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Actor Peter Baldwin, Hampstead and Highgate MP Glenda Jackson and actor Frances de la Tour lead the candlelit procession |
Stars light up night with tributes to cancer victims
ACTOR Frances de la Tour joined a moving service marking the 30th anniversary of the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead on Sunday.
Ms de la Tour, who switched on the hospice’s Christmas lights in Lyndhurst Road, joined Hampstead and Highgate MP Glenda Jackson and former Coronation Street star Peter Baldwin at the event which began with a candlelit procession from Hampstead Town Hall. More than 200 people filled the Hall before setting out on the procession to the hospice at 4pm where pupils from Channing School sang carols. Ms de la Tour read a poem for her friend stage and screen actor Sheila Gish from Kentish Town who died last year and was a patient at the hospice, while Mr Baldwin was there to remember his wife.
She said: “It was a very moving moment for me to turn on the lights. Each light represented a lost soul and was a remembrance of them. Each light was donated by a loved one.
“My dear friend Sheila Gish was cared for by the loving staff here two years ago and their dedication and warmth is extraordinary.”
Peter Baldwin, who played Derek Wilton in the soap, who lives in Queen’s Crescent, added: “I’m very aware of care for people with cancer and these people are fantastic. You only have to look at the faces of people here to see how moving and necessary it is.”
Hospice fundraising manager Liz Allen, who revealed that the centre had reached its £14,000 goal this year, said: “It was a beautiful day – we were thrilled to have so many people there to remember loved ones and support the hospice.”
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