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- Gilly Coman was born on 13 September 1955 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Bread (1986), Springhill (1996) and Priest (1994). She was married to Phil Cutts. She died on 13 July 2010 in Caldy, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jean Margaret Hodgkinson, known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British television actress. She was best known to British television viewers as Hilda Ogden in the soap opera Coronation Street (1960), a role she played from 1964 until 1987, and also as Auntie Wainwright in the long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1988 to 2010. For her role in Coronation Street (1960), she won the 1985 Royal Television Society Award for Best Performance, and received a 1988 BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress.
Alexander was born at 18 Rhiwlas Street Toxteth, Liverpool, in 1926, to Nell and Archie Hodgkinson; her father worked as an electrician and the family lived in a terraced house with no indoor lavatory. Alexander had an elder brother, Kenneth. She aspired to become an actress from an early age, and later said that she was inspired by variety acts she saw at the Pavilion theatre in her home city. She attended St Edmund's College for Girls in Princes Park, Toxteth and as a teenager, she joined an amateur theatre group and took elocution lessons.
Alexander spent five years as a library assistant in Liverpool before she began her acting career in 1949 at the Adelphi Guild Theatre in Macclesfield. She first appeared as Florrie in Sheppey by Somerset Maugham. She later worked in rep in Oldham, Stockport and York. Most of her parts were minor, and she also worked as a wardrobe mistress and stage manager. Her television debut is variously given as in the police series Z-Cars or in Deadline Midnight.
Alexander first appeared in Coronation Street in 1962 in a minor role as a landlady. Two years later, she returned to the programme as Hilda Ogden. She started playing the role on 8 July 1964, finally leaving on 25 December 1987. Ogden became highly popular with viewers and Alexander was often identified with her character.
The British League for Hilda Ogden was established in 1979 by Sir John Betjeman, Willis Hall, Russell Harty, Laurence Olivier and Michael Parkinson, among others. In 1984, hundreds of fans sent her condolence cards after the death of her on-screen husband Stan Ogden, played by Bernard Youens, who had died a few months before his character was killed off. In 1985 she received the Royal Television Society Award for her performance on Coronation Street. When she decided to leave the show in 1987, fans started "Save Hilda!" campaigns; however, many did not realise that she had made her own decision to depart. Her final scenes in the programme were aired on 25 December 1987, attracting nearly 27 million viewers, the highest number in the show's history.
In 2005 the UK TV Times poll voted her as the "Greatest Soap Opera Star of All Time".- Writer
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Ken Dodd was born on 8 November 1927 in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Hamlet (1996), Cruella (2021) and The Ken Dodd Laughter Show (1979). He was married to Anne Dodd. He died on 11 March 2018 in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Actor
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- Soundtrack
Bill Dean was born on 3 September 1921 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Gumshoe (1971), Scum (1979) and The Good Companions (1980). He died on 20 April 2000 in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK.- Andy Devine was born on 28 February 1942 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Queer as Folk (1999) and Coronation Street (1960). He died on 27 January 2022 in Southport, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Actor
- Director
Dean Sullivan was born on 7 June 1955 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Brookside (1982), Reuben Don't Take Your Love to Town (2004) and Wings. He died on 29 November 2023 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Ken Jones was born on 20 February 1930 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Doing Time (1979), Melody (1971) and The Liver Birds (1969). He was married to Sheila Fay. He died on 13 February 2014 in Prescot, Merseyside, England, UK.- Julia Lennon (née Stanley; 12 March 1914 - 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith, she handed over the care of her son to her sister. She later had one daughter after an affair with a Welsh soldier, but the baby was given up for adoption after pressure from her family. She then had two daughters, Julia Baird and Jackie, with John 'Bobby' Dykins. She never divorced her husband, preferring to live as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life.
She was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, musical, and having a strong sense of humor. She taught her son how to play the banjo and ukulele. She kept in almost daily contact with John, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Dykins' house. On 15 July 1958, she was struck down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman, close to her sister's house at 251 Menlove Avenue. Lennon was traumatized by her death and wrote several songs about her, including "Julia" and "Mother". - Dustin Gee was born on 24 June 1942 in York, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Madhouse (1980), Rock Follies (1976) and Who Do You Do (1972). He died on 3 January 1986 in Southport, Merseyside, England, UK.
