Beatrice Baxter obituary (opens in new tab)

My mother, Beatrice Baxter, who has died aged 102, was a secondary school chemistry teacher in Ilford, Essex.After teaching at two mainstream schools – Gearies and Fairlop – she worked in the town for the rest of her career at Ethel Davis, a community special school for disabled children, where she became adept at helping pupils in wheelchairs or with cerebral palsy to carry out chemistry experiments. Continue reading...