In the 1950s, photojournalist Bert Hardy visited St Mary Cray outside London, capturing life in a vibrant Romani and Irish Traveller community. His images are fantastic, they were clearly very comfortable with him. Here’s a few images, but I’ve compiled a gallery linked in the body of this post.

She wants the Hector-2 roof lights, the stylish ash-framed furniture and the scatter cushions with the matching shag pile covering. Right. And she’s terrible partial to the periwinkle blue, boys!

Thanks for posting. These communities have always been interesting to me because of the different ways they are portrayed in books, movies, etc. At times they’re shown as undesirable and other times show them as tight communities of families supporting each other.