Barbara Flynn

Barbara Joy Flynn born 5 August 1948 is an English actress She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War 19701972 She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours 19761985 Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy 19851988 Dr Rose Marie in the BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice 19861988 Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker 19931995 and Mrs Jamieson in Cranford 20072009 In 2021 she appeared in Doctor Who Flux as Tecteun a founder of Time Lord society and The Doctors adopted mother Starting in 2023 she acted in Beyond Paradise playing the mother of the detectives girlfriend This included some episodes in 2024 where she was reunited with Peter Davison her A Very Peculiar Practice costar In her own words she tends to play feisty strong women