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Series of newspaper cuttings including the following:

1971-1972

From: 1971 To: 1972

-protest by George Marriott, at the length of time taken in establishing Bedfordshire’s first permanent Gipsy site at Pepperstock (Luton News 19 Aug 1971); -article on Gipsy teacher receiving official status, as the country’s first council-paid teacher (Luton News 19 Aug 1971); -article on support by Totternhoe Parish Council to prevent a Gipsy site from being built in Northall Road, Eaton Bray (Dunstable Borough Gazette 11 Sep 1971); -report on Caddington resident’s threats, to withhold rents over Gipsy camp (Bedfordshire Times 24 Sep 1971); -article on the dumping of slime on a Gipsy encampment near Luton by county council workmen (Luton News 28 Oct 1971); -report on Gipsy harassment by police, including stopping them indiscriminately on the roads for breathalyser tests (Luton News 18 Nov 1971); -article on danger to health, from food grown on land fertilised by sewage, at the proposed permanent Gipsy site at Eaton Bray (Dunstable Gazette 26 Nov 1971); -report on the increase in Bedfordshire’s Gipsy population (Bedfordshire Times 3 Dec 1971); -report on residents opposition to Gipsy site at Cople (Bedfordshire Times 31 Dec 1971); -article on farmer’s suggestion of new site for Gipsies, at the old tanyard in Royston Street, Potton (Biggleswade Chronicle 17 Mar 1972); -report on row generated by untaxed Gipsy vehicles (Luton News 20 Apr 1972); -protest at Gipsies terrifying the neighbourhood and evading the law at the unofficial council owned site at Dallow Road, Luton, (Luton News 4 May 1972); -article on new Gipsy Support Group to be set up in Bedfordshire, supported by the church (Dunstable Gazette 5 May 1972); -several articles regarding the plight of Bedfordshire Gipsy couple “Snowy” and “Cinderella” and their five children (Photographs of the family) - (The Observer 21 May 1972; Dunstable Gazette 9 Jun 1972 and Evening Post 23 May 1972); -report on public meeting at Potton, attended by 130 residents opposing the establishment of a permanent Gipsy site off Common Road (Biggleswade Chronicle 7 Jul 1972); -Mrs Doe’s account of living at Potton Gipsy site (Photograph of anti-Gipsy slogan on bridge near Potton) - (Biggleswade Chronicle 11 Aug 1972); -article on new school caravan for Gipsies, partly financed by John and Yoko Lennon, at Kensworth primary school site (Luton News 14 Sep 1972); -article on the £66,000 Stopsley Gipsy site, Luton, receiving the go-ahead from the towns planning committee (Luton News 28 Sep 1972); -report on a petition signed by villagers opposing plans to build a Gipsy site in Eaton Bray (Dunstable Gazette 6 Oct 1972).

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Marriott, George,
Lennon, John

SOCIAL & WELFARE PROVISION, Gipsies, newspaper cuttings, traveller sites, schools, caravans, CADDINGTON, Pepperstock, STOPSLEY, HOCKLIFFE, EATON BRAY, POTTON, KENSWORTH