About Annice Sidwells
Lived 1902 – 2001 (aged 98–99). Annice Sidwells was a British singer.
Annice Sidwells (1902–2001) was a star of early wireless radio in the UK as a contralto singer. Sidwells was born in Settle, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Her talent belied the meagre settings of an amateur operatic society in a remote Yorkshire market town, and Sidwells became a star of the early radio broadcasts of the BBC.
Sidwells married Matt Haygarth—a romantic story that was remembered and celebrated in a Yorkshire Television documentary in 1985.
Sidwells died at the age 99 in 2001, and is buried in Settle.
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British singer
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