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“I will treasure all the happy times we had working and laughing together. Rest in peace Roy. I will always love you.”
Lancashire-born Roy walked the cobbles until 1998 before leaving to star in Last of the Summer Wine, Casualty, Last Tango in Halifax and last year’s revival of the classic comedy Are You Being Served?
He won an MBE for his acting and charity work in 2006.
And while he’ll always be Alec to Corrie fans, others will remember his hilarious sketches with the late Les Dawson.
They starred together throughout the 1970s on shows including Sez Les and Dawson and Friends, and were most famous for their cheeky drag act Cissie and Ada.
After Les’s death in 1993, Roy became a rock to his widow Tracy and baby daughter Charlotte.
Tracy, 67, said: “Roy’s death has come as such as shock just start ad-libbing. They but at least he is with Les had us in tears. in heaven now. “Roy was always there
“I can just picture them for me when Les died. Just making people laugh again a phone call makes such a as Cissie and Ada. difference. He will be so
“Les would spend ages sadly missed.” writing the scripts but they Roy was born in Preston, only had to look at each the only child of Fleetwood other and the script would FC goalie Phil Barraclough go out of the window. and his wife Florence.
“You could see the twinkle He fell in love with the in their eyes and they would theatre as a boy and acted in Huddersfield Rep during 12 years working in an engineering factory.
He made his Coronation Street debut as a tour guide in 1964, returning to sell Stan Ogden his windowcleaning round, then again as a bed salesman.
That paved the way for TV roles including the drama Castle Haven, sitcom The More We Are Together, and