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General correspondence file including the following:

1970

From: 1970 To: 1970

-letter from the Soroptomist Club of Luton, “concerned at the deplorable plight of the many families camping in caravans on road verges in the area surrounding Luton”, in favour of the new permanent Pepperstock site at Caddington and more temporary sites; -letter from the Gipsy Council, offering assistance and advice on the council’s move to establish a permanent caravan site, “as an organisation representing the travelling population of this country”; -correspondence from the Deputy Chief Constable of Bedfordshire and Luton, regarding the “deplorable state of the Gipsy encampment on the A.6 Road, alongside Gravenhurst Turn”; -Bedfordshire Gipsy State as at May 1970 and June 1970; -Complaints by the Farmers Union of Potton regarding Gipsies at Common Lane; -correspondence regarding the breaking up of scrap cars as a livelihood for Gipsies in Luton and Dunstable; -Gipsies In Bedfordshire 1970, report by Gipsy Liason Officer; -Press notice regarding the four proposed Gipsy sites in South Bedfordshire: Sundon; Barton; Hockliffe and Eaton Bray; -Gipsy Sub-Committee report documenting the history of the Gipsy problem, The Caravan Sites Act, 1968, temporary sites and the current situation; -minutes of the Gipsy Sub-Committee including a report on the development of the Pepperstock Gipsy site; -Alternative Proposals For Gipsy Sites, report of County Planner “too many sites are proposed for the rural area and that the solution should be sought in the urban areas, upon which the majority of Gipsies depend for their livelihood; -Bedfordshire County Council Bye-Laws, documenting “Gipsy Encampments And Caravan Dwellings”; -Gipsy Sub-Committee minutes outlining Luton Rural District Council, Plans and Planning Committee’s strong objections to the Gipsy sites at Barton; Sundon; Hockliffe and Eaton Bray; -letter from Gipsy Liason Officer regarding the nuisance caused by Irish Traveller families at Caddington, “this apparent anti-social behaviour which we are not experiencing with the established Bedfordshire Gipsy”; -letter from volunteer social worker for Gipsies and resident of Caddington, urging the implementation of temporary sites and outlining the reasons for the failure of the temporary site at Caddington Turn and further letter describing the desperate situation for Gipsy children “Now is not soon enough to get the Gipsy children out of the appalling conditions under which they are condemned by society to live”; -document The Education Of Gipsy Children; -paper Gipsies And Other Travellers.

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SOCIAL & WELFARE PROVISION, Gipsies, CHILDREN, Irish, caravans, traveller sites, 1968 Caravan Sites Act, LUTON, DUNSTABLE, CADDINGTON, Pepperstock, POTTON, SUNDON, BARTON-LE-CLAY, HOCKLIFFE, EATON BRAY