Ethel was based on an elderly woman that Smith had encountered in a pub in Hackney.
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Such was the controversy surrounding this storyline that the University of Glamorgan uses the plot as part of their new approach to the study of British criminal law.
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Ethel lived in Albert Square for most of her life, remaining there through the Second World War, and even witnessing the death of her entire family, who were wiped out by a doodlebug.
Ethel Merman | Ethel Waters | Frank Skinner | Dennis Skinner | Walter Skinner | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Skinner | Richard Skinner (broadcaster) | Richard Skinner | Principal Skinner | John Skinner | Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize | Ethel (string quartet) | Ethel Booba | Cornelia Otis Skinner | Quentin Skinner | James Skinner | Ethel Schwabacher | ETHEL | Elizabeth Skinner | Donald Ross Skinner | Daniel Skinner | Skinner's Sense of Snow | Skinner's Brewery | Julie Skinner | John Skinner (poet) | Ethel Turner | Ethel Scott | Ethel, Mississippi | Ethel Armes |
In addition, she was an old friend of Angie Watts (Anita Dobson), a former lover of Angie's husband Den (Leslie Grantham) and, as a supposed former resident of Walford, she was known to many of the other regular characters such as Dot Cotton (June Brown) and Ethel Skinner (Gretchen Franklin).