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	'''Betty Alberge''' (22 January 1922 – 18 May 1991) was an English theatre, radio and television actress, with an extensive career which ran from the late 1930s to the 1980s. She was best known for playing [[Convenience store\|Corner Shop]] owner [[w:List of Coronation Street characters (1960)#Florrie Lindley\|Florrie Lindley]] in the [[w:soap opera\|soap opera]] ''[[w:Coronation Street\|Coronation Street]]'' from the first episode in 1960 until 1965.		'''Betty Alberge''' (22 January 1922 – 18 May 1991) was an English theatre, radio and television actress, with an extensive career which ran from the late 1930s to the 1980s. She was best known for playing [[w:Convenience store\|Corner Shop]] owner [[w:List of Coronation Street characters (1960)#Florrie Lindley\|Florrie Lindley]] in the [[w:soap opera\|soap opera]] ''[[w:Coronation Street\|Coronation Street]]'' from the first episode in 1960 until 1965.

	==Early life==		==Early life==

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	'''Betty Alberge''' (22 January 1922 – 18 May 1991) was an English theatre, radio and television actress, with an extensive career which ran from the late 1930s to the 1980s. She was best known for playing [[Convenience store\|Corner Shop]] owner [[List of Coronation Street characters (1960)#Florrie Lindley\|Florrie Lindley]] in the [[soap opera]] ''[[Coronation Street]]'' from the first episode in 1960 until 1965.		'''Betty Alberge''' (22 January 1922 – 18 May 1991) was an English theatre, radio and television actress, with an extensive career which ran from the late 1930s to the 1980s. She was best known for playing [[Convenience store\|Corner Shop]] owner [[w:List of Coronation Street characters (1960)#Florrie Lindley\|Florrie Lindley]] in the [[w:soap opera\|soap opera]] ''[[w:Coronation Street\|Coronation Street]]'' from the first episode in 1960 until 1965.

	==Early life==		==Early life==
	Born in [[Manchester]] on 22 January 1922, Alberge received her formal education at Fallowfield Central School for Girls in Manchester. Whilst at school she became interested in acting after performing in a school theatrical production of [[Maurice Maeterlinck]]'s ''[[The Death of Tintagiles]],'' with school friend Patricia Pilkington, later to become known as [[Pat Phoenix]] and play [[Elsie Tanner]] in ''[[Coronation Street]]''.<ref name=":0">Profile of Betty Alberge on the 'Corrie Net' website, acting profiles of the cast through the history of the 'Coronation Street' television series. http://www.corrie.net/profiles/actors/alberge_betty.html</ref>		Born in [[w:Manchester\|Manchester]] on 22 January 1922, Alberge received her formal education at Fallowfield Central School for Girls in Manchester. Whilst at school she became interested in acting after performing in a school theatrical production of [[w:Maurice Maeterlinck\|Maurice Maeterlinck]]'s ''[[w:The Death of Tintagiles\|The Death of Tintagiles]],'' with school friend Patricia Pilkington, later to become known as [[w:Pat Phoenix\|Pat Phoenix]] and play [[w:Elsie Tanner\|Elsie Tanner]] in ''[[w:Coronation Street\|Coronation Street]]''.<ref name=":0">Profile of Betty Alberge on the 'Corrie Net' website, acting profiles of the cast through the history of the 'Coronation Street' television series. http://www.corrie.net/profiles/actors/alberge_betty.html</ref>

	==Acting career==		==Acting career==
	After initial training to be an actress at the Repertory School of Acting in Manchester, Alberge completed her training with the Colwyn Bay Repertory Company, at the New Rialto Theatre in [[Colwyn Bay]]. During [[World War II]] she was employed as a performer with [[ENSA]]. In the 1950s she worked with a wide variety dramatic productions in theatre and with the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]].<ref name=":0" />		After initial training to be an actress at the Repertory School of Acting in Manchester, Alberge completed her training with the Colwyn Bay Repertory Company, at the New Rialto Theatre in [[w:Colwyn Bay\|Colwyn Bay]]. During [[w:World War II\|World War II]] she was employed as a performer with [[w:ENSA\|ENSA]]. In the 1950s she worked with a wide variety dramatic productions in theatre and with the [[w:British Broadcasting Corporation\|British Broadcasting Corporation]].<ref name=":0" />

	=== ''Coronation Street'' ===		=== ''Coronation Street'' ===

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	\| children = Christine		\| children = Christine
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{{Short description|English actress (1922–1991)}}
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{{more footnotes needed|date=March 2011}}
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'''Betty Alberge''' (22 January 1922 – 18 May 1991) was an English theatre, radio and television actress, with an extensive career which ran from the late 1930s to the 1980s. She was best known for playing [[Convenience store|Corner Shop]] owner [[List of Coronation Street characters (1960)#Florrie Lindley|Florrie Lindley]] in the [[soap opera]] ''[[Coronation Street]]'' from the first episode in 1960 until 1965.

