Young's death was confirmed by her daughter Liz Pulman, who revealed that her mother passed away on Thursday (April 27) at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
Throughout her career, Barbara Young enjoyed several soap appearances, including Corination Street, Hollyoaks, Holby City, and The Bill. She also starred in The Last of the Summer Wine and I, Claudius.
She was also renowned for her role as Sadie Hargreaves in over 100 episodes Channel Five soap, Family Affairs, where she portrayed the gossipy, and charistmatic mother of Pamela Tripp.
Barbara Young also enjoyed two stints on Coronation Street, featuring intially as Barbara Platt, mother of Martin Platt who married Gail Plat, and father of current character David Platt (Jack P Shepperd).
She returned to the cobbles as Doreen Fenwick in 2007, an old friend of Rita Suillivan, who also received a marriage proposal from Norris Cole.
Paying tribute to her late mother, Liz Pulman shared this emotional and heartfelt post via Instagram.
"Just to let people know, my beautiful, brilliant, opinionated, loud, warm-hearted, talented and singular mother died on Thursday night at 10.30pm", she wrote. "My sister Cory and I were by her hospital bed for 30 hours straight and in the end, as is so often the case, she slipped away in our absence with a beautiful nurse called Mercy (you couldn’t write it) caring for her".
Pulman also thanked the staff at Addenbrooke Hospital for the care that her mother received.
"The care she received in those last days at Addenbrookes was remarkable – considered, careful and empathetic – and to a person, they all said how much they had loved my mum, how she had made them laugh and how she had always been interested in them", she added. "She was 43 years without my father, 30 years without a cigarette and 20 years without a drink but never without a humbug".
