Carry On Camping

 

MR J FIDDLER WELCOMES YOU TO HIS CAMP

 

Set in beautiful, sunny Devon, Paradise Camp has everything you need for a quiet, relaxing holiday, come rain or shine our freshly painted trees simulate the perfect English Summer, so whether you are camping alone, with friends or even the whole family come to Camp Paradise and surround yourself with all that nature has to offer.

Paradise has everything you could want from a modern day field and don't worry we still provide all the necessities you could want while you are at one with nature, including a toilet block, you won't have to spend a penny when you need to go, our toilets are free to use and are even separated between men and women, all you need to bring is your own toilet paper!

Camper's Paradise Our Modern Day Field Set In The Beautiful Devon Countryside

Everyone enjoys an invigorating shower first thing in the morning or after a busy day of doing whatever takes your fancy and our ablutions hut is the perfect place to stimulate and wash all your worries away. With showers, sinks and mirrors it's easy to forget you're in the middle of the Devonshire countryside. Have you forgotten your soap? Well don't worry the luxurious wooden interior comes with holes between the gender assigned facilities, allowing for easy communication or passage with your other half or partner, yes we know our ablutions hut will leave you feeling totally refreshed and revitalised!

Our Shower Block Comes With Passage Holes

MEMBERSHIP £1                  BOOKING FEE £1                  RENT £1 PER WEEK

Who says Paradise doesn't come cheap? Here at Paradise Camp you will love our prices, with rent just £1 per week, per person or per tent which ever is the greater, we also charge a booking fee of £1 per person and if you aren't already a member then join us for, yes you guessed it just £1 per person! Mr Fiddler is also keeping check of the prices to ensure an affordable and comfortable stay.

Need something to eat? Did you forget to pack something? Have you run out of bacon? Can't find any crumpet? The Camp Shop provides everything from food and drink to washing lines and dinghies that you can hire while you are at Paradise, the Camp Shop will leave you wanting nothing. The Camp Cafe with outside seating is also a popular spot at Paradise providing a limited range of beverages and snacks it is also a great place to socialise and gossip with other campers.

Our Camp Shop Has Most Of Your Camping Needs

We accommodate tents of all sizes from small, singular to family sized, there is room for everyone in Paradise, we also take large bookings, so if you have a group of friends, colleagues or even a class who want to visit us let us know and our friendly team will show you where to stick the pole up but please book early to avoid disappointment.

Cramped Or Spacious Paradise Has Room For Your Tent

Check out our bulletin board, we offer exercise classes for those in need of some morning stretching and bending, these are always popular with both participants and viewers and come in handy if you have a long walk ahead of you, also popular are our lectures on wildlife and bird watching.

Our Exercise Classes Are Always Popular

In need of an excursion? Standfast Abbey is a historical and local attraction that provides an interesting day out, watch the monks create their own water and relax and unwind in the beautiful surrounding gardens. Postcards and water available from the giftshop.

We are in no way affiliated with the nudist Paradise Camp site and as a family orientated site it is a rule that campers should remain clothed at all times when in public!

Now that you have read what we have to offer you here at Paradise, why not read these reviews from happy campers!

Mr Sid Boggle

What a bleedin dump! As soon as we got there Mr Fiddler was after our money, we weren't even allowed to put a washing line up and worst of all everyone was wearing clothes! I liked the exercise classes though!

Mrs Harriet Potter

We are regular campers at Paradise and my husband and I always enjoy our stay, this year we made a new friend and shared our tent with him as well as our eggs, bacon and even our pea soup!  Next year my husband wants to go somewhere else!

Mr Kenneth Soaper

I took a class of girls there for a summer break, they enjoyed the fresh air and mixing with the older, male campers however, there were some beastly looking men hanging around the shower block and the girls snuck out to a rave in the next field!

Following on from my previous posts detailing Carry On Nurse and Carry On Abroad my third instalment presents perhaps the most famous of all the Carry On Films, Carry On Camping. The film was certainly one of the most successful becoming the biggest box office hit in the Uk in 1969. Yes us English folk do like our holidays and in true Carry On style nothing seems to go right for our hapless holidaymakers, who bring their mayhem and saucy antics to sunny Devon.

 The simple storyline follows the carry on team off on their holidays, vacationing in Paradise, no not some far flung, sun drenched, palm tree lined island but a camp in a damp field, located in the middle of nowhere and it soon becomes apparent that Paradise is anything but it's alluring name. 

Joan Fussey (Joan Sims) and Anthea Meeks (Dilys Laye) are taken by their gentlemen friends Sid Boggle (Sid James) and Bernie Lugg (Bernard Bresslaw) on a date to the local cinema, being the true gentlemen that they are instead of taking them to see The Sound Of Music they see Paradise a rather rude documentary about a nudist camp. Later Sid and Bernie decided to take their lady friends to this camp in an attempt to further their relationships and so invest in some new camping equipment also planning a camping trip is Charlie Muggins (Charles Hawtrey) who purchases his new gear from the same store. Adding to the list of holidaymakers is a class of naughty school girls and their teachers, who seem to be developing a relationship of their own and a married couple who arrive by tandem bicycle, Mr Peter Potter (Terry Scot) and Harriet Potter (Betty Marsden). 

The wide array of campers allowed the film to feature most of the regular Carry On team including, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Peter Butterworth and Bernard Bresslaw, with only Kenneth Connor not appearing. Carry On Camping would be the last of four 'Carry On' appearances by the actress Dilys Laye, she had previously featured in Carry On Crusing with only four days notice after Joan Sims became became ill and was unable to appear, Carry On Spying and Carry On Doctor.

To keep the budget low Pinewood Studios used an orchard they owned to appear as Camp Paradise and although Carry On Camping is set during the summer months filming actually took place during the Autumn from 7th October - 22nd November 1968 this meant that the field was covered in mud and the trees were losing their leaves to combat this problem leaves were painted green and stuck back onto the trees to give the illusion of a pleasant summer setting, the total cost of the budget would eventually be £208,000. Several years later the same land was used to film Carry On Behind this time doubling as a caravan park.

The now famous scene where Barbara Windsor's bra comes flying off during an exercise routine was made using a simple fishing line, a prop man pulled the line and off came the bra however during shooting he yanked the line to hard pulling Barbara into the mud still attached to the bra, the second time she revealed too much of her breasts that was intended and so had to be filmed a third time, despite the Carry On series having a saucy reputation Carry On Camping the 17th film in the series was the first to feature full female topless nudity, achieved at the start of the film where the couples portrayed by Sid James, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw and Dilys Laye are watching a nudist film, much to the ladies annoyance.

1969 became the highpoint of the Carry On Series' success with not only Carry On Camping becoming the most successful film at the British Box Office but also Carry On Up The Khyber becoming the second.