Severn Beach Memory from the 1950's

When I was a
young child I lived with my family in a chalet which was little more than a
wooden hut situated on a farm in Severn Beach. This would have been around
1950 / 1953 when I was between 2 and 5 years old, I cannot remember the exact
location but it was not far away from the village, somewhere down a
lane

There were
many families living this way in the area, I think they were people that had
become homeless at the end of the war and were waiting for the new council
housing estates to be built around Bristol.  Some people lived in converted
single Decker buses converted into caravan type homes.  Although I was very
young I can still remember it and my family and a number of the others that
lived this way moved into the new estate at Lawrence Weston around 1953, these
houses seemed like palaces to us with electric light, water on tap, indoor
bathrooms and toilets.

Notes by:  Anon