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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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Support Our Exhibition: The Story of Suitcases and Memories
Have you ever stepped inside a time machine? Been transported to another era? We do every time we interview for this project, it’s an amazing experience we are truly greatful for. We hear about the struggles of living in wagons, the internal fight families had of letting go of the horse drawn wagons (Vardos) for…
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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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Exploring Doncaster Museum’s Community Space
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 Exhibit in there between 13th August and 24th September community space looks really good, just…
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Gypsies (and Travellers) We Have a Problem!
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 have stories about else where. The stories about Doncaster?Some come from as far away as…
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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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Exploring the Doncaster Archive: A Hidden Gem
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 computer and some “whizzy” process to find Gypsies and Travellers in Doncaster history. That is…
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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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Exploring Photography Skills: A Beginner’s Course for Youth
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 from the Traveller communities attended this 2 day course and developed their artistic skill along…