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Kathleen Faux loved Stanley Mays so much that she stood by and did nothing

as he  beat her small son so much it put him into Hospital.

Love is so very powerful that even the basic instincts of a motherhood are cancelled out.

Many children are beaten and left alone with a mother's consent!

This picture was taken by John Logie Baird it is of his live in housekeeper.

The next is of mother Stanley and the ever present Bedlington dog.

Kathleen was some 25years younger than her boss John Logie. She was born in a village called Abridge, North East of London. Chigwell near Abridge had a Tube Station so in a short time she could be in the West End of London.

My mother hated me, she already had a son to Stanley Mays two years older than me. who she adored. Later a girl would arrive she was seven years younger than me and called Elizabeth Ann Kathleen Mays. As the years passed she became everything to me and a soul mate. She died of breast Cancer aged 47 years old and I shall never recover from the loss.

Mother never touched me and everything was very hard for me even just dressing myself. Mother soon told John Logie of my arrival and he bought a house for the Mays as long as they kept me in the family. Father died when I was three and the brutal stepfather Stanley was soon able to get me in an orphanage. I must admit it must have been hard for Stanley to keep me around. I feel that the greed of owning the house, caused much pain for all around at the time.

I can remember at the age of two laid in bead hearing mother scream and cry as Stanley beat her, knowing that I could not help her and that in moments Stanley would thunder up the stairs to beat me. Mother eventually seemed to believe she deserved the beatings, as I did by just being a reminder of his wife's infidelity.

Kathleen was a somewhat uneducated girl and had left school at the tender age of thirteen. She came from a large family filled with love but financially poor. She had answered an ad in the Times and managed to get the job of Housekeeper to John Logie. I have a bankbook that shows that when she married she had managed to amass the sum of 40pounds the equivalent to 40 thousand pounds today. On her plus side she was very "Worldly Wise" it was as if God was wired directly into her mind guiding her and helping her when necessary. She knew where to pick the best mushrooms and how to get a rabbit, how to prevent illness, and cure anything. She would not touch me but the first and earliest memories are of her telling me about John Logie. I have a giving nature and I believe what people tell me so in my stupidity, even when I was disposed of into the Orphanage, it still never clicked who was my father.

John enjoyed going back to Abridge with Kathleen. He could raid sheds for parts and he could enjoy the attention he got. Often he would take his camera and take snapshots, which were very expensive to the average man. A distinctive feature began to appear in his photography, by trying to have a different approach and produce unusual shots he would kneel on the floor, and use the art of upshot. These next photos taken in Abridge of the Faux family, show his style. Mother was a gifted artist and started to hand colour Johns prints, with great success. He bought her a paint box with hundreds of colours in it, each one was in a porcelain container.

The faded tinting can still be seen in some photos. This work of mothers caught Walt Disney's eye and he promised her a job on the spot.

All the above photos were taken by John Logie Baird of the Faux family. He was always made welcome and actually felt part of the family when he was there. John used Mother as a model as she was some 25years younger than John he had great success with her. Photo number 2 is with Diana Bairds daughter who mother liked but by far Malcolm was always held up to me as the perfect child. Mother said that she failed to understand why John disliked him so much. It is strange as my children would have appeared with me and on television. The two photos on the beach are of the first visit to father, in the hope of some compensation. The visit was a success as John bought 107 Wanstead Park Ave for the Mays. John never expressed a love for Kathleen but must have had a lust for the much younger woman.

I have saved Mothers bank book as she her self saved it to show that while she was working for the Bairds she was a woman of independent means.

It took till a few years before she died, to have a bank book with savings again, of which she was so proud. As a sad foot note it allowed Elizabeth and myself to bury her with very small expense to ourselves.

The bank book Kathleen Faux was so proud of. Working for John Logie Baird as a live in housekeeper she managed to save £40. At the time it was a large sum of money. When she married Stanley Mays it was soon frittered away.

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