Violet Carson - 16993

British actress, singer and pianist. Carson joined BBC Radio in Manchester in 1935 singing a range of material from comic musical hall-style songs to light operatic arias. She began in a show called Songs at the Piano, was a regular member of Children's Hour on the BBC Home Service and the star of Nursery Sing Song from Manchester. She worked with the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts during the Second World War and was for six years the pianist for Wilfred Pickles' radio show Have A Go. Her extensive radio career included a period as a presenter and interviewer on Woman's Hour for five years and she acted in numerous radio dramas. Carson is, however, most famous for playing an icon of television's Coronation Street, the sharp-tongued harridan Ena Sharples, from 1960 to 1980. This is a very cheery black and white photograph (5.5" x 3.5"), with a very crisp, bright signature ("Sincerely, Violet Carson, Ena Sharples") in purple ink across clear areas of the image. In very good condition.