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#OnThisDay 22 February 1977
#Crossroads star #NoeleGordon declares:
"I'm not a bitch. I'd never hurt a fellow actor."

#OnThisDay 9 February 1980
Hurry yourself along to Shipley's Amusement Arcade in Bedworth, where shoppers will throng the pavements to play Prize Bingo and see the Grand Opening by #Crossroads star #NoeleGordon. What are you waiting for? There are Woolworths vouchers to win!

#OnThisDay 19 January 1982
#NoeleGordon Tells All:
"IT'S GOOD TO KNOW I AM ABLE TO SURVIVE AND FLOURISH IN THIS TOUGH BUSINESS"

#OnThisDay 18 January 1982
Sacked #Crossroads Star Hits Out at Her Producer -
I'M OUT OF THE MADHOUSE -
She was the queen of television for 17 big years. Then they chopped off her head. But as #NoeleGordon, showbiz survivor, she sails triumphantly on . . .

#OnThisDay 11 January 1965
MAKE A DATE AT THE CROSSROADS
Viewers in London get their first glimpse of #NoeleGordon as Meg Richardson when #Crossroads is broadcast in the region for the first time. The TV-Times provides this helpful guide for those new to the series.

#OnThisDay 7 January 1981
WHY ARE THEY SO CRUEL TO CROSSROADS?
#NoeleGordon stood among the rubble of her luxurious flat and put on her no-nonsense Meg Mortimer look. "We all feel pretty hard done by. People just don't understand the function of #Crossroads. One does get upset...

........25/12 #NoeleGordon, Noel, Noel, Noel, born was the Queen of Xroads Motel

#OnThisDay 17 December 1978
Calling all fans of #Crossroads - We answer the questions you most often ask . . .
IS IT TRUE ABOUT NOELE AND LARRY?
#NoeleGordon #LarryGrayson

#OnThisDay 13 December 1978
NOELE GORDON HITS BACK AT CROSSROADS CRITICS
With the highly popular sport of taking pot-shots at #Crossroads well under way again, #NoeleGordon steps outside the best-known motel in the land - and hits back!

#OnThisDay 3 December 1986
MEG'S GHOSTLY RETURN AND A DOUBLE DOSE OF DIRTY DEN -
Actress #NoeleGordon is set to return from beyond the grave to the cast of #Crossroads. The plan is for old films of Meg Mortimer to be merged into new shots and the "ghost" to be seen by Benny.

#OnThisDay 3 December 1984
TWO LOVES IN MY LIFE - NOELE TELLS ALL:
Actress #NoeleGordon talks candidly on television this week about the two people whom she loved most in her life and whom she lost - impresario Val Parnell and her beloved mother.

#OnThisDay 3 December 1974 #Crossroads
The Birmingham Evening Mail concludes its series 'My Life at Crossroads' by #NoeleGordon with her account of THE TEARS AND TRIUMPHS and how what happens behind the scenes is STRANGER THAN FICTION.

#OnThisDay 29 November 1982
You can call her Meg Mortimer of call her Madam, but she's still THE FIRST AND ONLY NOELE -
At 57, she's got style and stamina and is still an unsinkable superstar.
"I have never been a loser and I'm not going to start now" - #NoeleGordon

#OnThisDay 29 November 1974
My Life at #Crossroads by #NoeleGordon -
IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE, BUT . . .
"I am a woman with two lives. To millions of viewers I am Meg Richardson, ruffled hostess of Crossroads, a Midland motel . . ."

#OnThisDay 20 November 1993
Having watched Thatcher - the Downing Street Years, humorist Craig Brown can't help seeing similarities between Maggie and #Crossroads' #NoeleGordon -
"The similarities between Meg Richardson and Margaret Thatcher are so plentiful as to be uncanny."

#OnThisDay 5 November 1981
With the fate of #Crossroads' Meg Mortimer still unknown, the Mirror's cartoonist Keith Waite has this: "We've dreamed up a spectacular final ending for #NoeleGordon."

#OnThisDay 4 November 1981
"The Record traces the career of the #Crossroads star who faces disaster tonight" -
MEG . . ALWAYS A STAR!
#NoeleGordon from toddler to musical star to TV legend

#OnThisDay 4 November 1981
The Manchester Evening News asks:
CROSSROADS' MEG . . . IS THE LADY FOR BURNING?
"The #Crossroads Motel goes up in flames tonight - but viewers must wait another week to see whether Meg Mortimer dies in the blaze. #NoeleGordon disappears ..."

#OnThisDay 4 November 1967
Whilst episodes 766 and 767 of #Crossroads are missing from the archives; the Mirror's Clifford Davis is able to give a behind the scenes glimpse of what happened in them because he appeared as a magician:
'She's given you up,' said #NoeleGordon . . .

Tony Adams from Crossroads

Crossroads Motel sign

Sad news. Tony Adams who played Adam Chance in Crossroads, has died. He was 84. He also appeared in Doctor Who. #Crossroads #NoeleGordon #DoctorWho

#OnThisDay 22 October 1977
Hurry yourself along to Shipley's Prize Bingo in Tamworth and meet #Crossroads' very own #NoeleGordon. There's free admission and it's only 2½p per game!

#OnThisDay 21 October 1981
The press are still desperately trying to figure out how #NoeleGordon will be written out of #Crossroads -
FINAL DAZE FOR MEG?
"She lies slumped in an armchair with a bottle of pills beside her. Is this how it will all end for Meg Mortimer?"

#OnThisDay 16 October 1959
'LUNCH BOX' ATTRACTS 3,000 AT DERBY
"ATV's popular mid-day programme 'Lunch Box' attracted an audience of 3,000 when it was televised live from Alferton Road sports ground."
"Popular hostess #NoeleGordon walks near the audience whilst singing."

#OnThisDay 13 October 1981
Has the Mirror uncovered the secret of how #NoeleGordon will leave #Crossroads?
IS THIS MEG'S LAST RESTING PLACE?
The cast of the TV series gathered round an open grave yesterday to film a burial scene . . .

#OnThisDay 9 October 1981
Speculation about how #NoeleGordon is to be written out of #Crossroads is still rife:
ATV STAYS SILENT ON MEG'S BLAZE OF GLORY
"A letter bomb sent to a VIP at the motel starts a fire in which three minor characters are killed. Meg is badly hurt . . ."

#OnThisDay 5 October 1981
CROSSROADS TIME
Of her exit from #Crossroads, #NoeleGordon says:
"When it comes, it comes. I shall just pack up and go, without any fuss. I don't want any crocodile tears or presentations. I have done my job for ATV and I just want to go quietly . . ."

#OnThisDay 23 September 1981
Hurry yourself along to Rackmans Birmingham for 'An Evening with the Stars' and meet the entire cast of #Crossroads, including #NoeleGordon, Ronald Allen and Tony Adams.

#OnThisDay 21 September 1975
The Sunday Mercury has this story about the #Crossroads star: AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HER BEFORE - The flip side of #NoeleGordon