Stephen unwin. 255 Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 Love yer old pics moocher keep em coming lad Quote Link to post
Stephen unwin. 255 Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 2 hours ago, peterhunter86 said: Good pic fine oss there 1 Quote Link to post
Daisy the destroyer 20 Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 My great grandfather with his lurcher and my 2 great aunts,good to look back on old photos 6 Quote Link to post
jackthelad 1,901 Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Daisy the destroyer said: My great grandfather with his lurcher and my 2 great aunts,good to look back on old photos Is that Bartley Gorman mate? Quote Link to post
marshman 7,758 Posted March 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 (edited) Top pic is Marsh where I’m from 1941 doesn’t look like that now . Dont know the history of the bottom pic on 1951 Edited March 23, 2019 by marshman 7 1 Quote Link to post
Moocher71 4,050 Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 15 hours ago, Gilbey said: if its the one we watched it was, a very British history on bbc4, if it helps anyone If you go on YouTube you find a old film from 50s called roving gypsys I think . they ain't no sound but I've watched it loads as my dad in it and his family . when you look at these pics from 50s it's a totally different world now from back then , of course life must have been hard but so much better , mooch 1 Quote Link to post
Moocher71 4,050 Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 30 minutes ago, marshman said: Top pic is Marsh where I’m from 1941 doesn’t look like that now . Dont know the history of the bottom pic on 1951 when I was a kid my gran and parents would sit by the fire making pegs,and the same flowers in the top pic ,they would dip them in die ,also made flower baskets out of willow ,hazel and pick wild dafs and other flowers to hawk around the doors. i liked going with my grandad ,he had a grinding bike ,he could earn good money with it ,he always went pub at dinner and I'd get a shandy ,good times . i still have his old peddler here in the shed ,I will get round to sorting it out and give it to gypsy museum. marshman its same every were ,everything built on now ,all the old stopping places gone . cracking pics mate mooch 3 Quote Link to post
Moocher71 4,050 Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 Few more pics , 5 Quote Link to post
TOMO 26,740 Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 loving them pics moocher what lovely happy bunch they seem ...from what must have been a tuff life.... and its good they had the pics done ...how many would have thought back then ....they might be the last generation to live like that.... 1 Quote Link to post
TOMO 26,740 Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 there was a chap still doing the knife sharpening around Leicestershire ....he was often stoped just outside melton Mowbray .....local news did a piece on him about 10 year ago...we often used to see him when we were out coursing that way 1 Quote Link to post
Moocher71 4,050 Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 3 minutes ago, TOMO said: loving them pics moocher what lovely happy bunch they seem ...from what must have been a tuff life.... and its good they had the pics done ...how many would have thought back then ....they might be the last generation to live like that.... 1950s 60s things started to get worse for travelers in Britain . its a shame as they really are the last nomadic people of our country. my nan never lived in a house not for a day ,she had a square open lot .she always said she would die if she left her way of life .she was 97 when she passed away . 1 Quote Link to post
TOMO 26,740 Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 how old are you moocher??...did you experience life like that .....bet there some cracking stories to tell.... grand old age for your nan.....it might have been hard life for her....but by Christ she did well on it 1 Quote Link to post
Moocher71 4,050 Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 4 minutes ago, TOMO said: there was a chap still doing the knife sharpening around Leicestershire ....he was often stoped just outside melton Mowbray .....local news did a piece on him about 10 year ago...we often used to see him when we were out coursing that way We stayed near melton few times ,used Togo to cattle market .it still on Tuesday morning I think but been a while since I've been. lot of travelers had grinders ,good money earner , Quote Link to post
Moocher71 4,050 Posted March 23, 2019 Report Share Posted March 23, 2019 1 minute ago, TOMO said: how old are you moocher??...did you experience life like that .....bet there some cracking stories to tell.... grand old age for your nan.....it might have been hard life for her....but by Christ she did well on it I was born in open lot wagon in wales in 71 ,we lived in horse drawn vardo up to 85 and then us kids stayed in a vickers and I left home at 16 ,so all my childhood was spent on the rd . iv had few yrs since we're I stayed in trailers but it's not the same , i met some good poachers over the yrs and some not so good . i always found it wasn't the fella with the lurchers who took a lot , but the fella with a jacket full of nets ,wires and Caty.they was the ones to learn from . atvb mooch 4 Quote Link to post
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