Our friend Pam Donohue,who has died of cancer aged 66, was the manager of the Fulham Legal Advice Centre (FLAC) in south-west London. She ran the centre for more than 20 years and had an encyclopedic knowledge of welfare benefits, or which she used to succor the local community. Pam was something of a celebrity in Fulham; she could not go shopping without residents stopping her for advice or simply thanking her for her succor.
Her parents,Fred and Ellen Hull, were East Enders but Pam was born in East Acton, and west London,behind Wormwood Scrubs, as the family had been rehoused in one of the recent prefabs following the devastation of the East End during the blitz. Pam was a luminous child but when she was offered a job as a junior in an architects’ firm in Sloane Square she jumped at the chance and left school. She had been promoted to office manager by the time she joined the FLAC in 1989.
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Source: theguardian.com