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Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 10:31 am
by Dalehelms
Gloria Yates, whose autobiography is entitled "A Daughter of Leeds".
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 12:23 pm
by Dalehelms
I know that Kay Mellor has been mentioned in several threads on this site, but I think she merits her place on this thread.
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 12:43 pm
by jim
Leonora Cohen.
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 1:23 pm
by String o' beads
And I'd better bung actress Frances White in this thread too.Corinne Bailey Rae is another. Beryl Burton. Mel B.
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 2:39 pm
by Toughy
Gabby Logan (nee Yorath).
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 3:02 pm
by BarFly
Angela Griffin is from Leeds also.
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 3:42 pm
by majorhoundii
Nicola Adams, Liz Dawn, Beverley Callard,
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 4:23 pm
by Johnny39
Ivy Benson
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 6:56 pm
by Bruno
My dad has always claimed that one of his classmates in Richmond Hill in the 1930s / 40s was Diana Coupland, probably best remembered as the mother character in Bless This House, playing opposite Sid James. She also played the mother in the film Spring and Port Wine with James Mason.
Posted: Sun 31 Mar, 2013 8:15 pm
by Dalehelms
Dame Fanny Waterman, founder of The Leeds Piano Competition, born in Albert Grove Leeds in March 1920.