The Gordon Boswell Romany Museum
The Gordon Boswell Romany Museum is located at Clay Lake near the town of Spalding in Lincolnshire, just off the A16. It is a unique experience for everyone with a large covered facility housing the UK’s finest collection of Romany vardos (Gypsy caravans), carts and harnesses.
The museum was started as a tribute to Silvester Gordon Boswell, a Romany gypsy, scrap metal merchant and horse trader. He was the author of 'The Book of Boswell: Autobiography of a Gypsy', which contains a family tree and photographs of their nomadic lifestyle.
After Silvester Gordon Boswell's death in 1977, the scrap metal yard in Spalding was purchased by his son, Gordon Boswell, who created a museum as a tribute to his father. The Gordon Boswell Romany Museum has one of the world's largest collections of Vardos (traditional Romany caravans) as well as photographs and sketches covering over 150 years of British Romany history.
Gordon Boswell Romany Museum Spalding East Anglia
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Half Way To Hull - Round The UK On A Tenner A Day @ Gordon Boswell Romany Museum
We're in now Mo and on our way up to Hull to start the challenge! Stopped off at the Gordon Boswell Romany Museum today to take some inspiration from the original travelling families. Definitely worth a visit - its amazing and the people have been so welcoming and hospitable. Tomorrow we're back on the road....????
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The Gordon Boswell Romany Museum - preview
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Our History - Romany Museum
A short film documenting a visit by a group of young Gypsy-Travellers to the Gordon Boswell Romany Museum. Gordon Boswell recounts the early history of the Gypsy-Roma people and discusses life their lives in a traditional Gypsy wagon.
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PART OF MEDIA FOR DEVELOPMENT'S SAVVY CHAVVY PROJECT
(chavvy is the old Romany word for youth)
Savvy Chavvy is a project combining innovative training in social media and web 2.0 technology with a unique social networking site specifically for young Gypsy Travellers.
Savvy Chavvy is a finalist for the Community Activism category in the New Statesman New Media Awards 2008.
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Gordon Boswell's funeral, Spalding.
Places to see in ( Spalding - UK )
Places to see in ( Spalding - UK )
Spalding is a market town, on the River Welland in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. Little London is a hamlet directly south of Spalding on the B1172, whilst Pinchbeck, a village to the north, is part of the built-up area.
Spalding was well known for its annual Spalding Flower Parade, dating from 1959, which attracted many regular visitors from around the world. The parade celebrated the region's vast tulip production and the cultural links between the Fens and the landscape and people of South Holland.
Ayscoughfee Hall dates from the 15th-century and is now operated as a museum. St Mary and St Nicolas was built in 1284 by William de Littleport of Spalding Priory. The tower and spire were added in 1360. St John the Baptist, was built in 1875, at the same time as the adjacent Church school. St Paul's at Fulney, on the eastern side of the town, was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and completed in 1880 after his death. Other local attractions are the Pinchbeck Engine Museum (just north of Spalding), the Bulb Museum (situated at Birch Grove Garden Centre, Pinchbeck) and the Gordon Boswell Romany Museum, to the south of the town. The Chain Bridge Forge is a 19th-century blacksmith's forge on the River Welland; many of its original features have been preserved and it is operated as a museum. The Chatterton Tower is near Sainsburys.
Spalding War Memorial is located in the grounds of Ayscoughfee Hall and commemorates the 224 men from the town killed in the First World War. Spalding, like nearby Boston, is a regular destination of heavy goods vehicles transporting processed vegetables and other food produce. The A16 used to pass through the town until August 1995, when the Spalding-Sutterton Improvement (by-pass) was opened, built mostly on the closed Spalding to Boston railway line. The twelve-mile (19 km) A1073 between Spalding and Eye Green in Peterborough has been replaced by a completely new road classified as the A16, replacing the previous A16 that ran to Stamford.
Spalding railway station is situated on the Lincoln Central - Peterborough railway line, operated by East Midlands Trains. The service is irregular, and it does not run at night or on Sundays. It does provide convenient access to Peterborough for employment and shopping.
