In pictures: Life in a park home

The couple had been visiting friends at the park for years, and liked the lifestyle.

One of Deanland Wood Park's selling points is that it is a secure and tranquil community of "like-minded people".

Myra says the growing multi-racial nature of their former home town was one factor in their decision to move. "I don't believe in all this mixing," she says.

"But Morris didn't want to come, he wanted bricks and mortar. Then he rang me one day and said he'd bought a plot."