July 6, 2010
A GIPSY ENCAMPMENT IN ESSEX. “A strange people, still living apart and keeping apart, the gipsies are, in England, as in other parts of Europe, a wandering tribe. School-boards, local authorities, the endless regulations by which civilisation seeks to protect itself, have made times hard and life difficult for the gipsies. Nevertheless, the little homes [...]
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June 14, 2010
This from a family magazine of 1875.. Gypsy Names of Countries and Towns. From Borrow’s Romano-Lavo-Lil we gather the following, which shows that the gypsies are shrewd enough, and epigrammatic enough too, in the character of their nomenclature :— Swineherds’ Country, Hampshire ; Shepherds’ Country, Sussex ; Great Church Town, York; Great Tree Town, Fairlop [...]
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