Annice Sidwells (1902–2001) was a star of early wireless radio in the UK as a

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singer. Sidwells was born in

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, 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

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. 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.

External links

Annice – Voice of the Dales – Yorkshire Television Documentary
English contraltos 1902 births 2001 deaths People from Settle, North Yorkshire 20th-century English singers 20th-century English women singers {{UK-singer-stub