Pat Kendall
Pat Kendall (1934 – 2014) was born in Bethnal Green, London on 19 October, one of six children. She worked as a machinist and enjoyed sewing, travelling, and spending time with her family. Pat married husband Alan in 1955 and they remained married until her death. They had three children:...
Patricia ‘Pat’ Wright
Patricia ‘Pat’ Wright (1952-2017) was born on 1 May in Sunderland and raised in South Hetton, Hartlepool, and Seaton Carew. She was an only child. After training as a primary school teacher, she went on to spend 30 years as a special educational needs teacher, in the later years becoming...
Patricia Clark
Patricia Mary Clark (1933-2019) was born in the tiny village of Corofin, in Ireland, to Michael and Mary. At the age of 15, she was sent to stay with her sister in Cardiff to look for employment. She trained as a nurse and joined the newly-formed NHS, and specialised in...
Patricia Hosking
Patricia Margaret Hosking (1953-2018) was born in Gloucestershire to Jack and Margaret. She had three older brothers, David, Anthony, Colin and a younger sister, Sylvia. She married Keith in 1973, and in 1976 they bought a house in Oxfordshire where their four boys, Thomas, Robert, Michael and Kenneth, were born....
Patricia Legge
Patricia Legge (1940 – 2019) was born Patricia Ivall on 13 March 1940 in Alverstoke, Hampshire. The family moved to Duxford, where Pat grew up with her sister Fay and her brother Jim. Whilst working at Babraham Research Institute in Cambridge, she met Anthony Legge, whom she married in December...
Patricia Margaret Buxton
Pat was born on 17 August 1937 in Epping Hospital to Sidney and Gladys Jones the third of four children, Eric, Ron and Melvin. Pat went to school in Loughton and then to Walthamstow College. In 1956 Pat married Bruce Buxton and they moved to Derbyshire where Helen and Lynn...
Patricia Newell
Patricia Joyce Newell (1935 – 2019) was born in Swaythling, Southampton to Len and Mabel Hendy. Pat’s schooling was disrupted by the Second World War. Her school, Swaythling Primary was taken over by the Army and some of the soldiers, including Americans, befriended Pat and her sister Jan. In the...
Patricia Pinch
Patricia Pinch (1929 – 2019) was born in Barry on the 16th May 1929 to George and Iris Follett. She had an older brother, Eric, and younger sister, Jean. Pat left Holton Road school aged fifteen and trained as a hairdresser at Raymond’s in Cardiff. Once qualified, she became a...
Patricia Vera Barder
Patricia Vera Barder (1927 – 2020) was born on the 20th December 1927, in Finchley, London to Charles and Dorothy Hyman. She had an elder brother, Neil. At the age of 13, Pat was evacuated to Berkhamsted. She attended Berkhamsted School for Girls, where she enjoyed playing sports including, unusually...
Patrick Clerkin
Patrick Edward Clerkin (1931-2019) was born in Cavan, in the Republic of Ireland. He grew up on a farm with his mother, stepfather and siblings. His stepfather took him out of school when he was just was six years old to work on the farm. He never went back to...
Paul Duncan Sanderson
Born on 24th May 1946, Paul grew up in Chesterfield the eldest of six, often helping to look after his brother, Neil, and sisters Fay, Lori, Dawn and Tracey as his mother Betty, worked as a crane driver. He attended the grammar school and then Huddersfield Polytechnic. He met his future...
Paul Grunwell
Paul Grunwell (1956 – 2018) was born on 28 November, one of two children. He studied at the Bolton Institute of Technology and then went on to work for ITV as a Development Engineer, specialising in HD technology. He later set up his own computer and networking company and then...
Paul Jackson
Paul Ormston Jackson (1956 – 2019) was born in Shotley Bridge to Harold and Elizabeth. He had two older sisters, Mary and Dorothy. He attended Consett Grammar School and then worked as a trainee architectural draughtsman in Corbridge. In 1981 he married Brenda. James was born in 1982 and they...
Paul Schatzberger (Dr)
Paul Schatzberger was born in 1950 in Manchester to Rosie and Marc, and he had a younger sister, Lesley. Paul attended Manchester Grammar school, and then spent a year on a kibbutz before studying medicine at University College London, starting in 1969. There he met his future wife, Angela. Paul...
Paula Varley
Paula Margaret Varley (1952 – 2020) was born on 16th November 1951 and was adopted when she was four weeks old, by Barbara and Eric Wells. She had a brother, Kevin. Paula grew up by the sea in Westcliff and attended Grammar School, and had a particular talent for English....
Pauline Evans
Pauline Fiona Evans (1959–2018) was born to parents Anne and John. She had four siblings, Steven, Helen, Nicola and David. Family was really important to her and she delighted in being a doting aunty to all her nieces & nephews. She had two children, Carrie and Nick. In 1999, Pauline...
Pauline Gene Wilsdon
Pauline was born in London on 29th December 1926. When she left school, she took a commercial certificate and found work as a typist and assistant secretary. She then trained as a physiotherapist and worked at Stewarts and Lloyds steel works in Corby before moving to Oxford in 1949 to...
Pauline Williams
Pauline Evelyn Williams (1941 – 2019) was born on the 28th April 1941 in Cardiff to Charles and Mary Taylor. She had a brother, Robert. She married Ron O’Dare in 1962. The first ten years of married life were spent at her parents’ house and then in caravans. It was...
Peggy James
Peggy James (1922-2018) was born Peggy Gower, in Newport. She boarded at the Royal Commercial Traveller’s School in Pinner. She graduated with the British Transport Police in Cardiff in 1948. It was there that Peggy met her future husband Aubrey James. Aubrey left the police to work for British Steel....
Peggy Newman
Peggy (Margaret) Newman (1923 – 2019) was born in Whitechapel, London, and named Margaret Clarke. She was brought up by friends of her natural parents.They moved to Hertfordshire and then to the West Midlands when Peggy was 12. She enlisted in the Land Army at 17, during the Second World...
Percy (Bob) Charles Rush
Percy Charles Rush, better known as Bob, was born on 28th September 1925 in the East End of London. He had three siblings, Millie, Kitt and Albert. Bob attended Manchester Street School until the age of 14. After a short spell working in a printing factory, he embarked upon a...
Peter Adams
Peter Adams (1940 – 2017) was born in South London on 26 May, the fourth of five children. He became a ‘barrow boy’ in the South London markets aged fourteen and ended up with twelve stalls across London. He also owned multiple shops, laundries, a recording studio in Soho, and...
Peter Collins
Peter Collins (1940 – 2021) was born in London on 26th February 1940, the eldest son of Eileen and Patrick Collins. Peter’s siblings were Anne, Andrew and Michael. Due to their father being an RAF pilot, the family moved many times, living in Singapore and Hong Kong. Peter started school,...
Peter Fuller
Peter Denis Fuller (1924 – 2019) was born in Brentwood to Herbert and Lavinia. He had an older brother, Harry. The family moved to Luton, where Peter joined a firm of chartered accountants. When he was 18, Peter joined the RAF, serving in Burma and India. After the war, Peter...
