| Description | Charles Parker interviews a traveller from Spalding, Lincolnshire, at Brough in Cumbria about issues relating to the lives of the travelling community
Track 1: a man, possibly Mr Boswell, talks about the number of travellers involved in the scrap metal trade. He thinks they are useful to people because they process rubbish and help to clear up the countryside. He talks about his own business in Spalding which is full of scrap which the council refuses to take away 1.51 mins
Track 2: he talks about having his own bungalow but that he prefers to live in his trailer. He describes some of the problems that travellers have. He says that local councils have invested large amounts of money in building council houses for working class people but have invested little in campaigning for facilities for travellers. He thinks that local authorities need to do something to balance their efforts and build camp sites 3.11 mins
Track 3: he gives his opinions about why a camp site near Ashford in Kent was not succesful 1.21 mins
Track 4: he talks about his stay at Amworthy in Hampshire during the summer, and describes some of the differences between encampment sites in the north and south of the country. He remembers being able to travel to horse fairs in the south of the country free from harrassment from residents and thinks that the local authorities should provide facilities for travellers 4.18 mins
Track 5: he talks about the powers that the police have to move travellers off the land and their lack of understanding of travellers problems 0.31 mins
Track 6: he continues to talk about the police. He thinks that they do not understand the situation of the travellers, and use their powers to pass the problem on to police forces in another part of the country, not thinking that this is a constant problem for travellers, who are always being moved on, and wonders why some land cannot be spared for camp sites for travellers 1.49 mins
Track 7: he returns to the issue of travellers dealing in scrap metal, and mentions again that local councils do not take materials that will not fit into rubbish bins 0.42 mins
this will be a pitfall of travellers.
Track 8: he describes one of his trips to the New Forest in the past, and compares the situation of people living in the Forest then with the situation today 0.48 mins
Track 9: he talks about negative attitudes towards travellers in the past, and the need to improve their lives by the provision of sites by local authorities 1.13 mins
Total: 15.51 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA DH429B0805574 |