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<p>During the 1970s my parents lived in Seaford, just 11 km from
Peacehaven. They hated Peacehaven because it had a huge caravan
site on it, full of fixed caravans, which they felt was a blot on
the landscape. The caravans were not quite what Americans call
mobile homes because they were not intended to be mobile, although
as they could be moved they enjoyed (perhaps still do) some tax
benefit. I have some dim memory that if you moved them once a year
you didn't have to pay local tax (rates), but Mr Google could not
confirm this.</p>
<p>Clara Jones's informative article "Virginia Woolf and 'The Villa
Jones' (1931)" (WOOLF STUDIES ANNUAL Volume 22, 2016), has a
footnote that mentions Peacehaven, refers to an unpublished letter
of Woolf's, and discusses the class symbolism of buildings such as
the villa in Woolf's work. I think that an element of class
snobbery entered into my parents' disapproval of the Peacehaven
caravan park, which they presumed (correctly?) would have a
lower-class clientele, but they were right that it was (is?) an
eyesore. <br>
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<p>In 1987, during the great storm, the site suffered major damage;
photos of the devastation resemble those were are used to seeing
from the southern US states, but not from the UK.</p>
<p>Jeremy H<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08.02.2021 11:55, Stuart N. Clarke
via Vwoolf wrote:<br>
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<div>As well as VW, it’s worth reading LW describing a walk on
4? August 1914 and discussing Peacehaven in “Beginning
Again”, pp. 146-8. For those who don’t have the 5-vol. edn,
good luck finding this in any other edn! Nothing in the
index to help. Finding something you half remember in his
auto is often a challenge. Take something like “any
sensible man must be a feminist” – try finding that again.</div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
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