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- Being illegitimate, he had an unsettled childhood due to his mother not being around much during the first 10 years of his life. Consequently he was brought up by an aunt. Eventually he met his father, a German named Karl, when he was 28. After leaving school, he was apprenticed for 5 years to a Yorkshire firm that built diesel engines. In 1960, he joined the Merchant Navy with a dream of seeing the world but all he saw was the engine room. After 4 years, he settled in London where his first job was with a crew digging the London Victoria tube line tunnel. Relaxing in a folk club, he got talking to a man putting on plays with an amateur group, and did an audition, resulting in him getting a part which led him to be in the last 15 in a drama school in Loughton, Essex. After 3 years, he got steady work in the theatre and television including the series Lucky Feller (1975). Soon after, he went to Australia where he spent 2 years touring on a motorbike and busking with his guitar before returning to England, but all his agent could get him was a TV ad for Yellow Pages which was seen by Granada producers who thought him right for the part of Bill Webster in Coronation Street (1960).
- Helen Wood, was the comedian Victoria Wood's mother. She was born as Ellen Mape in Prestwich in 1919. She was later given the name Helen Colleen and so was known initially as Ellen Mape, later as Helen Mape and informally amongst friends and acquaintances as Nellie Mape, later she was known by her married name Helen Wood.
Nellie died in 2001, but in her later years she wrote an account of her childhood in Manchester between 1919 and 1933. After Nellie died her son Christopher (the politician Chris Foote Wood) edited this diary into 'Nellie's Book', which was published in 2006. - Albert Pontefract died on 4 April 2014 in Skipton, Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Florence Gregson was born on 12 July 1885 in Chorlton, Manchester, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Good Companions (1933), Sing As We Go! (1934) and No Limit (1935). She was married to James R. Gregson. She died on 30 July 1962 in Skipton, Yorkshire, England, UK.