Plain Talker Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Marti Caine of course was Ann Stringer, and she always told people she was known as "String Bean" due to being very thin. She worked in a transport cafe, I remember where it was, but cannot recall the name of the street, but was somewhere in the Attercliffe vicinity. Her husband was in fact a butcher, called him Mel Stringer. Once Ann was earning good money and moved up in the working mens clubs circuits, she bought him a butchers shop. No idea if he moved to a larger shop, but possibly the first one was just off London Road. She used to be on the club circuit with a good friend on mine, who was also one of my fathers emplyees. He was a singer and thre two of them were often at Dial House Club. When she won the talent show which was the start of her career, he was also in the competition. Thus she moved from her early days of striptease to commediene and singer. She bought Mel a second hand Rolls as the money started to come in, and very often my late father let them have petrol for it on credit so they could get to some venue or other. He also knew Ann and Mel quite well. Nice people, but not a perfect marriage at the time I knew them. Regards - Grey Eminence - Subang Jaya - Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia Lynne Stringer, wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SILLY Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 She was born Lynne Shepherd and became Lynne Stringer on Marriage to Mel. I know that she married very young . I knew her through my Mum and Dad as my Mum was organist and Dad concert secretary at Intake club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkley mum Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 I met a relative of hers in the Rawson Spring at Hillsborough, His name is Max Stringer and I think his wife is called Cath. Believe they live at Wisewood and I'm sure he's on facebook if that's any good to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joto Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Here she is singing with Tony Christi, there more down the right hand side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coddy Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 It was Lynn Shephard, married Malcolm Stringer, my sister used to go to school with her and when I was very little my sister and I went to tap dancing class run by a lady known as Aunt Sally, think it was Sally Carmichael, somewhere at Firth Park or Sheffield Lane Top, remember getting batter bits from the chippy at Firth Park on the way home, and Lynn was also one of the pupils there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danw Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 An old friend of mine, John (Alex) Bremner also appeared on New Faces as part of a trio called 'Jay Dee Jay trio', he lived at Hillsborough in the 70s, and worked at Walsh's/Rackhams, anyone know what happened to him?. I do as he is my uncle, he moved to Spain in the mid 80's and has only recently returned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeCee Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 I met a relative of hers in the Rawson Spring at Hillsborough, His name is Max Stringer and I think his wife is called Cath. Believe they live at Wisewood and I'm sure he's on facebook if that's any good to you. Max is one of her sons I think the youngest, the other son is called Lee I used to go to school with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike-s Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I do as he is my uncle, he moved to Spain in the mid 80's and has only recently returned. Hi, Thanks for that, I would love to hear from him sometime and catch up, had some good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berinda Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 This info. might help. I was recently watching a programme with Lenny Henry in it and he had been looking for footage of when he was on New Faces - he eventually discovered that Bob Monkhouse had a recording of the programme in his archives and at last he was somehow able to see it. Maybe if you contacted his office/agent they could help you find what you're looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tara Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 What was the name of the Cafe in Firth Park she ran in the 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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