Bernard Youens(1914-1984)
- Actor
He was in a play at Stockport's Theatre Royal when he met 'Teddy', who had been training at the Manchester Ballet School and had gone back stage . They were married some months later when he was in rep in Halifax. He was called up for war service in June 1940, just after their 3rd child had been born and spent 5 years with the 1st Battalion Loyals Regiment, serving in North Africa. Demobbed as a corporal, he returned to rep, but with job offers often not forthcoming, he was forced to take other work, such as working on building sites and in an ice cream factory. For three years he delivered bread and spent a year running a Manchester pub, which was a disaster. In between, he managed to get small parts on television, then, in 1958, he got a staff job with Granada Television as an announcer and did the first announcement for the opening episode of Coronation Street, little knowing that some years hence he would be appearing in it. He was married with give children - Brian,Ann,Peter, Diana and Michael. His father was a diamond cutter with a jewellery firm.
