Description
Tales of the Old Gypsies
 by
Jennifer Davies
First edition 1999, 10″ X 8″, 188 pages + index,
illustrated with colour and b+w photographs,
a clean copy in a good dust jacket
Jack and his wife Gevoner tell of their travels, as do many other gypsies: Eli Frankham, boxer, gypsy spokesman and musician; Fred Stephenson, breeder of lurchers, and the Coulsons of County Durham, scrap and coal merchants. Most of the story-tellers are old enough to have seen the last of the traditional travelling life of their kind, and their tales carry through them the threads of typical gypsy culture, including respect for tradition and elders, love of children, superstition and passion for horse fairs and fist fights
