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Synopsis
Beginning with the author’s great-grandmother’s affair with a Gypsy boy in 1869, this warmhearted memoir chronicles the Gypsy life in a very close-knit community in the UK's Black Country. From a lifetime teeming with incident, George Locke shares the best stories from the old days, including run-ins with the police, gamekeepers, and Gypsy-haters, as well as his fond memories of his grandmother, Big Louie, who smoked a pipe from the age of three and had ancient knowledge of healing plants. A nostalgic and wry account of a way of life no longer to be found in rural England, this book is full of lore, quick wit, and, above all, a solid belief in family.
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About the Author
George Locke is a Gypsy who grew up in the rural West Midlands of England. As a young man he risked banishment from his Gypsy community by joining the Royal Air Force Police and later joined the British police.
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- PublisherUniversity Of Hertfordshire Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1907396829
- ISBN 13 9781907396823
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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Big Louie & Me: Caravans, Curses & Cockfights
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Soft cover. Condition: VG++/F/ND. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SOFTBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2012 * Publisher: University of Hertford Press. * Binding and cover condition: Glossy laminated colour illustrated soft card covers showing Romany encampment, black titles to spine and black and white titles to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Contents condition Ex-Library copy with usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 220 pp. text. x pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: In 1869 George's great grandmother Alice ran away with a Gypsy boy called Joe Locke, but he soon disappeared when he found out she was carrying a baby. Two years later, when she was sixteen, Alice married her cousin and bore many more children. At the age of eleven, unable to stand his stepfather's cruelty any longer, George's grandfather set out to search for the birth father he had never met. Passed from one community of Gypsies to another, after nine months he met a Gypsy woman who stared at him and said, 'You look exactly like my man'. When Joe heard the boy's story, he embraced him and told his wife, "Mercy, this is my eldest son and we're going to look after him". So begins George Locke's warm-hearted memoir of life in a very close-knit Gypsy community in the Black Country.* A NEAR FINE ex-library copy with minimal faults reducing it to VG++. Glossy laminated covers.*. Seller Inventory # 10552
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