Rosalind Pulver obituary (opens in new tab)

My mother, Rosalind Pulver, who has died aged 91, was gregarious, sociable and a natural born organiser – I remember her shaking up my school’s parents’ association in the 1970s, her greatest triumph being getting the pupils a tour of McDonald’s HQ that included free burgers.She was born and grew up in London, first in Paddington, in a flat above her father’s menswear shop in Church Street market, and then in Hendon. As with many children of her generation, her life was interrupted by the sec...