==Early life==
Born in [[Manchester]] on 22 January 1922, Alberge received her formal education at Fallowfield Central School for Girls in Manchester. Whilst at school she became interested in acting after performing in a school theatrical production of [[Maurice Maeterlinck]]'s ''[[The Death of Tintagiles]],'' with school friend Patricia Pilkington, later to become known as [[Pat Phoenix]] and play [[Elsie Tanner]] in ''[[Coronation Street]]''.<ref name=":0">Profile of Betty Alberge on the 'Corrie Net' website, acting profiles of the cast through the history of the 'Coronation Street' television series. http://www.corrie.net/profiles/actors/alberge_betty.html</ref>

==Acting career==
After initial training to be an actress at the Repertory School of Acting in Manchester, Alberge completed her training with the Colwyn Bay Repertory Company, at the New Rialto Theatre in [[Colwyn Bay]]. During [[World War II]] she was employed as a performer with [[ENSA]]. In the 1950s she worked with a wide variety dramatic productions in theatre and with the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]].<ref name=":0" />

=== ''Coronation Street'' ===
Alberge was one of the original cast of the television serial drama ''Coronation Street'', playing the character [[List of Coronation Street characters (1960)#Florrie Lindley|Florrie Lindley]] from episode one, on Friday 9 December 1960, until 1965 when she left the series. The show's creator, [[Tony Warren]], originally wrote the part of [[Ida Barlow]] for Alberge, but after the first audition, he cast her in the role as shopkeeper. Alberge had the distinction of having the second line in the first scene of the first episode: "It's funny having me own name over me own shop, Florrie Lindley". The character let customers believe she was a widow when, in fact, she was estranged from her husband Norman. Under new producer Tim Aspinall, Alberge was written out of the serial in June 1965, after almost 300 episodes, when her character emigrated to Canada with her husband Norman.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Betty Alberge|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0016401/|access-date=2021-12-21|website=IMDb}}</ref>

=== Later work ===
After she left ''Coronation Street'', Alberge continued to perform in theatre, and regularly appeared as a [[supporting actor|supporting]] [[character actor|character actress]] in television dramas and light entertainment shows from the 1960s to the 1980s, including ''[[Z-Cars]],'' the ''[[Ken Dodd|Ken Dodd Show]]'', ''[[Crown Court (TV series)|Crown Court]]'', ''[[Rentaghost]]'', ''[[Odd Man Out (UK TV series)|Odd Man Out]] and'' ''[[Juliet Bravo]].'' In November 1983, she joined the cast of ''[[Brookside (television programme)|Brookside]]'', playing pensioner Edna Cross. She remained in this role until the character's death in 1985, after almost 80 episodes.<ref name=":1"/><ref>Brookside. The First 10 Years. The Authorised History. Boxtree. Page 98 and 99</ref> When Alberge learned that her character was to be written out of the soap, she said "Life goes on."<ref>{{Cite news|date=20 May 2015|title=On This Day ... 30 YEARS AGO|work=Liverpool Echo}}</ref>

Her last on screen performance was in 1986 in an episode of the BBC's ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]''.<ref name=":1"/>

==Personal life==
Alberge married Rupert Marshall in Manchester in 1944.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FreeBMD Entry Info|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=8wtl9IovYLz9bJdp6ypv/A&scan=1|access-date=2021-12-21|website=www.freebmd.org.uk}}</ref> The couple had one daughter, Christine, in 1947.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FreeBMD Entry Info|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=fax7P0Fhp1xUR4rVmKGINA&scan=1|access-date=2021-12-21|website=www.freebmd.org.uk}}</ref>

==Death==
Alberge died on 18 May 1991, aged 69, in [[Stoke-on-Trent]], [[Staffordshire]].

==Selected filmography==

* ''[[Crucible of Terror]]'' (1971)
* ''[[Disciple of Death]]'' (1972)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|id=0016401|name=Betty Alberge}}

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