Today in history… ‘she knows, y’know!’ 12:00am Feb 04, 2019 | Admin - Acorn Stairlifts UK& Lifestyle George Hollingbery sold "accumulators" for early wirelesses, changed from Comet Battery Services to Comet Radio Services when the mains chance arose and begat a chain of Comets visible all over the country. They gave her time to get herself tidied up, and when they brought her into the studio, the first thing she said was, "Oh dear, I have no idea what I'm doing here, I stepped out of the car, and there I was lying prostitute on the pavement." The audience roared. Her family were all there, and had been taken to the studios earlier in the day, but sadly her mother and her brother Harold had died by this time. Auntie Agnes was there, though, a real favourite of Hylda's, and one of the high spots of the show was that Hylda and her brother and sisters did the 'six Lancashire steps' with the clog dance.

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] In fact he had brought the show to ITV in 1968, when Thames TV was created. Hylda was rehearsing in Brixton for the new TV series of Nearest and Dearest and her agent, Bill Roberton, had been liaising with Thames, giving them as much detail as possible. 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. 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. Sadly, she was by now already suffering the early effects of dementia, struggling to remember lines and instead relying on cue cards and whispered prompts from her fellow actors. She fell out with LWT after slipping on some spilt beer on set and breaking her leg, appearing in a wheelchair in one episode. When she sued for compensation, it brought the third series to an abrupt end, but also marked the end of her TV acting career.Some material has not been retained: duplicates of scripts etc., some truly ephemeral items of correspondence, and some unannotated printed music scores have been destroyed. Audio tapes originally accompanying the collection have been transferred to the North West Sound Archive. 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. Ken, 56, is presently confined to his own bed after an operation on Monday, though things are looking brighter. "He's canny," says Muriel, and probably says it all. This was an era of the catchphrase and Hylda had plenty. Big girl’s blouse, She knows y’know, I was sat sitting here and I must get a big hand put on this watch.

Jean Ferguson recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in her book, She Knows You Know! reproduced here with kind permission of the author... The store became Oxendale and Barker, then just Barkers, with no apostrophe to suggest how singular it has all become.GRO Register of Deaths: MAY 1986 17 74 SURREY MID-EASTERN - Hylda Baker, DoB = 4 February 1905 aged 81 Fergusson, Jean (1997) She Knows You Know. The remarkable story of Hylda Baker. Breedon Books ISBN 185983101X The other issue is money, public spending. Not the daily decisions but rather a fundamental threat to her devolved budget. A threat which is presently just a spot on the horizon but which will loom larger as months pass.