Hylda Baker (born February 4, 1905 in Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire; died May 1, 1986 in Epsom, Surrey) was a Northern English comedy actress. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Location within the British Isles Farnworth is a town in the borough of Bolton in England. ... Arms of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, the motto is Latin for Overcome Delays Bolton is a large town in the north-west of England. ... Lancashire is a county and duchy palatine in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Epsom is a town in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, close to the southern boundary of Greater London. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

She was famous for her catchphrase She knows you know since the days of music hall. She is probably best known for her role in the ITV television series Nearest and Dearest (1968-1972). Hylda’s character Nellie Pledge (owner of a north of England pickle factory, Pledge's Purer Pickles), was ideally suited to her talents and she was cast opposite the comedian Jimmy Jewel. A theatrical version appeared in 1973 (produced by Hammer Films), and a near sequel (Not On Your Nellie (1973-1975), in which a similar character moved to London to take charge of her ailing father's pub) followed. A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ... Music Hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which reached its peak of popularity between 1850 and 1960. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the channel has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of the broadcasting licences for those areas. ... Nearest and Dearest was a British situation comedy (sit-com) set in and around a pickle factory in Colne, Lancashire, in the North West of England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... Jimmy Jewel (1909-1995) was a british actor. ... Hammer horror refers to horror films produced in the late 1950s through the 1970s by the British film studio Hammer Films. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...

She also had parts in a number of films including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Up the Junction, and the Lionel Bart's Oliver!. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a British novel by Alan Sillitoe (his second, in 1958), a film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, adapted from the novel by its author, and later, in 1964, a success as a stage play, adapted by David Brett for the Nottingham Playhouse... Up The Junction was the third single released from Squeezes second album, Cool for Cats. ... Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ...

External links

Hylda Baker at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about actors, films, television shows, television stars, video games and production crew personnel. ...