- A variety performer of over fifty years' experience who is a very strong trumpet player, and could arguably hold her own against many working male trumpet players in terms of strength tone and range.
- Often regarded to be Britain's foremost female trumpeter.
- Respected for her immense professionalism in the variety theatre.
- Spent many years touring the infamous Moss Empires circuit.
- Up until relatively recently, she was the only female trumpeter in the world to have broadcast the famous Haydn Trumpet Concerto, when she famously broadcast it with the BBC Concert Orchestra in 1951.
- In 2003 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Music Hall Society of Great Britain, following in the footsteps of Dame Vera Lynn and Sir Norman Wisdom.
- Daughter Claire born 1967.
- Died in a Chichester nursing home.
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