She Knows Y'Know [DVD]

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It was Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts, I said. No, said Pete, it was Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker. In 1955, her music hall skills were used to full effect on BBC Television’s “The Good Old Days”, which led to a TV series, “Be Soon”, named after another of her catchphrases. More TV work followed, together with film roles including a memorable turn as ‘Aunt Ada” in the 1960 classic “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”, starring Albert Finney. Other film cameos included “Up the Junction” and “Oliver!”, both in 1968, but it was in TV sitcoms where Hylda Baker found her true home and became a household name. However, glancing ahead, there are one or two issues on the horizon which may further challenge that hard-won reputation for sangfroid.

Harrison in those days, Audrey was also there in 1946 when fire destroyed almost everything they'd built up at the old Temperance Hall in Gladstone Street. "We put on a show that night in the Mechanics Hall, then moved to the Co-operative Hall and up to the Royal Astoria. Because this is a comedy, the social conventions of that time can be laughed at as they are not so in your face or emotive. Hylda, all prim and malaproper - so excited, she said, that she could have a coronary trombonist - became yet more famous. Born in Bolton in 1905, she learned Lancashire clog dancing, made her stage debut at Tunbridge Wells (very red rose) and after spells as a buttonhole maker and fish and chip shop assistant (Plodders Lane, Farnworth) found a notoriously neurotic niche. You're the One That I Want – Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company. We will then move on to the Covid public inquiry. As yet, we do not know the precise formulation of the inquiry; in particular, whether there will be a separate Scottish investigation or, as seems more likely, a Scottish dimension to a pan-UK effort.Alison Steadman played Baker in the play Our Hylda by Martyn Hesford, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 15 June 2017. The store became Oxendale and Barker, then just Barkers, with no apostrophe to suggest how singular it has all become. Finally, two over-arching issues. Nicola Sturgeon requires to perform an elegant gavotte with regard to independence. When Coronavirus is finally subdued, she will return to her demand that the UK Government should accede to a further referendum on independence. Yet again, we have Talking PicturesTV to thank for looking after this film, you can be certain it would be looked after by the BFI it were set in London or was by some obscure minority auteur. But films like this, which were once mainstream, if regional and working class in their appeal, are rudely neglected by that institution. They gave her time to get herself tidied up, and when they brought her into the studio, the first thing she said was, "Oh dear, I have no idea what I'm doing here, I stepped out of the car, and there I was lying prostitute on the pavement." The audience roared. Her family were all there, and had been taken to the studios earlier in the day, but sadly her mother and her brother Harold had died by this time. Auntie Agnes was there, though, a real favourite of Hylda's, and one of the high spots of the show was that Hylda and her brother and sisters did the 'six Lancashire steps' with the clog dance.

Today in history… ‘she knows, y’know!’ 12:00am Feb 04, 2019 | Admin - Acorn Stairlifts UK& Lifestyle One memorable thing that happened to Hylda in March 1972, and which would stay with her for ever and was to give her great pride, was that she was the subject of This Is Your Life. It was Roy Bottomley's idea that she would be a splendid subject and he was now working on the programme. We went on to discuss the humour of Hylda Baker and whether it would still be judged funny today. And why shouldn’t it last? She built her comedy around a character from an 18th century play. Baker was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, the first of seven children. Her father, Harold Baker, was a painter and signwriter, who also worked part-time in the music halls as a comedian. At ten, Baker made her debut at the Opera House, Tunbridge Wells, and continued to tour as a single variety act — singing, dancing and performing impersonations. By 14, she had started writing, producing and performing her own shows. Her stage act included a gossip from the North of England, with a silent, sullen companion named "Big Cynthia", almost always played by a man in drag (such as Victor Graham, and lastly by Matthew Kelly). [3] Her act was full of malapropisms and catchphrases that had become part of her public persona, the most familiar being "She knows, y'know!" and, when asked the time "It's quarter past... I must get a little hand put on this watch." [4] Film and television career [ edit ]This was an era of the catchphrase and Hylda had plenty. Big girl’s blouse, She knows y’know, I was sat sitting here and I must get a big hand put on this watch. The parents decide to find someone else to marry the girl. And that's the plot so far. Not sure if you would want to watch this dog to find out what happens. I guess I will finish (14 minutes left) but I don't think I will like it!

Sadly, she was by now already suffering the early effects of dementia, struggling to remember lines and instead relying on cue cards and whispered prompts from her fellow actors. She fell out with LWT after slipping on some spilt beer on set and breaking her leg, appearing in a wheelchair in one episode. When she sued for compensation, it brought the third series to an abrupt end, but also marked the end of her TV acting career.Born in Farnworth, near Bolton, on February 4th, 1905, she was the eldest of seven children. Her father, Harold, was a painter and signwriter who supplemented his income as a part-time comedian in the music halls, where young Hylda was bitten early by the performing bug. Baker came to national attention in BBC television's The Good Old Days in 1955. This led to her television series, Be Soon (named after another of her catchphrases), in 1957 and a supporting part in the sitcom Our House in 1960, followed by her own sitcom, The Best of Friends, in 1963. Monthly Film Bulletin said "Hearty over-acting from Hylda Baker cannot prevent this being just one more conveyor-belt North Country farce. All the old familiar jokes and situations are affectionately preserved, with a pop singer and coffee bar thrown in to prove that the film’s makers are bang up to date with the mood of the fifties." [3] Then there was William Barker - just Williams, it seems - whose famed department store in Northallerton is celebrating its 125th anniversary.