An early TV cook. Born at the site of the plaque in Apthorp, as Phyllis Pechey. A double bigamist, she only married her fourth husband Johnny, who appeared on TV with her, when she was 68. A serial child abandoner. Died in a nursing home in Sussex.
We refer you to her page in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - a lively piece of writing by Paul Levy about a larger-than-life woman. "Everything about Fanny Cradock was preposterous."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Fanny Cradock
An independent consumer organisation based in St Albans, and known as CAMRA. Founded in Kruger's bar in Dunquin, Kerry, Ireland, by a group who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer a...
The route to Bishopsgate can still be seen clearly on a current map, wending its way fairly directly via roads and footpaths from Mare Street Narrowway down to Virginia Road which, prior redevelopm...
Chain of bars, public houses and hotels founded by Tim Martin.
This building is still at 66-68 Piccadilly, on the north-east of the junction with Dover Street. Architect: Weatherley and Jones. From British History (written in 1878, just 10 years before Selby...
Claimed to be the first public building in South Norwood. When it opened there was little else here except for brickworks and farmland.
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