I have veiwed comments on other websites about the nortern institution that is CORONATION STREET and the scrits and people on the show these days .The street has seen many people come and go some pass into legend .One legend was ELSIE TANNER played by Pat Pheonix here we look back at the life of the streets most famous femme fetal Born to a poor, working-class family in Manchester on 26th November 1924, Patricia Frederica Pilkington was better known by her professional name - Pat Pheonix, and by the character with which she played in "Coronation Street" from 1960 to 1984 - "Elsie Tanner".
Her acting career began in 1939, when, at the age of 15, she appeared in a radio play, which was followed in 1940 by appearances in BBC radio's "Children's Hour". For a short time she did office secretarial work, but her first love had always been in performing and she joined the Manchester Theatre Arts Company to spend the next 18 years touring Northern England with the repertory company. She went on to join Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in the early 1950s.
Her real break came in 1960 when she was offered the part of Elsie Tanner in Granada Television's proposed new serial "Coronation Street" - a strong female role which she occupied 23 years. After quitting Coronation Street she appeared in various chat shows and worked for Breakfast Television for a short time.
She also played the lead role in a little remembered television situation comedy entitled "Constant Hot Water". She also wrote two biographies "All My Burning Bridges" in 1974, and "Love, Curiosity, Freckles and Doubt " in 1983.
Gravely ill at the Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle, she married her long-standing fiancé and ex-lover, Anthony Booth (father of Cherie Booth, the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair), a short time before she finally died of lung cancer on September 1986. She had been married three times - to Peter Marsh, to fellow "Street" star Alan Browning, and finally to Tony Booth.
Her funeral was held on 17th September at the Holy Name Church in Oxford Road was accompanied by a Dixieland jazz band playing "When the Saints go Marchin' in", and was attended by thousands of adoring fans.
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