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Pam Ayres was born in Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire (now administered as part of Oxfordshire), the youngest of six children (having four elder brothers and a sister) of Stanley and Phyllis Ayres. Her father worked for 44 years as a linesman for the Southern Electricity Board, having been a sergeant in the Grenadier Guards during the Second ...
The Bone Chanter: Unpublished Poems 1945–72, edited by J. E. Weir; The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady: Various Uncollected and Unpublished Poems, edited by J. E. Weir; Alan Brunton, Black & White Anthology, a 33-part sequence with an Asian setting, Hawk Press [23] Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter, biography, New Zealand
Ayres read the poem to Deeley later in the programme saying, “We mustn’t forget people’s birthdays - the one day in all of the year for making somebody feel special, and those far away to ...
Poetry 100 Poems by Seamus Heaney: The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres: England: Poems from a School edited by Kate Clanchy: Off the Shelf edited by Carol Ann Duffy: She Must Be Mad by Charly Cox: The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres: The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart: Young Adult A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge: La Belle Sauvage: The Book ...
The 60-year-old is remembered as a beloved restaurant owner.
Despite the deprivations, Grateful Life beat jail and it gave addicts time to think. Many took the place and its staff as inspiration. They spent their nights filling notebooks with diary entries, essays on passages from the Big Book, drawings of skulls and heroin-is-the-devil poetry.
Pam (Pam Ayres) and Gordon (Geoffrey Whitehead) are a long-married couple who run a small garden centre. Gordon is a creature of habit while Pam longs to break out of her humdrum routine. The humour revolves around her efforts to persuade him to try something new, or at least stop holding her back.
One of the most widely read early accounts of prison life in the 20th century was My Life in Prison (1912), by Donald Lowrie. The book inspired Thomas Mott Osborne, who later became warden at Sing Sing, to dedicate his career to prison reform.