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Johnny was a good guy.

Absolutly ' I second that opinion.

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You can also see him (actor Johnny Owen) on the 18th October 1972 episode, during the `Pub Olympics` when he had a drinking competition against Stan Ogden. I won't post the link to it, simply type in Coronation Street 18th October 1972 and enjoy 😀.

@@TheGlassman63 seen it! Thanks!

I thought that! He could’ve taken over Len’s role & no-one would’ve noticed (as long as he could master the accent!)

THAT BUILDER 👷‍♀️ WORKING IN ALBERT’S COULD EASILY PASS 🪪 AS LEN’S TWIN! HE’S THE NICER VERSION THOUGH GLORY SENGO XXX 😘.

@@WNP2013 He didn't look that much like him, only from a distance 🙄

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RIP JONNY BRIGGS…THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES..ADDICTED TO THESE EPISODES OF CORRIE..THANKS FOR THE HARD WORK 😓 GLORY SENGO XXX 😘

So did Peter Dudley. 😞 Sad watching this knowing he really did die only a few months later.

It's a shame he was busted and convicted of sexual dealings in public toilets. The Producer of the first part, being gay himself, covered it but they couldn't cover a second time and Bert was killed off.

They covered his first stroke as a broken left arm. He went to to jave two more before he died of a heart attack. Openly gay, he was still persecuted off-screen.

Lovely guy.

It's hard to watch those end scenes - his desperation probably wasn't acting, considering what was happening in his off-screen life. So sad watching the hospital scenes, too, knowing he died only a few months later.

Wow u know your corrie stuff lol x

​@@BlueyKindHe was treated abysmally by our vile press. They were vile then and theyre vile now.

They covered the first time he was busted for "public sex in toilets ~ (much like George Michael) but the second time he was busted just couldn't be covered up. 😢

Thought it was a one-off stand in, actually ( Peter Adamson had been sacked by then), so I thought, as Len was supposedly still around, they’d got someone who looked a bit like him for that episode, as an emergency measure!

I thought that

@@bsaunders5271 You can also see him (actor Johnny Owen) on the 18th October 1972 episode, during the `Pub Olympics` when he had a drinking competition against Stan Ogden. I won't post the link to it, simply type in Coronation Street 18th October 1972 and enjoy 😀.

​@@TheGlassman63 he had also been the contractor who came to the yard unable to pay Ray and Len what they were owed.

@@TheGlassman63 yes that's true recognised him from that drinking bout with Stan Ogden

I still believe they wrote that for Uncle Albert. lol

Nah, it looks believable. Albert was already nearing 90, so a near 70 year old daughter doesn't really seem that farfetched, especially back then.

I agree totally

@@kuchikopi4631 You right ' think he was around 87 ' sadly he would be dead in less than a year ' he was a great icon of traditional Corrie.

@@kuchikopi4631 she was funny Beattie also 🤣🤣 very direct like her favva

15 years in real life. He was 87; she was 72.

1 day and 1 year after myself 🎂 we were born at a very inconvenient time I've found. In limbo with being too young for the old ways but old enough to yearn for them.

@@MarcoNegrisEye lol, 😂😈😃😃

Good comment Bill....

Same. Life size HBGB.

😂😂

That all he was? Gone way too young ' people like Ena ' Albert eg at least lived to a ripe old age.

Holy sh**

Peter died in October 1983. His character was killed off in January 1984.

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what was he charged with

In a 1976 episode, Albert says she's "about 60", which is more likely.

I think that is part of her appeal

She's not foolish, she's lonely. Crumbs are better than nothing sometimes. At least she'll have had that exciting experience, even if it didn't end well.

The wonderful bet lynch was worth a thousand of the des fosters of this world. Not fit to kiss her shoes.what a lady.

The same as any responsible adult...... why give a child alcohol 🙄

she probably did give it to her tbh

I did a Coronation Street tour a few years back and met Kevin Kennedy, he was doing a concert, We Will Rock You. Had my picture taken with him. Be nice if he would come back to Corrie again.

@@candygirl1947 Nothing would make me watch Corrie again - well having said that an visit from a now elderly Irma Ogden or the ghost of Valerie Barlow or Renne Bradshaw might tempt me

Deep down he was a softie... xx

How dare you even suggest that, a Canadian!.. originally came up with this expression, or any for that fact, especially when they speak -French- if Uncle Albert could hear you he'd turn in his wotsit.

@@professionalgun6674 Huh? I'm Canadian. I speak English. French is spoken in the province of Quebec (and English).

@@analogueandy8x10 Yes I know, my comment is totally tongue in cheek sarcasm. The Uncle Albert remark is a massive clue.

@@professionalgun6674 one thing I've learnt (through great personal pain) in yt comment sections, is just about every other nationality in the world seemingly have zero concept of sarcasm or irony from us Brits 😂

@@MarcoNegrisEye I know exactly what you mean. I have left a lot of brilliantly funny (if I say so myself) comments in this vein and when I check back later, ten people are attacking me. That's when I sarcastically explain everything to them like they are three year old children. People who say sarcasm is a cheap form of humour only say that because they can't afford it themselves

Rita slipped in the fact Len was working across the road at the Disco, round the 1.16 Mark.

Fred G used to pass wind just as they started filming😂

Aww, yes

It tooka while for the majority of folk to switch to mugs - im racking my brains trying to remember exactly when and how it happened

Yes, in the early 90s.

I heard that. Dunno

He was convicted of conning money out of old people if i remember correcty

He had.

He was written out awaiting a court case. He was officially sacked later in the year.

Grow Up.....

Love Vera and Jack. Vera had a great smile and infectious laugh and Jack evolved into a lovely old fella

Nah hilda ogden ws

Albert is in his late 80s and I think she is in her 60s. That's how older women looked back then, not like todays older women.

Oh i totally agree! I used to think Mavis was quite sweet & shy but 43 yrs later re watching these episodes i have come to realise Mavis is a jelous Bitter, spoiled, catty, vindictive Manipulating, whingeing, snide Backbiting, ugly old bag!! She puts the evil eye on any female with a decent bloke with such envy with her twisted face & with her grating twittering Breathless voice which sounds like a 45yr old skinny boney baby & is utterly unattractive & makes her an absurd joke! She was offered a nice life with Victor, with all the things she She romanticises in her one track mind & accuses others of Having what she thinks shes been denied, & is entitled to. Yet when Victor offers her a lovely country home, & all the Affection he can offer & a future full of adventure & exploring but she turns him down With the excuse he won't put a ring on her finger which gives Her the reason to keep up her moaning & whinging, complaining & wanting everyone to feel sorry for her! As soon as her rubber, blubber face comes on the screen i feel like throwing a brick at her! Send her off to Sentinal Island & maroon her there with the giant Coconut Crabs...🦀 Cheers 🇬🇧👧

@@itallia666 "Well that say's it All" - You're so Correct about Mavis. I watch these on KZfaq and I 'fast-forward' when Mavis is on !! - You're spot on about Mavis going to Live with Victor in the Lovely Cottage at Saddleworth. Take care, keep viewing and I'm sure we'll chat again soon.. see you soon.

I fast forward when Mavis is on she gets on my nerves .

He's the royal binman