My friend Pamela Pavitt, who has died aged 90, was well known throughout the United Reformed Church for her creative use of textiles, her machine embroideries and the courses she ran for many years at the church’s conference centre at Windermere in the Lake District.
Daughter of Albert Willard, a bank manager, and his wife, Josephine, Pamela was born in Seaford, East Sussex, but her family moved later to Kent and she was educated in Tunbridge Wells. On leaving school, she went to the then Bromley College of Art and on graduating taught for a time at Hammersmith Day College in London, before returning as a staff member to Bromley.
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