My mom, Pam Bagguley, who has died aged 91, was a outstanding and charismatic lady who overcame the premature loss of life of my father, John, in 1963, and lived a full life participating in a variety of actions in and across the New Forest in Hampshire.
Born in Carshalton, Surrey, she was the daughter of William Clayton, head accountant at Southern Railways, and Dorothy (nee Steerman). The household moved to West Sussex in the course of the second world struggle and Pam attended Hove county grammar faculty for ladies. In 1944 her brother, Rodney, died aged 20 throughout a wartime RAF coaching train.
After drama faculty in Brighton, in 1952 Pam joined the repertory firm at Worthing’s Connaught theatre. She acted in lots of performs, notably Noël Coward’s Straightforward Advantage in 1953, and the identical 12 months had a minor half in Private Affair, a Pinewood Studios movie, alongside Glynis Johns and Nanette Newman.
It was at Worthing rep that Pam met her fellow actor John Bagguley. They had been married in 1954 and I used to be born the next 12 months. My brother Mark adopted in 1958.
In 1961 John turned a presenter on Southern Tv’s Day by Day regional night information programme. My mother and father acquired North Poulner Farm on the sting of the New Forest, the place Pam began a driving faculty, in addition to main an novice drama group on the Greyfriars Centre in Ringwood.
Nonetheless, tragedy struck in 1963 when John was killed in a automotive accident. Pam, with two younger youngsters plus her canine and horses to look after, did her greatest to outlive with a collection of equestrian-based ventures and a vibrant forged of holiday makers.
In 1971 she appeared in a minor position in Ken Russell’s The Music Lovers, a movie portrait of the composer Tchaikovsky. Her scene was shot at Wilton Home, close to Salisbury, Wiltshire.
The next 12 months Pam moved to a smallholding within the New Forest at Excessive Nook, close to Linwood. Ever bold, and never content material with grazing cattle and horses, she enrolled at King Alfred’s instructor coaching school in Winchester and subsequently turned a drama instructor at Redbridge faculty in Southampton, later instructing at Brockenhurst sixth kind school earlier than retiring in 1989.
In her later years Pam took up sculpture, and she or he rode her horses across the New Forest till she was in her mid-80s.
She is survived by Mark and me, and by three grandchildren, Christian, Edward and William.
