👍She was one of the most underrated Actresses in England. She would put all those Hollywood Megastars to shame.

It was like this when I was a bairn

she just wants her to be going out away from her so she can entertain her men 😂

Arnold gives me the creeps

yep...Deirdre became the kind of friend you just dont want...match making, pressurising, back biting, revealing confidential stuff to all and sundry

Not everyone is as man mad as you, Deidre

Deidre is creepy

Bert was a real diamond.

so was Len a fine man through and through. a space was a space with him in comparison to Bert.

you know what i mean

He had the patience of Job.

Shame the actor had a difficult life like all of us gay folk in them days

Aw areyou not happy now ? - i guess you must have got married

Yes Emily was great - somewhat under rated beside some of the larger that life characters

Fantastic actress underrated.

I'm also 58, & love these old Corrie episodes too. I have to confess though, I enjoyed them in 'real time' as well! 😀😂

Same 👍

@strumbolli As Bet Lynch once said so memorably, 'Sometimes when I see you in action, Mrs Walker, I wonder how it was that we lost the British Empire.' 😉👍

I know, it makes me laugh how these ordinary working class folk were forever buying each other drinks, like they'd just won the pools!

Then why is whiney Gayle wanting to buy a brand new house??! 😂🤣

and keep out of public swimming pools

@@davidcartmell2141you made me choke on my tea then… cough splutter splutter.,

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Yes a real creepy man

Understandable....she was a gorgeous woman

Me too, I just love Elsie, she was such a fun, likeable character. The show was a lot poorer without her.

She was the absolute best so it's not surprising ! And yes, the show certainly did rocket downhill after she left. Cannot believe Pat would have just turned 99 last month ! God bless her !

You’re not the only one. I can’t believe I watched 1989 through to the current day before popping on 1976 and becoming transfixed by Elsie. The screen just adored her. Elsie seems like one of those wonderful stars who adored her fans. Jeremy Brett was another beautiful actor on the inside and out who adored his fans and was taken at 61…a true darling of British acting.

@mikehudson8884 No mystery there, mate. You're just a red-blooded male. Elsie was a smasher, a woman of real quality!

Would you want to live with ivy?

@@cherylreznor181 to be fair why would you live Gail.

@slydoll7877 You must be joking! Living with Ivy ISN'T living, it's a GAOL SENTENCE!

​@@annmc8392Gail before Ivy any day! A lovely young girl versus an embittered smother-mother ... NO CONTEST! Haven't you heard that they called her Poison Ivy?

All she does is whine! And she says she’s not daft, but wanting and whining and pouting about a house that they can’t afford is! Stupid, immature, and acts like a two year old, all with no chin!

The actress that played her said that she was a vain and silly person.

I'm glad you think so but I couldn't stand him.

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Me too. Ivy was unlikeable from the start and stayed that way throughout. Playing her must have been hard work, so much bile to generate.

@@shylinh5939 but i love her now

@@shylinh5939 She was okay before they made her a regular, built a family around her and made her into a misery guts.

@@stevenhighams4190 I think you're probably right. She did get worse over the years, but apart from bullying Bert, who she obviously lived, most of her nastiness was directed at Gail. But as Gail was such a pain in the arse, could anyone blame her?

@@shylinh5939 Yeah, Gail was definitely a whiner, which I never really noticed at the time.

A baked potato with cheese and apple is surprisingly nice

I used to watch this at granny’s went crap when len and Elsie left and Stan Hilda and Eddie

Chris Quentin manages a strip club in London’s West End and he was engaged to one of the young dancers. Ken, Rita and Audrey are still on the show but their appearances were subdued during the Covid concern. Mavis isn’t on the show, but sometimes Rita goes to visit her at a B and B that she owns. Emily hasn’t been on screen but she appeared by IPad to wish Ken a Happy Birthday a few years ago.

