Valerie Matthews went to technical college in preparation for a job in office work but here she tells of her real aspiration to join the RAF and travel the world. This was against expectations placed on her, so she stayed working locally. Later in life she travelled extensively including with friends and as lone traveller visiting Washington DC.
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Jessie Greenhouse grew up in the traveller community, the daughter of a showman. After marrying Cinderford collier Wilfred Orpin her son James was born in 1948 in a tent at Crump Meadow camp. Here James Orpin remembers some of the ways his mother and him, and other traveller families, made a living.
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