She was perhaps the UK's oldest working female trumpeter, and was proud to have been a lifelong member of the very exclusive Grand Order of Lady Ratlings.

[5] Hinde's showbusiness career began on the BBC radio programme, Children's Hour when very young in the early 1940s.

In her teens she progressed to regular and legendary appearances on BBC Variety Bandbox, holding her own against fellow performers such as Billy Ternent and Eddie Calvert.

Instead, she forged a reputation on the live variety stage becoming a regular fixture with artistes such as Elsie and Doris Waters, Jimmy James and Co., Gladys Morgan, The Black and White Minstrel Show, Max Bygraves, Harry Secombe and Ken Dodd.

[citation needed] For her entire career, Hinde remained a radio, theatre and cabaret artiste, and never broke into the medium of television.