Pam
I’m so happy living in Teddington and I can look back on a wonderful , exciting life.
When I was 19, in 1953, I joined The Times newspaper in central London as a secretary and was soon promoted to what you might call today the Personal Assistant to one of the senior editors.
It was such a busy, lively, exciting place to work. Once, one of The Times photographers asked me if he could take my photo in the office and it was such a happy photo of me, My boyfriend at the time was furious that another man should take my photo, but I didn’t mind. It summed up my time at The Times. It was a man’s world then. When the women walked through, all the men would wolf-whistle, they wouldn’t be allowed to do that now.
In 1985, I joined the Lucie Clayton College as a secretarial teacher. I was there for twelve years and they were my favourite years, it was a most wonderful time. The college was in a big mansion in Kensington, London and it ran three courses: I was in charge of the secretarial course, there was a fashion design course and a modelling course.
So many top models and actresses came through the Lucie Clayton college over the years, including Joanna Lumley, Jean Shrimpton and so many others. I remember the famous photographer David Bailey coming in to photograph the models.
