Video: moved on to make way for the Olympic Park

Traveller families from Hackney reveal their feelings about their community being relocated to make way for the Olympic Park. They now live on three separate sites.

The film was showcased as part of Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month in Hackney 2012 and was supported in the making by a Transformer grant, funded by the National Lottery, through the Olympic Lottery Distributor and managed by the East London Business Alliance.

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