( Spalding - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Spalding . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Spalding - UK
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As Befits A Romany Queen (1933)
Full title reads: Farnborough, Kent. As Befits a Romany Queen. 82 year old Gypsy Lee, who died as she foretold, has a royal funeral.
Farnborough, Kent.
Funeral parade for 'Queen of the Kent Gypsies' is led by horse drawn carriage piled with floral tributes. (Mrs Levi Boswell was Gypsy Lee's real name). Lots of people line the route and many mourners walk behind the coffin. MS of some mourners as the wait to enter the Church Yard. Pan across large number of people gathered for funeral.
N.B. Gypsy Lee foretold the place and time of her death - fulfilling her destiny as a renowned fortune teller.
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Our History Romany Museum
Roma - the lost Indian tenth Army of the Buddhist Gour kingdom.The last of the divisions Who went to fight the final battle in 1080 AD facing the islamic invaders, betrayed from behind by the Hindu Brahmins, facing insurmountable odds against the islamic hordes
Blood, Guts and Glory is what defined this mighty, but lost army then, followed by years of persecution, humiliation, slavery and Genocide
Today they belong to the fringes of the european society with an attitute of 'The world owe's me a Living' and a grudge against the world. I see the same attitude in another minority group in the Americas who were enslaved
We can hopefully bring them up to what they used to be.Before hitler wiped out thier leaders and thier intelligensia. Destroying thier pride and the best among them and thier history of where they came from and why
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Springfields shopping outlet, Spalding, Lincolnshire UK
A quick walk around Springfields shopping outlet, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England
South Holland - Spalding Tulip Festival 1980s - Past Lives Project
Cine Film kindly donated to the Past Lives Project by Colin Rose
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Past Lives Project is an Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Funded Project working in 8 areas across the Midlands. In each region we work with the community through open days, home visits, workshops and events with societies, schools and FE Colleges.
In each region we call out for amateur home cine film that illustrates daily life, local street scenes, people at work and families at play.
Past Lives Project digitises these home movies which are then edited into a new film which is screened along with a live music performance.
The performance day includes spoken memories and photos tha have been gathered whilst working with the community; this forms part of an ongoing archive that is available online.
Through our Past Lives Project, Freefall Arts aim to raise awareness about how valuable these films are in the context of social history and to preserve them for future generations.
Copyright Freefall Arts 2016
Spalding, England 2012
Flower Show
East Anglia Transport Museum 2003.
From my archives, a visit to the East Anglia Transport Museum, 14th September 2003, The trams were running on the woodland extension, but the trolleybus circuit was not complete, the trolleybuses were reversing just past the trolleybus depot to return to the Chapel Road terminus.
Anglia Spalding Lincolnshire.
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WELSH OFF-GRID GYPSY WAGON DAY 2
The second day in an off-grid gypsy wagon. A misty ethereal start to the second day in the Brecon Beacons climbing hills through wild oak woods running with water...mmm! See previous video for day one.
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The making of The Romany Gypsy Storytelling Wagon
The wagon was created in the museum by a project led by six local traveller teenagers. For them it was an opportunity to tell the story of their own heritage. The traveller people in Britain are among the last true carriers of the oral heritage learnt tongue to ear. While in Scotland their roll is recognised here in England that is yet to be the case.
Transported: Haulage 2015
Transported has been working with FreshLinc ( on a number of projects, including literally 'transporting art' by putting specially commissioned art wraps onto forty foot trailers. Watch this short film to find out more.
True Romany Romance 1965-2013 Brian & Lynda JAMES
The 4th song that I recorded in1983 at Abbey Road Studio's with Clem Cattini, Billy Livesly, Alan Jones and Jo Partridge.produced by Tony Clark. As a gift for Lynda on our 15th Wedding Anniversary in the Holy Ghost church when we were blessed by the church that refused to marry us in 1968 because Lynda was not a Catholic, so I kept my vow to Lynda, and the church put it right. A Romany vow can not be broken, thank you Fr Cashman god bless you
Spinney Farm Cottage, Bonsall, Peak District
Spinney Farm Cottage is a detached cottage situated in a rural location, on a working farm on the outskirts of the village of Bonsall in the Peak District. The cottage sleeps four people in two bedrooms - one king-size double and one twin, both on the first floor.