6/2/2023 0 Comments Sylvia llewelyn davies![]() He was known to them as Uncle Jim, and to us as J.M. That would come later, from the brain of the strange, short Scotsman who played with them by that lake. ![]() They lived before Disney, before trick-or-treating, even before mandatory schooling. The way they saw the world was a bit different than any of us did as children. The country around them was still one in which children as young as nine worked in factories, but the Llewelyn boys were protected by their reverie. Darting around Black Lake, in the Surrey region of England, they were playing at castaways, taking turns at walking the plank, substituting wooden dowels for swords. In the summer of 1901, the four small Llewelyn Davies brothers-George, John, Peter and Michael-hadn’t any idea of what they were getting themselves into. ![]()
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