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Until
recently clothes-pegs were made of willow wands and sold from
door to door by travelling gypsies, who also made and sold 'peg
dolls' made from the pegs.
A
gypsy caravan site in Hinksey Lanes, Oxford in 1957. We can
see the traditional gypsy caravan, plus a more modern one
which was clearly the basis for the 20th-century
English touring caravan used by many Oxfordshire people on
their holidays,
in late 20th-century Oxfordshire.
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A
line of caravans by the roadside forms a temporary gypsy encampment in
Oxfordshire.
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