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        With Tent and Rucksack

        Who needs a continental holiday when with tent and rucksack one can set forth for fresh fields and the bliss of being under canvas, with the primus on and super friendly neighbours?

        Promotional 1938 20 mins Silent

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        Overview

        As a battle rages between the professional middle classes and the landowners over access to the countryside, the Camping and Caravanning Club looks to extend the appeal of the great outdoors. Just a year before the outbreak of war in 1939, our young couple of prospective campers find out what camping is all about, with sleeping bags and airbeds, folk dancing, the Feast of Lanterns and plenty of zealous help from other seasoned campers.

        The 1930s was a pivotal decade for outdoor recreation. By 1938 the Camping and Caravanning Club had a membership of 8,500, having given birth to the British Caravanners Club in 1937. Getting outdoors became very fashionable, with the mass trespass on Kinder Scout and the formation of the Rambler’s Association in 1932. The Holidays with Pay Act came into force in 1938 while some lucky children from deprived urban areas were given holidays in the countryside for their physical and moral wellbeing, with similar thinking behind the Physical Training and Recreation Act of 1937: to promote the outdoors as a means to physical fitness and a fuller life through hygiene, nutrition and even “the training of the mind”.

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