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  • ...st Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding of Yorkshire]]. He moved to [[Southport|Southport]], [[Lancashire|Lancashire]], with his family in 1929, and worked with his ...at Sacred Heart [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] Church, [[Ainsdale]], [[Southport]] on 20 September 1930.
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  • | birth_place = [[Southport]], [[Lancashire]], England Born in Southport, Lancashire, England,<ref>{{cite news |title=Charles Victor to Repeat In Al
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  • | death_place = [[w:Southport, Queensland|Southport]], Australia ...earances in ''[[w:The Troubleshooters|The Troubleshooters]]'' (1965–1971). From the 1970s, he appeared in lead and [[w:Character actor|character roles]] in
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  • Cope also appeared in the satirical series ''[[That Was The Week That Was]]'' from 1962 until 1963. ...se" (1972) he played Henry Thackery, a missing heir from Canada, returning from sea, just in time to save the land and Beauty's paddock next to the Gordon
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  • | birth_place = [[Southport]], Lancashire, England Bryan was born in [[Southport]], Lancashire.<ref name="BBC"/> Her father was a salesman and she attended
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  • PO Box 2, Southport, PR8 2JD. Online [https://www.freebmd.org.uk/ here]</ref> PO Box 2, Southport, PR8 2JD. Online [https://www.freebmd.org.uk/ here]</ref>
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  • ...[[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]], and broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series, and included two Christma Several characters from ''Porridge'' reappear in the sequel series ''[[Going Straight]]'' (1978) an
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  • ...04}} Formby also had a successful recording career and made the transition from music hall to [[revue]] in 1916. ...n|Formby was not alone in developing a chest complaint: the mortality rate from bronchitis was 20% higher in the north west than the rest of the country.{{
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  • ...e ukulele to his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the la ...ce was in December 1960, two weeks before the death of Beryl. He surprised people by announcing his engagement to a school teacher, Pat Howson, seven weeks a
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  • ...pt was most recently written by [[Iain Pattinson]], who worked on the show from 1992 until his death in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amandahowardas ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'' developed from the long-running radio [[sketch show]] ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]
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  • a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk ...es of Jimmy Perry, one of the programme's writers. After being demobilised from the [[British Army|Army]], he was a [[Butlins Redcoats|Redcoat]] at [[Butli
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  • ...the role on television five years later. He often appeared in film, rising from a [[bit part|bit part]] actor in the late 1930s to a member of the main cas ...ears later. Hordern suffered from kidney disease during the 1990s and died from it in 1995 at the age of 83.
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