TALES of travellers and the story and history of gypsies will be told at Warrington Museum when storyteller Richard O’Neil will be reciting stories of life on the road.
The one day event will take place on Saturday April 10 between 10am and 3pm and will include craft activities using designs of old show ground art and traditional music.
This event is designed to introduce and explain the history of a sometimes misunderstood part of the community.
As well as story telling and fun, there will be information stands that will provide assistance and guidance to services available to the whole community.
For more details about the Gypsy Travellers one day event contact Sarah Preston 01925 638836.
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Not a good use of Warrington Council Taxpayers money. During his story telling will he be discussing recent criminal convictions of members of the travelling community which includes:
“A TRAVELLER tried to make an elderly man pay thousands of pounds extra for a job he thought would cost £1,300.
Bernard Doherty, aged 27, told his victim on July 21 last year that work to lay woodchip in his front and back garden would cost a total of £850 for the back and £450 for the front.
But Warrington Magistrates Court heard how after work had started on July 24, Doherty told his victim it would instead cost in the region of £10,000.
Doherty was ordered to pay a £200 fine, £400 in costs and a £15 victim surcharge.”
….and did the storys include tales of littering, tax avoidance, law breaking and general nuscience to local taxpayers? No, probably not and I also guess that under the new neo-liberal rules that both Warrington Eye and myself are both now a evil racists for even thinking bad about the poor disadvantaged travellers?. Travellers choose to live the way they do; it is a life style choice and they should not be classed as a race (otherwise, why aren’t people who live on narrow boats classed as a race too?) Total nonsense….. travellers are a disgraceful bunch of people; who like many in the criminal fraternity, know everything they are entitled too thanks to the toga wearing doo-gooders that plague this country, bending over backwards to provide them with everything they need at the expense of taxpaying law abiding citizens.