Dame Barbara Windsor dies aged 83 | Hackney Gazette
Mike Brooke Barbara Windsor opening a community hub in the Hackney Road. - Credit: LBTH Barbara Windsor, the most famous and loved East Ender in real life and on screen, has died at the age of 83. The “Queen of the East End”, who was awarded a Damehood for services to charity and entertainment and an honorary doctorate from the University of East London, played the landlady of The Vic pub in the BBC soap EastEnders for several years and starred in many Carry On films. A close friend of The Krays, she had humble beginnings in Shoreditch and returned to the Queen Victoria seamen’s re...