Classic Corrie 3

[Kannet]

Here you go

Maxine looks so young!

I always find it really interesting when characters who go on to be really big start out as little more than extras. When you look at what fans are like in the age of social media, deciding they hate characters after a couple of episodes, it always makes me laugh. Look at how happy people were to hear Norris was back recently. Back in 1995, he was just this annoying little man who popped up every so often and everyone cringed!

Maxine was a good character, she didn't deserve to die. It must be terrible to be killed off instead of going away in a taxi. I wonder if the actors watch it!

Yes, Maxine looks about 15. I really hope nothing happens with Des, he looks like her dad.

Wasn't Maxine killed off cause the actress that played her was turning up drunk

I don't know @kannet but I fell down a bit more of a rabbit hole yesterday reading about her and apparently the actress left corrie as the bosses wanted her to take a £20000 wage cut ,and her dad was quoted as saying she was surviving on three bottles of wine and a,packet of crisps a,day so make of that what you will....

I watched a clip of Tracy Shaw on Loose Women from 2019. The years since she left Corrie have been very good to her- she only looks about 10 years older.

I’m a few episodes behind. Why on earth were Fiona and Vicky going to a nightclub dressed like they were going into a board meeting? Were suits in clubs really a thing in Manchester in the mid nineties🤔😂

I only went to rock and Indie clubs in Manchester in the mid 90,s @FeltCarrot so I can't really say,but the actress that plays Teenage Tracy used to go to the same clubs as me and she dressed very much how she dresses on screen

Were suits in clubs really a thing in Manchester in the mid nineties

I actually think they were! I’m a few years younger than the characters are supposed to be, but I remember a very popular look in the late nineties being a sort of shimmery trouser suit with a very bright blouse underneath (collar pulled out over the lapels, obviously!) Jacqui Dixon always used to dress like that on Brookside

Look at how happy people were to hear Norris was back recently. Back in 1995, he was just this annoying little man who popped up every so often and everyone cringed

And Roy Cropper - I think we have a bit to go before we meet him, but the Roy -of-Old was a creepy little person, not like the Roy-of-Today , sage and decent person.

I wish ITV3 wouldn't bugger about with the episodes just because it's a Bank Holiday, or Good Friday, or Christmas or whatever the time of year may be!

Makes me rather cross 😡 🤬

Me too!

I know it's annoying ,i dont want to.watch carry on films!

It's even worse because my PVR is set to daily record the episodes - so I sit down looking forward to Classic Corrie, only to find it has recorded half of a blasted Carry On film 😪 🤬

You'd at least want all of the Carry on film, or none of it. I remember being shown Carry on Camping as an end of term treat in primary school, I assume the teachers were having tea and buns elsewhere.

Sounds like you went to quite a liberal primary school! Some of the humour is quite near the knuckle - I can't imagine our headmaster letting us watch them (back in the 70s)

Which ones do you remember seeing at school?

Mostly we saw things about life in Canada, the staff were usually very holy. I think the carry on film must have been an error of judgment,but why were we allowed to see the whole thing? We also saw a biopic of Florence Nightingale, with descriptions of amputation.
All in all I prefer classic corrie!

We only ever saw How We Used To Live and Picture Box

Remember them?

I was quite discombobulated when the presenter of Picture Box (Alan Rothwell) rocked up in Brookside as Heather's drug addict husband

Yes I remember picture box an how we used to.live!,He was quite a well to do Heroin addict in Brookie though was,nt he? I remember being forced to watch "The hobbit" in high school it was in the. mid 80,s and there were lots of teachers strikes so when ever a lesson was cancelled we had to watch the hobbit ,the school must have only had one video🤔It was a cartoon version of " The Hobbit . "

Ooh yes, I remember the teachers striking in secondary school. Wasn't it fun whenever it happened?

Never ever seen The Hobbit, though!

We used to watch the clock willing half an hour to pass as that's when we were allowed to leave the classroom. No one ever came to tell us if teacher wasn't coming that lesson!

I don't think I ever saw it all the way through ,the just sat is all.in the main hall when ever a lesson was cancelled watching the hobbit without pupils whose lessons had been cancelled so we just watched whatever bit was up too😂

With other pupils*

Yes! joydivision, that's exactly the same as us!

And if it was a classroom from which we could see the picket line at the front gates, it was funny to see them all outside.

The 'fun' teachers looked to be having a great time - all milling about, laughing and smoking.

The more 'refined' teachers stood at some distance away, looking self-conscious and giving the other group dirty looks! Probably secretly jealous!

My favourite teacher, who was a bit of a troubled misfit (just like I was) and didn't get on with any of the other staff, just used to sit in his car with a couple of cans of lager and a fag! Hey, it was the 80s! Nobody cared!

He and I used to get on really well. I was exceptionally good at his subject, and his style of teaching (which was brilliant) really worked for me. I remember him with great affection.

Sometimes, he would send me out to the off-licence (who didn't ask awkward questions ) with a tenner, to get him something for his dinner - usually a bottle of whisky and 20 B&H.

Happy days