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Blanche Hunt (née Linfield) was the mother of Deirdre Barlow and grandmother of Tracy. Blanche was a corset maker and ran a corsetry business from her Victoria Street home. Her husband Donald Hunt was knocked down and killed by a car in 1963, leaving Blanche to raise Deirdre. Blanche later worked at the Rovers Return Inn and ran the Corner Shop before leaving Weatherfield in 1976 to run a country club in Kenilworth for old flame Dave Smith, although she occasionally visited Deirdre, who remained in Coronation Street.

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  • Blanche Hunt (née Linfield) was the mother of Deirdre Barlow and grandmother of Tracy. Blanche was a corset maker and ran a corsetry business from her Victoria Street home. Her husband Donald Hunt was knocked down and killed by a car in 1963, leaving Blanche to raise Deirdre. Blanche later worked at the Rovers Return Inn and ran the Corner Shop before leaving Weatherfield in 1976 to run a country club in Kenilworth for old flame Dave Smith, although she occasionally visited Deirdre, who remained in Coronation Street.
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  • 844(xsd:integer)
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First Appearance
  • 1974-08-19(xsd:date)
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  • Blanche Hunt
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Duration
  • 1974(xsd:integer)
Died
  • 2010-05-03(xsd:date)
Last Appearance
  • 2009-12-11(xsd:date)
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  • Corset maker
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  • 1936-01-22(xsd:date)
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  • Blanche Hunt (née Linfield) was the mother of Deirdre Barlow and grandmother of Tracy. Blanche was a corset maker and ran a corsetry business from her Victoria Street home. Her husband Donald Hunt was knocked down and killed by a car in 1963, leaving Blanche to raise Deirdre. Blanche later worked at the Rovers Return Inn and ran the Corner Shop before leaving Weatherfield in 1976 to run a country club in Kenilworth for old flame Dave Smith, although she occasionally visited Deirdre, who remained in Coronation Street. In 1999, Blanche returned to the Street permanently and, after match-making Deirdre and ex-husband Ken Barlow, moved in with them at No.1. Now retired, Blanche kept herself busy by attending reading groups and going to funerals of people she didn't know. She considered herself still available and in 2002 had a relationship with undertaker Archie Shuttleworth. While most of her peers mellowed with age, Blanche became more brash and outspoken, being brutally honest with people if she found fault with them and delivering often hurtful or insensitive comments. Her most damning words were usually directed at her family, with Ken, Deirdre and Tracy getting a particularly hard time. Blanche believed in being truthful, even if people didn't want to hear it, as only then would her words have value. She did occasionally show her caring side where her family was concerned; in 2004 she bought No.7 so that Tracy and her daughter Amy would have a home, and she sometimes admitted to Deirdre that deep down she was proud of her. Blanche died of a heart attack while on an extended holiday in Portugal in May 2010.
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