La Rosa caravan site sits in a wooded vale on the North Yorkshire Moors. Photograph: Kevin RushbyAmanda Boorman was living in an ex-British Rail canteen truck when she had the idea for La Rosa, "a caravan site themed around the gypsy-traveller life and made up of all different second-hand vans".Photograph: Kevin RushbyInside the chrome gypsy wagon.Photograph: Kevin Rushby
Detail inside the chrome gypsy wagon. Each van is filled with the fruits of a lifetime spent browsing flea markets and car boot sales. Photograph: Kevin RushbyThe outside of one of the chrome gypsy wagons.Photograph: Kevin RushbyInside the Elvis-themed caravan.Photograph: Kevin RushbyJust some of the Elvis-themed decor.Photograph: Kevin RushbyEvenings are often spent in the circus tent that was made by a man who did actually run away with the circus.Photograph: Kevin RushbyThe circus tent doubles up as self-service café and dressing-up playroom.Photograph: Kevin RushbyLike the caravans it is filled with kitsch gleaned from second-hand outlets.Photograph: Kevin RushbyA stone Buddha sits meditating among the greenery.Photograph: Kevin RushbyThe toilet — actually a pre-war shepherd's hut with a fortune-teller’s sign outside — is a compost loo in keeping with the green ethos of the placePhotograph: Kevin RushbyShanty Shack came from a lady whose house was stuffed with 1950s memorabilia. Photograph: Kevin RushbyMore woods craftPhotograph: Kevin RushbyThe caravans are themed according to decor — this one is the safari van.Photograph: Kevin RushbyThe Santa Maria van was once the home of an Irish Catholic family. Photograph: Kevin RushbyThe boot of a 1960s Austin Woleseley, decorated with beads and plastic flowers. Photograph: Kevin Rushby
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