Pamela Cook (26 Mar 1936 - 10 Dec 2024)

In loving memory of Pamela Cook who sadly passed away on 10th December 2024

You can share your memories, add photographs, light a candle, or donate to the RSPB in mum's memory via this page.

Mum was born on 26 March 1936 in Sheffield and it is believed she spent some of the war years evacuated to the country. She enjoyed trips to the Isle of Man with her parents, her brother Derek, and her sister Diana. There is a photo of the three siblings on the Isle of Man ferry in the photo collection here - mum is the blonde child at the bottom.

In her younger days mum had a red Lambretta which she called Sputnik. There is a picture of mum with Sputnik in the photo collection complete with her flags/penants on the front. These flags migrated to the caravan when we went on caravaning holidays as children. We recall as children loving the fact one was a pirate flag.

Mum recounted the story of her seeing dad as she went past on Sputnik and accidentally staring at him at him. Dad wrote to her about that from Oxford University shortly after – “was that you with the skid lid?”. That sparked the beginning of their romance. Mum donated her old Sputnik helment to us as children to play with.

One of mums first jobs was in a photo lab – we believe at Davy United in Sheffield. The black and white photo asking dad to be her valentine comes from those days. She spoke fondly of those days and the people she worked with. She worked processing black and white film photos to be used to promote the company.

Mum always supported dad with his love for cricket and went to many cricket matches that he was playing in and must have made countless sandwiches. Paul in his youth followed in those foorsteps and became a very able cricketer.

Mum had a lifelong love for birds and ornithology. She was a long term member of the RSPB, for whom the charity collection at the funeral will be. She knew all the names and different plumages of it seems every species of bird.

Mum moved with dad to Anglesey in around 2000, and relished having the beach and sea on her doorstep. She would be able to get out with her binoculars which she enjoyed very much. As children we had been taken on many caravan holidays to Anglesey and to Scotland.

Mum moved to York with dad in 2006. She moved to Delamere close where she made many good friends of the neighbors, was a member of the U3A, and enjoyed many trips out with the local birding group.

Paul and Christina