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Carla Lane was born on 5 August 1928 in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. She was a writer and producer, known for Bread (1986), The Liver Birds (1969) and The Last Song (1981). She was married to Arthur Hollins. She died on 31 May 2016 in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Ray Dunbobbin was born on 31 March 1931 in Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for I Didn't Know You Cared (1975), The Liver Birds (1969) and Suspense (1962). He died in August 1998 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Jim's father, Joseph "Joe" McCartney (born 23 November 1866) was a tobacco-cutter by trade when he married Florence "Florrie" Clegg (born 2 June 1874) in the Christ Church, Kensington, Liverpool, on 17 May 1896. Joe never drank alcohol and went to bed at 10 o'clock every night, and the only swear word he used was "Jaysus". Florrie was known as "Granny Mac" in the neighborhood and was often consulted when families had problems.
Jim was born at 8 Fishguard Street, Everton, Liverpool and was the third of seven children. The McCartney children were John (Jack), Edith, James (Jim), Ann, Millie, Jane (Jin), and Joe (who was named after a brother who died in infancy). Shortly after Jim's birth, the family moved to 3 Solva Street in Everton, which was a run-down terraced house about three-quarters of a mile from the Liverpool city center, where Jim attended the Steers Street Primary School off Everton Road. After leaving school at 14, Jim found work for six shillings a week as a cotton "sample boy", at A. Hannay & Co., a cotton broker in Chapel Street, Liverpool. Jim's job entailed running up and down Old Hall Street with large bundles of cotton that had to be delivered to cotton brokers or merchants in various salesrooms. He worked 10-hour days, five days a week, although he received a bonus at Christmas that was almost double his annual salary.
When World War II started, Jim was too old to be called up for active service, as well as having previously been disqualified on medical grounds after falling from a wall and smashing his left eardrum when he was 10 years old. After the cotton exchange closed for the duration of the war, Jim worked as an inspector at Napier's engineering works, which made shell cases that were later filled with explosives. He volunteered to be a fireman at night and often watched Liverpool burning from his rooftop observer's position. He met his future wife, Mary Patricia Mohin, during an air raid on Liverpool in 1940, when he was 38 years old and had settled into what his friends thought was, "a confirmed bachelorhood." Mary had been too career-conscious to think of marriage either, and at age 31 she was considered a spinster. They met in June 1940, at 11 Scargreen Avenue, West Derby, the McCartney family home. Mary was staying with Jim's sister Jin because of the lack of accommodation in Liverpool at the time. After the war he worked as an inspector for Liverpool Corporation's Cleansing Department before returning to the cotton trade in 1946.
Jim and Mary were married on 15 April 1941 at St. Swithin's Roman Catholic Church in Gillmoss, West Derby, Liverpool. Their sons Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) and Peter Michael McCartney (born 7 January 1944 and later known as Mike McGear) were both delivered in the Walton General Hospital in Rice Lane, Liverpool, where Mary had previously worked as a nursing sister in charge of the maternity ward. After she had been diagnosed with cancer, Mary still carried on cycling to work, but often doubled up in pain and had trouble breathing. The day Mary was scheduled to have a mastectomy operation, she cleaned the McCartney house and laid out her two sons' school clothes, ready for the next day. She said to Dill Mohin, her sister-in-law: "Now everything's ready for them in case I don't come back." Mary died of an embolism on 31 October 1956, after an operation to stop the spread of breast cancer. Her last words to Dill Mohin were "I would love to have seen the boys growing up." Mary was buried on 3 November 1956 at Yew Tree Cemetery, Finch Lane, Liverpool.
Eight years after Mary's death, Jim married Angela Williams on 24 November 1964. Williams had a daughter from a previous marriage, Ruth McCartney, whom Jim legally adopted.
Jim died of bronchial pneumonia on 18 March 1976. His second wife Angela said that his last words were "I'll be with Mary soon." Jim died two days before a Wings European tour, and his elder son was unable to attend the funeral. Jim was cremated at Landican Cemetery, near Heswall, Merseyside on 22 March 1976. - Louise Duprey was born on 26 April 1957 in Liverpool, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Coasting (1990) and Dancin' Thru the Dark (1990). She was married to Geoffrey Kasseum. She died in February 2000 in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Eric Bristow was born on 27 April 1957 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Heartlands (2002), Never the Twain (1981) and The Unipart British Professional Darts Championship (1981). He was married to Jane Higginbotham. He died on 5 April 2018 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Gladys Ambrose was born on 28 December 1930 in Everton, Liverpool, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Brookside (1982), Coronation Street (1960) and Red Letter Day (1976). She was married to Johnny Votel. She died on 4 July 1998 in Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Ina Clough was born on 10 November 1920 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986), FairyTale: A True Story (1997) and Emmerdale Farm (1972). She died on 25 January 2002 in Crosby, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Ian Brady was born on 2 January 1938 in Gorbals, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He died on 15 May 2017 in Ashworth Hospital, Maghull, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Freddie Marsden was born on 23 November 1940 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Zodiac (2007), Beast (2017) and Supernatural (2005). He was married to Margaret Naylor. He died on 9 December 2006 in Southport, Merseyside, England, UK.- Ken Hodgkinson was born in 1924 in Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He died on 4 October 2017 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Dennis Harkin was born on 23 August 1918 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Home to Danger (1951), It Depends What You Mean (1946) and Holiday Camp (1947). He died on 28 November 1991 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
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Albert Pierrepoint was often called the official Chief Executioner of the United Kingdom. The Home Office called him the most efficient executioner. Despite the US release title of the 2005 movie about him he was not the last hangman, executions continued for over eight years after his resignation.
