Our Wedding Day

A Memory of Hornchurch.

On the 19th of April, 1952 Pam Totman and I were married in this magnificent Church; she had just turned 20. I was 22 and in the Royal Navy. Pam had worked in Woolworths but at the time we met she was employed in Harold Wood at Brookes the car paint specialists. On the 1st of September 1951, her cousin Ted Dawes was to marry my cousin Jean. We both told tried to dodge the wedding but our mothers' insisted...that's a long story. Nevertheless, we attended. I glanced over my left shoulder in church prior to the start of the service and a beautiful young lady was smiling ... yes, at me. At the reception the 'place-name' on my right, showed ...Pam Totman. Yes, it was she. We danced and laughed throughout those hours together; you know the rest. We have four lovely daughters. Susan, Debbie... she was born in Nurse Maddocks Nursing Home... Julie and Wendy. Sue is 60 this year and Wendy is 50. The most sweetest mum and wife ever ... passed away on November the 4th 2009. Our grandchildren and greatgranders... named her 'Nanny Misty' as she always took our sheepdog 'Misty' whenever the little-ones went for a long walk with her.