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Windsor in 2017
N
o one could slap quite like Barbara Windsor. In 2012, some 12 years after being struck in the face by her
EastEnders co-star, Pam St Clement said: “I still feel that slap that Barbara gave me behind the bar.” The irrepressible actor, who died yesterday (10 December) at the age of 83, knew how to leave a mark.
Windsor was born in Whitechapel, east London, in 1937, the only child of market trader John and Rose Deeks, a dressmaker. During the war, she was evacuated to Blackpool, where a teacher first noticed her precocious affinity for the performing arts. After returning to London, to Stoke Newington, Windsor made her stage debut when she was just 13, in a pantomime at the Golders Green Hippodrome.
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