Eurwyn sees Hylda's film She Knows Y'Know as one of the holy grails of British comedy. "We've lost so much over the years and I'm convinced many are still out there. You have to know where to look. Jean [Fergusson] tried the BFI, but the film wasn't in good condition so I put feelers out as a past film collector and went, let us say, to see a man about a dog! I found the film in immaculate condition. Nobody had watched it for half a century. It was a really good feeling, and I couldn't wait to see it." Fergusson, Jean (1997) She Knows You Know. The remarkable story of Hylda Baker. Breedon Books ISBN 185983101X George Hollingbery sold "accumulators" for early wirelesses, changed from Comet Battery Services to Comet Radio Services when the mains chance arose and begat a chain of Comets visible all over the country. One memorable thing that happened to Hylda in March 1972, and which would stay with her for ever and was to give her great pride, was that she was the subject of This Is Your Life. It was Roy Bottomley's idea that she would be a splendid subject and he was now working on the programme. The store became Oxendale and Barker, then just Barkers, with no apostrophe to suggest how singular it has all become.

It was said at the time that Mr Swinney had avoided a multi-billion pound reduction in Scotland’s longer-term budget. However, I can do no better than refer to an insightful blog, written by the then political editor of BBC Scotland, which commended Mr Swinney for his bargaining but noted that the problem had been deferred, not resolved. Even when he went into hospital, he was going round the beds selling pins," reports Muriel Graham, his mother-in-law.En passant, she has fought and won a Scottish Parliamentary election, while shrugging off the unsolicited offers of advice and assistance, delivered in public by her predecessor as FM and party leader.

In her late seventies her dementia worsened and in 1981 she moved to a care home for retired performers in London. Her final two years were spent in hospital, where she died in May 1986, at the age of 81. For a generation of TV and film viewers, Hylda Baker will be forever remembered as a feisty and sharp-tongued performer whose mangled monologues and comical facial contortions had us rolling in the aisles. The papers of Hylda Baker relating to her life and career are housed in Lancashire Archives, [15] reference DDX 1683.In 1955, her music hall skills were used to full effect on BBC Television’s “The Good Old Days”, which led to a TV series, “Be Soon”, named after another of her catchphrases. More TV work followed, together with film roles including a memorable turn as ‘Aunt Ada” in the 1960 classic “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”, starring Albert Finney. Other film cameos included “Up the Junction” and “Oliver!”, both in 1968, but it was in TV sitcoms where Hylda Baker found her true home and became a household name. In fact he had brought the show to ITV in 1968, when Thames TV was created. Hylda was rehearsing in Brixton for the new TV series of Nearest and Dearest and her agent, Bill Roberton, had been liaising with Thames, giving them as much detail as possible.