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    Yes he stayed around that area ,I think Henry gaskin lived up that way as well ,he was into his coursing and had some good juckels . a lot of traveling men work down pit ,my grandad was horse dealer but the pit was a regular income for them ,he also supplied Welsh ponies for pits .
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    You did well with her tomo ,got any pics mate . i might have a drive to melton in couple weeks see if get few hens . its a nice day out ,haven't been for yrs .
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    Most my family live to good age ,all the fresh air and not a stressful way of life like in a house and all the bills etc to b payed ,no as long as we fed and warm that's all that mattered .
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    We used to stay with some of the lee s ,and my grandad new Bartley and his family .old George gaskin was one of the best old travelers I met ,as kids we would sell him green stamps lol god few yrs ago . we stayed with George at Grantham ,he gave me my first game cock when I was five or six . i walked miles with him when I was small .
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    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
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    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 ,
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    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 .
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    Few more pics ,
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    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
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    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
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    I don't like the idea of injection for worms ,when I had terriers a fella in next village would sort them out for me if they needed anything but he passed away couple yrs ago. my dogs all ok now ,looked nasty for a week,,they will not b going vets for wormers etc again. atb mooch
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    A lad on here works Russel x whippets .good at there job by what I hear .
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    It would do as good as most bedy x whippets if not better ,
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    Kc Irish will work just like bedy will,of course always better from proven parents. id take a chance on one !
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    Like sound of them ,used to speak to a lad who had greyhound x Irish terrier and they was demon on Charlie ,proper tuff juckel .
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    Great pic ,Reminds me of when we were kids always had a Katy In my hand .never became the shot my brothers were never wanted toys as a kid ,always asked for another game cock or a pup.
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    I think I see that . way of life gone now,I'm going up to A fair in few weeks, im looking to restore a wagon and live in it . atb mooch
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    If you google Romanys hop picking in hereford you should find old film of my dads family . id love to go back to them times ,hard life but hard people .
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    Full of thieves instead of waste space parents who left there kids to get drunk ,shame on you .
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    Some more pics of life on the rd
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    I've been going Spain etc for yrs I'd never leave my kids on there own . would you leave a baby at home alone in uk ? No!!!! so why do it in a country that's well known for peados ,Spain Portugal they was the places for puffs,nonces etc . not so bad now but yrs ago that's were they used to run to ,now they go Asia . The need hanging the lot of them. and if they didn't kill the little girl as parents they should be jailed for leaving her alone . if they hadn't left the child she still b here ?so it's down to them .
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    I think they had something todo with it .always have ,likes been said you wouldn't leave ya Wallet in apartment with window open never mind your baby girl.
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    That's all you had to say at the start ,
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    There looking good .
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