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The horse fair is held each year in early June, attracting roughly 10,000 Romani and Travellers, about 1,000 caravans, several hundred horse-drawn vehicles, and about 30,000 visitors. The fair is billed as the largest traditional Gypsy Fair in Europe, and is held outside the town of Appleby where the Roman Road crosses Long Marton Road.
The Gypsy Horse was also used to pull the "tradesman's cart . . . used in conjunction with the caravan as a runabout and work vehicle and whilst on a journey". [26]: 23 The Gypsy Horse breed as it is today is thought to have begun to take shape shortly after the Second World War.
A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by travelling Romanichal as their home. [ 1 ] : 89–90, 168 [ 2 ] : 138 The name vardo is a Romani term believed to have originated from the Ossetic wærdon meaning cart or carriage. [ 3 ]
German Warmblood or ZfDP, collective term for any of the various warmblood horses of Germany, of which some may be registered with the nationwide German Horse Breeding Society (ZfDP). Gypsy horse, also called "Gypsy Vanner," "Vanner Horse," "Gypsy Cob," "Irish Cob," "Coloured Cob", and Tinker horse. Indian Half-bred, a half-blood type from India
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Here are some of the best photos and video from the first Saturday in May. On display was a Kentucky tradition, reflecting the grand spectacle the Kentucky Derby has become since it was first ran ...
Gypsy Camera by Tony Boxall (1992) – The author travelled with a Gypsy travelling in southern England in 1964, leading to a four-year photographic project that recorded the most significant transition in Gypsy culture in several hundred years. His photographs depict one Gypsy family's experience of the decline of the horse-drawn way of life ...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is showing off her new nose. On April 19, the Munchausen by proxy survivor was spotted in public without bandages on her nose for the first time since her April 5 plastic surgery.