1930
At the age of nine won a Gold Medal in a talent contest and joined the Terence Byron Repertory Company in Longsight, Manchester

1931
Toured in the revue Mixed Bathing

1932
At the age of twelve sang for the first time on BBC Radio

1934
Made film debut in Boots! Boots! with George Formby but Betty's cabaret number was cut from the release print on the instruction of Formby's wife Beryl.

1934
Made first London stage appearance in a variety show at the Prince of Wales Theatre

1934-36
Toured in the revue Tower Of London with Norman Evans

1935
Made first recording at the age of fourteen Jubilee Baby and continued recording until 1954.

1936
Appeared in Jimmy Hunter's Brighton Follies for a summer season in Brighton

1937
Appeared at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End in Charles B. Cochran's revue Home And Beauty

1938
Co-starred with Edmund Gwenn and Jimmy O'Dea in the film Penny Paradise directed by Carol Reed

1938
Appeared at the Blackpool Opera House in the revue All The Best with Anton Dolin, Stanley Holloway and Elisabeth Welch

1939
Co-starred with Jimmy O'Dea and Sonnie Hale in the film Let's Be Famous directed by Walter Forde

1940
Featured in the wartime film short The American Eagle Club

1941
Co-starred with Bunny Doyle in the film Facing The Music directed by MacLean Rogers

1941-48
Featured vocalist with Henry Hall and his BBC Dance Orchestra in the long running BBC radio series Henry Hall's Guest Night

During the Second World War entertained the troops in France, Belgium, Germany, Holland and North Africa with Henry Hall for ENSA.

1945
Performed with Henry Hall on the Champs Elysees in Paris on VE Night

1949
Starred in her own BBC radio series A Date With  Betty on the Light Programme

1950
Made an early television appearance for the BBC in Rooftop Rendezvous

1952
Starred in her own BBC Television series The Betty Driver Show

1952
Co-starred with Arthurt Askey, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd and Norman Wisdom in Television's Second Christmas Party, an all-star variety show broadcast on BBC Television on Christmas Day 

1957
Made a guest appearance in BBC Television's The Good Old Days

1960
Co-starred with Glenn Melvyn and Danny Ross in the comedy Pillar To Post at the Blackpool Grand Theatre

1961
Co-starred with Arthur Askey and Beatrice Varley in the comedy What A Racket! At the Blackpool Grand Theatre.

1965-68
Co-Starred with Arthur Lowe in Granada Television's Coronation Street spin off comedy series Pardon The Expression

1967
Played a supporting role in the Granada Television play Love On The Dole with Anne Stallybrass and James Bolam

1969
Joined the cast of Coronation Street on 2 June

1976
Subject of This Is Your Life for Thames Television

1978
Made guest appearance for Looks Familiar for Thames Television

1986
Subject of BBC Radio 2's It's A Funny Business

1987
Presented with a  Gold Badge of Merit by BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Arrangers) in recognition of her services to British music.

1988
Made guest appearance on Wogan for BBC Television

1989
Made guest appearance with the cast of Coronation Street in the Royal Variety Performance, later televised by London Weekend Television

1989
Paid tribute to Henry Hall in BBC Radio 2's tribute Here's To The Next Time

1992
Appeared in The South Bank Show: George Formby for London Weekend Television

1994
Subject of BBC Radio 2's The Betty Driver Story presented by Cilla Black

1999
Celebrated thirty years in Coronation Street and listed as the third longest serving member of the cast behind William Roache (Ken Barlow) and Eileen Derbyshire (Emily Bishop)

2000
Awarded MBE in New Year's Honours List and publication of autobiography to coincide with eightieth birthday on May 20

2001
Appeared in Ken And Me (a profile on William Roache) for ITV

2006
Appeared in Vera Lynn: Sincerely Yours for BBC Four

2009
Appeared in Outbreak 1939 for ITV

2011
Subject of BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs

2011
The documentary The Betty Driver Story is broadcast by ITV

Betty Driver's career highlights compiled by Stephen Bourne

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