Roving Romanies (1950)

Unissued / Unused material.
Roving Romany gypsies. Ledbury, Hereford and Worcester.
Various shots men loading lorries. LS Herbert Smith carrying basket into caravan. MS Mrs Smith entering and closing doors of caravan. CU cartwheels moving off. CU dog sleeping. MS Herbert Smith driving cart. MS's woman driving cart. CU Herbert Smith driving cart. CU baby in pram. LS women carrying two buckets of water.
LS of them round the camp fire with an accordion. Various shots of Romanies packing up. Various shots of them cooking over the campfire. Various shots Romanies leaving hop field. LS harnessing a horse, various shots cart moving off. CU woman waving goodbye. LS cart moving off. Various shots hop pickers at work including woman smoking pipe. Good studies of the pickers. MS as they leave at the end of the day.
FILM ID:2537.03
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[@Witchofthewoods.]

Those caravans were so gorgeous. Absolutely amazing. I'd love to have one. What a difficult, but interesting way of life back then. I'm so glad they preserved this footage, that someone thought enough of them to record these videos.

[@JustmyopinionSublick]

Hard times back then, travellers had nothing but where happy.

[@nomad90125]

Been there, done it for many years of my life, a mix of the finest days of my life with the hardest most grueling. Im old and not so strong anymore, so the comfort of a house is more appealing to me.😊

[@glenyshanlon5112]

Love this short film and there way of life 🙌

[@stephenrice4554]

Grand film some lovely kit and good people . Thanks for posting .

[@chrishultgren777]

These people have more joy in simple life than you do.

[@Monacotai]

This is a fortune. I love gypsys. My ancestor’s 🪄🫶🏻💕

[@moniquebucklandnowardle9648]

My grandad playing the accordion

[@stillbee7222]

I've never seen anyone pick Hops that fast

[@brianwalmsley447]

The good old days when life was simple

[@Adrian-Hilton]

If you love all types of Gypsy Caravans then check out Yorkie Greenwood Of Northumberland England Builder and painter of Gypsy Caravans most amazing skills of art

[@user-ik4xq9hm1x]

To all the settled folks watching and commenting that they’d love to have their own painted vardo, answer me this one question, would you allow them to camp in your garden? I remember the beautifully painted vardo my great aunt had on her farm. She had allowed a gypsy family to camp on her farm but then, incorrectly believing them to have stolen her silver which my mother still has, she chased them off into the night, firing at them with her shotgun. They were so terrified and desperate to get their children out of harm’s way that, when the wheel stuck in the mud and broke in the panic, they abandoned it on the spot along with their horse and all of their worldly belongings and she kept it there as a decoration until the bank destroyed it after seizing her farm when she died in 1980. You see, all the different types of gypsy were once settled people and the very reason they had caravans in the first place is because they have always been kept on the move by prejudice and persecution, enshrined by vagrancy and other prejudicial laws. They painted the wagons because those were their homes and by reason of dignity, not so they could become garden decorations for the homes of the very settled people who complain about litter and lack of ‘proper’ education and keep them on the move. If you would have the caravans, would you also have the people who live in them? It’s far too long people have ‘appreciated’ the cultural artifacts, lands and resources of the very peoples they villify, persecute, jail and legally murder!

[@ezzie1262]

Dear juvel and chavis

[@JohnJohn-mo8rt]

👍☘️☘️☘️free times

[@babyhorsesumner4044]

Beautiful but I am Romany and the static notice no

[@user-sn2ui2os8s]

What kind of food is that at

[@Jlipnicki]

Never welcome in England, people with no property are treated as nothing. It is still the case.

[@daviddaviddavid4627]

Irish travellers

[@daviddaviddavid4627]

Minciers

[@annakelman6627]

Jelling on the drom in a varda. 🛞🛞 Wonder if they did any dukkering there?? 🔮🔮