Hold the front page - Anne Kirkbride also known as Deirdre Barlow has died
www.bbc.co.uk/news/
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Never a follower of 'The Street'but it was part of my life as a kid when Gran watched it and again in 80/81 in a particular flat share combo.
Can't believe she was only five years older than me though.
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SWM worked for a long time in a small family jewellers in Didsbury. Anne was a regular customer and usually had a coffee, a fag and a chat in the back office.
I was in there once. She was a charming, friendly and ' ordinary ' girl. Gone too soon, very sad.
A Corrie related anecdote...One sunny afternoon there was a hubbub outside the pub next door to the shop . The shop staff went to the door to look and asked a passerby what had happened.......' Killer wasps ! ' said the passerby.
The staff retreated into the shop and locked the door rapidly. It was only later when they learned that the passerby hadn't said ' Killer wasps ' but ' Curly Watts '....the ex Corrie bin man who'd collapsed on the pavement !
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I have been quite shocked about this all night, I admit I have watched almost every single eposide of Coronation Street since 1990 so I have been bought up with Deirdre in a way. My mother used to always watch a lot of the classic corrie's too, so I have seen a lot of episodes from about 1970 onwards.
Anne Kirkbride to me always seemed very down to earth and always shied away from the media. I suspect from the headlines and I suspected as much when she look her break that has had a battle of cancer but that was only my gut feeling the headline on tomorrows Mirror seems to confirm that :(
Kevin Kennedy (Curlie) used to live quite near me when I was a young lad, so I used to seem him all the time, usually outside a pub! I saw Kevin Kennedy outside a bar called Est Est Est once in Didsbury, he looked quite worse of wear, I am not sure if that was the day he collapsed or not.
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>> I saw Kevin Kennedy outside a bar called Est Est Est once in Didsbury, he looked quite worse of wear, I am not sure if that was the day he collapsed or not.
You are a charming chap Rattolo.
I'm not being snooty at all. You may not believe this but I used to be quite keen on CoronaggerStaggers, on my ninth-hand 25 quid monochrome telly, Albert Tatlock and Ena Sharples, a stern lady I seem to remember... I seem to remember a younger lady too, a brunette who was no better than she should have been or something like that...
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60???
Yeah right. More like 160.
I've never watched an episode of Coronation Street although I saw bits n bobs when I was at neighbours' houses so I know the characters. The 80s characters at least. I remember a hot milf - Leeds accent, mother of two boys, wife of an Irish bully... she was well doable.
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>>I seem to remember a younger lady too, a brunette who was no better than she should have been or something like that...
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Elsie Tanner, I think you mean. The Liz Taylor of the north.
Thankfully Mrs O'Reliant gave up on all soaps about twenty years ago, but I was brought up on Corrie courtesy of my mum. It used to be quite amusing at times and with interesting storylines, but now all the soaps seem to have gone down the route of serial killers, rapists and other psychos. It's hard to find a character in any soap who hasn't been in prison at one time or another.
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>> >>I seem to remember a younger lady too, a brunette who was no better than
>> she should have been or something like that...
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>> Elsie Tanner, I think you mean. The Liz Taylor of the north.
Fur coat and no knickers is another expression that La Tanner brought to mind. Played by Pat Phoenix she was, according to Wikipedia, described by Prime Minister James Callaghan as "the sexiest thing on television".
Phoenix herself lived up to the part with her stormy relationship with Tony Booth who played the indolent son in law in 'Til Death Us Do Part. My Mother and a group of female colleagues on a ladies night out witnessed them billing and cooing in Harry Ramsden's restaurant one evening.
They didn't know whether to be shocked or fascinated.
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>> Phoenix herself lived up to the part with her stormy relationship with Tony Booth who
>> played the indolent son in law in 'Til Death Us Do Part.
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Booth is also Tony Blair's father in law.
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>> Booth is also Tony Blair's father in law.
Or to put it another way his daughter is the distinguished human rights barrister and part time Judge Cherie Booth QC.
Ms Booth is married to former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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>> >> Booth is also Tony Blair's father in law.
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>> Or to put it another way his daughter is the distinguished human rights barrister and
>> part time Judge Cherie Booth QC.
or to put it another way, set up her own chambers to pursue a few fashionable high profile and hence high fee paying cases, - sorry not fees - expenses paid by interested parties, chambers now disbanded after the only few she won were overturned in the Lords or the high court, A barrister so brilliant she managed to convince her husband the second invasion of Iraq was legal, (probably thinking of lots more human rights cases she could pursue curtesy of her husband) and of course like most two faced champagne socialists she has now become a prominent slum landlord. - Sorry Landlady.
Her truly socialist father must be spinning in his grave.
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>> Not keen on her then?
don't care one way or the other about her, except when someone starts trying to canonise her.
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I used to deride soap operas. When my daughters were at school, however, I noticed that they would discuss moral and social issues thrown up by Eastenders with their friends. I realised that they would have found some of the topics difficult to discuss with their parents and therefore the programmes were performing a social service. I couldn't watch Eastenders myself - I found the characters and storylines too depressing.
Years later, a friend persuaded me that Coronation Street had a humourous element which the other soaps lacked. I gave it a try and became hooked for several years. It could certainly be very funny, but the writing, acting and production was brilliant. I wasn't expecting that. I recall someone saying something along the lines of "If this was on at the Old Vic, the critics would give it rave reviews". Whoever said it was right.
What killed if for me eventually was that some of the characters had had so many catastrophic life events that they became unbelievable. I think they should have moved them on. I always felt sorry for poor old Deidre, though. Imagine being lumbered with boring Ken!
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>> I always felt sorry for poor old Deidre, though. Imagine being lumbered with boring
>> Ken!
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Boring?
He's had about 27 wives.
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Goodbye Deirdre - Bromptonaut
