Norman Evans
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Norman Evans (June 11, 1901 – November 25, 1962), was a variety and radio artiste, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, who developed an act as a toothless hatchet-faced woman gossiping over a fence, an act that inspired Les Dawson. The one-sided conversations would embrace all sorts of local gossip, including scandal about the neighbours and personal medical complaints, including silently mouthing words deemed too rude to be spoken out loud, and accompanied with a range of facial contortions and glances round for supposed eavesdroppers.
Norman Evans is buried in Carleton Cemetery, Blackpool. The headstone of his grave is a low wall built from natural gritstone blocks. His epitaph (preceding birth and death dates) reads "Norman's last garden wall!"
