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The gypsies are leaving their hundred year old settlement on Hurtwood Hill in Surrey

The gypsies are leaving their hundred year old settlement on Hurtwood Hill in Surrey . They lived in huts, caravans and benders ( huts with branches bent over and covered with sacks ) - but now they are forsaking their picturesque homes and many of them are moving into corrugated iron bungalows at West Walton provided by the Surrey Council as alternative accomodation .
In their new homes, the gypsies will discard their Romany customs and follow the ways of civilisation .
Photo shows ; A gypsy family bringing logs to make bass brooms outside their bender at the Hurtwood Hill encampment .
11 January 1934
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Gipsies, or rather what to do with them, have always been a great problem in the

Gipsies, or rather what to do with them, have always been a great problem in the outer fringes of London . Their habit of temporarily settling on odd tracts of land, usually incenses the local residents . Most police action is simply that of passing the travellers onto their next place of call, hopefully on someone else's manor .
1933

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Polish Gipsy King died after being shot

Polish Gipsy King died after being shot .
Minister in Law and Niece arrested .
Gipsies all over the world are mourning for Matejasz Kwick, who was known as The Gipsy Baron and was recognised by 30, 000 Polish gipsies as the King . Among them his word was law .
Baron Kwick died in hospital at Warsaw after having been shot in a scuffle at his shack in a Warsaw suburb .
His sister in law and her 15 year old daughter have been arrested for causing his revolver to go off, and three brothers are being questioned by the police . Kwick has refused permission for his niece to be married on the ground that she was too young .
Police fear that there may be still more bloodshed before a conflict over ther succession is settled .
Photo shows, Matejasz Kiwick, murdered Gipsy Baron .
29 March 1937 Travellers Romany Gypsy Gipsy gypsies Roma. social history

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