What famous TV cook was called Phyllis Primrose-Pechey?
Fanny Cradock maternal grandparents' house, 33 Fairlop Road, Leytonstone. The birth was formally registered in London, in the district of West Ham. Fanny was given the name ‘Phyllis Nan S. Pechey’. The 'S' was for Sortain, a name that had been passed down through her mother's family. As a child, Cradock lived with her family at Fairlop Road, with her maternal grandparents. A plaque, with her name misspelled, Fairwood Court, Fairlop Road, London E11: "Fanny Craddock 1909–1994. On this site until 1930 stood a house called Apthorp, birthplace of the famous TV cookery expert Fanny Craddock; born Phyllis Pechey." Her birthplace was
Fanny Cradock alone on "Wogan", "Parkinson" and "TV-am". When she appeared on the television chat show "Parkinson" with Danny La Rue and it was revealed to her that La Rue was actually a female impersonator, she stormed off the set. Her final BBC appearance was on "Wogan" in 1986, and her final television appearance was on "The Last Resort" with Jonathan Ross in 1987. Cradock married four times, twice bigamously. First she married Sidney A. Vernon Evans on 10 October 1926, she was 17, he was 22. Cradock married as "Phyllis Nan Primrose Pechey"; "Primrose Pechey" was a form passed down her