Between 1932 and 1955 he conducted or assisted at about 450 hangings, following in the footsteps of his father Henry and uncle Thomas who were also executioners. Albert gained a reputation as a swift and efficient executioner, and he aimed to minimise the length of time the condemned person had to suffer fear - his record for removing the condemned prisoner from his cell until "the drop" was seven and a half seconds.
He resigned in January 1956 over a row about his fees (he was paid a fixed rate per hanging, rather than a salary), and his reputation was such that the government wrote to him to beg him to reconsider his resignation.
Pierrepoint appeared as himself in the 1961 BBC documentary, "The Death Penalty" (ironically, he had come to believe that the death penalty was not a deterrent to crime, as most murders were committed in the heat of the moment rather than premeditated; however, he kept his opinion to himself until the 1974 publication of his autobiography, "Executioner: Pierrepoint"). Pierrepoint was first portrayed by Clive Revill in "Let Him Have It" (1991), and later by Timothy Spall in the 2005 TV biopic, "The Last Hangman".- Actress
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Janice Long was born on 5 April 1955 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Lift Off! (1984), Stopwatch (1978) and You Bet! (1988). She was married to Paul Berry and Trevor Long. She died on 25 December 2021 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Actor
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- Composer
Gerry Marsden was born on 24 September 1942 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Zodiac (2007), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) and Beast (2017). He was married to Pauline Behan. He died on 3 January 2021 in Arrowe Park, Merseyside, England, UK.- Harry Goodier was born on 2 April 1925 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Mallens (1979), Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Poirot (1989). He died on 30 September 2005 in Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK.
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Josie Jones is known for Everyday (2012). She died on 23 March 2015 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Bacon was born in Romford, Essex. He grew up in Australia.
Bacon's acting career comprised of starring in 25 episodes of Australian soap Sons and Daughters (1982) and one episode of the British sitcom 2point4 Children (1991). He turned down a part in Neighbours (1985).
In 1987, Bacon moved to London, where he worked in TGI Fridays in Covent Garden. He then decided to become a professional bartender, forming his own company, Bar Biz. In 1989, Bacon appeared on Richard & Judy and Wogan; the latter appearance helped him get a job in Manchester and in 1991 he met his long term business partner Jeremy Roberts and helped open the Chalon Court Hotel in Lancashire. In 1993, Bacon and his friend David Hinds bought the JW Johnsons bar in Manchester, a popular bar restaurant and club; this led to the later development of Via Vita, a Mediterranean-style bar-restaurant, developed with Roberts and Hinds which was sold in 1998.
In 1999, Bacon set up the Living Room with Jeremy Roberts and developed the business to 13 restaurants; there were 34 restaurants in the group when Bacon and Roberts sold the Living Room to trade in 2007. In 2005, the Est Est Est restaurant business was acquired, which in 2016 had 15 restaurants. Between 2010 and 2012 the business grew adding the Oast House (which grew into the New World Trading Company), the Alchemist, Australasia and Artisan - all developed in Manchester City Centre. In 2013, the Manchester House restaurant was opened, with the aim of it becoming the first Michelin star restaurant in Manchester. In 2015, the Group led by Bacon had a turnover in excess of £100 million, and was awarded the Manchester Evening News Business of the Year award.
In 1999, Bacon was diagnosed with lymphoma and in 2014, he was diagnosed with advanced melanoma. He died on 30 April 2016. Bacon's 12-year-old nephew Jett died of Ewing's sarcoma five days after.
A memorial service was held for Bacon on 16 May 2016.
Bacon was married three times and had three children. - Cecil Fredericks was born in 1903 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Home Sweet Home (1945) and Happidrome (1943). He was married to Bunty Meadows. He died on 10 November 1958 in New Brighton, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Jimmy Evans was born on 19 March 1910 in Durham, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. He is known for Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different (1971), Die, Monster, Die! (1965) and Scream and Scream Again (1970). He died in December 1977 in Merseyside, England, UK.
