Profile Rosemary & Douglas Gatward Little Hands is a Private Nursery School specialising in quality education for the under fives and offers Flexible hourly booking - open 08.30 to 16.30 Term time bookings with optional holiday club Bumble Bee room for children 12 – 24 months Ladybird room for 2 year olds Butterfly room for children 3-5 years With optional “ready for school sessions” Holiday club for children aged 12 months to 8 years All sessions have a high staff to child ratio and are available for funded 2 year olds and funded 3/4 year olds with no extra charges Categorised as “Outstanding” by Ofsted For further information please contact Anne McCrossen - Nursery Manager : 01763 260964 e-mail lh-melbourn@btconnect.com Little Hands is also at Bourn, Linton and Newton visit the website at www.littlehands.co.uk
22
www.melbourncambridge.co.uk
Rosemary Fuller was born at her grandparents house in Victoria Road, Cambridge just before the second World War. Her father worked in one of the college kitchens and her mother was in service in Newnham Terrace. Rosemary takes quiet pleasure in the fact that one of her granddaughters is now studying at Queens’ College almost opposite the place where her great grandmother was a maidservant. Four years after Rosemary was born sister Helena came along. Their father was by this time working at the Atlas, they were living in a little cottage on the corner of Chiswick End, Meldreth and with Rosemary’s maternal grandparents running The Dumb Flea at Chiswick End there was plenty of family support. This was just as well, because at the outbreak of war father went into the army as a chef and never really came back home again, Mrs. Fuller having to take numerous jobs to keep herself and the girls. Despite this, Rosemary has the happiest memories of her childhood where they all ran wild in the meadows and there were lots of aunts and cousins with whom to spend time. Both girls initially went to school in Meldreth but when she was 5 Helena was diagnosed with a tubercular knee joint and spent the next six years mainly in hospital, frequently being strapped to the bed to prevent her from moving. Later on it was realised that this illness was in fact rheumatoid arthritis! Rosemary moved from Meldreth school to St. Mary’s Convent in Royston and later on when Mrs. Fuller got a job in Baldock she attended Baldock Secondary Modern. During this time Mrs. Fuller contracted TB and was hospitalised so the young Rosemary was looked after by an aunt in Letchworth and other members of the family.
