I'm not sure, but there are at least 2 different people with websites referencing this coin. On Amazon, a guy named "CoinMountain" sold one for GBP 4,99 http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/GB-LITTLESEA-CAMP-TOKEN-6D-C1940-SCARCE-B365_W0QQitemZ330203806706QQihZ014QQcategoryZ72386QQcmdZViewItem And the shop owner of "Coins of Beeston" ("cobwrightfortishe" on EBay) sells it too (check the military section): http://hometown.aol.co.uk/micobwright/tokenlist.html If you don't want to open a .doc(ument), Google's got an HTML-transcript too http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:hometown.aol.co.uk/micobwright/stock/military.doc Maybe you could get in touch with them..

yes they list it as military but I am not convinced; I believe it is a holiday camp token for grab-it machine or similar probably about c1950. there must be someone out there who has used these they seem reasonably common. i would love to get proof one way or other. i believe there are decimal varieties for the above machine but have not sighted these.

Yeah, me neither. If it had been military, and there were coins with Littlesea Camp inscripted on them, you'd expect to find a lot more references to the name, both for the fact that the camp name should have survived in military stories but also since the coins would have been worth a lot more by now. Instead, the hypothesis that they were tokens used in what's now called Littlesea Holiday Park (www.littleseaholidaypark.co.uk/) seems more likely, but then again, it's weird that the phrase "Littlesea Camp" seems lost in history. Maybe the quest could be directioned towards first answering that question: Was Littlesea Holiday Park once called Littlesea Camp? That could be confirmed first, by calling or writing them, and a time-range would be usefull too, to support your guess of the 1950s. I've found just one written record of the term, on an old postcard. From the look of it, it's very similar to what I've seen of the current Holiday Park. (if only the postcard could be dated.... ;-)) Source: http://cgi.ebay.com/WEYMOUTH-Lynch-Farm-Littlesea-Camp-old-postcard_W0QQitemZ320214915474QQihZ011QQcategoryZ63812QQcmdZViewItem

I have already contacted owners Haven Holidays they know nothing; but I think this company not the original owners. it has probably passed through several owners by now,they suggested the following link which i have pursued also. http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_forum_topics.asp?ForumID=2&PagePosition=20

Hmm... I would try to get my hands on historical accounts of the place and hope to find a witness of some sort through there. It's a long shot, but better than nothing. I got a little bit more information on the name of the camp. On the postcard, it was denoted "Littlesea Camp, Lynch Farm, Weymouth". In the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Published 1929) it's called "Littlesea Caravan Camp (Lynch Farm)" with a few more indications of the location: "The second site, Littlesea, starts below Littlesea Caravan Camp (Lynch Farm) about 1 mile west of Wyke Regis, and not a few miles east as stated, and runs up to the foreshore below Furzedown Farm." Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=UmgWAAAAIAAJ&q=Littlesea+camp&pgis=1 and http://books.google.com/books?id=sTUJAAAAIAAJ&q=littlesea+site&pgis=1 Both Lynch Farm and Littlesea are briefly mentioned in the following detailed historical account of the above mentioned village Wyke Regis: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~wykedh/ (go to History Forum and then "A History of Wyke Regis (published in 1998)"; Lynch Farm is mentioned in Chapter 7 and Littlesea several times). Again, it's a long shot, but the owner of the website seems to have put lots of effort into making it; maybe he can refer you to someone that might know more about the history of the campsite.

PS: That last historical website also contains a list of business links, one of which is to a place that he calls "Pebble Bank Holiday Park". The link is dead, but the park exists: http://www.pebblebank.co.uk/ It's called Pebble Bank Caravan Park... I'd check if they changed "Littlesea" in "Pebble Bank", maybe to distinguish themselves from the already existing and larger Littlesea Holiday Park. It EXACTLY fits the description of 1 mile west of Wyke Regis, look at Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=90+Camp+Road,+Wyke+Regis,+Weymouth,+Dorset&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.626896,81.738281&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=50.595061,-2.482138&spn=0.013158,0.039911&z=15&iwloc=addr

all this has been a great help; I have sent an email to the Wyke history page and await a reply. I see too the royal engineers were nearby for a long while; this could be a good lead too. The Whitehead torpedo works get a big mention as well, they also had tokens in use.

Hi malj, I saw you already posted a question for another token ;-) Did you find out anything more about this one? How about Pebble Bank Caravan Park, did you contact them too..?

no, still waiting reply from history page will try another email address but give them a week or so first also will retry Pebblebank now.

no luck yet. wyke regis page refused my email and pebble bank appear to have ignored my email. History forum too have not replied. has anyone any other suggestions?