- Johnny Hackett was born on 20 December 1930 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Who Do You Do (1972), Play for Today (1970) and The Good Old Days (1953). He died on 21 May 2002 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Stanley Dawson was born on 12 September 1936 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Theban Plays by Sophocles (1986), Village Hall (1974) and Jack the Ripper (1973). He was married to Pamela Ellis. He died on 12 March 2003 in Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Rhys Jones was born on 27 September 1995 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He died on 22 August 2007 in Croxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
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- Editor
Chris Crookall was born on 9 March 1988 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor and editor, known for Fighting with My Family (2019), Tolkien (2019) and Lucky Man (2016). He died on 27 October 2020 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Ebony Gray was born on 25 January 1954 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Brookside (1982). She died on 8 August 2003 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Bill Shankly was born on 2 September 1913 in Glenbuck, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. He was a director, known for FA Cup Third Round Replay Liverpool FC vs Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic (1968), One Pair of Eyes (1967) and The Big Time (1976). He died on 29 September 1981 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Ray Holmes was born on 20 August 1914 in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK. He was married to Anne Holmes. He died on 27 June 2005 in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Terry Fields was born on 8 March 1937 in Bootle, Merseyside, England, UK. He died on 28 June 2008 in Netherton, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Al Dean was born on 7 January 1942 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Who Do You Do (1972), The Krankies Klub (1982) and Ronnie Corbett's Saturday Special (1977). He died on 7 September 1994 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Billy Bingham is a former Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager.
As a player, his first professional club was Glentoran, whom he played for between 1948 and 1950. Making the move to England, he then spent eight years with Sunderland A.F.C., making 227 appearances. In 1958 he switched to Luton Town F.C., making close to 100 league appearances in a three-year spell. This was followed by a two-year association with Everton F.C., where he again went close to 100 league appearances. He finished his career after breaking his leg in a match for Port Vale F.C. in 1964, at the age of 33. He had scored 133 goals in 525 appearances in all domestic competitions. Between 1951 and 1963, he won 56 caps for Northern Ireland National Football Team, scoring 10 international goals, and played at the 1958 FIFA World Cup (1958).
His management career would be as notable as his playing career. After taking charge at Southport F.C. in 1965, he was appointed manager of Northern Ireland National Football Team two years later, after taking the "Sandgrounders" to promotion out of the Fourth Division. During his time as an international manager he took charge at Plymouth Argyle F.C., and later Linfield F.C.. He led Linfield to a quadruple in 1970-71, his only season in charge. In 1971, he was appointed as the head coach of the Greece National Football Team. Two years later he returned to the domestic game with Everton of England. He returned to Greece for a brief spell in 1977, taking the reins at Paok Thessaloniki. The following year he went back to England to take charge of Mansfield Town F.C. for one full season. In 1980, he was re-appointed as Northern Ireland manager, his final position, and a post he would hold for the next thirteen years. He led his nation to the finals of the 1982 FIFA World Cup Spain (1982) and 1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico (1986). - Additional Crew
Joe Flannery was born in 1931 in England, UK. He is known for Superheroes of Stoke (2012), The Beatles: Made on Merseyside (2018) and I Knew John Lennon (2003). He died on 27 March 2019 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Howard Kendall was an actor, known for Reds & Blues: The Ballad of Dixie & Kenny (2010), The Time of Our Lives (2009) and Match of the Eighties (1997). He died on 17 October 2015 in Southport, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Joe Fagan was born on 12 March 1921 in Walton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He was married to Lillian Poke. He died on 30 June 2001 in Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Marie Ashton was married to Jack Diamond. She died in 2020 in Southport, Merseyside, England, UK.
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- Actor
Bill Morrison was a writer and actor, known for Screenplay (1986), BBC2 Playhouse (1973) and Screen Two (1985). He died on 7 December 2011 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.- Bertran Hays was born on 26 April 1864 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Road to London (1921). He died on 15 May 1941 in Crosby, Merseyside, England, UK.
- James Kenyon was born on 26 May 1850 in England, UK. James was a producer, known for The Nurse's Brother (1900), The Lost Scout on the Veldt (1901) and A Convict's Daring (1902). James died on 6 February 1925 in Southport, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Joe Glover was born on 26 May 1966. He died on 12 May 1999 in Everton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Peter Wilson died on 23 April 2001 in Southport, Merseyside, England, UK.
- Edwin Waugh was born on 29 January 1817 in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1931). He died on 30 April 1890 in New Brighton, Merseyside, England, UK.
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Dave Roylance was a composer, known for Brookside (1982) and Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime (1991). Dave died in September 2006 in Hoylake, Merseyside, England, UK.- Iris Charles was born on 10 November 1920 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK. She was an actress, known for It's a Grand Old World (1937). She died in 1998 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK.