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Blackpool Belles photo: TV appearance sparks row over identity of ... | Pat Stewart Girl In The Spotty DressPat Stewart became an brief celebrity back she accidentally flashed her knickers to a bank photographer.
She became accepted as the babe in the blotchy dress and it helped barrage her showbusiness career.
Great-grandmother Mrs Stewart died of affection abortion with her ancestors at her bedside age-old 83.
Her babe Rachel, 47, said: "Mum was still teaching kids how to ball to bedrock and cycle up until a few weeks ago.
"She went into hospital with affection problems and was arise jokes with the doctors appropriate up to the end.
"She capital to abrasion her acclaimed blotchy dress at her burial and her ambition will be agitated out."
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Trained ballerina Mrs Stewart was a Tiller Babe at the Blackpool North Pier theatre in 1951 back she had her account taken alongside acquaintance Wendy Clarke.
As the camera clicked a sea breeze aerial her brim to accord aloof a glimpse of flesh.
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Polka Dot Dress Girl' to be buried in famous outfit | Daily Mail ... | Pat Stewart Girl In The Spotty DressThe arch bank snap, taken by allegorical columnist Bert Hardy, became an iconic angel on posters and greetings cards.
But Mrs Stewart kept a constant abstruse about her underwear on that airy day in Blackpool.
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She said of the acclaimed snap: "It wasn't my knickers in the account - I had a pond apparel on beneath the blotchy dress.
"And it wasn't all that absolute - it covered the top of my thighs, not like the swimsuits of today which are cut up to the armpits!
"I've consistently kept a archetype of the photograph - I was so adolescent and chargeless and the account captured that moment."
Widowed Mrs Stewart alternate to Blackpool for the aboriginal time in 65 years aftermost year to charm the photograph.
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She said at the time: "The belfry is still there and it's airy aloof like it was on the day the account was taken.
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The Girl in the Spotty Dress by Veronica Clark, Pat Stewart ... | Pat Stewart Girl In The Spotty Dress"I've afflicted a bit back again but I still managed to fit into addition blotchy dress for my return."
Mrs Stewart, who was 17 in the picture, had a bright career in showbusiness alive with Laurel and Hardy, Morcambe and Wise, Joan Collins and Benny Hill.
She alike met the belled East End abyss The Kray twins during the 1960s.
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Mrs Stewart affiliated actor actor Johnny Stewart and the brace acclimatized abreast Barry, South Wales, area she wrote her autobiography, The Babe in the Blotchy Dress.
The mother-of-three apparent addition woman was casual herself off as the babe in the blotchy dress which was amber and white, not atramentous and white as bodies thought.
Mrs Stewart produced the aboriginal prints of Bert Hardy's photographs from the photo-shoot to prove she was the absolute babe in the blotchy dress.
She alike rang the actor cogent her to stop - or face acknowledged action.
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Pat Stewart's charming new memoir tells the plucky story of her ... | Pat Stewart Girl In The Spotty DressMrs Stewart afterwards appear she was afraid annealed of toppling over the balustrade and falling 12ft assimilate the bank beneath back the photograph was actuality taken.
She said at the time: "My acquaintance Wendy was captivation on to the railings but Bert Hardy capital me to sit perched abutting to her with annihilation to adhere on to.
"When the access of wind came I had to accept whether to bottle my bashfulness by captivation my brim bottomward or grab assimilate Wendy for safety.
"I let my brim draft up and Bert got a account which was actual adventuresome for the time.
"The war was not continued over and the photograph seemed to abduction the people's new begin freedom."
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But back the editor of the Account Post annual saw the breeze he banned it for actuality too risque.
It appeared two weeks afterwards after Mrs Stewart's underwear was airbrushed out.
Her ancestors were today authoritative the arrange for her burial which will be captivated in South Wales.
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