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Newspaper cuttings regarding potential Gipsy sites in South Bedfordshire, [the cuttings have been enlarged and photocopied due to the poor state of the originals, having been attached to A4 paper by sellotape], individual cuttings are as follows:

1969 - 1970

From: 1969 To: 1970

- article and opinion on a large group of caravans in Green Lanes, Dunstable (with photograph) - (Dunstable Gazette 15 Aug 1969); - article on Gipsies at a camp in Heath & Reach (photograph of Ellen Hughes with grandchildren Norma and Carol) - (Luton News 28 Aug 1969); - letter from Caddington residents on inhumanity to Gipsies (Dunstable Gazette 29 Aug 1969); - resignation of Chairman of Caddington residents’ Action Committee to eject Gipsies from the parish following a plea from Gipsy leaders for co-operation (Luton News 11 Sep 1969); - objection by Eaton Bray Parish Council to a proposed Gipsy site at Stanbridgeford Station (Dunstable Gazette 12 Sep 1969); - article on caravan school for Gipsy children in Luton Road, Caddington, provided by volunteers (photograph of Gillian Weeks, wife of Methodist Minister of Farley Hill, Luton with three children and ten children leaving the caravan) - (Evening Post 17 Sep 1969); - article on caravan school (photograph of Gillian Weeks with six children) - (Luton News 18 Sep 1969); - report of meeting of Secretary of Gipsy Council and Secretary of Bedfordshire Gipsy Council with Bedfordshire County Council Chief Welfare Officer (Luton News 18 Sep 1969); - article on caravan school at Caddington (Dunstable Gazette 19 Sep 1969); - report of meeting between Sundon Parish Councillors and local MP, Dunstable police, clerk to Luton Rural District Council and solicitor to Bedfordshire County Council regarding local Gipsies (Evening Post 29 Sep 1969); - report of break in to caravan school, called Romano Drom, at Caddington (Luton News 7 Oct 1969); - letter protesting at rubbish from Gipsies in Green Lanes, Dunstable (Dunstable Gazette 3 Oct 1969); - letter from Secretary of Bedfordshire Gipsy Council (Dunstable Gazette 10 Oct 1969); - article on complaints about Gipsy encampment at Green Lanes (Dunstable Gazette); - letters in answer to that from Secretary of Bedfordshire Gipsy Council (Dunstable Gazette 17 Oct 1969); - report of appointment of Bedfordshire County Council Gipsy Liaison Officer (Evening Post 17 Oct 1969); - article on Romano Drom school at Caddington (photograph of nine children) - (Guardian, 17 Oct 1969); - reports of appointment of Bedfordshire County Council Gipsy Liaison Officer (Guardian 18 Oct 1969, Luton News 23 Oct 1969 and Bedfordshire Times 24 Oct 1969); - letters on Gipsies (Dunstable Gazette 7 and 14 Nov 1969); - report of Eaton Bray Parish Council’s joining with Stanbridge and Totternhoe in opposing proposed Gipsy site at Stanbridgeford Station (Dunstable Gazette?); - official notice of planning enquiry into proposed Gipsy site at Pepperstock, Caddington (Luton News 20 Nov 1969); - report of convictions of two Gipsies for camping on the public highway at Caddington being quashed (Evening Post 18 Nov 1969); - opposition to proposed site at Stanbridgeford Station (Dunstable Gazette 21 Nov 1969); - report of Gipsies’ request for a temporary site at Caddington (Dunstable Gazette?); - Gipsies anger at remark in Sundon Park Residents Association newsletter that there was no solution to the Gipsy problem “short of mass murder” (photograph of Gipsies meeting Shirley Williams MP (Labour, Hitchin), Minister of State for the Home Office) - (Evening Post 24 Nov 1969); - proposal by South Bedfordshire Gipsy Council and Caddington residents for a permanent Gipsy site at Pepperstock (Evening Post 25 Nov 1969); - protest at lack of educational opportunities by Gipsies at meeting at Harlington addressed by Shirley Williams (photograph of protesters) - (Luton News 27 Nov 1969); - erection of bollards