BuiltWithNOF

Roland Humphries 1980 to 2003
Age 3

Early 1983 by stream in the Wyre Forest

Early 1983 in Wyre Forest, wearing Jeremy's jumper after sitting in the stream

Early 1983 on WNCT walk in the Wyre Forest, wearing Jeremy's jumper after sitting down in the stream

Summer 1983 meeting a horse, with Vi and Rose

Summer 1983, with Vi, Jeremy, Jacob and Jonathan at Aberdyfi

Summer 1983, at Woodbury with Jacob and Jeremy

Summer 1983, at Hagley Hall event with Rose, Jonathan, Jacob, Joe and Irene

Summer 1983 at Hagley Hall event, meeting a sheep

This year’s birthday present was a Spiderman suit, and Roland had a joint birthday tea with his younger cousin Catherine who shares the same birthday. Soon after, he started at the Baptist Church playgroup in New Road.

Under an apple tree in the garden at Woodbury was a swing. Roland would sit on it chanting rhymes he made up: “Who is the goosting in the wapple tree, who is the goosting in the wiwald”. Because of this, ‘goosting’ became the family name for bird. Along with the goosting, he liked to talk about the vox (fox).

Roland went on a Worcester Nature Conservation Trust trip to the Wyre Forest, well remembered by the family because he accidentally sat down fully clothed in the stream. Having no change of clothes, he had to wear Jeremy’s sleeveless jumper which came down to his feet like a dress.

He had his first seaside holiday - a few days with his brothers and Vi and Bert at a cottage in Aberdyfi. There were many other trips this year to various places, including Chaddesley Corbett woods, canals, Hagley Hall country fair, Kinver, Waseley Hills Country Park, the Clent Hills, Eastnor Castle, a farm, Ravenshill Wood Nature Reserve, and to see ‘Aladdin’ at the Palace Theatre, Redditch.

In November the family, with grandparents Joe and Irene, moved to ‘Highbury’, a house on the corner of Victoria Road and Stourbridge Road, and Roland changed to the Meadows Playgroup.

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