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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.
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.