Patricia Routledge, who was also Hettie Wainthrop, has died aged 96.

Kicked the Bouquet.

Sorry can't let this go without posting this

Watching ‘Keeping Up Appearances’ as an adult is a different experience as watching it as a kid. It’s an extraordinary performance by Routledge, so well performed and a lot more physically demanding than I remembered.

R.I.P.

RIP
Wonderful actress and still a pleasure to watch the old episodes on Gold

As a cornet player, I’d put the Hetty Wainthrop theme tune as one of the very best. Outstanding.

RIP to a very talented and funny woman.,

RIP Mrs. Bucket. A very fine actress.

She was very talented

I remember her featuring in a lot of Alan Bennetts plays & Hetty wainthrouppe which got filmed locally. RIP.

I think it was 'Hetty Wainthropp Investigates' where she filmed in Burnley on Woodgrove Road just up from the high school.

Postman! I hope that's a first class stamp. I object to having second class stamps thrust through my letterbox. I should have thought postmen would be trained to recognize first class stamp houses.

ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 03, 2025 1:15 pm

I think it was 'Hetty Wainthropp Investigates' where she filmed in Burnley on Woodgrove Road just up from the high school.

It was mainly filmed in Darwen, so quite possible.

ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 03, 2025 1:15 pm

I think it was 'Hetty Wainthropp Investigates' where she filmed in Burnley on Woodgrove Road just up from the high school.

It was. They also filmed on Oxford Rd and Smalley ST.
I think it was Steve Lairds old hairdressers into an Indian restaurant called the Kyber Pass . The series also starred a young Dominic Monaghan.

I can remember walking past the filming on my way to school.

Claretfanatic1982 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 03, 2025 3:01 pm

It was. They also filmed on Oxford Rd and Smalley ST.
I think it was Steve Lairds old hairdressers into an Indian restaurant called the Kyber Pass . The series also starred a young Dominic Monaghan.

I can remember walking past the filming on my way to school.

I vaguely remember the one on Woodgrove Road, being at the top of the hill past the astroturf.
This also reminds me of Juliet Bravo - there was an episode where a clip was filmed on Hollingreave Road.

The filmed a bit of Hetty Wainthropp up at Haggate Baptist Church, I was an extra along with a good few others from our secondary school. There was a bit of downtime between takes and people were invited to line up near the alter to get her autograph. A lad in my year who happened to sit next to me during filming somehow managed to steal her pen, came back to the pews and flashed this pen under his blazer to us. A few minutes later, one of the production staff announced to the packed church that Mrs Routledge's pen had gone missing and that she would like it back. Silence in the church, a few minutes went by and things started to get a bit heated. "Filming will not continue until that pen is returned." More minutes passed and the handful of us who knew what had happened weren't going to grass him up but we were nudging him to own up and give it back. In the end, after what felt like a good 20 minutes or so, he got up, head bowed and very sheepishly walked down the aisle and handed it back to much seething. Suffice to say he didn't return to his spot next to me in the pews. Think he may have been suspended from school for it. It was a nice pen though, obviously important to Mrs Routledge. RIP, she was a very polite and pleasant person to me in our brief exchange.

RIP - wonderful actress and immensely talented lady.

She reportedly recently had some words of advice on the ageing process which is well worth a read. Plenty of twitter accounts are posting the same thing off of her coattails but here's one version.

https://x.com/arealmofwonder/status/1974069254208077870

Give it a click - you'll be glad you read it.

A scene from Hetty Wainthrope was filmed one autumn evening across the road from my parents in a bus stop up Higher Reedley. It involved Hetty and the young lad basically waiting for and then getting on a bus. The filming took a good 3 hours all in and I was amazed when seeing the episode that the scene lasted all of about 25 seconds.

It was around the time that All quiet on the Preston front used to be filmed around Padiham. Couldn’t move round here for filming in the mid 90s!

ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 03, 2025 3:12 pm

I vaguely remember the one on Woodgrove Road, being at the top of the hill past the astroturf.
This also reminds me of Juliet Bravo - there was an episode where a clip was filmed on Hollingreave Road.

Juliet Bravo filmed in Nelson quite often when I was a kid.

TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 03, 2025 4:12 pm

Juliet Bravo filmed in Nelson quite often when I was a kid.

They came to our school looking for a “red haired 10yr old” to key a car on the car park off Broadway

It was down to two of us and the other lad was picked

dushanbe wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 03, 2025 3:57 pm

A scene from Hetty Wainthrope was filmed one autumn evening across the road from my parents in a bus stop up Higher Reedley. It involved Hetty and the young lad basically waiting for and then getting on a bus. The filming took a good 3 hours all in and I was amazed when seeing the episode that the scene lasted all of about 25 seconds.

It was around the time that All quiet on the Preston front used to be filmed around Padiham. Couldn’t move round here for filming in the mid 90s!

Juliet Bravo was filmed in the Church yard at Worsthorne when we were probably early/mid teens. The 2nd actress to play the lead role told us to F cough outside the chippy for shouting stuff at her.....

Sad news, an extremely talented actress able to move from the classics to slapstick with equal agility, the sign of a true great. Like a female version of Roger Anthony Lloyd-Pack a joy to watch. RIP and thank you Patricia Routledge

An outstanding heartbreaking performance in Alan Bennett's A Woman Of No Importance.

Outstanding actress. I first recognised her in To Sir with Love. Deputy head I think. My love of Judy Geeson commenced.

IanMcL wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 04, 2025 2:45 am

Outstanding actress. I first recognised her in To Sir with Love. Deputy head I think. My love of Judy Geeson commenced.

Also featuring a very young Chris Chittel, “Eric” from Emmerdale.

Sometimes overlooked that she was an outstanding classically trained singer. She could easily have gone in that direction. She recorded more than one solo album, and performed on Broadway on more than one occasion, winning a coveted Tony Award for one of her roles. (I forget which)
A multi-talented northern "girl" from Birkenhead who excelled in all aspects of life.
RIP. Fortunately she is of an era where most of her work has been preserved for posterity.