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[steve t 931]

 

 

Marshy ,,I was told Romanys lived in bender tents,,made from canvas and hazel poles,,befor having wagons and caravans,,is that true and is that what that tent type thing is,,,.?

Great pics again mate,,,and that one of yours mud,,,excellent stuff

I think the kids slept in blender tents next to the Waggons aswell...they were made from the same canvas material that the bow top is made of...young hazel shoots bent over to make a dome with the front lifted up facing the fire.

 

Not just the kids slept in them and those families with just a flat cart would have as well,i've lived in many a bender(the tent not the faggot type ) and i used to be able to build one without using string to tie the poles just woven through and you could swing off the frame, but not built one for many a year now.We use to use car windscreens as windows along the bottoms of them.Bloody grand things to live in and more room than my bow top used to have in it,hardest bit about a bender tent is getting the canvas tarps as plastic ones create to much condensation.Also building one with a tunnel entrance like a igloo keeps the wind out when you go in or out of them and it sure is living on ground level with the bugs ,but probebly the best times of my life living so simply without the worry of modern shite you don't really need..man .

Grand pics lads and keep them comming for sure ..

 

[steve t 931]

wasn't a lorry with a tarp on it safe in the eighties, lol, will try and dig some pics out you might like fireman

[marshman 7,757]

Not my pics

that top pic of the men sitting in the bender tent was taken not two mile From where I was brought up lol

[fireman 10,917]

wasn't a lorry with a tarp on it safe in the eighties, lol, will try and dig some pics out you might like fireman

I have to admit in doing that with a tarp on the back of a 1951 Austin Loadstar for a few months ,had to sort of rebuild it every time we moved as it'd end up at an angle due to the wind .

[marshman 7,757]

The little lad sitting on he's fathers lap in this pic passed away this winter he was in he's late 70s

[marshman 7,757]

Where there's been travellers settled from my great great father down to my father and me in our area " the marsh " the council put this statue up for the travellers of our area we love it . The shame of it is I've dug and ran rabbits in the fields surrounding it which they're now building houses on . The top pic of Naveks and the family in the wagon I just put up was taken in the surrounding fields which are mostly gone now

[LOL 212]

 

 

Marshy ,,I was told Romanys lived in bender tents,,made from canvas and hazel poles,,befor having wagons and caravans,,is that true and is that what that tent type thing is,,,.?

Great pics again mate,,,and that one of yours mud,,,excellent stuff

 

I think the kids slept in blender tents next to the Waggons aswell...they were made from the same canvas material that the bow top is made of...young hazel shoots bent over to make a dome with the front lifted up facing the fire.

Not just the kids slept in them and those families with just a flat cart would have as well,i've lived in many a bender(the tent not the faggot type ) and i used to be able to build one without using string to tie the poles just woven through and you could swing off the frame, but not built one for many a year now.We use to use car windscreens as windows along the bottoms of them.Bloody grand things to live in and more room than my bow top used to have in it,hardest bit about a bender tent is getting the canvas tarps as plastic ones create to much condensation.Also building one with a tunnel entrance like a igloo keeps the wind out when you go in or out of them and it sure is living on ground level with the bugs ,but probebly the best times of my life living so simply without the worry of modern shite you don't really need..man .

Grand pics lads and keep them comming for sure ..

My sisters used to sleep in the bowtop and us boys used to sleep underneeth with a canvas around to keep the cold out.A rough life but i still miss it.

[Coursing mad 24 874]

Is that the belvedere horse lol

[LOL 212]

Is that the belvedere horse lol

Yes that the belvedere cob

[nans pat 2,575]

meanwhile cnuts like the land owners wanted you to move along.and to add insult to injury expected you to pay tax on .scrap iron.imagine the difference in lives of the likes of thon prince charles.do as i say not as i do

[Bosun11 537]

Is the Cob statue in Belvedere, near Bexleyheath & Erith etc?

[LOL 212]

Is the Cob statue in Belvedere, near Bexleyheath Its on roundabout at bexley

[FUJI 17,327]

Me back in 1982 with my lurcher bitch Flash..how time flies ?

 

[FUJI 17,327]

Back in 1986 with my pooches Bulpa & Tess,both their blood still runs in my dogs Don & Swift today..

 

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Good ole Bruce,..loved the rabbits and the Roe ....first of the ACD x Greyhound hybrids....

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2015 by Phil Lloyd