BuiltWithNOF

Roland Humphries 1980 to 2003
Age 2

Early 1982, in wood at Caddington

April 1982, with Vi in Regents Park

Summer 1982, in our garden with toys

Summer 1982, mud pies at Vi and Bert's

Summer 1982, at Woodbury with Jeremy, Rose, Vi, Bert, Jonathan

September 1982, sandy-faced at Habberley Valley, with Rose, Jonathan, Simon

December 1982, walking on Clent

Early 1983 at Woodbury, looking at Jacob

For Roland’s second birthday Jeremy gave him a large stuffed toy donkey made by a workmate – it was called Donkater and Roland was very fond of it.

He loved to be ‘owsaide’ as he called it – playing in the garden, sometimes in his old baby bath filled with water, or walking with Jeremy in the wood beyond the field at the back of our garden.

In April Roland had an operation on his ankles and became very upset and unhappy in the hospital. He was in plaster casts again afterwards. From then he had a fear of hospitals – even when in his twenties he would remember this occasion.

The family moved to Bromsgrove this summer, temporarily renting ‘Woodbury’, a large Victorian house in New Road, and Roland gradually got used to Lin who would be his childminder. It was hoped she would only be needed for a few months until Rose could stop working again, but this was not to be the case and his grandparents also shared in the childminding role. Soon Roland had grandparents Joe and Irene living with him and the rest of the family.

Living in Bromsgrove meant visits to places like Habberley Valley and the Clent and Lickey Hills – places where Jeremy had enjoyed childhood times.

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