Stapleton Road Shop and Tent Showroom

66-68 Stapleton Road is the darker building (probably painted blue). This was Casey's equipment shop in Stapleton Road. You can just pick out the signwriting, it is to the right of "Kay's" and third left from Bristol City corner shop 74.

These two shops remain today as a supermarket and Post Office.

The Tent showroom was a single story premises at 42-44, this is now a William Hill betting shop.

Below is how they looked in 1970

Easton Road - Head Office

This was the nerve centre with all the Head Office administrative staff needed to run a well oiled mail order business as well as the retail outlets across the country. Outdoor exhibitions at various showgrounds were co-ordinated from here.

There was warehousing on all three floors and a basement, a packing and despatch room. Admin departments such as finance were based here as well as offices for the directors of the company. An ancient lift provided access to all floors. You had to be skilled using this by learning just when to press the stop button to get the lift level with the floor.

It was from here that mass mailings were made to members of the Casey's Camping Club and equipment catalogues sent to customers

Freestone Road, St Philips

At this location was the manufacturing (Adventure Sports) and repair shop for canvas and frames, it was also here that the stock of new tents were kept until the move to the new premises at Tower Hill. Exhibition equipment and Part Exchanged tents were also kept and serviced here, all managed by Ken Newport.

A team of ladies with industrial sewing machines did their work here manufacturing a range of small tents, groundsheets, The workshop was managed by Fred

Cart Lane, Temple Back

An unmanned warehouse on the left hand side (just off shot was the storage place for hundreds probably thousands of sleeping bags. When these needed to be distributed to the shops we would go in a lorry to pickup as many as were needed. The easiest way to get them down was by opening a window and dropping them down to the street below!

There was a basement in this building and it looked the ideal place for rats to live, but perhaps that was just my imagination in this very old and run down.

Jacob Street, Tower Hill:

Over the winter of 1970/71 the company relocated warehousing and showroom and tent repair workshops to old Co-op premises at Jacob Street. They were so large it was possible to combine all the activities on the one site that were originally done at Freestone Road, Cart Lane and the two shop / showrooms in Stapleton Road.

Charterhouse:

The outdoor location where annual Rally's were held and a campsite was open throughout the summer months. Complete with Clubhouse and Bar.

Much of the oudoor photography for the 1972 catalogue was based here.