C W Northrop
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Anyone else know that the recently passed on actress of Emmerdale and Keeping Up Appearances fame,hailed from Dukinfield,the same home town as Kathy Staff and Ronnie Hazlehurst?
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Shirley Stelfox
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Hi C W I didn't know that thank's for letting us know. There seem's to have been alot of these sad event's over the past few month's
To resurrect this very old thread, I discovered that Kathy and Ronnie were were born within a couple of months of each other. I'm wondering if they knew one another before the series, they could have even been in the same class at school as I don't think Dukinfield is a very big place?
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Didn't Compo once say that he'd seen Blamire and a certain Mabel Dukinfield together at Clay Bank? Blamire said she'd joined him on his birdwatching expeditions, even though she was never invited.
No, Dukinfield is not a big town. I know because I lived there a few years as a kid and my Mum's family come from there. Shirley was a cousin of one of my uncles.
Thats actually kind of cool to have famous people in the family.. close as I got was an aunty (both my parents were from UK) involved somehow with the enigma code.
edit: Keeping Up Appearances was awesome
Thats actually kind of cool to have famous people in the family.. close as I got was an aunty (both my parents were from UK) involved somehow with the enigma code.
edit: Keeping Up Appearances was awesome
An aunt being involved in the enigma code is much cooler!
I never met Shirley and was surprised when my Mum mentioned the family connection. My aunt knew Kathy Staff at a church she had some involvement with, and I once saw her visiting a relative who lived next door to us.
I love these tenuous links to celebrities, the closest I've ever got to fame was sitting behind Ricky Tomlinson on a flight once and meeting Gail Tilsley from Corro in the mid 90's. Bet no one can beat as the most rubbish link to stardom !? 
I love these tenuous links to celebrities, the closest I've ever got to fame was sitting behind Ricky Tomlinson on a flight once and meeting Gail Tilsley from Corro in the mid 90's. Bet no one can beat as the most rubbish link to stardom !?
I once worked with a bloke who'd met Vangelis and I was dead jealous!
captain clutterbuck
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I know an Extra who has been in 4 Vera's , I had a very minor role in Polanski's Macbeth , I say minor that's an overstatement , it was filmed in Northumberland we were bused in from school [5th form and above] to be soldier's in the battle scenes. We were given coloured tunics to wear over our clothes [specified we had to wear black] stood around like lemons on Alnwick Moors for hours but we were all fed with decent grub from the catering trucks .
As a I say we were bussed there and back . On the final day one of the buses was stopped before leaving. Apparently one of the real thugs from our school had secreted a chain mace for future use, but stupidly, he had hidden it in the destination board at the rear of the bus [old united bus like this one ] which you opened with two levers . When the Bus was started up the light in destination board illuminated a perfect outline of the mace which was spotted by the site security who boarded the bus and removed it . We thought to ourselves what sort of carnage would he have wreaked with it .
As a I say we were bussed there and back . On the final day one of the buses was stopped before leaving. Apparently one of the real thugs from our school had secreted a chain mace for future use, but stupidly, he had hidden it in the destination board at the rear of the bus [old united bus like this one ] which you opened with two levers . When the Bus was started up the light in destination board illuminated a perfect outline of the mace which was spotted by the site security who boarded the bus and removed it . We thought to ourselves what sort of carnage would he have wreaked with it .