Recollections of Romany Life

KENT TRAVELLERS

Ash Tree Lane, Darland Banks, Chatham, Kent

BEVERLEY CHERRY, who is a great supporter of Romany Road, has very generously started off a new page on
our Website, with some wonderful pictures and stories of her family who ‘stopped’ for many years at Ash Tree Lane,
Darland Banks, Chatham, Kent. We shall be featuring more of her photos in future issues of our journals, some of which appeared in Simon Evans book “Stopping Places”. If you have any photos you would like added to the ‘Kent’ page or to appear in our journals, please do send them in. 
 

Photographed in their double-decker bus at Darland Bank (c.1947) are Beverly’s grandfather, her Mum’s sisters, and nieces and nephew:- (L-R) Jack Pickett holding granddaughter Lily Lowe, child standing is Annie Cooper, Martha Hedges (nee Pickett) holding son Jack, and Amy Cooper (nee Pickett) holding daughter Polly

Photo left shows Beverley’s great-grandmother - Amy Pickett (nee Eastwood). Centre is Polly Potter (nee Pickett) and Beverley’s Granny Martha Pickett (nee Macklin) holding Polly Pickett who married Jim Lowe
Second photo is Annie Potters wedding - Ash Tree Lane Travellers - including Potters, Picketts, Butlers. Second child from right in front row is Beverley, girl on her left and the two little boys on the end with dark hair, are the Butler children who appear in Simon Evans book "Stopping Places" in an orchard eating their lunch

Bev's Mum Lemmy and her brother Jimmy Pickett Jocker Pickett as a boy

  Jack Pickett and grandaughter Beverley    Jocker Pickettt with Bev's brother Teddy

  Charlie Potter and Harry Pickett
 
  Jocker Pickett holding Beverley

Charlie