HOME IN A CARAVAN
SITE ON WASTE GROUND. WIDOW’S REFUSAL TO LEAVE. Eighty-years-old Mrs Charity Smith the widow of an old-time Brighton showman, has been threatened with expulsion from the caravan that has been her home for half a century. The caravan stands on a piece of waste ground in the corporation .tramway depot, and an application was lately made in the county court for its removal so that the works can be extended. The judge decided that Mrs Smith must go, but she is making a fight for it. She believes that her caravan is her castle. She was married there, her 12 children were born there, her husband died there, and there she hopes to spend the rest of her days. . Mrs Smith declares that she could not bear to live in a house after being in a caravan all these years. She likes to hear the tramway cars also, as they remind her of the roundabouts that her husband used to run when the depot was a fair ground.
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Southland Times, Issue 21000, 5 February 1930, Page 13
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172HOME IN A CARAVAN Southland Times, Issue 21000, 5 February 1930, Page 13
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