 Carol later appeared in the short-lived BBC serial "The Newcomers", alongside Alan Browning, who later appeared in "Coronation Street" as Alan Howard.She also appeared in the 1979 film "Yanks" starring Richard Gere.Carol married Bert Palmer (1901–15 January 1980), a character actor from Yorkshire, who appeared in two episodes of "Coronation Street" and the pilot episode of its first spin-off, "Pardon the Expression", and they made their home in Blackpool.