Classic Corrie

[Kannet]

Is anyone else watching classic Corrie on itv 3. I’m actually quite enjoying it

I had to check which Corrie thread this was to work out which Brian you meant. They are both bleurgh but 80s Brian is a bit better than current Brian.

Very interesting social history. The horror from Ivy of Gail going back to work after having Sarah Louise, even though it's in a cafe round the corner!

The factory is very similar to factory work i did when I was younger. Mainly female staff and all heavy lifting (but unskilled) jobs done by men. Some of them would rather eat their own arm than take up the more intricate 'women's' roles on the production line. This was 2013!

Sèe what he looks like now and what he's upto since corrie

Ugh what a revolting man

I used to think that Brian was a wooden actor but compared to some of today's actors he looks like DeNiro.

[Grin] @ Gail's MN post! Don't forget "my youngest son pushed me down the stairs, stored drugs in his nieces teddy and tormented me with cards from my dead husband"

It's kind of hilarious and thrilling to be watching young Gail with baby Sarah Lou and protective Audrey on Classic Corrie, while current-day Audrey, Gail and Sarah visit the lap dancing club Bethany works at!

What happened to the cafe where Gail used to work?

It's Roy's Rolls now, I think, following a refurb (maybe after the tram crash?? Can't recall).

Thank you seems much smaller now

Seemed odd that Alan asked Rita what the date was when he got his chequebook out. It was his birthday!

And Mike giving Susan a reality check re Hopscotch shop!

Presumably Susan will be pregnant soon. Adam must be very close to 30 now, surely.

Adam looks mid 30s to me. He looks a lot older than Sarah.

I have looked the location of the cafe up on Corriepedia after I got quite interested in the changes over the years. It's a different building- apparently Roy moved premises when he took over. The Kabin has also moved- in the Classic episodes theyre next door to eachother on Rosamund St i think. I quite like comparing the houses then to now.

@cloudyweewee The actress who plays Sarah Louise does look ridiculously young though. I suppose as she was cast as a child they couldn't have known she would grow up to look so baby-faced. I wonder if they've found it hard with her and Bethany looking more like sisters than mother and daughter

Cloudyweewee if you find one can you pass it on?

Mrscaindingle I'm glad I'm not the only one. Does anyone remember when he did a back flip at a party?

Thanks thunderbolt yes so do I

I’m finding the Bet disappearing story line rather odd, not the idea in itself more that there was no set up to it. One minute she was there, the next gone. Was it done to cover Julie Goodyear needing time off at short notice?

I think Julie Goodyear might have been ill,but can’t remember for sure.

Julie had mental health problems iirc. Her husband died in 1987 too.

TBH I think it's out of character for Bet to disappear over money worries, or any kind of worries really, because she's quite confident and confrontational. I'm not sure how else she could have been written out though. Only serious illness would have kept her away from that bar! Maybe she could have been bedridden, with Alec managing the RR but not living there.

God Mike Baldwin is just awful, and Susan is such a doormat, I would have told him to buggar off, speaking to her and treating her like shit

Agreed - Mike was awful, poor Susan.

But I came on to say: when did we all stop wearing pinnies around the house?! Deirdre, Audrey, Sally & Jenny today. I might get one, start a trend and revive the UK pinny industry

re Sally and the sofa - she had another sofa storyline a couple of years ago iirc. 😂 Something to do with Yasmeen.

One of my vivid memories of school sewing lessons in the 1950s was having to make a gingham (school colours) pinafore with smocking for use in our cooking lessons.
In my early days of housekeeping wearing a pinnie was the thing but I am surprised it was still prevalent in the late 1980s (CS was a bit of a working class backwater then I guess). Now all the aprons/pinnies you seem to get are jokey male ones for when the men are manning the barbecue or the kitchen

I think when we all started getting cheap clothes. Clothes generally were pricier then (as a proportion of earnings) so you had fewer and needed to look after them more. I sometimes wear one when cleaning the oven.

Sally and Kev are paying £300 for that tiny sofa and wages especially in a shop were pretty poor. In 1986 my friend was a Saturday girl in Littlewoods and paid £14 a day (highly prized due to the high wage), but my aunt worked shifts in a corner shop like Alf's and was paid £ 8-10 for a full day.

Yes, my friend had a part time job in a greasy spoon in around 1990 - £1.50 per hour.

No wOnder Kev is nervous about the repayments.