Thank you for posting this information, I wondered where they all were after all this time. I was living in England at this time (my mum was British and my dad American) I would go see my Nan and she always watched this show. I wasn’t really interested as a young teenager, but I’m surprised now in my 50s that I remember many of the characters. Nostalgia at its best for me, Hilda was obviously unforgettable for me and actually how I found this on KZfaq. It’s funny, I’ll make some tea and watch a few episodes and it takes me back to another time. 😇

The actors who played Billy Walker Ken Barlow Brian Tisley and the actresses who played Emily Audrey Mavis Susie Birchall Rita and Renee are still alive in 2024.

Rita Is still in it

Doctors surgeries used to close after morning surgery, then home visits that had been requested happened. Evening surgeries used to run on the basis of, first come first seen or you could actually make an appointment. Those were the days, way before mass immigration and no thought given to the lack of, doctors, dentists, schools, homes etc.

Thats true my mums brothers were a bit like that - Me and my cousins were terrified of them - And it was just accepted as normal back then that that how some men were

Horrible man

Same here I think it would have been great if they had become an item

Mavis would have turned into another Hilda - through time

@@williamf4544 No, she'd become a worse hypochondriac because there would be someone to look after her.

Hopefully he'll be in the August one?🎬💪 I give up a bit now in the 80s😢 but Emily 🎭💔🤯 It's great to see her👍🇬🇧🧐💯

It absolutely drives me up the wall. I wonder if his fellow cast members picked up on his habit, and had a good chuckle about it....?

I think it's likely a Mancunian tic, I mean Oasis did release a song called "D'you Know What I Mean?" and there's nowhere on the cd that says in tribute to Bert Tilsley so...🤷🏻‍♂️😂

Bert's broken arm and mini stroke can't come quick enough. After December 1982, he doesn't say it again, thankfully!!

I liked Bert as a character... He kept Ivy in check. It would have been interesting to see how the Tilsley family would have developed had Peter Dudley not had his personal life exploited by the press, which contributed to his poor health.

@@TheMeeja what was the press saying about his personal life ？

GIVING SWIMMING LESSONS TO LITTLE GIRLS

@@chriswaring5565 that, too!!

Hated Arnold swine and drery

Deirdre was always a tart

Dreary let's anyone have that kid as long as its not her .

Just like Emily! 😂🤣

Brian has the mental age of a four-year-old, and the body of a Chad Valley chimp ...

It must be

The way Deirdre championed that relationship between creepy Arnold and Emily was a bit disturbing to me! All her 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' jokes about him to Emily got a bit sickening - it was almost voyeuristic! Deirdre didn't know the bloke from Adam, yet she was keen to see them married off at warp speed - and of course he turned out to be a bigamist and total maniac! With friends like Deirdre, etc. It didn't even make sense her pushing them together, because it got her evicted. As soon as they were engaged Arnold got his feet under Emily's table and ordered Deirdre and little Tracy out. He practically threw them onto the streets. Served Deirdre right really!

What happened with arnold i havent watched that far ahead yet. It seems like karma caught up with dierdre later on when she got scammed and went to prison by the man she married serves her right for egging emily on when she obviously was going to walk away xx

"oooh I don't really knoowww" - Mavis

Christabel Finch was such an adorable little girl!

I'm not convinced he DIDN'T bite her finger when they weren't filming, hamsters ARE notorious....

She was a brilliant little actress.

@@elterrifico9522 True, the first 'Tracy', Christabel Finch, was a real sweetheart, and so natural on camera. Of course playing it from birth, she was so young she didn't realise she was on camera - and that was her charm! It was very sweet to see her rapport with Eileen Derbyshire as her Auntie Emily, and even grumpy Albert Tatlock struck up a friendship with her. Though it sometimes worried me she was being called a different name - and being told to call a different woman 'mummy', aged three upwards. Very confusing for the poor little mite! Someone on these pages once commented that Christabel Finch's parents moved many miles away from Manchester and abruptly pulled her from the show in 1983 without warning the producers - which if true, seems a shame for all concerned. The role of Tracy wasn't re-cast for another two years - Deirdre would just mention she was at a friend's house for tea or upstairs! The worst version of 'Tracy' for my money was robotic Holly Chamarette, unaccountably picked from 60 child actors who auditioned for the coveted role in 1985. It was a casting mistake, and she was 'let go' in 1988. With her dreadful, monotonous Dalek voice and delivery, no wonder her mother Deirdre was forever sending her out of the room to 'wash her hands', 'run a bath' or 'listen to some tapes'. The next incarnation of Tracy the almost equally wooden Dawn Acton, in late '88 aged 11, and stayed off and on to 1999. I think Kate Ford who got the plumb job of playing adult Tracy in 2002, has done a pretty good job with some challenging storylines, the toughest of which was making her a murderer! I no longer watch modern Corrie - is she still in it?

