After retiring from teaching, Beatrice Pickering was often greeted fondly by ex-pupils in and around Durham
After retiring from teaching, Beatrice Pickering was often greeted fondly by ex-pupils in and around Durham
AngelaPickering
Tue 13 Apr 2021 14.29 EDT
Last modified on Tue 13 Apr 2021 15.07 EDT
My mother, Beatrice Pickering, who has died aged 97 of complications following Covid-19, grew up in the harsh conditions of a Durham mining community during the Depression of the 1930s.
She experienced the profound social changes that followed, going on to bring up a family of three daughters, and to become an inspirational primary school teacher. Her store of anecdotes of the events she lived through was inexhaustible, and her attachment to the place of her birth never faded.