Caravans in Upper Ryland Road
Birmingham’s history is very much a history of migration. Workers from across the region and beyond flocked here to find work in a booming industrial sector during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...
David Cox - 'A Gypsy Encampment'
Artists have often sentimentalised gypsies, using them as local colour in idealised rural settings. Here, however, it appears that David Cox has sketched these people from life, and they are the main ...
'Gypsies near Bromford Forge', by Joseph Barber
There have been Romany travellers or ‘gypsies’ in Britain since the 1500s, and from the beginning they were suspected and persecuted. The first evidence we have of a travelling family in Birmingham comes ...
'Gypsy Encampment' in Turkey
This photograph shows children on an encampment near Misopoli.
'Gypsy Encampment', Cookley
This photograph shows children on a traveller site on Whittington Lane, Cookley.
Traveller Exhibition [Page 1]
Reverse of photograph reads: "Ishmael Scarratt"
This is a gallery of photographic materials taken by Birmingham City Council in the early-to-mid 20th century. The images offer a vivid and fascinating ...