I think Christabel moved to Australia and started a family. As for Kate Ford, she makes occasional appearances but the Tracy character is more of a cartoonish caricature these days. Today’s storylines are absurd

He's only got up to December 1988

her daughter gave birth aged 13

he got written out of corrie due to solicitation in a public convenience, you know what i mean.

Hi..At 1.19.16.,R Brian said.." Folk With Brass Are Doing It All The Time" ..,Relating To Wealthy People Not Always Going Through With Having A Baby..( I Could Only Make Out What He Said By Using Earphones).

@@robtaylor7469 Thanks for the explanation! :)

Win?

After their eventual affair, Mike tells Emily "Dierdre was made for me, but I wasn't made for her". I believe he was absolutely in love with her.

@@bsaunders5271 Yes, that was a very touching little scene between Mike and Emily I thought, beautifully written. I think he loved Deirdre very much, and would have been a good dad to Tracy too - I never understood Deirdre choosing pompous, boring Ken over dynamic Mike, she wanted her head examined! The Street had a fantastic team of scriptwriters in its glory years under the brilliant producer Bill Podmore, from 1976 when he arrived (bringing back iconic Pat Phoenix as Elsie Tanner and introducing the new dynamic southern character of Mike Baldwin), to around 1987 when national treasure Hilda Ogden left.

you mean deidre langton, barlow rashid, barlow

More like you're a BITSLOW!

@@MarcoNegrisEye To many of us actor Geoffrey Hughes will always be Eddie Yeates first and foremost! Eddie was a legend I wish he had stayed in the Street. I just watched the November 1987 episodes when Eddie made a surprise, one-off return to visit his friend and former landlady Hilda in hospital, after she had her nasty run in with burglars at Dr and Mrs Lowther's house. Geoffrey Hughes wanted to have one final chance to play Eddie opposite Hilda, before she said goodbye to the Street for good in December that year. It was a lovely surprise - for Hilda and viewers at home - when the familiar figure of Eddie lumbered into the hospital ward to visit his old pal 'Mrs O', bless him! He'd hardly aged a day in the near 4 years since he left! That wasn't the last time Geoffrey Hughes and Jean Alexander acted together though - she made a number of guest appearances as Lily Barton in ITV's 'Heartbeat' with him in 2001 and 2003. He played conman and lovable rogue Vernon Scripps from 2001-2005.

Yes, Deirdre definitely had a frumpy stage in the late 'seventies didn't she, when she was first a single parent living in Alf's flat above the shop. She was chubbier in the face with a short, rather severe hairdo. You might recall she actually had a facial injury/black eye at one point, which was so bad they couldn't disguise it with make up and had to mention in the script that she'd slipped on one of Tracy's toys. That's something of a mystery. I've often wondered how actress Anne Kirkbride got that black eye. I hope it wasn't domestic violence in her personal life - it's said she had a lot of bad luck with men until she finally met her future husband on the show. I thought she went a bit too thin around the time of Mike's affair - there was nothing of her!

Hell no

@TheGlassman63 If I remember rightly Anne Kirkbride took up smoking to lose weight after seeing herself on screen.

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😂😂 I think we all need some of that, from time to time, to keep our pecker up and all that 😅

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@sephirothf7ps164 Sounds like you're a willing volunteer ... 😜

He doesn't last long lol

He was a prat.