gunsite farm was at the end of limekiln lane holbury, it was a ww2 anti aircraft emplacement, put there to protect beulieu arodrome 1mile away across the forest. in 1958 my father, who was working on ground levelling machines in the new esso refinery, put the first caravan on a ploughed field in the far left hand corner under an oak tree. soon my uncle jim and aunty muriel pitched up , to be joined by other contractors and thier families. my dad ran a hosepipe from the old buildings left from the war, across the field to a wooden shed that built out of esso timber with dozens of nail holes in it to make us a shower , that was all we had, a bit nippy when the ice was on the ground !! phil trant got his first contract to put a gravel track across the field, using picks,shovels and wheelbarrows liberated from esso . there were several irish families there, shaemus brannigan i met again 45 yrs later, there was a tall comical fella called paddy, i remember him pouring a tin of blue paint on the roof of a tipper and spreading it out with a yard broom. just been told by my dad that he was 1 of 3 brothers called smith, 1 of who lives at netley marsh near totton, we lived there for 4-5 yrs, my brother Alan and me had great time playing on the gun turrets and ammo stores, paddeling a 45gallon drum cut in half across the millpond behind the site, my dad decided to stay when the contract in esso ended, and started a mobile fruit&veg round, we moved to a bungalow in holbury drove, where dad started reynolds removals,which he sold to bishops move on his retirement, that shed is still at the bottom of his garden 54yrs later.