6:17 - Lovely to hear a whole pub singing a bit of G H Elliott ! One of my all time favourite songs, I have it on an old 78. Love Jack Walker, my favourite male character on the street.
Tbh, even though the fire wasn’t Ken’s fault-he should’ve been at home plain and simple. Val was at a scheduled evening class-not a night for him to go to the Rovers. He must’ve known about Val’s class!
Clara Midgley - me thinks they were looking for another Martha Longhurst having realised their mistake in killing her off - alas there could never be another Martha Longhurst
I notice that at the moment from November 2020 when she arrived in the Street the surname of Daisy working in the Rover's Return is also 'Midgeley' - not the most uncommon name in the world, but uncommon enough ... I don't know if when she arrived in the Street as a relation of Jenny's, she said anything about perhaps a grandmother? great-aunt? - in her family having lived/hung out there in the mid-60s! Would have been a nice 'link to the past' if she had ... backstory of Clara includes being a widow, setting her cap at Uncle Albert who turns her down saying he has no plans to marry again, she was a temporary cleaner at the Rover's Return and also got Minnie falling into gambling so hard she ends up penniless with no money to heat her home ... all stories crammed into a year's worth of her being on the soap ...
@@secretmermaidgirl2878 Yes ive often thought things like that like i often wonder if Les Battersby was related to Cissie Battersby that we never saw but heard of a lot because she ran the rival corner shop - Corrie often left your imagination to join up the dots
the great John Woodvine - amazing actor - in 2024 he's still going at 94! Came back briefly to CS in 2010 as the father of a teacher embroiled in the John Stape identity theft shenanigans ... but I remember seeing him on stage in London in the RSC over a period of years, playing many different Shakespearean roles. Tremendously powerful performances!
yes, she repeats herself as she fluffs the line - not sure what she was trying to say for the second half of her little homily to Val, but she ends up just saying the same thing twice - no time/money to do a re-take! First she says 'there's always an excuse to fit the situation' and then she adds what I think was going to be something like 'there's always a set of circumstances ... ' but ends up messing it, and repeating the first line ...
The cheek of Annie telling Val to go easy on Ken!! I wonder if he hadn’t been ( in Annie’s eyes!) so well educated, would she have thought so highly of his behaviour! Also Mrs Sharples blaming Val for not being there, while Val left the twins in their fathers charge, was that irresponsible?…….😏🙄
What is Mrs Sharple's problem? The kids HAD protection- Ken and he left them to go out and she did CHECK..she made sure there was an adult when she left them. Why isn't anyone having a go at Ken?
Ina was damn bang out of order the way she spoke to val Ken was left in charge of the kids he knew val wasn't home but went out anyway HIS FAULT plain and simple
6:17 - Lovely to hear a whole pub singing a bit of G H Elliott ! One of my all time favourite songs, I have it on an old 78. Love Jack Walker, my favourite male character on the street.
Tbh, even though the fire wasn’t Ken’s fault-he should’ve been at home plain and simple. Val was at a scheduled evening class-not a night for him to go to the Rovers. He must’ve known about Val’s class!
Nice scene of Stan Ogden helping that scared boy in the road who was crying.
And to think that many years later Ken would be given off to Deidre about smoking in the house. Classic memories thank you so much for sharing.
Maybe that's why he gave out. Bad memories.
That Clara Midgley character - i can just hear Violet Carson now - EITHER SHE GOES OR WE DO
Today’s Coronation Street is so miserable, rarely anyone smiles and nobody sings.
Hilda has changed in the 70s compared to her early appearances in 1964 and 65
I never knew David was staying with uncle Albert at one point
Brilliant - written by the great Jim Allen who went on to write for Ken Loach.
Clara Midgley - me thinks they were looking for another Martha Longhurst having realised their mistake in killing her off - alas there could never be another Martha Longhurst
Tbh, Hilda was always better in my mind than her.
I notice that at the moment from November 2020 when she arrived in the Street the surname of Daisy working in the Rover's Return is also 'Midgeley' - not the most uncommon name in the world, but uncommon enough ... I don't know if when she arrived in the Street as a relation of Jenny's, she said anything about perhaps a grandmother? great-aunt? - in her family having lived/hung out there in the mid-60s! Would have been a nice 'link to the past' if she had ... backstory of Clara includes being a widow, setting her cap at Uncle Albert who turns her down saying he has no plans to marry again, she was a temporary cleaner at the Rover's Return and also got Minnie falling into gambling so hard she ends up penniless with no money to heat her home ... all stories crammed into a year's worth of her being on the soap ...
@@secretmermaidgirl2878 Yes ive often thought things like that like i often wonder if Les Battersby was related to Cissie Battersby that we never saw but heard of a lot because she ran the rival corner shop - Corrie often left your imagination to join up the dots
Ken was fully to blame for fire he's never raised any of his kids 😒
Thought Hilda and Irma were putting up the ‘muriel’ at first.
It’s bad enough Ken was a crappy husband but to be a crappy father is even worse
Never knew Stan was a milkman, John Woodvine in that scene too
the great John Woodvine - amazing actor - in 2024 he's still going at 94! Came back briefly to CS in 2010 as the father of a teacher embroiled in the John Stape identity theft shenanigans ... but I remember seeing him on stage in London in the RSC over a period of years, playing many different Shakespearean roles. Tremendously powerful performances!
Is this where Ken gives up ciggies?
Just after 14:16 and Ena made an error with her situation dialog. Have a listen as she corrected herself…
yes, she repeats herself as she fluffs the line - not sure what she was trying to say for the second half of her little homily to Val, but she ends up just saying the same thing twice - no time/money to do a re-take! First she says 'there's always an excuse to fit the situation' and then she adds what I think was going to be something like 'there's always a set of circumstances ... ' but ends up messing it, and repeating the first line ...
The cheek of Annie telling Val to go easy on Ken!! I wonder if he hadn’t been ( in Annie’s eyes!) so well educated, would she have thought so highly of his behaviour!
Also Mrs Sharples blaming Val for not being there, while Val left the twins in their fathers charge, was that irresponsible?…….😏🙄
What is Mrs Sharple's problem? The kids HAD protection- Ken and he left them to go out and she did CHECK..she made sure there was an adult when she left them. Why isn't anyone having a go at Ken?
Because back then it was a woman's problem...the kids. The men brought home the wages.
He was left with kids ,he s the one to blame ,worker or not ,he s not irresponsible
@@carolineg1872Rubbish.
She was our queen of course they should have.
Great Landscape on Kens wall.is it one of Ronnie Biggs
UGH Ken!!!!
The scriptwriters really had it in for that character considering what happened to her next.
Pity,they,didn't,keep,,old,adverts,,in
Was Ken suppose to be babysitting? Why was he in the Rovers?
Agreed. See my comment. Val was at a scheduled evening class-Ken must’ve known. He should’ve been at home.
"didn't Valerie also smoke,
at times she seemed to
be more of a heavy
smoker than Ken,
and she wasn't a
very nice person at times."-😎🍺.
Ina was damn bang out of order the way she spoke to val Ken was left in charge of the kids he knew val wasn't home but went out anyway HIS FAULT plain and simple
That is billy Walker isn’t it?
It's Dennis Tanner.
sandra was a silly sausage in the past, glad she woke up, ken,,,,,,,well stuck up prig