\n Thelma Barlow, who played Mavis Wilton for 26 years in the long-running soap Coronation Street, was greeted by stallholders and passersby today (Friday, October 17).\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for Ludlow Market said they were “thrilled” to welcome the ITV star to the market.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Known and loved for her iconic roles, Thelma brought extra sparkle to our fabulous stalls, the spokesperson said.\n<\/p>\n
\n “You\u2019ll never know who you\u2019ll bump into at Ludlow Market\u2026 come see for yourself!”\n<\/p>\n
\n Jo Mitchell-Hill, of Duncan Hill Jewellery, had chatted to the 96-year-old, who is said to have been with friends.\n<\/p>\n
\n “She was beautiful, she was a lovely lady,” she said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Mitchell-Hill, who has previously taken selfies with the likes of Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs and EastEnders’ Samantha Janus, said Barlow was “just chatting like a normal person”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thelma Barlow, who played Mavis Wilton for 26 years in the long-running soap Coronation Street, was greeted by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-208805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}