{"id":657729,"date":"2025-12-27T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657729\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:36:14","slug":"the-day-barbara-windsor-said-get-in-my-northampton-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657729\/","title":{"rendered":"The day Barbara Windsor said &#8216;Get in my Northampton pub&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barbara Windsor appeared in nine films in the Carry On comedy series, plus Sparrows Can&#8217;t Sing, for which she was nominated for a Bafta, as well as parts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and On the Fiddle with Sir Sean Connery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was well-known to millions of TV viewers for her portrayal of landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, starring alongside her on-screen children Ross Kemp and Steve McFadden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her last appearance in the soap came in 2016, the same year she was made a dame for her services to charity and entertainment. She died in December 2020 from Alzheimer&#8217;s, aged 83. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr McManus added: &#8220;I remember we had to pick [Barbara Windsor] up from Junction 15 and she was in a stretch limo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My wife went and picked her up with a friend, and they had a lot of laughs with her on the way into town. It was loads of fun, and she did lots of autographs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Phipps reopened on 4 December, with former footballer Neil &#8216;Razor&#8217; Ruddock among the attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbara Windsor appeared in nine films in the Carry On comedy series, plus Sparrows Can&#8217;t Sing, for which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-657729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115791330422663901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}