Romani culture is slowly disappearing, but the UK Vardo Project is dedicated to preserving the few remaining Romani wagons or vardos. Romani wagons or vardos date from the 19th century ...

Romany Gypsies started to live in caravans, which they call vardoes, in the 1850s. Before this they travelled by horse or foot and camped in tents made from hazel rods covered with tarpaulin.

Frank has restored this 107-year-old vardo The Romany language stems from Sanskrit, an Indian language spoken on the Indian subcontinent in the ninth century. Anglo-Roma Gypsies are now recognised ...

“That’s to stop anyone who doesn’t know banging their head on the door,” Ms Lendon said. The trailer is called a vardo, a traditional-style Romany caravan with modern adjustments for today’s roads ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A vardo – the traditional horse-drawn wagon used by British Romany people – is raising funds for St Leonard’s Hospice. Owner John ...

Romany Gypsies started to live in caravans, which they call vardoes, in the 1850s. Before this they travelled by horse or foot and camped in tents made from hazel rods covered with tarpaulin.

Frank has restored this 107-year-old vardo The Romany language stems from Sanskrit, an Indian language spoken on the Indian subcontinent in the ninth century. Anglo-Roma Gypsies are now recognised ...