Vale Patricia Routledge: Mrs Bucket has left the building

British actor Patricia Routledge died at the age of ninety-six last week. I came to know Routledge through her role as Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced bouquet, it would seem), in the BBC produced TV sitcom Keeping up Appearances, which ran from 1990 to 1995. I think the show screened in Australia a little after that time. I'm not much of TV watcher, but I'd come home one day, flicked on the TV, and there was her show. Hyacinth, originally from a working class family, believed her place was […]

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