contact the editor here. Visible. Some of her work includes Oliver!, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Nearest and Dearest, She Knows Y'Know, Up the Junction, Our House, Where the Difference Begins, and Not On Your Nellie. When Jewel and Baker first met, knowing all about each other's long careers, there was a good measure of mutual respect. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our, Theres much more about Sunken Forests here, The lost village of Singleton Thorpe here, Plus a piece of research about rising sea levels and whether theyre fact or folklore. Packed full of interesting things it arrives in your inbox all 52 weeks of the year. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Thornton-Cleveleys, England, United Kingdom. Go to the homepage of theVisit Cleveleys websitefor the latest updates. Hylda Baker (4 February 1905 1 May 1986) was an English comedian, actress and music hall performer. Contains all 7 series of the vintage ITV sitcom. Copyright: Granada Television / Rex, Nearest And Dearest. Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker star in this big screen spin-off of one of ITV's most popular comedy series of all time. The comic died 10 years ago. As youll see from one of the photos, there was no water on South Avenue until you got to the Queens Walk end. She did not re-emerge until they had re-written the end so that she shared the pay-off with her co-star. A record of Frank Sinatra singing live at the Blackpool Opera House in 1953 is still available for purchase, with the orchestra conducted by Billy Ternant. So we rely on what were told and the evidence afterwards. Image shows left to right: Lucky Flynn (Tim Minchin), Meg Adams (Milly Alcock), Nearest And Dearest - The Complete Series, Comedy Chronicles: Utterly Buffery - The short but special comic career of Tony Buffery. Hylda Baker (4 February 1905 - 1 May 1986) was an English comedienne, actress and music hall performer. Jean, better known as Marina in Last of the Summer Wine, has spent six years researching Hylda's life and career, including the times she broke South Pier records in the 1950s and at the Grand in 1970. A little later, the show's director took him to one side and broached the thorny subject of who, in keeping with tradition, should give the speech on behalf of the company at the curtain call. 'Yes,' said Mitchell, 'we did a scene together this morning'. Hylda Baker.'' The comic died 10 years ago. [] Ken Platt is in the stage show with me at the moment because I refused to play with Mr Jewel. At his trial, Blackpool Magistrates ordered Moncaster to pay Baker 400 (the maximum the magistrates could award) and committed him for later sentencing by Blackpool's quarter session court. Through the 50s, the theatre had names such as Danny Ross, Freddie Frinton, Sid James and Hylda Baker appearing during their summer seasons. A Gannett Company. Sadly, Hylda spent the last years of her life as a patient of Horton Hospital, where she died of bronchial pneumonia at the age of 82 on May 1st 1986. No-one knew about the dreadful effects of Alzheimer's in those days. We mentioned the possibility of erosion of the sea wall if beach levels were to drop too far. California STRTPs (Short Term Residential Therapeutic Programs) provide an intensive level of supervision and therapeutic services to prepare children for a lower level of care such as foster homes, adoptive homes . ``She was lying there, crying, bleeding, her make-up all smudged. On one such occasion, there was a scene in which Eli was supposed to come in with two portions of fish and chips (wrapped-up separately in newspaper) and Nellie had to say some lines that contained so many complicated malapropisms that they had needed to be written out for Baker on the inside of her chip paper. Danny la Rue, Ruth Maddock and Booby Crush stayed at Ascot Hall (Formaly Arnfield house on Skippool Rd) during their Summer seasons in Blackpool.Tesse O Shay lived on the Breck Opposite the R/C Church.Maureen Lipman and Jack Rothenstall live on Rosendale Ave; South' Baker's struggle to remember her lines had grown significantly worse. 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. Yorkshire-born Jewel, an intelligent and technically gifted comedian, had been in show business since 1925, first as a solo act in the music halls mainly playing baggy-panted fools, then as part of a thirty-two-year partnership with his cousin Ben Warriss (preceding Morecambe & Wise as the first major northern double act to get their own series on British radio and television), and then, more recently, as a lugubrious character actor in dramas as well as comedies. and you sometimes sound like her, too.' Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. Oops, something didn't work. Image shows from L to R: Nellie Pledge (Hylda Baker), Eli Pledge (Jimmy Jewel). With Visit Fylde Coast you can explore Fleetwood, Cleveleys, Blackpool, St Annes and Lytham plus the market town of Poulton. This account has been disabled. