carnival

Great photograph and topical too with the ongoing Dale Farm situation

So sad to see how they look. They look devastated. Caravan of Gypsies.

Looks like a scene from a musical.

These are definitely Gypsies.

This was a publicity shot for 'The Romany' a 1923 British silent adventure film directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring Victor McLaglen, Irene Norman and Harvey Braban. The 'extras' behind the front three actors were real Romany families and their waggons etc.

: Annual sports days have been featured in Yarrabah in north Queensland since the Church of England established the mission in 1892. From at least 1917, sports have been held to commemorate the mission’s birthday and are tinged with religious associations. The foundation sports day competitions themselves include a mixture of footraces, quaint recreational activities, and traditional Aboriginal events such as fire lighting and spear throwing. Imposed on inmates of the mission as a colonial event, they are embraced by residents and celebrated as the ‘Pride of Yarrabah’. On 17 June 1892, Reverend John Brown Gribble established the Yarrabah Mission (initially called Bellenden Ker after a nearby mountain range) on behalf of the Church of England, 16 kilometers by sea and, today, 60 kilometers by road from Cairns in north Queensland. Sports days in Yarrabah, documented since 1895, have been central to foundation commemorations since at least 1917. These annual events have included myriad activities, as indicated in a church report (Northern Churchman, 1 August 1941, p. 16): There were races to suit every taste – long-distance, flat races for those who liked hard work, thread the needle, book races, boomerang and mirral [woomera] throwing, etc. for those who prefer testing their skill: a lemon race for those clean folk who are fond of washing their faces; for the adventurous ones, there was a greasy pole to be climbed. Aquatic events such as boat races have disappeared from the contemporary program, but foot races, traditional Aboriginal activities, and novelty competitions continue. Local Aboriginal man, Darren Miller, argued that the annual sports day represented more than just sports, but was ‘a day of existence’. Miller was referring not only to the celebration of Yarrabah’s founding, but also its continued existence as a proud, Aboriginal community. Source: espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_6e87ff4/Yarrabah_sports_...

Bostock & Wombwell's menagerie on the road. There is an elephant at the side of the camel pulling the truck.

Bostock & Wombwell's Menagerie on the Great North Road, Tyneside 1913 - Alex Feely (brother of Arthur Feely) walking nearest to the lens. Geoffrey Younger

Geoffrey Younger Mistake - it is Arthur Feely in the photo