I used to see these occasionally when a child and always wondered how the carriage had come to be in a field, and what it was like to live in one. Now I'm an adult I'm pleased I never had to find out.
South Shields, eh? Have you visited the partially reconstructed Arbeia Roman Fort, oddly down a Victorian terrace just off the main coastal road?
Great pic.
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British multi-genre fiction author who haunts historical sites - check out her publication 'Escape Into History'. For novel links: www.lindaacaster.com
Our residence was in an old Pullman carriage, Linda. Still on its wheels and parked five feet from the cliff edge on farmland near Atwick. Initially, no electricity and our only heating was a paraffin-fuelled hurricane lamp. Water from an outside…
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