Loved listening to this so much I've come to watch the video! Also, just to say, in the very early days there was a sign behind the bar saying "Ladies are kindly requested not to remain at the bar after being served", and in one episode when Annie Walker pointed this out to Ena Sharples, she didn't flinch and responded "Packet of crisps, Martha get me purse".
Watching now! Paused to say - I absolutely love this video so much! Hearing the history and seeing the photos! Thank you both for all your hard work and sharing! 😁❤️❤️❤️🙌
Talking of the picture of Bettie Turpin hanging on the bar wall, I remember they had a framed photograph of Mrs Walker on the living room mantle piece for a long time. Not sure when that disappeared. Probably when Bet Gilroy vacated the premises.
The wall at the back of gap where number 7 once stood is not incorrect, it is supposed to be the wall that divided the front room and the back room of number 7. Very interesting to see the various sets, Grape Street was always my favourite.
I remember in pubs in the 1970s there was a big move to go retro. In fact, it may have started in the 1960s in the hippie times ('Once Upon a Time There Was A Tavern...') but in the '70s it went hyper - with fake beams, the works. This was represented in the radio soap 'Waggoners' Walk' as their pub, 'The Waggoners', was de-modernised midway through the '70s. The trend echoed a trend in the 1930s/1940s for retro pubs, brilliantly described in the Norman Collins's novel 'London Belongs To Me'. The 1940s also had fixations with huge flared trousers for women, platform shoes, horrible orange and brown motifs and shoulder pads. There's nothing new under the sun!
Annie's door panels were actually very retro even in the 1970s - and in the best possible taste! Painting door panels in alternative colours was an old trend. Also, in the 1980s, not everything was based on the 1950s. You only get that impression if you read a load of online stuff. Hair, for instance, was influenced by modern products like gel and mousse - and styles on display were from the 'classic' to the 'bizarre'; home decors were to suit your personality - from retro to futuristic to industrial to country chic to urban to whatever - it was always meant to reflect YOU and your lifestyle. The 1970s, of course, also reflected the 1950s craze, as Teddy Boys came back, pencil skirts and so on. And if you look back at the 1950s, guess what? A lot of the styles didn't originate there, either! Teddy Boys were thus named because they wore Edwardian style suits! The retro styles of Laura Ashley, beginning in the 1970s, were all designed to reflect your personal lifestyle and get you to part with your dosh. Looking at some photographs of fashion catalogues from the 1940s, I've been amazed at how 1960s/1970s the women often looked - platform shoes to the sky, and high waisted HUGELY flared trousers (some, I swear, bigger than the 60s/70s). As I said in my last comment, there is nothing new under the sun - it's just the done thing to slate some eras as 'retro' and others not. The '90s, of course, took its cue from many eras - and was happy with that. I think the advancements in computers - particularly the World Wide Web (invented in 1989 and up and running in the early 1990s), which truly opened the internet up to the masses, meant that people were less bothered about fashion and so we (largely) settled for looking normal after the grunge thing and shell suits, spilling out of the late 1980s, early on - we had other fish to fry!
You should do this as the corner shop❤😂
Loved listening to this so much I've come to watch the video! Also, just to say, in the very early days there was a sign behind the bar saying "Ladies are kindly requested not to remain at the bar after being served", and in one episode when Annie Walker pointed this out to Ena Sharples, she didn't flinch and responded "Packet of crisps, Martha get me purse".
Haha, good old Ena!
Watching now! Paused to say - I absolutely love this video so much! Hearing the history and seeing the photos! Thank you both for all your hard work and sharing! 😁❤️❤️❤️🙌
Glad you’re enjoying it! ☺️
@@ConversationStreet so much! 😁❤️
Great pictures of the rovers return Inn such an iconic place!
Talking of the picture of Bettie Turpin hanging on the bar wall, I remember they had a framed photograph of Mrs Walker on the living room mantle piece for a long time. Not sure when that disappeared. Probably when Bet Gilroy vacated the premises.
Im looking forward to this.
Great photos
I love this so much
The wall at the back of gap where number 7 once stood is not incorrect, it is supposed to be the wall that divided the front room and the back room of number 7. Very interesting to see the various sets, Grape Street was always my favourite.
nice photos.
I remember in pubs in the 1970s there was a big move to go retro. In fact, it may have started in the 1960s in the hippie times ('Once Upon a Time There Was A Tavern...') but in the '70s it went hyper - with fake beams, the works. This was represented in the radio soap 'Waggoners' Walk' as their pub, 'The Waggoners', was de-modernised midway through the '70s. The trend echoed a trend in the 1930s/1940s for retro pubs, brilliantly described in the Norman Collins's novel 'London Belongs To Me'. The 1940s also had fixations with huge flared trousers for women, platform shoes, horrible orange and brown motifs and shoulder pads. There's nothing new under the sun!
I am sorry i missed the live.
Annie's door panels were actually very retro even in the 1970s - and in the best possible taste! Painting door panels in alternative colours was an old trend. Also, in the 1980s, not everything was based on the 1950s. You only get that impression if you read a load of online stuff. Hair, for instance, was influenced by modern products like gel and mousse - and styles on display were from the 'classic' to the 'bizarre'; home decors were to suit your personality - from retro to futuristic to industrial to country chic to urban to whatever - it was always meant to reflect YOU and your lifestyle. The 1970s, of course, also reflected the 1950s craze, as Teddy Boys came back, pencil skirts and so on. And if you look back at the 1950s, guess what? A lot of the styles didn't originate there, either! Teddy Boys were thus named because they wore Edwardian style suits! The retro styles of Laura Ashley, beginning in the 1970s, were all designed to reflect your personal lifestyle and get you to part with your dosh. Looking at some photographs of fashion catalogues from the 1940s, I've been amazed at how 1960s/1970s the women often looked - platform shoes to the sky, and high waisted HUGELY flared trousers (some, I swear, bigger than the 60s/70s). As I said in my last comment, there is nothing new under the sun - it's just the done thing to slate some eras as 'retro' and others not. The '90s, of course, took its cue from many eras - and was happy with that. I think the advancements in computers - particularly the World Wide Web (invented in 1989 and up and running in the early 1990s), which truly opened the internet up to the masses, meant that people were less bothered about fashion and so we (largely) settled for looking normal after the grunge thing and shell suits, spilling out of the late 1980s, early on - we had other fish to fry!
Great insights here, thanks for your comments! ☺️
Tbf, you could pretty much get away with anything when people were watching on 14" black and white tv sets 😂
I wish they'd make sally the landlady of the rovers snobby like annie walker
They didn’t mention Sunita Abraham dies in a cellar fire also like most pubs the rovers don’t have a television for sports to be played
he sounds like nick grimshaw
Pumps disappeared because pubs moved over to keg beer in the 70s as opposed to "real ales" tgat have come back into fashion.
You both sound too young to have watched Corrie from the beginning.
We haven’t! 😅 Just the DVDs. Thank you for the comment on our beautiful, youthful voices. 😂😘