Dizzy Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Front page news update - Large Gypsy funeral to pass through Warrington today (exact time unknown) with matrix signs updating drivers as more info is known. http://www.warrington.gov.uk/news/article/566/funeral_on_tuesday_15_january_2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila_P Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Does anybody know if the traffic is flowing again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Front page news update - Large Gypsy funeral to pass through Warrington today Are there any dwarf gypsy's ?. Alg may be interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Saw the coppers hanging around to wave the 80odd cars through the junctions - who paid for their time btw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila_P Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 This may be a mix of two Twitter updates... Someone posted that there were armed police on every corner! Not sure if that related to the gypsies, or the message that six police cars and a helicopter had chased an Audi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 At least the police etc were actually advised that it was going to take place Obs. Better than them just coming through unannounced which would have caused more problems. 80+ cars is one heck of a good send off though and I wonder how many more joined after if had passed us. Sad to see the words 'Daddy' made of flowers in the car carrying the coffin though. I wonder if he was quite young chap. He worked at a place on Manchester road apparently so that's probably why it stopped off there for longer. RIP Mr Traveller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Sorry Shiela... yours wasn't there when I was replying to Obs. No idea sorry. I would have thought though that the travellers probably wouldn't have caused any trouble anyway as they were only paying their respects and following a funeral car.....but then again if locals/non travellers had started shouting or being disrespectful in any other way then it could have been a different story all together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila_P Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 I'm a bit confused about the stopping off place because it's residential Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 .. must have tarmac'd a drive along there?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Please don't Obs..... Seems he was only 26 and was found dead at his home two days before xmas day and he was a dad and had a job too at a company along Manchester Road (hence the reason they stopped there maybe). Whatever people's views on 'travellers', and I know I've said many things about some of them over the years and what they do, but now is not the time to make jokes or to be disrespectful eh as at the end of the day he has died and his his family and friends have lost one of their loved ones and to be honest I thought it was rather nice that so many of them turned out to show their last respects to him in the way they did. How many times have you seen funerals arriving at a church or crematorium with only a handful of people attending or in some cases no other people at all? I've seen some and that is very sad to see indeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Someone from the college filmed a bit as they went past. Several stretch limos on the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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