Barbara Windsor - happy memories thread

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So sad that the wonderful British treasure Dame Babs has passed away.

No sadness in this thread, there are other threads for this, let's celebrate Bab's best bits (ooo eerrr missus!)

What's your favourite tv, telly, theatre etc of our Babs?

I loved her in Carry On - very fond childhood memories watching her Sid, Kenneth et al and I'll always remember her wonderful laugh

Anyone else want to share their favourites too?.....

I loved the carry on films from a teenager own the whole collection even though they are way before my time my mum bought me the collection for my birthday, love them will watch them when I feel down my faves are carry on abroad, and carry on camping, with Barbara In it.

Carry on camping was hilarious 🤣
Which one was carry on abroad?

Eastenders, with Pat Butcher, in the kitchen.

"You bitch!"

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"You cahhhhh!"

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Lovely idea for a thread op thank you x
That smile and laugh instantly melts any sadness how could it not ? Her happiness was infectious.
There will only ever be one suitable queen for the queen vic what a fantastic woman

Lol @cliffdiver

@Threelionsandalioness - you've got me choked up! Yes she was a definite British Queen and the Queen of the Vic too 💕

Oh I met her, she came to present at an awards ceremony for frontline staff in East London. She came and did the rounds and met everyone. She was lovely.

So sad to see the news this morning x such a lovely, brave lady who gave us so many laughs. Thoughts with her husband who tried so hard to keep her at home.

A tiny woman stopped me in the street to ask directions once, probably early 1990s, she was wearing a poncho and hat and was very friendly. As I walked away I was thinking I know that voice from somewhere, then a day or two later found out Barbara Windsor was in panto in our town, I just hadn't recognised her under her hat.

We used to go to the same hairdresser. She would always arrive with a couple of bottles of champagne, and offer a glass to absolutely everyone.

@HelloDulling how wonderful! She's clearly so lovely in real life too 💕

Happy memories everyone - no sadness

Thoughts for her husband and all her family who had to see the sad last few years.

Dame Barbara Windsor was in the first pantomime I ever went to, age 4.

I’ve met her. Had time for everyone. As bubbly and charismatic as her on screen. Her husband was looking on from the side with a look of pure love. And she was tiny! Absolute legend.

She hated being called 'Babs'.
It was very much the tabloid's name for her.
Her friends called her Bar.

Thanks @ElizabethMainwaring - I didn't realise this

I thoroughly enjoyed Dame Barbara's autobiography 'All of Me' and would recommend this to any fans who haven't read it. She had an incredibly long and varied career. I was especially interested to read about her early theatre work with Joan Littlewood.

I've seen her most in the 'Carry Ons' and I think my favourite Carry On role of Barbara's was in Carry On Henry, where she played the naive lady in waiting relentlessly pursued by Sid James's Henry VIII.

I saw the headline of her death this morning and thought 'Oh no' but it was good to read her death was peaceful, after her long suffering with Alzheimer's.

@WitchesSpelleas - yes that was a good one, they were great together on screen

Yes I watched a Carry On film out of nostalgia last night.

She seemed to have had a happy life and we all have to go at some point, and she was very ill. Thought it a bit sad she said her father put her off having children.

Her personal life was full of ups and downs, but I think when she married Scott, he was her 'happy ever after'.

I loved the scene in eastenders where Pat and Peggy got drunk in an ice cream van.

The BBC is wrong in their obit about her famous scene in Carry on Camping:

"The scene had to be shot three times, with the garment being removed by the deft use of a fishing rod in the hands of an off-screen assistant. The exposure of flesh was strongly suggested but never actually revealed on film."

Her flesh most certainly was revealed. To the surprise of the producers, the censor famously allowed the scene to remain uncut by saying 'I don't think Miss Windsor's left breast is going to corrupt the nation' !

The epitome of Bubbly.
An infectious laugh and absolutely perfect actress for the Carry on films especially the chemistry between her and Sid James.

Oh those immortal words

"geeet aaaat my pub"

I just love how devoted her husband Scott was to her to the end, he absolutely adored her, and that's an understatement.

Apparently the Eastenders producer didn't want to "kill off" her character, and it took Scott to go and see him face to face, look him in the eye and say "she's not coming back".

@WitchesSpelleas

Her personal life was full of ups and downs, but I think when she married Scott, he was her 'happy ever after'.

When you think of Barbara's East End roots and her closeness to infamous people at the time like the Krays, you realise that Eastenders and the Peggy character was absolutely made for her.

She was just being herself!

She was just being herself!

Yes, she'd worked in a bar when her second husband, Stephen Hollings, bought a country pub - and of course Scott's surname was Mitchell, just like her EastEnder's character.