What is Violet Carson?
{{Infobox person | name = Violet Carson | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|9|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Ancoats]], [[Manchester]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|1983|12|26|1898|9|1|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Blackpool]], [[Lancashire]], England | birth_name = Violet Helen Carson | spouse = {{marriage|George Peploe|1926|1929|end=his death}} | relatives = Nellie Carson (sister) | occupation = Actress, singer, pianist | yearsactive = 1920–1980 }} '''Violet Carson''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (1 September 1898 – 26 December 1983) was an actress from [[Manchester]]. She was on radio, stage and television, and was a singer and pianist. She had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of [[BBC Radio]]. For the last twenty years of her life she was the matronly Christian [[widow]], town [[gossip]] and elderly battle-axe Ena Sharples in the [[ITV]] television [[soap opera]] ''[[Coronation Street]]''. She was one of the original characters from the start in 1960. She almost always wore a [[hairnet]]. In 1962, she was named ITV Personality of the Year.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Morley|title=The North: (And Almost Everything in It)|url=https://archive.org/details/northandalmostev0000morl|url-access=registration|date=6 June 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4088-3400-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/northandalmostev0000morl/page/61 61]–}}</ref> She was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1965 by [[Harold Wilson]]. He was accused of having debased and cheapened the [[honours system]]. <ref>{{Cite book|title=Harold Wilson the winner|url=https://archive.org/details/haroldwilsonwinn0000nick|last=Thomas-Symonds|first=Nick|publisher=Weidenfield & Nicolson|year=2023|isbn=9781474611961|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/haroldwilsonwinn0000nick/page/n210 201]}}</ref> ==Re