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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]
Troika: a sleigh drawn by three horses harnessed abreast. Occasionally, a similar wheeled vehicle. Vardo (gypsy wagon): a vardo is a traditional horse-drawn wagon used by English Romani Gypsies. Victoria: a one-horse carriage with a front-facing bench seat. The body was slung low, in front of the back axle. Driven by a servant. Village cart
The Gorse and the Briar by Patrick A. McEvoy – A tale of the gypsy life on the roads among horse-drawn Travellers in the last days of 'Wagon-Time'. Gypsies and Travellers in their own Words by Peter Saunders – A book that provides an insight into Gypsy and traveller lifestyle from the early 20th century to the present day. They tell how ...
The Gordon Boswell Romany Museum is the lifetime's work of Gordon Boswell (died 27 August 2016, aged 76 [1]), who amassed a collection of artefacts, photographs, and several examples of the characteristic Gypsy wagon or Vardo.
The Gypsy Wagon (1860–1885) was accessioned into the collection in 1955. Gypsy wagons, sometimes called vardos, were used for traveling, for fortune-telling, and as residences. This particular vardo (Romani wagon) belonged to Mrs. Phoebe Broadway Stanley, sometimes known as the Gypsy Queen Phoebe, a resident of East Natick, Massachusetts ...
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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.
Hay is for horses, and now so are RVs. This Mercedes 814 Horsebox used to carry equestrian animals and, from the outside, still has the barnyard flavor. But the U.K.-based company House Box ...