Shaw was a generously ambitious businessman who worked with and employed photographers who became famous in their own right, such as Bertram Follett, Hernan Perez, Francis Goodman and Niel Nimmo.
The Wildman family of Kinson, Jean, Cedric, Sally, Jane and Liz recalled their wonderful homes; Park Farm House in Wotton, the amazing Chalet in Peaslake, Hammondhead and Malham in Yorkshire during the war, Crammers Farm in Devon (during which time the children married or left on adventures of their own) and the sedate charm of Langham House on Ham Common, Richmond. The final foothold of grandeur was in Aberaeron in Ceredigion, overlooking the great sweep of Cardigan Bay from Pengarreg Morfa.
He loved nature, on a spring morning “It’s too beautiful to work today, we shall go for a walk”, and off they went. Shaw himself was the master of the perfect onion bed and neat lines of pea seeds and shallots. Everything was always tidy. It was his liking for the beautiful which was his hallmark. He left behind his family, (his wife Joan predeceased him), his seventh child Piers, and twenty plus grandchildren and great grandchildren….. his legacy is still growing. And as they grow they remember and say yes, we had a famously beautiful time.