Marvellous. The truth is that, beneath their surfaces, Ena and Elsie were very much alike, strong women struggling for independence, which is why they were so close later in their lives. Marvellous writing and acting.

Violet Carson and Pat Phoenix had such a rhythm to their dialogue, it was like music. Especially when they’d get angry.

What I love about their relationship was that they were exactly mother like daughter, I think Elsie always saw Ena as a mother, these were the golden days absolutely class and pure talent

The acting superb compared to today, Pat was a superb actress.

The written dialogue is world class with some of the most talented actresses and actors.

It was touching to see that, despite their many cat fights there was mutual understanding and support for each other. Characters were so well written back then. Thanks for posting

I never watched this series, but I can see it’s attraction, gritty reflection of real life. Smashing filming too.

Ena Sharples is a formidable force of nature. From before my time, now seeing the earlier years before the 80s she's quickly becoming a big favourite.

'I make no mention of names, but there's a certain woman as comes in this snug, and lull know 'oo I mean when I say she looks like a weasel in specs...' 😂😂😂

Eeh they dont make actresses like Violet Carlson (Ena) and Pat Pheonix (Elsie) or any of the other actors that have been and gone from the Street (between 1960 and 1987 when Hilda Ogden left) Im glad people are putting the classic episodes online so people can enjoy them and discover them ❤❤

2 of the greatest ever soap characters

Queens!

Ena and Elsie will never be repeated as the talent just isn't there now. But more than that the writing is so poor nowadays I believe these two wonderful ladies would have refused to speak half of what is written now. This clip is pure class. Enjoy it and realise it will never be again.

The acting on these old Coronation Street episodes was superb. Lovely to watch these. Can't watch the modern day show.

the two greatest characters on british t v no one will ever compare

Brilliant i really enjoyed watching that ❤❤

Ena Sharples, no nonsense character who could take down anyone.

you could not beat the old episodes of coronation steet

The theme song from Coronation Street is legendary. It was very familiar to me even though I didn’t watch it voluntarily until 2000. It’s possible I heard it from my Great Auntie’s tv in Australia in the early 1980’s. She was addicted to soaps and I spent a lot of time with her. It has only been very recently that I have focused in episodes from 1976 onwards. The nostalgia is fantastic. I really believe the characters and storylines unlike the modern Coronation Street which is absolutely unbelievable. That is the beauty of British kitchen sink dramas of yesteryear. Am presently up to 1983. My reason for continuing is the Duckworths but I will miss Elsie Tanner…..Thank you for this wonderful post. ❤ I will head back to 1960 soon enough. What a wonderful social commentary. Tony Warren’s imagination is fantastic.

As I've said before, in the early 70's, i had spent the summer with my aunt, and she would never miss this afternoon show, as I had to sit there, at 10, I was getting into this show. Then as a young adult Coronation street was on the t.v, and low and behold, there was some of the same character's! The same children were on it, but grown, I was hoked forever

Fabulous characters and actresses.

Elsie was so glam 🌟

Absolute gold when the street was great

These shows were made when they were far more organic, not all the white teeth and cleaned and preened like they are now.

Wonderful characters. We do need character's like this today

From New Zealand born 1965, my first memories of TV and probably first opening credit music of TV shows that I remember. Omg, it is a wonder we didn't pick up the accent, maybe we did....

I didn't want this clip to ever end

Elsie kept getting younger looking lol

Some of best one liners i ever heard

"I'll physical side you over that wall, ya old bat!"

Both extremely talented people the actors on Corrie today come no where near rip to them both.

Too young to remember these characters, but the cross hairs are infamous, but their tender moments do make me smile. ♥

Elsie was gorgeous in the 60's, she was even more beautiful in the 80's, absolute knockout. 🌹

Don't make em like Ena anymore.

I think there were some poignant scenes between Elsie and Ena. Those were when Ena showed a maternal concern for Elsie when the latter was at her most vulnerable. It showed at such times the mutual respect each had for the other despite their petty differences.

The confrontation at the start was great viewing. It says everything that Elsie Tanner realised that Ena Sharples was telling the truth and that knocked the fight right out of her. Deep down Elsie knew Ena was just as strong and bold as she was herself and would not have had any problem telling her the contents of the letter to her face had she been guilty.

The best of frienimes!

Brilliant acting loved these beloved characters absolutely superb

pure British drama, in your face, no excuses, real and emotional moving.

Oh yes I do love the old episodes

I never realized Elsie had the same three bird ornaments on her wall as the Odgens...47:27

The outside set looks like it was indoors!

Edna Sharpens was reminds me of the days she was piano player for Wilfred pickles as her name is Violet Carson in his radio show Have a Go..

Weren’t they wonderful. So much more entertaining to anything that’s on the T. V today. Am I right in thinking that it was live in these days. Such a joy to watch.

20:56 Somehow I can't see Minnie ever 'gettin 'er mad up.' Can anyone?

Nothing like the old days

"We don't need sewers around 'ere, we've got Ena Sharples!" Love it, they don't make ladies like this anymore

Omgosh. The original and why...my mum, grandmother and aunties loved. Saw 2019. WORDS cant be said. !!! Terrible. Script writer's need thrown of a bridge. Terrible. Thank you. Great writing, story lines and they nailed the characters. Appreciate sharing. 👍

Awe, cheers for this. (Should be able to bag from 1st Episode, but would need plenty more ShelveS eh ;-)

Road to coronation street brought me here, I was born late 80s .Oh My god its amazing, Totally different to the Corrie i grew up with. Elsie was drop dead gorgeous and Ena was amazing. I felt nostalgic for those times.

