The Kingsbury Water Park Club Site in the West Midlands is our site of choice this time for a short 3 night, Saturday to Tuesday break in July.The site is just a short hop off the M42 in the Midlands, so we thought maybe a 2 hour drive from our home in West Yorkshire, which itself is a similarly short-leap off the M62 near Leeds. But alas no, stick another hour onto that time estimate given the volume of traffic on the M1 and a minor accident which ground everyone to a crawl just north of Nottingham.
Still we got to the site in plenty of time to execute our now well practiced technique of pitching-up and erecting our full-awning, which incidently, took a personal best of 48 minutes on this occasion; helped no doubt by sunny, wind free conditions upon arrival and right through until early evening.
As a comparison, the first time we pitched it, 2 hours was the standard! Practice makes perfect!Tents!
After the initial and obligatory cuppa and settling in we took a wander around the site which was practically full when we arrived on the Saturday afternoon, mainly with families who by and large, all seemed to be in tents of varying sizes which out numbered the vans I would say, by quite a wide margin.It's quite good to see tents at a camping and caravannn site as by and large (if the club's magazine is anything to go by) there is often a bias towards the caravan owning members. So here's too the tenters!
On the Sunday morning we took a trip into the nearby town of Tamworth for a walk about and to top-up on some supplies which we'd forgotten to pack (mainly a bottle of washing-up liquid).Tamworth itself is a fairly nondescript but not unpleasant town in my book which has undergone a recent rapid expansion judging by the number of new house builds we passed on the way in. Its most redeeming feature that we could see is a park or "Castle Pleasure Grounds" as they are named, surrounding a moat and baillie style castle which overlooks the town.
At the end of Tamworth's main shopping street is an estate agents which has the sign "The Spot"on two sides of its building. This name apparently derives from the times when the building was used as a meeting point for people, as in "We'll meet you at the spot at the end of George Street".
This story I have been told by my mum-in-law, now in her 60s but who as a young girl; lived in a flat above this as now estate agents, but as then; a shoe shop called Dunn's.
During her youth, the building was commonly called The Spot, so it's nice to see the current building's incumbants, erecting signage which helps keep this tradition alive.
However by the afternoon the following day; Sunday; the majority had gone leaving we caravanners to battle it out against the heavy rains which were working their way towards us.
Taking the usual high standards of cleanliness in the bog-block and around the site in general that one can expect from CCC sites as read; the main aspect to note is that the site itself is a stone's through from the nearby Kingsbury Water Park - in fact a small gate at the bottom of the site, leads straight into the park!. Great for walking the pooch and worthy of future reference.360 Degree Site Tour
There's a cool 360 degree tour of the site on the CCC website which can be viewed by following this link.Pools = Lakes
Walking into the adjacent water park, where we found quite a few "pools" as they are called. Lakes more like it I would say which are obviously man made by the looks of them (perhaps clay-pits or open cast mining at some point in the past) but now completely taken over by nature and well managed so that everything looks as nature intended.These are yet to be fully explored, our next post about this site will report back.
Tamworth
On the Sunday morning we took a trip into the nearby town of Tamworth for a walk about and to top-up on some supplies which we'd forgotten to pack (mainly a bottle of washing-up liquid).Tamworth itself is a fairly nondescript but not unpleasant town in my book which has undergone a recent rapid expansion judging by the number of new house builds we passed on the way in. Its most redeeming feature that we could see is a park or "Castle Pleasure Grounds" as they are named, surrounding a moat and baillie style castle which overlooks the town.
On the morning of our visit, the sun was out in force as were the locals which gave the park a nice, relaxed but busy atmosphere. A band stand, complete with performing orchestra at the foot of the castle added to the summery feel of the day.
Unusually for us, we didn't go into the castle itself, being restricted by our pooch, not to mention the £5 each entry fee, so instead I resorted to a few external pics.The Spot
At the end of Tamworth's main shopping street is an estate agents which has the sign "The Spot"on two sides of its building. This name apparently derives from the times when the building was used as a meeting point for people, as in "We'll meet you at the spot at the end of George Street".
This story I have been told by my mum-in-law, now in her 60s but who as a young girl; lived in a flat above this as now estate agents, but as then; a shoe shop called Dunn's.
During her youth, the building was commonly called The Spot, so it's nice to see the current building's incumbants, erecting signage which helps keep this tradition alive.
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