She was one of the stars of the worlds longest running soap opera, Coronation Street.
The actress who played her was called Pat Phoenix whose real love life was as stormy as her fictitious one.
Basically it's about the lives and loves of families in the fictitious Lancashire town of "Wheatherfield."
Her role was that of hard bitten tart with a heart "Elsie Tanner." constantly getting involved with bad men and being the subject of small town gossip.
The second picture shows her not long before her death next to her third husband, bit part actor, Tony Booth father of Prime-minister Tony Blairs wife, Cherie Booth/Blair.
She died in 1986 at the age of 62 due to lung cancer, most likely caused by her heavy cigarette habit.