I hope everyone enjoys the new photos, there are loads more to be added, but obviously I have to find the time, especially with one working computer, and two children fighting with me to use it now they are on their school holidays!!!  Bear with me, I will get them up asap, and thanks to Maurice Dale for sending them to me, he has worked very hard to do this for me!

OMG Debs!!!  You never cease to amaze.  These pics are amazing.  Just what I needed to cheer me up.  Thank you for all your hard work. Cant wait to see the rest lol xx

Great work going on here and plenty to spend time with.  Thanks for all your time put in here.  It is a wonderful place to visit!

Really enjoyed looking at those new pics just now. Been away for a while and catching up with the latest "goings on" etc. I especially like the ones with Lena and her guitar. Keep this great stuff coming!!

Always amazing!  Always fantastic!  Always a pleasure to visit.  The new photos are incredible!

WOW....LOVE the new pix!  Keep them coming (PLEASE)!!  ;-)

This is the best tribute to Lena ever!  NO-ONE will ever come close to this, no matter how hard they try!!  This website deserves some sort of award for the hard work put into it and the love and dedication shown, I am speechless!

I worked with Lena at Skegness. It was a show at the theatre on the end of the pier. (destroyed not long after). (1976?)

She was so sweet. We wnet shopping together and she bought a 50p ring. She was SO proud of it. People kept calling out to her in the street she was so loved.

Anyway one of my acts then was illusions. Half way through a trick went badly wrong and I set fire to my arm. Lena was watching from the wings. I could see her jumping up and down saying come off..but having been a child in the business myself..discipline got me through and I finished the last 10 mins.

Leno was on then..they kept introducing her but she wouldn't go on. She was hugging me and laying quickies on my burns. She told her mother to get me to hospital. Eventually her dad practically threw her on stage. Straight after the show she came to A & E.

I will always love and remember her.

Hello Debs,

thank you for commenting on my youtube channel (aka vonFalkenstein77) and thank you so much for this great site with all the beautiful music and information. I´m so glad that I found out about Lenda a couple of weeks ago, she was truly a great singer and I´m especially fond of her early recordings. How on earth could such a young girl sing the songs that way? Never before I´ve heard such a good performance of "Pennies from heaven", I´m not  native english-speaking but especially in this song the phrasing sounds  phanomenal to me and it outshines all versions of the song I´ve ever heard before. Thanks again for your hard work and the beautiful site. Yours sincerely

Mathias

Thanks Ronald!  There are more to come, so keep a look out! xx

Ronald beaton says...

Another great batch of photos!  This site is so big and just gets bigger, it takes a few hours to truly take in everything on it.

Another great batch of photos!  This site is so big and just gets bigger, it takes a few hours to truly take in everything on it.

CVActor1 says...

I remember seeing Lena  on - I think it was The Tonight Show, singing Mama He's Makin' Eyes At Me when she was - maybe 7 years old, I think. I have that first album of hers on vinyl. I happened to run across a video of her singing All That Jazz with Elaine Stritch tonight and found this site. I always wondered what happened to Lena, and I'm sorry to hear she died so young. You're doing a great job here in what can be a very thankless thing called cyberspace. I know from experience. Keep up the good work! One question. In her biography you say she had ill health and died atter an operation. Can you tell me what she actually died from? I'm curious, Thank you! :-)

Actually what she died of was complications from bronchial pneumonia.  The operation she'd undergone was a leucotomy, an operation on the brain related to a lobotomy, which, it was hoped, would relieve the depression she'd suffered for many years.  Lena was so weak after the surgery that her immune system was not up to task, and that's how the pneumonia took over.

I remember seeing Lena  on - I think it was The Tonight Show, singing Mama He's Makin' Eyes At Me when she was - maybe 7 years old, I think. I have that first album of hers on vinyl. I happened to run across a video of her singing All That Jazz with Elaine Stritch tonight and found this site. I always wondered what happened to Lena, and I'm sorry to hear she died so young. You're doing a great job here in what can be a very thankless thing called cyberspace. I know from experience. Keep up the good work! One question. In her biography you say she had ill health and died atter an operation. Can you tell me what she actually died from? I'm curious, Thank you! :-)

8)Fantastic website. The best I've seen and a truely genuine tribute to Lena. Great opportunities to see old videos - happy and sad times - and lots fo info. Marvellous job, Debs!

