Travellers are battling to get back home to the site they have been evicted from. Those living at the Moses Gate Gypsy and Traveller site are appealing a court order to shut down the site for three months. Bolton Council a nnounced a month ago that the Crompton Lodge site would be closed saying it had links to crime.
This month those living there were evicted. Traveller Kathleen Ward, who has been forced to move in with relatives in Accrington, spoke of her heartbreak at what had taken place and of her desire to get back 'home'. She said: “We can’t all be together.
“There have been so many horrible racist comments on Facebook to me and my family, when we are doing nothing wrong. “Some are staying in Bolton as they want to keep the children in school. “There have been six or seven generations of us who have missed out on education.
“There have been no welfare checks on the children. “I don’t know where some of the others have done. “We just want to go back to Crompton Lodge.
“My heart is completely broken because my family has been torn apart.” A number of them have relocated to New House Farm Playing Fields, and others have been forced to leave Bolton. (Image: NQ) Read more: Bolton Council to close Crompton Lodge Read more: Travellers evicted from Moses Gate Read more: Travellers set up in new area (Image: NQ) Following the eviction Bolton Council leader Nick Peel said the focus would be on finding a new home for those who had left.
He said: “As the ju.