Tributes paid to Birmingham’s ‘My Fair Lady’ flower girl
She was the flower girl who was Birmingham’s very own My Fair Lady.
Kate Kelly was a recognisable face at the Bull Ring market having worked there for 47 years, alongside her two late sisters.
The well-known siblings hailed from a line of vendors who initially set up to sell flowers at the famed marketplace more than 150 years ago.
However, since Kate passed away at the age of 89 from pneumonia at Heartlands Care Home in Yardley, vendors and patrons are currently in grief.
The cortege is scheduled to sweep past the Bull Ring market in a moving farewell at her funeral, which will be held at The Friary in Olton on July 7 at 9.45 a.m.
Kate had lived in Highgate all her life and she and her late sisters, Mary and Nellie, sold flowers all their lives, like Cockney flowergirl Eliza Doolittle in the classic musical, My Fair Lady.
Her great nephew Cary Sutton commissioned a painting of Kate which was placed at her pitch last Saturday, so people could pay their respects.
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