Efforts were again being made this year to keep Epsom Downs free of the hordes of gypsies who normally converge on the track for the Derby race meeting from all parts of the British Isles. The pictures reproduced above, "The Camping Ground" (left) and "The Crowd Arrives" (right) by Dame Laura Knight, R.A., are part of an exhibition of Dame Laura's works held at the Leicester Galleries in London last month and are typical of gypsy life. Dame Laura Knight, whose D.B.E. dates from 1929, was elected a Royal Academician in 1936, the year y before her husband, Harold Knight, attained this rank.
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