We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing help and encouragement
with this project provided by the following people and organizations.
Information on Romany families
- Clwyd and Baden Roberts - Roberts and Woods
- Myra Roberts - Roberts
- Teleri Gray -Woods, Roberts and others
- Bob Lovell - Lovells and others
- S Davies - Lovells and others
- Dafydd Gates, B Hughes-Davies - Locks and Boswells
- Mark and Rhonda Locke - Lockes
- Janie Goldring - Lockes
- Donald Locke - American Lockes
- Rammona Schatten - Prices of Barry
- Tom Clemett - local history of Barry
- Valerie Worrall-Rose - Prices
- TJ Lewis, photographer - Barry
- Willie Lee - Lees
- Ann-Marie Roberts - Lees
- Dennis Barrett, Dut Thomas - Hearnes and Thomases
- BBC South-East Wales
- BBC Kent
- Special thanks to John Harvey for donation of the
TJ Lewis plates and assistance of Frances Laird
Information on vardos
- John Pockett - vardo historian
- Buckland family
- Bethell family
- Paul Spashett and family
- Dan and Louise
- Dan Hughes - Sharnford cameraman
- Long Buckby Library
- Vestry House Museum
Selected Bibliography
Borrow, G, Lavengro and Wild Wales
Groome, FH, In Gypsy Tents, EP Publishing, 1973
Hall, Rev. G, The Gypsy's Parson: His Experience and Adventures, Sampson Low, Marston, 1915
Jarman, E & AOH, The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood, University of Wales Press, 1991
Roberts, EE, With Harp, Fiddle and Folktale, Gee & Son, 1981
Sampson, A, The Scholar Gypsy, John Murray, 1997
Thompson, TW ?, Tales Collected from Noah Lock and Others, Gypsy Lore Society
Ward-Jackson, CH & Harvey, DE, The English Gypsy Caravan, David & Charles, 1972
Walker, SH, The Way to Camp, Pilot Press, 1946
Wood, MF, In the Life of a Romany Gypsy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979
Yates, DE, A Book of Gypsy Folk-Tales, Pheonix House, 1948
Yates, DE, My Gypsy Days, Phoenix House, 1953
Gypsy Waggon Holidays
- Blaentrothy Holiday Cottages UK, Monmouthshire
- Under the Thatch, Ceredigion
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