She wrote a slice of real-life taboo-breaking kitchen sink drama, which sowed the seeds for " Coronation Street ". Her contemporaries who burst out of her home city in the 1960s included actor Albert Finney and artist Harold Riley.

A picture of her, a fresh-faced 20-year-old in heels, wearing a smart raincoat against the Salford fog, standing outside 77 Duchy Road in the front garden of her family home captures an iconic talent.

The tall slender woman, with what Riley would later describe as "magnetic eyes", in the 1959 image is playwright Shelagh Delaney. It was in the front room of that council house where she wrote her debut A Taste of Honey, aged just 19.

The play made it to London's West End and went on to become an award winning 1961 film starring a teenage Rita Tushingham in

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