In 1955, her music hall skills were used to full effect on BBC Television’s “The Good Old Days”, which led to a TV series, “Be Soon”, named after another of her catchphrases. More TV work followed, together with film roles including a memorable turn as ‘Aunt Ada” in the 1960 classic “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”, starring Albert Finney. Other film cameos included “Up the Junction” and “Oliver!”, both in 1968, but it was in TV sitcoms where Hylda Baker found her true home and became a household name. Her final television appearance came the same year in an episode of the BBC arts documentary show Omnibus about comedians, broadcast on 28 December 1978.

Then there was William Barker - just Williams, it seems - whose famed department store in Northallerton is celebrating its 125th anniversary. We will then move on to the Covid public inquiry. As yet, we do not know the precise formulation of the inquiry; in particular, whether there will be a separate Scottish investigation or, as seems more likely, a Scottish dimension to a pan-UK effort. Even now I hear voices on television and recognise them from rep in Darlington. I saw Charles 20 years ago in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Civic. He hadn't changed a bit." Although we are leaning more & more on how well we manage our finances - ie: Credit History & Credit Scores - that determine how responsible we are as adults, much of today's society still determines responsible behaviour and worthiness through the eyes of marriage. Many application forms asterisk & force us to answer questions that reveal our marital status. At least on paper you can choose not to answer but you can't online. Online application forms won't proceed to the next stage until you answer all the questions that are not optional and the marital status question is seldom optional.She Knows Y'know | BFI | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012 . Retrieved 15 March 2014. WITH a host of memorable catchphrases and hilarious malapropisms, all delivered in an inimitable Lancashire brogue, Hylda Baker was a comedy star unlike any other. We went on to discuss the humour of Hylda Baker and whether it would still be judged funny today. And why shouldn’t it last? She built her comedy around a character from an 18th century play. It was said at the time that Mr Swinney had avoided a multi-billion pound reduction in Scotland’s longer-term budget. However, I can do no better than refer to an insightful blog, written by the then political editor of BBC Scotland, which commended Mr Swinney for his bargaining but noted that the problem had been deferred, not resolved. Her biggest success, however, was in a sitcom called Nearest and Dearest, the story of Nellie Pledge, would-be queen of Colne, and her family of preserving cases.

THESE days it's hard enough to lunch, much less launch. For that reason, the column's regrets have been sent to the Dalesman Publishing Company for a little do today. KEN Rowland, the champion fund raiser about whom we wrote on May 25, is recovering from a queer do (to use the medical term) involving pulmonary embolism, a condition with which the column is uncomfortably familiar.Most immediately, we have yet to subdue Covid. For now, it remains a potent threat. We have simply to believe that it will subside, conquered by vaccination. That this too will pass. Eventually. Then, beyond the Covid crisis, there are the seemingly permanent problems besetting Scotland. Not the least of which is the grim mortality rate associated with the misuse of drugs. In 2020, no fewer than 1,339 souls succumbed, once again the worst rate in Europe. Monthly Film Bulletin said "Hearty over-acting from Hylda Baker cannot prevent this being just one more conveyor-belt North Country farce. All the old familiar jokes and situations are affectionately preserved, with a pop singer and coffee bar thrown in to prove that the film’s makers are bang up to date with the mood of the fifties." [3] I adore Hylda Baker, I just love her unique brand of humour, and of course she's great, it must have been hard to find roles for someone so unique, she would definitely find her place with Nearest and Dearest and Not on your Nellie. Her mishaps with words are present, but used sparingly. Hylda Baker (4 February 1905 – 1 May 1986) was an English comedian, actress and music hall performer. Born and brought up in Farnworth, Lancashire, she is perhaps best remembered for her role as Nellie Pledge in the Granada ITV sitcom Nearest and Dearest (1968–1973) and for her role in the 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. [ citation needed] Early life and career [ edit ]

Actress Jean Fergusson, known for appearances in Last of the Summer Wine, wrote a biography and devised and starred in a tribute show, She Knows Y' Know!, at London's Vaudeville Theatre in 1997. The show won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment in 1998. Harrison in those days, Audrey was also there in 1946 when fire destroyed almost everything they'd built up at the old Temperance Hall in Gladstone Street. "We put on a show that night in the Mechanics Hall, then moved to the Co-operative Hall and up to the Royal Astoria. Even when he went into hospital, he was going round the beds selling pins," reports Muriel Graham, his mother-in-law. In a coda to her musical career, she teamed with Arthur Mullard in 1978 to record a comedy version of " You're the One That I Want" from the film Grease. Baker and Mullard, then aged 73 and 68, dressed in wigs and costumes similar to the John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John characters from Grease and appeared on the BBC show Top of the Pops and the Granada Television music show for children Get It Together. Their version reached #22 in the UK’s BBC singles chart. [9] The two entertainers recorded an album of pop covers entitled Band on the Trot. [10]You're the One That I Want – Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company.