpvncj]

I heard the house is occupied by squattors from the Congo and caravans were broken up and used for firewood to save money on coal. Happy now you know?

[@PupRiku]

This is such an amazing idea. Travel everywhere in a carvan...you're going to want to keep it. Now it can be part of your house.

[@jaywalker3087]

I remember holidays in caravans like those. Happy days.

[@FC-hj9ub]

She's in fabulous shape for her age, climbing up on ladders. The 3rd caravan was beautiful

[@richardbrown1189]

I heard a story once about a man who rebuilt a vintage car in his living room and then had to knock the wall down to get it out.

[@OffGridInvestor]

You ever see the top gear one? Guy built a car in the kitchen, started it inside for Clarkson and then proceeded to have a guy on an excavator rip the KITCHEN WALL out on camera to get it out.

[@kme]

My dad, my uncle, and my Pops (their dad) built a motorboat in my Nana and Pops' house in the 50s. My Nana was annoyed, saying wtf are you doing? How are you planning on getting it out? You're NOT knocking holes in my house! Pops bribed my aunt to take her out for the day and while they were away... *coughs* my Nana got 'new French doors'. That was how they got the boat out. (she was absolutely pissed when she got home tho. Lol)

[@ahaunslattery4600]

I absolutely love caravans ,I’d do the same. Only the old ones though.

[@CaravanClubCurator]

It was great to see the vintage Caravan Club badge in use 🙂

[@elizabethcherry920]

I use to live in a 24ft Jayco travel trailer and there are many nights that I wish there was a way to get another one, but I thought of parking it indoors (ok maybe indoors if the building is a warehouse. Kudos to this lady, she's alright, it's just the world that doesn't understand

[@henntendo]

0:36 for context, the van was only 36 then. The modern equivalent of would be a 1986 Caravan. Time flies!

[@borderlands6606]

I recently sold a 1981 caravan and can remember holidays in ones like Mrs Anderson's outdoor caravan. Whereas we used to play board games, read a book or tell stories, modern touring caravan owners seem to watch the goggle box all night.

[@4N50N]

You can hear the Victorian rolling R sound when she speaks.

[@tombaker9341]

Marvellous historical valuable.

[@jpfizzle1]

I was walking through an RV museum and was blown away seeing the caravans from the 1930s. By the early 70s they were only 30 to 40 years old and probable didn’t seem as ancient as when I saw them at nearly 100 years old

[@turnip5359]

Even caravans are considered old at 20 years, hence why many insurers won't insure caravan 20 years and older (It's also very very profitable as claims are hardly ever made but I won't get into that lol)

[@stewartwebb5699]

Amazing piece of history. Wonder what ever happened to he and her caravans!

[@starcorpvncj]

She's dust along with her husband because there is no heavenly afterlife. It's all invented, just like the Happy Hunint Grounds, or the Halls of Valhalla. The caravans were broken up and take to the tip years ago. There, is your curiosity satisfied now?

[@blahdeblaaah9445]

What a wonderful piece!

[@vacafuega]

Caravans are so cosy and in some ways very practical - and extremely quick to heat, much smaller air volume than a whole room! I'd love to do something like this, I miss staying in my fave caravan :)

[@truthnotopinion3659]

Got to be English and born in the 50's to 70's to really appreciate just how far we are sliding into the abyss, bye old England I will so miss you!

[@AI_admin]

I wonder how her grand children are doing? probably retired by now .... life, goes in the blink of an eye.

[@aperson1905]

Living mobile life, then being penned in a fixed brick building. She lived as she wanted.

[@nickyaerobones]

My nan had our 3 bedroom house built in 1947 for £2000. I am determined to be as eccentric as I can as I get older. I'm Bloody loving it so far !!

[@annainspain5176]

"A pleasant shade of battleship grey." Pleasant.