![Jean Heywood, actress best known on the small screen for 'When the Boat Comes In' and on the big screen as Billy Elliot's grandmother – obituary Jean Heywood, actress best known on the small screen for 'When the Boat Comes In' and on the big screen as Billy Elliot's grandmother – obituary](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/obituaries/2019/11/07/TELEMMGLPICT000215444279_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqkOwR0iP77jSmoq9t8DUmdpoeWhrs_rFJRBZ2-2XkJAA.jpeg)
Jean Heywood, actress best known on the small screen for 'When the Boat Comes In' and on the big screen as Billy Elliot's grandmother – obituary
Seventies Time-Machine - Remembering the late Actress, Jean Heywood (15 July 1921 – 14 September 2019) | Facebook
![Jean Heywood, actress best known on the small screen for 'When the Boat Comes In' and on the big screen as Billy Elliot's grandmother – obituary Jean Heywood, actress best known on the small screen for 'When the Boat Comes In' and on the big screen as Billy Elliot's grandmother – obituary](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/obituaries/2019/11/07/TELEMMGLPICT000215444553_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq7yiD-fMKUq4pjrX5yxXSyYq-fcPsmDPet7_8znaX2VM.jpeg)
Jean Heywood, actress best known on the small screen for 'When the Boat Comes In' and on the big screen as Billy Elliot's grandmother – obituary
![We Can't Let Those Hands Go Down a Pit”: Jean Heywood (1921 – 2019) in When the Boat Comes In, Episode 7, BBC 1976 – "I'll Be Dead Before You Break My Heart" We Can't Let Those Hands Go Down a Pit”: Jean Heywood (1921 – 2019) in When the Boat Comes In, Episode 7, BBC 1976 – "I'll Be Dead Before You Break My Heart"](https://cantarachristopher.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/when-the-boat-comes-in-940x512-1.jpeg)