Big Fat Gypsy Clips

Inspired by the Channel 4 program Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, here is a compilation of British Pathe videos related to travelling communities in Britain, from the 1930s up until the 1970s.

60 Families In A Field (1963)

Gypsies are evicted from field next to M1 motorway. Hertfordshire.

Gypsies In The New Forest (1947)

Gypsies living in New Forest might be forced to move.

Gypsy Artists (1956)

Artists Sven and Juanita Berlin work on their paintings beside their caravan in the New Forest.

Gypsy Farm Fair - Yarm - Yorks

A farm fair is held at Yarm where gypsies gather and sell horses. Yorkshire.

Gypsy Problem - Bromley (1972)

Good story showing how residents of Bromley feel about gypsies and vice versa.

Gypsy Problem - Merton (1970)

Gypsies or Travellers have parked their caravans on waste ground on the Merton Trading Park.

John Lennon's Caravan (1967)

A look at the gypsy caravan John Lennon has bought for his son Julian. Surrey.

New Forest Gypsies (1948)

Gypsies live in primitive huts in squalid conditions in New Forest.

Romany Requiem (1958)

Romany Queen Mimi Rossetto dies in her Gypsy tent in Italy.

Gipsy Problems AKA Gypsy Problems (1964)

Official and unofficial gypsy sites are found in Hertfordshire.

Gipsy Caravans AKA Gypsy Caravan (1966)

Families enjoy a holiday in Ireland in a horse-drawn Gypsy caravan.

Double Gypsy Wedding

A double gypsy wedding ceremony is performed by King Petulengro at Baildon, Yorkshire.

A Gypsy Coronation (1937)

Crowning of the British Gypsy King.

Indoor Gypsy Camp (1961)

Romany food and entertainment at a Gypsy party at London's Mount Royal Hotel.

Dance, Gypsy, Dance! (1939)

A colony of gypsies on the roof of a New York tenement building sing and watch a girl dance.

Danny Purches - Romany Singer Reel 1 (1955)

Gypsy street singer signs a £10,000-contract for television, radio and stage appearances.

Danny Purches - Romany Singer Reel 2. (1955)

Gypsy boy set to

Enter The Bride! (1940)

A gypsy wedding is staged on the ice of the Zuyder Zee in Holland.

Gallican Gypsies (1910)

Footage of gypsies in Spain, dancing etc.

Romany Row (1958)

A Gypsy family settles down in Penshurst, Kent with help of the church and the council.