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Hilda Alice Ogden (née Crabtree) is a fictional character from the television series Coronation Street one of the best-known of all the regular characters in the soap opera whose name became synonymous with a certain type of working-class woman. She was played by Jean Alexander from 1964 to 1987. For much of her period as a character in the Street Hilda worked as cleaner of the Rover’s Return Inn.