The verbal interplay between the three epitomised the serial's North of England humanity and yielded some of the 'richest moments' in the programme.
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Josephine Palmer, stage name Lynne Carol, (29 June 1914, Usk, Monmouthshire–30 June 1990, Blackpool, Lancashire) was an English actress made famous by playing busybody Martha Longhurst in the soap opera Coronation Street from the second episode in 1960 until the character was killed off in 1964.
A Christmas Carol | Joyce Carol Oates | Carol Burnett | Carol Channing | Carol Ann Duffy | The Carol Burnett Show | Carol Neblett | Mickey's Christmas Carol | Carol Rosenberg | Carol Lawrence | Lynne Stopkewich | Lynne M. Thomas | Carol Reed | Carol II of Romania | Carol Gilligan | Lynne Stewart | Judy Lynne | Gillian Lynne | East Lynne | Carol Hall | Carol Bove | Lynne Littman | Lynne Cheney | Christmas carol | Carol Kidd | Patricia Lynne Duffy | Martine Carol | Lynne Watson | Lynne Tillman | Lynne Taylor-Corbett |
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.