Travellers
Something unusual happened on yesterday's walk as Tony and I plodded across Carr Bridge Playing Fields. We had already spotted a small group of caravans (American: trailers) , some with associated cars and we had both speculated that they might belong to travellers or gypsies. They were parked up near the shuttered pavilion. One of the caravans caught my eye and I photographed it from fifty yards away with a mature weeping willow tree and terraced houses behind it. There were no people in the shot and besides taking that picture was entirely legal. Ironically, the travellers' encampment on a public recreation ground was wholly illegal. Just then I heard a voice from the children's playground and a woman started to walk towards me. I guessed she was protesting about me taking the photograph. Turns out she was not a woman after all but a teenage girl of around fifteen and she approached with an assorted gang of small children mostly aged between four and ten. The girl ...