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Our Mum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although brought up and having lived her first sixty years\nin Billericay, our Mum was born in 1925 in a nursing home in Sydenham in South\nEast London, for which reason she supported Kent at cricket. This allegiance\nwas reinforced by childhood family holidays spent at the Folkestone Cricket\nFestival where she was able to watch Kent and England cricketers at the top of\ntheir game and fooling around end-of-season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think Mum had quite a happy childhood with a Mum and a Dad\nwho both liked animals, so there were always plenty of pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like her sisters, Mum attended the Ursuline Convent School\nin Brentwood after starting out at the local one in Billericay. She was quite a\ntalented violinist at school, passed her Grade 8 and might have gone further\nwith this had it not been for the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mum started commuting to the City during the War, a time\nwhen bombs were falling and while it must have been daunting, like everyone\nelse she kept calm and carried on. She worked for the Standard Bank of South\nAfrica, where she met our Dad when he was demobbed and returned to the bank in\n1946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mum and Dad married in 1950 and she stopped work at that\npoint and was soon expecting me. By November 1953 Marion was born and in 1956\nwe moved from our rented bungalow to a house in Billericay. We had a decent\nadjacent plot to, over the years, accommodate chickens, ducks and an allotment,\nand at various times we had a guinea pig, mice, goldfish, budgies and our first\ndogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mum started work again on a part-time basis in about 1960, working\nfor the Westminster Bank, initially in Brentwood after learning to drive, and\nthen in Billericay. Mum then worked locally for an insurance company, moved up\nto the City, and worked for a merchant bank being a bookkeeper for investment\ntrusts. She only stopped her second City career when her own mother became\nunwell and needed our Mum to keep an eye on her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about the dogs in general, and Shelties in particular?\nIn 1962 on a day when Mum must have been off her part-time job, Marion and I\nwere walking home from school for lunch when we came upon a Sheltie puppy\nrunning loose on the main road.  With\nsome encouragement she followed us home. Mum reported the finding to the\npolice, but no one claimed her and after signing a police form we could keep\nher. We had been dog-less for a while at that point. As it happened, the\nbreeder was local, had let the puppy go to a pet home, but as she had been\nlost, never transferred the puppy to the purchaser. After being referred by a\nfriend she did identify Penny as the \u201clost\u201d puppy and transferred ownership to\nMum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had Penny for sixteen years and after we lost her in 1978\nMum and Marion acquired a Sheltie bitch to show, and that is how Stanydale\nShelties started. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1985 around three years after Dad\u2019s retirement, Mum and\nDad moved to Nayland from Billericay, and to a more rural aspect with more room\nfor the dogs, of which there have been quite a lot at various times including a\nnumber of Lhasa Apsos. Mum enjoyed showing the dogs with Marion and as a great\nanimal lover loved watching the rabbits, deer, pheasants, partridges and many\nother birds in the garden almost up to the end. She also became a great\nhorseracing enthusiast and was very knowledgeable about both flat and National\nHunt racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Mum was a kind, considerate and generous soul. She had a\nlong life, but just the same it is hard to be without her, when so often we\nstill feel the need to tell her something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pamela Aileen Stow was born on 25th<\/sup> September\n1925 and passed away on 27th<\/sup> September 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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