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What are your earliest childhood holiday memories?

I'm one of six kids and Dad worked for the electricity board. We lived in a council house, so there was very little money, but there would be day trips to Weymouth. When I was older, we went on a caravan holiday which, in retrospect, was absolutely awful.

The caravan was cold, there wasn't sufficient bedding and the toilet was a corrugated-iron shack. At the time

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