at the entrance to Green Lanes by Dunstable Corporation, preventing Gipsies camped there from driving their lorries out again (Luton News 27 Nov 1969 and Dunstable Gazette 28 Nov 1969); - new 32ft caravan for Romano Drom school at Caddington provided by member of the pop group “The Beatles”, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono (Evening Post 1 Dec 1969 and 4 Dec 1969); - suggestion for the installation of public toilets at Gipsy sites ((?) Luton News); - report of Gipsy annoyance about mud in Green Lanes, Dunstable (photograph of Ann Lee and children) - (Dunstable Gazette 5 Dec 1969); - report of objection of Publican of Half Moon Public House, Pepperstock, to permanent Gipsy site as it affected trade (Evening Post, 10 Dec 1969 and Luton News 11 Dec 1969); - report of claim at Public Inquiry by Chairman of Totternhoe Parish Council of majority of residents being opposed to a proposed Gipsy site at Stanbridgeford station (Evening Post 11 Dec 1969); - letter about mud in Green lanes, Dunstable (Dunstable Gazette 12 Dec 1969); - report of Public Inquiry into proposed permanent Gipsy site at Stanbridgeford Station (Dunstable Gazette 12 Dec 1969 and Beds and Bucks (Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Observer 16 Dec 1969); - letter in support of Gipsies (Dunstable Gazette 19 Dec 1969); - front page report on two Gipsy families spending Christmas under tarpaulins near Dallow Road, Luton (photograph of Smith and Parker families) - (Luton News 27 Dec 1969); - report that headteacher and two teachers at Kensworth Primary School would be taking classes for Gipsy children during a teachers’ strike (photograph of headteacher, Gerwyn Davies) - (Evening Post 9 Jan 1970); - article on Kensworth teachers’ Gipsy classes during the strike (photograph of teacher and children in a caravan) - (Evening Post 13 Jan 1970); - report of increase in Totternhoe rates (Dunstable Gazette 16 Jan 1970); - Gipsy Council secretary’s letter protesting at Hertfordshire police actions at Pepperstock (Luton News 22 Jan 1970); - protest by Gipsies at ploughing up of roadsides in Sundon when Gipsy families move on (Evening Post 28 Jan 1970); - letter by Gipsy Council Secretary criticising lack of educational opportunities for Gipsy children and letter protesting at suggestion that Woodside Turn Caddington become a permanent site (Luton News 5 Feb 1970); - letter protesting about Gipsies in Sundon and Sundon Park (Evening Post 5 Mar 1970); - report of acquittal of two Gipsies from Barton-le-Clay on a charge of theft (Luton News 5 Mar 1970); - report that Luton Rural District Council would compulsorily move Gipsies from Heath & Reach to permanent sites once they were established (Dunstable Gazette 26 Mar 1970); - Whipsnade Parish Council objection to Gipsies camping on Whipsnade Heath (Evening Post 25 Mar 1970); - letter by Gipsy Council Secretary about Gipsies wishing to settle down (Evening Post 2 Apr 1970); - report of George Marriott, Bedfordshire Gipsy Council Secretary condemning Luton County Borough for not providing a permanent Gipsy site (photograph of George Marriott) - (Luton News 9 Apr 1970); - Borough Councillor representing Sundon Park’s desire to abolish charges for towing away cars etc., thus depriving Gipsies of their livelihood ((?)Luton News); - report of a party for Gipsies at Caddington given by Bedfordshire Gipsy Council secretary (Evening Post 1 Apr 1970).

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Dunstable Gazette,
Hughes, Ellen,
Luton News,
Eaton Bray Parish Council,
Weeks, Gillian,
Evening Post,
Gypsy Council,
Bedfordshire County Council,
Luton Rural District Council,
Gipsy Liaison Officer,
Bedfordshire Times,
Williams, Shirley,
Dunstable Corporation,
Lennon, John,
Ono, Yoko,
Beatles,
Lee, Ann,
Beds & Bucks Observer,
Smith,
Parker,
Davies, Gerwyn,
Marriott, George,
Luton County Borough

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