| abstract | - Martha Longhurst (née Hartley) was a widow who resided at 7 Mawdsley Street. Her husband Percy had died in 1946, with whom she had two children: Harold, who was drowned at age three, and Lily, who went on to marry Wilf Haddon. As a pensioner, Martha spent most of her evenings gossiping with her lifelong friends Ena Sharples and Minnie Caldwell in the Rovers Return snug. Unlike her companions, who were also widows, Martha was open to finding love again and dreamed of better things. In 1964 she accepted an invitation from the Haddons to join them in Spain - her first foreign holiday - but died of a heart attack before she got the chance to go.
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