Elizabeth Larner Elizabeth Larner Elizabeth Larner (born 1931) is a British actress and a singer with a powerful soprano voice. While her main career was the musical theatre, appearing both in London's West End and on Broadway, she was a seemingly unlikely, but inspired, choice to play Ammonia in the BBC situation comedy "Up Pompeii!" - a role she made her own. She later appeared in "The Two Ronnies", supporting Ronnie Barker as "Piggy Malone" and Ronnie Corbett as "Charley Farley" in the 1981-2 comic detective mystery serial "Band of Slaves". Elizabeth Larner appeared on television from the mid-1950s. Her singing gained
Reuben Farley Reuben Farley Reuben Farley (17 January 1826 in West Bromwich – 1899), was the eighth of ten children of the mining engineer Thomas Farley (1781–1830). Farley was a pupil at Borwicks Heath Academy and an active member of the West Bromwich Institution for the Advancement of Knowledge. After a mining apprenticeship, Farley took over Dunkirk Colliery when he was twenty-one. By 1861 he bought the Summit Foundry with his brother-in-law George Taylor. The foundry became one of the largest of its kind in South Staffordshire, and the firm won a medal at the 1897 Brussels Exhibition. Farley played a leading