Hi Debs

Yes I am still interested in getting involved will all tributes to Lena I am looking foreword to it.

From Rob     

Hi Rob Randall!!

Have emailed you about a project that Jay Pemberton and I have been working on for a while, and would like to know if you would like to contribute to it?

Debs.

New photos and film clips are brilliant, this is THE website for any Lena fan.....keep up the excellent work Debs xxx

hi debs how are you.wot a great collection you have got of lena.i will send you those blank discs if you could please do me somethings on them.thank you.

Good website,

I can relate to the interesting comments.

Good website!!!

Hi 

I Have been a fan of Lena since I was a little boy.

i am looking foreword the the film.

i love to do a tribute to her am i am a DJ.

she will always be in our hearts.

her music will live on. 

Hello

What a wonderfull web site you have created,

I have spent 2  enjoyable nights looking at it and have  been totally engrossed with the videos and interviews.

I look forwrd to keeping up to date in future I have save you to my Favorites.

I Have been a fan of Lena since I was 8 and she apperred on Opp Knocks.

Jump down jimmy was the last thing I got and of hers andthen she wasn`t on tv so much after that, They did not have the internet or dedicated people like you to spend so much time and effort praising her memory

Thanks agin Debs

Kind regards

steve  

Thank you everyone!  Look out for more photos soon, Maurice has many, many negs of photos of Lena, he is scanning them a  bit at a time, will put them on here as soon as I get them, he isn't even sure what he has!!!  None were used in the fan club, so you are in for a treat, it is nice as well that all photos Maurice took he has given the right to me for them, it is touching.

Great website, great photos, great videos, great content, great presentation, need I say more?!!  Well done, this is the best website in existence!

your site is getting better and better . keep up the good work xxx

I think the new photos are truly amazing! 

Hilary says...

The photos from Maurice are magnificent.

Lena really looks so happy in these photos.

I agree!

The photos from Maurice are magnificent.

Lena really looks so happy in these photos.

Debs, Your doin a gr8 job, the site keeps getting better!We just need to be able to get Lena on CD & DVD!

Debs, keep hanging on. The other website is not worth getting upset over, and niether is the sites owner. Forget about it, and do what you love most - be with your family and run this Lena site.

What a fab website

Wow Debs just love the rare vids of Lena you have on your website you must be so pleased to have permission to use them it makes this wonderful website you are doing top notch above the rest

Cannot wait for the next vids to come on ,,keep up the top notch number one website Debs

x

We are supporting you Debs!!  Well done in putting up the new Lena clips, and a big thank you to Maurice as well!!

Hi Francis!  Yes that is right, although the correct information would be that the fifth time Lena won, she actually tied with another act, and they asked her to step down, as no-one else was getting a chance!!  I remember it very well, having watched ALL of Lena's Opportunity Knocks appearances, and remember them saying that, so she would have won more than 5 times, if they had let her!!! - Debs. xx

Hi!  Just read on another guestbook that Lena won Opportunity Knocks 5 times, is that right?  I thought it was 4.  Hoping you can help!

Debs you are so devoted big pat on the back for what you have done, fantastic  ann xx

I love the new clips too....magic!

These rare films are brilliant.

Debs, you deserve a medal, for all your hard work. this site is wonderful. xxx

I've just seen the new Lena videos and thoroughly enjoyed watching them both.  Lena really looked comfortable behind the scenes.

I would just like to say how much I really enjoyed the small vidoes of Lena.  So often we see her on stage and TV.  What an absolute delight to see her behind the scenes.  Fantastic!

Absolutely LOVE the radio shows page, a bit of nostalgia!!  I can't wait to hear more, well done for keeping Lena's memory alive, what a sad, sad shame that Lena's family haven't contributed here. 

Debs your site is fab you must have worked so hard on it

Hi Debs, great website keep it up xx

fantastic website keep up all the good work X

Thanks Debs, Great to be able to enhace my memories of Lena here and on youtube. John

Great Web Site Debs!

keep up the good work

It's a shame none of Lena's original OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS tapes survive so far as is known, they'd be most instructive as to what talent is!

When I looked at the rubbish on Britain's Got Talent (???) this week it served as a reminder to me of what we are sadly missing these days. Had Lena still been here and on any of those so-called talent shows there would have been no contest and only one winner by a country mile.