Madge Semple

Madge Semple (née Plunkett) was a former resident of Beckindale and have lived in London the past 30 years. She was a feisty lady, full of chatter but did not stay long back in the village and returned to London in December when she found the council had found her a new flat.

Madge Plunkett was born in about 1915 in Beckindale. She lived above the village shop in the 1940s and married Frank Semple in 1943 but left him in 1945 for a younger man. They left to move 250 miles away in London. In late 1975 Madge returned to Beckindale, having been evicted from her flat in New Cross, London. Madge Semple returned to Beckindale after 30 years in November 1975 after she heard her house was to be demolished with others for redevelopment. She stayed at the Woolpack and called in on Emmerdale Farm and started making herself at home and began annoying the residents with her constant chit chat. Hilda Semple, Madge's sister in law heard of her return and was not happy after what Madge had done to her brother.

In December 1975 Madge found she had been given a new flat back in London and soon returned and never came back to Beckindale again.

1975

 * Mon 24th Nov
 * Tue 25th Nov
 * Mon 1st Dec
 * Tue 2nd Dec
 * Mon 8th Dec
 * Tue 9th Dec