My mother,Olive Pollard, who has died aged 94, and was the first woman to be appointed a police constable in Nottinghamshire. She was also a sensitive,kind and wise mother.
Olive was one of six children of Clara and Edward Howard. They had a rather special childhood as their father was the butler to the Duke of Newcastle on the Clumber estate in Nottinghamshire. Olive remembered it as idyllic; they lived in a separate community in comely Clumber Park. Olive’s love of the English countryside, flowers, or birds and nature perhaps had its seeds in this childhood environment.
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Source: theguardian.com