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. While she resorted to her usual scene-stealing tricks, he became far crueller in his cunning. Today Hylda is vaunted by several of today's female comedians as an influence and releases of her tv shows on DVD show that her talent still endures.Hylda was Cremated at Twickenham (not buried) and her ashes were then transported up to Bolton, Lancashire to be scattered in the grounds of Overdale Crematorium with her parents and brothers and sisters. . Baker, in turn, would look around at the crew, mutter 'Oh, that man!' Carrying, of course, all the foam and rubbish with it. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. Catalogue description Papers of Hylda Baker (1905-86), actress and comedienne This record is held by Lancashire Archives See contact details Have you found an error with this catalogue. The next photo was taken during the clear-up process. The story of this most fierce of feuds goes back to 1968, when Baker and Jewel were brought together for a new ITV sitcom set in Colne, Lancashire, about two squabbling middle-aged siblings, Eli and Nellie Pledge, who between them have been left to run their late father's small pickle business, Pledge's Purer Pickles. and malapropisms (such as 'I'm not menthol, and I am not suffering from illuminations!') Perhaps her most famous work was in TV sitcoms in the late 1960s and early 1970s, starring alongside Jimmy Jewel in Nearest and Dearest and as landlady of the "Brown Cow" in Not on Your Nellie. We have set your language to Dont miss a thing. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, About our This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's was a painter and signwriter, who also worked part-time in the music halls as a comedian. Copyright: Thames Television, Nearest And Dearest. Get all the latest news and information in your inbox, with our range of email newsletters to meet all interests. So the overtopping effects continued until about 1pm, although high tide was at 12.20. She didn't stay in school for very. Nellie would regularly dismiss Eli as a 'big girl's blouse', while he would frequently call her a 'knock-kneed knackered old nosebag', and every episode drew them into plenty of spiteful dialogue, usually at close quarters, face to face, with looks of contempt sliding back and forth like a hot fritter on a greasy skillet. Jewel, it has to be said, was now even worse-behaved than Baker was when they were together on stage. An already somewhat tipsy Baker replied tactlessly: 'Yes, well, it's all due to me re-writing most of it, isn't it?' Hylda Baker made her mark in the world of entertainment when she worked on "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1961). Readers comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. Baker was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the first of seven children. It was actually one of the few things that they had in common that helped drive them so quickly apart. Hylda Baker Birthday: February 4, 1905 (81 years) Died: May 1, 1986 (36 years Ago) HomeTown: Lancashire, England, United Kingdom The daughter of a Lancashire comic, this dark-haired barrel-shaped comedienne and character actor was born in Lancashire. The longed-for divorce was finally in sight. Baker, for example, would cope with finding herself on the periphery of a shot by inventing bits of visual comic business to distract the viewer and steal the scene. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. There was an error deleting this problem. Her dad took these photos at the time. ITV1 1968 - 1973 45 episodes (7 series) Sitcom about brother and sister, Eli and Nellie Pledge, forced to run a pickle factory together. He would, for example, take a step back behind her when she was speaking and start doing old music hall tricks with his cigarette to spark the audience laughing and thus drown out her dialogue. Highly recommend: rattan pepper or sauerkraut fish, mapo tofu, toothpick lamb, fried intestine, cold noodles/jelly, and so much more. 'Well, we thought Jimmy should start it' Before they could say anything more, Baker jumped up and snapped: 'This is not a blooming double act! She was one of Britain's best loved comediennes in the 1960s/1970s. Their version reached #22 in the UKs BBC singles chart. This was the her former home in Cleveleys! As a regular ratings winner, ITV kept bringing the sitcom back, and in doing so kept plunging Baker and Jewel into increasingly bitter reunions. ', Jewel, however, knew that he needed to make the next series because he was again struggling financially, and so, fighting hard against the temptation to reply in kind, he lied through his gritted teeth to reporters, saying of Baker only one polite sentence: 'I got on well with her.'. If the atmosphere had been chilly before, it was now positively arctic. 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