Brookside - do you remember the Nat and Georgia storyline?

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I was too young to watch it, I know it had some very controversial storylines assisted suicide etc. But a brother and sister in a relationship?! Were they full siblings who had grown up together?

Thanks for the link EineReise!

Brookie was bonkers. I remember Billy Corkhill forging a degree certificate so he could train as a teacher!

I've spent the last couple of hours watching incest gate on YouTube! Georgia was very pretty

Just had a look on YouTube. They were a gorgeous looking couple. Bev and Ron Dixon on the other hand ...

Bev and Ron 😂 then she got pregnant by his son Mike but Ron raised him as his own 😒
What was it she called their home, CasaBevRon? 😂

I remember this well! I was a young teen I think, it was crazy, makes you wonder if it does happen though 🤮

Yes Casabevron!

I had a big crush on Tinhead lol

Yes, me too ItsSpitting.

Bev and Ron were ace.. she had a chicken called Kiev. Loved it.

I think the Nat and Georgia storyline was around the same time Ray Quinn was in brookside? He was an excellent child actor!

It happens. A family I knew of when I was growing up had a son and a daughter who were in a sexual relationship with each other when they were around 16 and 15. Very mixed up kids before, even more mixed up after. Totally tore the family apart, the parents subsequently divorced and the third sibling is estranged from the other two (who are obviously no longer together).

It was bloody gross.

I did love Brookie in the early days though. Does anyone remember the siege at the nurses’ house?

The tension was unbearable.

Yes, it was gross. It's what turned me off Brookside when I had been a faithful fan. Pretty strange to go and seek it out on You Tube now I would say. There's a reason it's seen as a massive taboo.

My favourite storyline was when Billy Corkhill fell in love with Sheila Grant.

It's all on YouTube. My oh watches a few episodes most nights to get to sleep. 🙄

Yes, the siege was really well done. And Trevor and Mandy - the first time I'd really had to think about domestic violence and what it might be like to have to live with an aggressive, controlling, violent man.

There's a reason it's seen as a massive taboo.

Isn't that rather the point of storytelling? To explore, hypothetically, things we generally don't, or won't encounter in real life?

Regarding Trevor and Mandy - I so often read the phrase "under the patio" and wonder if the person writing it has any knowledge of the story that inspired it.

Tinhead was gorgeous!!

Loved brookie.

@LunaNorth I remember the siege - was terrifying!

Yes, I remember.
I was working in a factory as a student and one of the men there was talking about it and another said, "I wish she was my sister!".

@LaureBerthaud

Thanks for the link EineReise!

Brookie was bonkers. I remember Billy Corkhill forging a degree certificate so he could train as a teacher!

It was better than that.

The primary school age computer whizz next door forged it for him.

And he got onto a teacher training course despite being a convicted drug dealer.

Barry Grant was on EastEnders!?
Oh Barry Grant how I loved him❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I seem to remember the Matthew & Emily storyline was useful for making young children wear their seatbelts. I loved Brookside.

I'm friends with Jules in real life. Happy to report she has made a new life for herself and fully recovered from her early trauma

Barry Grant didn't look so good without his mop of dark, curly hair though (shaved bald now).

I have no memory of that storyline at all although I was an avid fan back in the day. When in Brookie's timeline did it happen?

In that case I'm not going to go looking for Barry Grant I don't want to ruin my fantasy😥
it's all about the dark curly hair isn't it💓

@B1rdbra1n too right. Stick with your 80s fantasy. He doesn't look good as a gangster!