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Betty Driver: A life on The Street - in pictures

Betty Driver: Betty behind the bar — Betty Turpin in her usual position, behind the bar at The Rovers Return
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Betty Driver: Betty and her dogs — Pre-Corrie days, Betty Driver holding her pet poodles Mitzi and Tina, at her home in Hendon, London in 1955 Photograph: PA/PA

Betty Driver: 1969 in the Rovers — Emily Nugent (Eileen Derbyshire), Betty Turpin (Betty Driver), Stan Ogden (Bernard Youens) and Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander) in the Rovers in 1969
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Betty Driver: 'The Betty Driver Story' TV Programme. - 2000s — Betty Turpin (Betty Driver), Annie Walker (Doris Speed) and Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear) rocking a Seventies look
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Betty Driver: 'The Betty Driver Story' TV Programme. - 2000s — Betty Turpin (Betty Driver) and Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander) enjoy a holiday in Majorca from an episode in 1974
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Betty Driver: Holiday in Majorca — Betty Turpin (Betty Driver), Emily Bishop (Eileen Derbyshire), Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander), Rita Littlewood (Barbara Knox) and Mavis Riley (Thelma Barlow) enjoy an episode on location in Majorca in 1974
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Betty Driver: Betty and Eddie Yeats — Betty Turpin (Betty Driver) with cheeky binman Eddie Yeats (Geoff Hughes) in 1978
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Betty Driver: Betty and Alec Gilroy — Alec Gilroy [Roy Barraclough] has a surprise when he climbs into Rita's bed to find Betty Williams [Betty Driver] already there in an episode from 1998
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Betty Driver: Betty and her hotpot — Betty offers up one of her famous hotpots in the Rovers
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Betty Driver: Betty, Jack and Raquel — "If you concentrate hard enough on that pile of coins, you can get 'em to fall over just by sheer will-power" Jack Duckworth (William Tarmey) tells Betty Turpin (Betty Driver) and Raquel Wolstenhulme (Sarah Lancashire)
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Betty Driver: 'The Betty Driver Story' TV Programme. 2000's — Betty Williams (Betty Driver) is overjoyed when Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear) arrives at her leaving party in 2002. Driver stayed in the show for a long time after that, appearing on the other side of the bar
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