A woman from a group of borough Travellers has issued a plea for people to "end the discrimination" her family is facing. Mum-of-six Eileen Ward, based at Farnworth Central Park, has lived as a Traveller in Bolton for seven years and urged for community interaction as “you’ll be surprised how human we are". Earlier this month they were evicted from a site in Moses Gate and have now moved to Farnworth after the closure of their home in Crompton Lodge caravan park by the council in June.
When the Travellers were based in Moses Gate (Image: NQ staff) Eileen, 38, who grew up in Manchester, said: “We want people to stop believing what’s being said about us and to put an end to the discrimination that our family is facing. “People want us out of Bolton, and they won’t stop until they get us out of Bolton. "But I’ve lived here for six years, my son goes to high school here, we are a part of the community too.
“I agree we shouldn’t be on playing fields, but we have nowhere else to go. “Everything we get, we struggle to provide for. People have said we’ve stolen, and it feels like we’re being forced to live in houses.
" She added: “Seven years ago I lived in a house in Manchester, but I was more or less living in Manchester Infirmary when my four-year-old son was poorly. “We ended up losing him, the site was the only place he knew how to be a child. “I tried to take my own life twice, my parents moved me into the trailer, and it became my home.
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