Proper Corrie, not like the rubbish they make now.

I love the boom mic coming into the shot at 20:55

£350 for a house? Try buying a house for that much today lol

Thank you for posting this - wonderful to see!

Great to see Pat Phoenix and Anne Reid together.

Best characters in British TV ever

This old UK soap was really good from what I see here. Too bad I never knew of it since it’s not in the States❤️

This first colour scene in Coronation Street could only be in December 1969, because Alan Howard's first appearance was December 1st 1969 and the woman narrating this said 1979 by mistake meaning 1969.

Didn't know Alf was in these early episodes

Yes these two were two of my favorite characters and I totally agree with your assessment. Also most of the older generation at that time were actually loveable creatures, sadly they have passed away. One of the characters I would I suppose came close to them in my opinion was Blarnch who played Kenneth Barlow's mother in law, sadly she too has passed away. Since then I have stopped following the series. I also feel they have lost that dialect, was I Liverpuddlien? Of course it has alot to do with the script writers. Thanks for the memories.

I love the formality (yes, there's more, but want to mention this bit). Are You Being Served? ran for ten years and all the way through, they maintained 'Mrs. Slocombe, Captain Peacock, Miss Brahms, Mr. Humphries'. It was the rarest occasion when they mentioned their first names (ironic I thought, Miss Brahms initials were SB and Mrs. Slocombe's were BS), but as two women who have known each other all their lives, it is still Mrs. Sharple and if need be, Mrs. Tanner, tho clearly she called her Elsie at times.

The bloody acting nowadays, those two put it to shame. Two legends ❤

The scene between 49:45 and 50:30 proves that this was filmed before June 1965. It is because Leonard Swindley's (Arthur Lowe) last appearance in Coronation Street was the last day of May 1965.

Ena Sharples expressions were superb. 'Promises like a Pie Crust'. 🤣

ena sharpeyes!

that was nice

Elsie Tanner and Edna Sharples clashes almost as much David Platt and his sister Sarah had done about 45 years later in Coronation Street. Come to think of it Elsie Tanner and Ivy Tilsley clashed just as much as David and Garry Windass did later.

Bloomin' eck-Elsie's known Ena a long time, if she first asked Ena for advice when she was six! That'd have been in about the 1920s, wouldn't it? (Think Elsie would probably have been forty-something when Corrie started, considering Dennis ( her son) was an adult.)

At 1:24 Dennis calls Minnie Caldwell "Mr. Tatlock."

Bloody hell. £350.00 for a house. My God, properties were dirt cheap in those days.

So this is how it looked like in 1960’s...

12.40 'Appen you don't like being gossiped about then, Elsie, when you've done nothing? 'Appen Christine didn't like it either...!

Elsie/Pat Pheonix looked so much better in the 70s and 80s. It isn't logical but this lovely lady did. Dennis's character should have been gay he was always so camp, but of course that wouldn't have happened then, but all the signs were there. What a GREAT character was Dennis Tanner.

19:00 James Dean Vibes 🤤

Most Be Dramas.

1:07:56 - Judy gets the year wrong of when Elsie met Alan Howard. It was 1969 not 1979. Other than that though, this is a superb collection of clips

Watching this makes me think that Hollywood stars are grossly overrated and overpaid

Mrs Walker had a less refined voice in these episodes. She has a Lancashire accent, very different from later Mrs Walker.

Hi do you have the one with elsie and len or has it been deleted?

It was live in them days

Well, they should never have made up the rumour about Christine having another boyfriend anyway. I mean ok, she was much younger than Frank, but she was an adult so what business was it of Ena or Elsie?

23.20 she fucked up lol

Is it true that The Book that Saturday Night & Sunday Morning was the inspiration for Coronation Street. I feel sorry for both Elsie & Ena in the sense that they both had issues from the past. Ena still looked at Elsie as a "Scarlett Woman" while Elsie is still looked down upon for coming to the Street at Sixteen in 1940. Ena calls herself a Religious Woman but she should remember the Biblical Quotes "Though Shall Not Pass Judgement On Anyone without casting the first stone", "Those Who Live In Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones", and "Let He/She who is without Sin step forward." I remember when the Late Jeanne Cooper (Ex-Katherine Chancellor) The Young & The Restless embarrassed Jill (Then played by Deborah Adair) bringing up her past but John told her he didn't think any less of her and if she fell in love with an Older Man Phillip Chancellor so what.

So Elsie and Ena are going to pretend Christine's got another boyfriend, in order to get her and Frank together? I'd have thought it'd have the opposite effect-and make Christine mad at BOTH of them!

I remember this from when I was a bairn. I have never watched it since then because I think it's awful and nothing like it's original format

Didn't it go weird when it went into colour.

As I Understand it the man with glasses at the point 40:15 is Stacy Dorning's father. Stacy Dorning was Ethel in a T.V. series about a naughty boy 12 years later.

Maybe I’m wrong - but it’s odd that Ena didn’t know who Elsie‘s husband was because I thought Elsie had lived in town for a long time as had Ena so I’m not sure why Ena didn’t know who her husband was

Was that a fourth wall break at 11:06? I didn't know they used to do that.

Would I be right to say that is Sir Richard Attenborough talking to Ena!

the houses are the wrong way round when ena leaves the pub

People like Ena needed to mind their own business.

cor blimey, judy finnigan's gone downhill fast! make's ena sharples look glamerous now