I'm your host, Laura Baxter.

It was a privileged upbringing.

It was like living permanently on a film set, surrounded by animals, surrounded by enormous characters from every single walk of life.

People literally did run away to join the circus.

And it was a huge operation.

Our big top, which was canvas, held 6,000 people.

We were moving that every week, sometimes for three days in a smaller town.

So before that development, what did it look like? Did you carry on running it similar to Butlins?