Gypsy Caravan

[mudge]

Couldn't r4esist a cleanup either
Mudge

[Alegnajay]

Hi Mudge and Indolman,
Unfortunately I can't seem to open either of your attachments which I find strange.  I am having trouble with a lot of attachements sent via e-mail also and get the message to form and association with the type of attachement it is but nothing seems to work.  Any ideas.  I have Windows XP.
Angela

[casalguidi]

Hi Angela

Can you not view the pics posted by Mudge and Indolman?

Casalguidi

[mudge]

Are you using Photoshop Elements?
Mudge

[Lemmey]

Just wanted to say great pictures 
 

[coopers pup]

It looks like what is known as a Reading Wagon

Sorry, I didn't manage to post the photo of the caravan.  It was in the wrong version.  So hopefully this time i will be successful.  I have just e-mailed my cousin to see if she has a better photo.
Angela

Hi, Here is the photo promised of the caravan. I'm not sure how old it is but my ancestors who were Higglers (pedlars) must have used it or I don't see how it could have been in the family.  This is my Nan's brother, my greatuncle Ted.
Angela

[Jax49]

I Loved the caravan pictures.
My grandad, who was not a gypsy, abandoned his family in Eccles near Manchester when his wife died. My dad remembers visiting him with his mother in the late 1930s in Staffordshire around the Leek area. During this time they stayed in his and his new wifes gypsy caravan similar to your picture. My fathers dad Isaac never forgave his dad for abandoning him and didnt visit. My great grandads name was George Storey born in Kendal in 1968. I dont know his gypsy wifes name. My grandmother always had a picture of him on her mantel sat in his caravan. Sadly since she died we cannot find it.
George has always been a mystery!

Jax

[cassandra123]

My Aunt Emma had a gypsy Vardo in her garden at Ellenbrook when I was young.  She was married into the Lee family but always told us we had some links with the Boswells.

The vardo (gypsy caravan) was burnt when she died as was the custom.

The Boswells used to come to work on my gt grandparents farm in Cheshire during the fruit picking season. they grew strawberries.