Also commemorated in the churchyard is the actress Violet Carson, who lived in Bispham and who died in 1983 and gained fame between 1960 and 1980 for her portrayal of Ena Sharples in TV's Coronation Street.
Almost always wearing a double-breasted Ulster coat and hairnet, she spent much of her free time in the series' early years with her two cronies, Martha Longhurst (Lynne Carol) and Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant), in the snug bar of the Rovers Return Inn, drinking milk stout.
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When she disappeared with the Centre keys at Christmas, preventing the children from getting any presents, Ena assumed she'd be sacked and left to stay with Henry Foster at St. Anne's, although she was allowed to keep her job.
Ena Sharples, a character in the UK soap opera Coronation Street between 1960 and 1980, was famous for wearing a hairnet.
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During this period he performed with many of the people who were later to become household names through Coronation Street, most notably Violet Carson and Doris Speed, who played Ena Sharples and Annie Walker respectively.
Ena Sharples | Richard Sharples | Nee Varuvai Ena | Mel Sharples | Ena Begović | Winston Sharples | Sharples | Rosa 'Ena Harkness' | Pita Sharples | John Sharples, Sr. | John Sharples, Jr. | James Sharples | Ena Station | Ena montana | 'Ena Harkness' | ENA | Ena | Ellen Sharples | Dick Sharples | Charlie Sharples |