| rdfs:comment | - Her most significant role was that of 'Nanny' in Father, Dear Father. She reprised the role in the spin-off series Father, Dear Father in Australia, and the film version of the sit-com. She was twice married, first to actor Kenneth Edwards and then after his death to schoolmaster Harry Judge, and had three step-children. She died of pancreatic cancer at her home in Winchcombe, near Cheltenham at the age of 79.
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| abstract | - Her most significant role was that of 'Nanny' in Father, Dear Father. She reprised the role in the spin-off series Father, Dear Father in Australia, and the film version of the sit-com. She was twice married, first to actor Kenneth Edwards and then after his death to schoolmaster Harry Judge, and had three step-children. She died of pancreatic cancer at her home in Winchcombe, near Cheltenham at the age of 79. Miss Dyson left an enduring legacy for the programme in the form of an ivy plant that she gave to the cast for their green room (i.e. resting area) upon her departure. The acting profession is notoriously superstitious and within the Coronation Street team of the 1960s a belief rose that if the plant ever died, so would the programme. This belief has perpetuated to this day and the plant and its cuttings have been carefully tendered ever since. It has even had the name bestowed upon it of "Dear Quatermass" and Patricia Phoenix, Jean Alexander, Thelma Barlow and Barbara Knox are among many who have carefully tendered the tendrils over the years.
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