Her real name was Roma Barrack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Lane
Carla passed over at a nursing home on the 31st of May, aged 87. The 31st of May was the 'Day of Cutting Edge'.
It was said by Cannon Myles Davies 'the writer gave Liverpool people a voice'.
Carla's 'True Love' poem read by her son, Carl Hollins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjVNq8dmt_E
A wicker coffin had been chosen with white flowers, those wicker baskets are lovely. They even brought dogs from the 'Carla Lane Animals in Need' charity to the cathedral. I'm sure that she is surrounded by dogs and their owners in the heavenly animal sanctuary.
A vegetarian that was friends with Linda McCartney and Rita Tushingham.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN442vaRgjU
It is written that Carla was known for looking after rescued animals, running a sanctuary from her home in Horsted Keynes, in Sussex until 2009.
Her TV work was most known in the 70's and 80's, when her sitcoms were on British TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lFJxiQOl7E
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-36480648
I'm sure her work must've inspired many new sitcom writers and animal lovers, and I did enjoy the Liver Birds, it was all part of the era of British comedy, when the Brits were laughing at themselves and their co-creations. It was also great to have some main female characters. The fondness for Liverpool in the hearts of the people after the Beatles had clinched it.
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