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Category: Community Voices and Stories
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The Legacy of Love Letters: A Journey Through Time at Louie’s
As we sit in the Home of Louie, We are told stories of when the Market Place was a night club and when Gypsies were no longer allowed to pull onto the Leger Fair. The Leger was one of the very few fairs in the country where Showmen (Fair Ground Travellers) and the ethnic Travellers…
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Modern Day Gypsies in the Media
Today i was shown the new David Brent Parody, I am interested in gaining opinions on it. Let us know if you are a Gypsy, Traveller or just interested in the subject matter
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Capturing Gypsy Heritage Through Family Stories
I want to let you know how privileged we feel. We walk into a room with a relative stranger and over the course of our time there, we capture the smiles and Laughter and also the hurts and the pride of a life time. Thursday I was invited into the home of Sarann and her…
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A Traveller Soldier’s Story: Family, Service and Survival
My Name is Jim Foster, I class myself as a Traveller and a Yorkshire one, born and bred. When we were young ,we didn’t use the term Gypsy, it just wasn’t who we are. but i guess today our family would be classed as English Gypsies. Summer months as a very young lad spent in…
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My Journey as a Cultural Heritage Assistant By P. Nicholson
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 my co worker Violet but this time I have been asked specifically to write something…
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From Shack to Sanctuary: Askern’s Church Transformation By W.Varey
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 it, why we value it and how it came to be. Back when we were…
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Join Us: Documenting Doncaster’s Gypsy and Traveller Legacy
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 have our say, but it got messed up and edited so our words were misrepresented.…
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Tales from the Past: Preserving Memories for Future Generations
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 and a million lifetimes. She regales us with tales of long ago, of stories almost…