Jill Browne(1937-1991)

Jill was one of televisions top soap stars as nurse Carole Young in ITV's Emergency Ward 10 from 1957 to 1964. She was 19 when she started in the series and 26 when she was unceremoniously dropped from from the cast. Her career rapidly tailed away leaving her with a little stage work here and there until 10 years later she was working in the service department of a freezer firm dealing with customer complaints. Four days after she left Ward 10 she married her 1st husband, John Alderton, who'd had a minor role of a doctor and divorced after 5 years. She found work difficult to get because producers could only see her in the nurses uniform and only had a brief run playing the hostess in a public house show called Stars and Garters. She survived acute peritonitis and a near fatal tumour and in 1971 married theatre producer Brian Wolfe. She died of cancer on December 5th 1991 aged 54