tinkers

2 photos tagged tinkers, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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1953

2011

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Marvelous Robert Marland said:
Not sure if "Tinkers" is the correct term
raining rita said:
oh oh her poor little cheeks
Jack Falstaff said:
'Irish Travellers' is the polite term, though Romany gypsies call them by a less polite name. The tent is called a 'bender', and is modelled on the Romany 'tan'.
mikescottnz said:
Great post war vintage.They are not believed to be Roma or Drom 'gypies' having working seasonally and travelled in Ireland for centuries , more recently England. "I hope this Blog will become a collection of some of the living Irish Traveller (Tinker or Pavee ) traditions I've being lucky enough to encounter and perhaps even some of the random moments that grace my life with a sense of personal order... sure, time will tell :) " barefootpavee.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html Kildare County Council Library Services Celebrating Inclusion and Cultural Diversity www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzmYCP2jvfY&feature=player_em...
Borek Lupomesky said:
What is the context of this photo? It remains me of the "Migrant Mother".

james gallagher said:
What do tinkerers do ? Certainly this fellow does not tinker.
beachcomber australia said:
Horse power due to the petrol shortage in 1948 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105817660?searchTerm=%...
beachcomber australia said:
More from 1967 Australian Women's Weekly - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48078461?searchTerm=%2...
Merryjack said:
A man's world on wheels. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tinker Jeff Carter (1928-2010) was Australia’s great photographer of ‘ordinary’ Australians at work and leisure. When ‘asked to leave’ Melbourne Boys High School in his final year, 1946, he took to the road with a typewriter and camera, finding work in the high country with cattle, the subject of his first photo-story. www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2017.128/jeff-carter-with-h... I first met Jeff when he lived at Foxground near Gerringong.