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1947<br>Five hundred men women and children live in Stone Age squalor amidst the rural beauty of the New Forest. Living in huts, shacks, tents, and broken down caravans these people are not real gypsies. A Government Committee has investigated the postwar state and condition of the Forest and now proposed to set up an official camp to house these slum dwellers.<br>Photo shows Frank James (16) who lives in the Thorney Hill compound, New Forest. - 20th December 1947.<br>©TopFoto

1052988 - 1947
Five hundred men women and children live in Stone Age squalor amidst the rural beauty of the New Forest. Living in huts, shacks, tents, and broken down caravans these people are not real gypsies. A Government Committee has investigated the postwar state and condition of the Forest and now proposed to set up an official camp to house these slum dwellers.
Photo shows Frank James (16) who lives in the Thorney Hill compound, New Forest. - 20th December 1947.
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