Travellers – Noah William by Anonymous

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“I discovered this memorial, dedicated to Noah William’s mother, through a chance conversation in the early 1990s. I had been talking with a churchwarden from Essex about the problems there can be with the rules and regulations for churchyard memorials. She told me of a memorial to a Gypsy that had been removed from the churchyard and stored in a local garage, because it ‘didn’t conform to the rules’. I wanted to help Noah William have the memorial put back in the churchyard, where other members of his family lie. But despite our best efforts we have not been able to contact him. We think this extremely moving memorial was probably made from a table top.”

Harriet Frazer MBE, founder of Lettering Arts Trust