Wagons, tents and camps
Tents
Tents
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Left. This very interesting postcard appears in two coloured versions and this b&w one (there may be a b&w in the other version but I have yet to see one). I found some evidence that it was taken in Scotland but clearly they are not Nawken. I think they are Scandinavian Gypsies. Dates from c 1904 so might be connected with the famous 'German' invasion but look to me to be different people.
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Camps
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Cocker Smith and family - copyright Barrie Law
Fortune Green, 1887
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Gypsy camp, Hainault
Left, photo from 1908. See camp on left.
Above, Cookham. Above left, 1870; below right, copyright Barrie Law; further below, a picture of a wagon c 1840. It is obviously a brush wagon made from a converted stagecoach.
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Above, Essex encampment
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Below, Boswells (probably Derbyshire
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Wagons
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Above and right, wagon at Shibden Hall, Halifax
Above and the two below, copyright Barrie Law
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Left, Ourer Lane, Coulshott. Above, copyright Barrie Law
Left, bad weather at Appleby
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The following ten photos show wagon, which I got in (I think) 1958 and had to sell in about 1968. My name isn't yet on the side in the first picture.
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Sites and Housing
Above left and right and below, Gypsy 'quarter', Skipton, 1962
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