1. We believe that Family matters...The Grove was purchased in 1936 by my (Ruth's) Grandparents Bob and Hilda. At that time they didn't know they were pregnant with my Dad, John and apparently wouldn't have purchased the property if they had known. If you want more info on this then check out https://thegrovecromer.co.uk/history/. Anyway, they purchased The Grove and brought up 4 children with...
I was holding out for getting a few bookings last weekend for the glamping site, but we didn't get many. We looked at the weather and noticed it was going to be sunny all weekend and so we text a few friends to see if they fancied coming along with us - and they did! Last minute - off we went. We hadn't ever stayed as a family in the Shepherd's Lodge before and wanted to try it out... it didn't disappoint...
This is where it all started... I had been glamping for my friend Jen's 30th Birthday and thought it would be great to do something similar at The Grove. So I called my brothers, Richard and Chris and asked if they considered setting up a Glamping site. They said that they already had plans to bring a company in to do glamping. That didn't really work very well, so when I offered to set a site up the...
Let's go back to the start...This is me (Ruth, at the front of the shot) and my four siblings camping in our garden when we were children. As you can tell by the photo, I'm not sure my oldest brother, Richard, was that impressed with the idea of spending the night under canvas with his younger brother and sisters, but generally these were very happy memories. My parents, John and Ann Graveling, would...