Violet Carson OBE
(1898-1983)

Died aged c. 85

Violet Helen Carson, OBE (1 September 1898 – 26 December 1983) was a British actress of radio, stage and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC Radio, and during the last two decades of her life as the matronly Christian widow, town gossip and elderly battle-axe Ena Sharples in the ITV television soap opera Coronation Street. She was one of the original characters from the series debut in 1960 and would feature in the role for twenty years.

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

Violet Carson OBE 1898-1983

Granada Studios, Manchester, United Kingdom where they was

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #182

built in 1912 as the Scala, Violet Carson and Sir John Barborolli accompanied silent pictures [full inscription unknown]

Cine City, Withington, Manchester, United Kingdom where they was