Barbara Windsor's incredible life - war-time evacuee to film star and TV legend
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mirror.co.ukDame Barbara Windsor was a wartime evacuee when she first strapped on a pair of dancing shoes. But by then she’d already seen plenty of drama in her life, before she ever took to the stage.
Born Barbara Ann Deeks, on August 6 1937 to a bus conductor and a dressmaker in London’s East End, she was as salt-of-the-Earth as Peggy Mitchell ever was.
Just two when the Second World War broke out and five when her dad marched off to fight, her mum Rose kept her at home until, as Dame Barbara once put it, "my friend Margaret was hit by shrapnel and killed".
So aged six, she was put on an evacuee train at Euston "with a warning from Mummy: 'Don’t go off with any strange men'." That train took young Babs fittingly to the very home of British
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