Valerie Skardon

Valerie Skardon appeared in Coronation Street in April 1961 as Miami Modes supervisor Mrs Dumbarton, a part played eighteen months later by Diana Coupland.

Although northern-based Ms Skardon had few television appearances, she was prolific in her radio work for the BBC in Manchester appearing in many productions from the late 1940s to the 1980s, among them Midweek Theatre and Afternoon Theatre as well as dramatisations of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, North and South and several Children's Hour presentations.