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Big week of storylines and Corrie in HD from Monday (February 2004)

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couch_potato
I know this is a really old Corrie question to ask, but what the heck -

What happened to Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner?
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Ena: If I had ma' way I'd go the way me mother did...
Martha: 'Ere, that were a beautiful endin'
Ena: Oh luvly, she just sat up, broke wind and died!
JE
Jez Founding member
Ena left in April 1980 and moved to St Anne's on Sea to be housekeeper to an old friend. Violet Carson had to quit due to ill health.

Elsie Tanner left in January 1984 and moved to Portugal with Bill Gregory, an ex boyfriend. Elsie later died off screen.
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Ben Shatliff
Jez posted:
Ena left in April 1980 and moved to St Anne's on Sea to be housekeeper to an old friend. Violet Carson had to quit due to ill health.

Elsie Tanner left in January 1984 and moved to Portugal with Bill Gregory, an ex boyfriend. Elsie later died off screen.


Are you sure Elsie later died, off screen.

We all know Pat Phoenix sadly died herself in September 1986, but I don't remember any on-screen reference to Elsie dying.
JE
Jez Founding member
Benjamin F. Shatliff posted:
Jez posted:
Ena left in April 1980 and moved to St Anne's on Sea to be housekeeper to an old friend. Violet Carson had to quit due to ill health.

Elsie Tanner left in January 1984 and moved to Portugal with Bill Gregory, an ex boyfriend. Elsie later died off screen.


Are you sure Elsie later died, off screen.

We all know Pat Phoenix sadly died herself in September 1986, but I don't remember any on-screen reference to Elsie dying.


Im sure that she died off screen in 1987, Linda Cheveski (Elsie's daughter) told Emily and Mike I think.
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stevek
the corrie.net archive updates from 1987 make no mention of elsie dieing so maybe it was in a video special that it was mentioned

Talking of characters dyeing why has nobody mentioned phylis, percy or maude passing away.

just because the actors have left and passed away doesn't mean the characters will live forever .
JE
Jez Founding member
stevek posted:
the corrie.net archive updates from 1987 make no mention of elsie dieing so maybe it was in a video special that it was mentioned

Talking of characters dyeing why has nobody mentioned phylis, percy or maude passing away.

just because the actors have left and passed away doesn't mean the characters will live forever .


Yes I think it was a video special now you mention it.

They never mentioned Minnie Caldwell or Ena Sharples deaths either.
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stevek
Morning Jez, bit daft that we have to buy all the video specials just in case there's a loose piece of information in there somewhere

saw your recent pics of granada studios and davenports, when I visited there was a bus in the way so I had to get a shot through the gates.

the next door museum is a good vantage point for photos though.
SP
Spencer
Jez posted:
It was like an episode they'd do for Comic Relief or Children in Need or something, I couldnt believe my eyes Shocked Rolling Eyes


Only got round to watching Monday's episodes on video last night, and that was exactly what my boyfriend said.

Having read all the comments on here beforehand, I was expecting the worst, but actually didn't find it all that bad. I did find myself laughing quite a few times. The only thing was, it just didn't feel like an episode of Corrie - it was as if the Rentaghost scriptwriters had been brought in for some reason. I was half expecting Audrey to sneeze and reappear somewhere else. Wink

Normally when there's a big, jolly event happening, there's invariably a tragedy unfolding somewhere else to balance it. Personally I think that's where they went wrong on Monday, with it being just silliness. Corrie works best when there's a bit of light and shade.

Anyway, sorry to go back to that... just wanted to give my thoughts.
BA
Banksoriginal
Corries gone downhill,I dont even watch tv on a wednesday thats how boring its become,2 million people didn't bother to watch the 2nd Eppie
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A former member
stevek posted:
final question, anybody see who played the priest who's church they 'borrowed', I've heared from different forums that he was played by either stephen hancock (ernie bishop) or another actor.


John Major perhaps? He's the image of him.
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stevek
I was thinking Bob Holness.

what B is a small role in a tv programme?

Bit part
NI
Nicky
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Yes I think it was a video special now you mention it.

They never mentioned Minnie Caldwell or Ena Sharples deaths either.


Ena's death was mentioned in a special 1985 VHS release, The Jubilee Years.

Jez posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
BBCNicky@Yorks posted:
Sorry if this post is a bit off-topic...

I was watching some Corrie episodes from the mid-1980's earlier on today and a thought came into my head: was there really any need to block up the viaduct on the Viaduct Street? (There was this worry from Daran Little that they'd have to build another street behind the viaduct if there was a dramatisation of his 'War Years' book - it wasn't blocked up before 1990). There were a large pair of metal doors at the end of the viaduct as well a brick wall behind the doors anyway. Or was it blocked up for some other reason [in the storyline], as I remember it happening around the time the South side of the street was being redeveloped (the new Kabin, garage, houses etc.)


I think the arch was blocked up initially due to the change to the fully-built outdoor set. The old set allowed for a view through the arch (presumably to an anonymous-looking part of the Granada complex). I suppose the position and location of the new set meant that this wasn't possible. Initially IIRC, there was just a breeze-block wall under the arch. Eventually this got replaced when what was Jim's bike shop was built there.


There is supposed to be another street, Jubilee Terrace, the other side of the viaduct, but obviously it doesnt exist. I dont remember them mentioning it during the storylines but I think it was in the early 1990s when they changed it.


There was some sort of brick wall behind the viaduct before it was blocked up - and I thought the current set was the same one introduced in 1982... oh well!

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