We have been privileged enough to be allowed to document the full painting process of a brand new rare “Jowet” Living Wagon or Vardo. Once the wagon is completed we will be showing images of the full process. This is […]
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Exploring Doncaster Museum’s Community Space
06/05/2016
Well, I am back blogging again, had a nice day today we, Thats Me and Violet had a nice stroll over to the Doncaster Museum, We wanted to see and get a feel for the exhibition Space. We have an […]
Gypsies (and Travellers) We Have a Problem!
19/04/2016
OK, so now i have your attention. let me tell you about our issue. its quite simple really. Our Project is funded to look at Doncaster G&T Heritage 1900-2000. the Problem? The Community members we have interviewed in Doncaster, they […]
Hi welcome to my first blog have never written a blog of any kind and I have certainly never published one, so here we go. I am the Cultural Heritage Project Assistant, Anything technical I tend to leave to […]
We set up an appointment to go look through the Doncaster Archive. We were a little surprised to find and old school with some signage. The experience was one i would recommend, although strange, it was fun. I expected a […]
Gypsy & Travellers hold faith in God dear to them, and some of us value our relationship with God above anything else in our lives. I want to tell you about the big building in Askern, Doncaster. Why we love […]
I understand peoples trepidation at the idea of this project. I get it, no really I do. We have been laughed at, ridiculed, exposed and basically shown up by the media. Yes we tried to get involved, We tried to […]
The short photography course was designed to establish an interest in the photography as an art and a way to record history. The course is aimed at young people who have little or no knowledge of the skill. Young people […]
A Hand that could tell a thousand tales Sat in my aunties little front room, I watch the smoke rise in wispy tendrils and pass her laughing lips. She talks in a croaky low voice, the voice of 100,000 cigarettes […]
Negative stereo types based on myths and say so have continued to raise and influence. This influences not only the way other communities see Gypsies and Travellers, but sadly how they are beginning to see themselves. We want to create a […]