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Felixstowe Nub News delves into the life of former Felixstowe resident, artist Megs Jenkins.

Muguette Mary "Megs" Jenkins was born 21 April 1917 in Birkenhead, Cheshire. She was the daughter of a construction engineer.

She originally trained to be a ballet dancer, plans which unfortunately fell through.

Although born in England, she often played Welsh characters often. She made her noticeable film debut in Millions Like Us (1943) as the Welsh roommate of the main character (played by Patricia Roc).

She went on to appear in such films as Green for Danger (1946), The History of Mr. Polly (1949), The Cruel Sea (1953), and Oliver! (1968) as Mrs. Bedwin.

She played the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose, in two adaptations of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw: the film The Innocents (1961) and a 1974 television adaptation.

She also frequently played comedic roles, and in later life was a regular in the children's series Worzel Gummidge.

From 1933, Jenkins also had a long stage career, and appeared in several plays by including The Light of Heart in 1940. In 1956, she won the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting performance in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge.

In 1943, Jenkins married childhood acquaintance George Routledge after he saw her name in a review. Unfortunately, their marriage ended in divorce in 1959.

When her father died in 1956, she asked her mother to move in with her, and together they bought a 23-room hotel in Felixstowe, in Suffolk, but when the business, which she called "my sideline", began to affect her acting availability, she sold it.

Megs Jenkins came to live in Felixstowe permanently in 1972 and stayed until her death on 5 October 1998.

Her reason for moving to Felixstowe came as she was seeing someone off at the port and thought of Felixstowe as a town she wouldn't mind living in.

Swapping her busy life in London for a more relaxed life by the coast, she lived in a house on Tomline Road.

She, unfortunately, did not have any children despite her desire and, in a Felixstowe Times interview back in 1982, she declared that she probably had no relatives still living.