Pamela Florence Martin

Pamela was born in Dagenham, Essex in 1938; the following year, war broke out. Sadly, her school, one mile from the River Thames, was badly bombed. Therefore her proper schooling was started when she was seven years old with the playground still full of rubble. Happier times came when Pam joined the Kitty Harris Stage School of Dance, where she excelled. She married, moved to Devon in 1963, bought a guest house and had three daughters. In 1973, she and her husband sold up and moved to a cottage with two acres, opening the gardens for charity. In 1999, they retired to a bungalow overlooking the sea, opening the gardens again. In 2019, they celebrated their 60^th wedding anniversary with 140 guests, in the guest house they used to own. (It is now the high-class Best Western Hotel, and is still haunted.)