Josephine Caroline Gertrude Mary Faith Harber (29 June 1914 – 30 June 1990), better known as Lynne Carol, was an English actress best known for playing busybody Martha Longhurst in the soap opera Coronation Street from the second episode in 1960 until the character was killed off in 1964.

Biography

Carol married Bert Palmer (1901-15 January 1980), a character actor from Lancashire, who appeared in two episodes of Coronation Street and the pilot episode of its first spin-off, Pardon the Expression, and they made their home in Blackpool. Her husband died in 1980. Lynne Carol died in Blackpool, Lancashire, England in 1990, aged 76, she had three children, two sons, Michael and Robert and a daughter, Jan. Her brother James Harber was also a stage actor.