Sheila Birtles
| Sheila Birtles | |||||||||||||
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| Coronation Street character | |||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Eileen Mayers | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 1961–1963, 1966, 1969, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 8 4 January 1961 | ||||||||||||
| Last appearance | Episode 1431 2 October 1974 | ||||||||||||
| Classification | Past; regular | ||||||||||||
| Created by | Tony Warren | ||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Tony Warren (1961) H.V. Kershaw (1962, 1969) Peter Eckersley (1966) Susi Hush (1974) | ||||||||||||
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Sheila Birtles (also Crossley) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She was portrayed by actress Eileen Mayers. The character is famous for her suicide plot which was ultimately axed.