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Brookside - do you remember the Nat and Georgia storyline?

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AWiseWomanOnceSaidFuckThisShit · 20/06/2020 16:53

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?

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Fiddlesticks345 · 23/06/2020 09:06

@EdinaMonsoon

And didn't Jacqui get it on with Max at some point? I may have made this up but...wasn't she a surrogate for Max and either Susannah or his other wife?

Yes she was a surrogate for Max and Susannah I think! I remember loving that storyline! And I just read that Jacqui ended up marrying Max?!

This thread seems to warrant a lot of exclamation marks!!!!

LoseLooseLucy · 23/06/2020 09:18

Rosie Banks was addicted to scratchcards, she was in a lotto syndicate with Bing and Jean Crosbie and one week when she didn't pay the money the Crosbie's won the lotto and wouldn't give Rosie a share, that's how she got addicted to the scratchcards.

thebearwentoverthebumble · 23/06/2020 09:25

I was only young when it was on but I have a memory of a man hanging out of his window and all the neighbours screaming a crying. It was really scary,

icebearforpresident · 23/06/2020 09:33

I remember watching Brookside as a kid and reading this thread I wonder what my parents were thinking! I must have been 9 or 10 when the incest storyline was on.

I remember someone dying on their wedding day, think Jimmy crashed his car into them while high on heroin, and someone falling to their death, with their son, by falling off scaffolding.

2 of the bonkers brookside storylines mentioned in this thread have happened where I live over the last few years. I’ll let you guess what!

icebearforpresident · 23/06/2020 09:36

Oh, and wasn’t there a weird virus storyline where half the close died? I seem to remember the close being blocked off and Mick standing guard to make sure no one came in or out.

Fiddlesticks345 · 23/06/2020 09:38

@LoseLooseLucy

Rosie Banks was addicted to scratchcards, she was in a lotto syndicate with Bing and Jean Crosbie and one week when she didn't pay the money the Crosbie's won the lotto and wouldn't give Rosie a share, that's how she got addicted to the scratchcards.
Yeaaah that’s the one! Thanks!
mintich · 23/06/2020 09:49

I fancied the pants off Tinhead!
I loved Brookie but even I was shocked at the last episode where the the guy was hanged out the window!

thisstooshallpass · 23/06/2020 10:51

Yes, remember Brookie very well even though I was quite young

Mammyloveswine · 23/06/2020 12:18

@icebearforpresident oooh I remember when loads died of the mystery virus! Freaked me out!

LoafingLiz · 27/06/2020 13:08

Is this on YouTube from the start?

I've found various episodes from different years but not from Episode 1. Is there a specific YouTube channel?

There are 3 random episodes on All4.

JaneJeffer · 28/06/2020 15:25

Didn't Max also end up burying Susannah in the yard?

No, are you're getting mixed up with Trevor Jordache? Susannah fell down the stairs during a row with Max. Every time I hear Why does my hear feel so bad by Moby I think of that scene!

JaneJeffer · 28/06/2020 15:25

*heart

x2boys · 28/06/2020 18:10

Brookside was brilliant for a,long time but by the end the stories got more and more ridiculous, apparently real people live on Brokkside close now😲

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 28/06/2020 18:55

There was one of the houses where no-one who lived there was happy (bit like Home Farm in Emmerdale . No-one is happy a Home Farm, it is cursed I tell yah!)

Terry Sullivan found out Sue was having an affair after discovering he couldn't father children and the baby wasn't his

The family who won the Lottery with the Crosbys - I'm sure they did get their money . The husband bought a red Vauxhall Frontera . Rosie had emergency surgery and the husband gave consent for the hospital to perform a hysterectomy to save her life . Cannot remember if she was pg but she sued the hospital because they took away her last chance of pg .
She had access to the money in a shoe box and ended up squandering it (might have been Lottery or compensation)

Heather Havesham had the fiance Tom who gave her a huge diamond ring then expected her to settle to wedded bliss with babies .
She then married the bloke from "PictureBox" who was on drugs

Terru bought the red Frontera , he didn't have a happy life , he ended up in plaster with his head shaved .

Years before that Annabelle and Paul Collins - she set up a catering company and did the wake for Edna Cross . Harry (miserable old git) Cross said to give her a wake to be proud of .
He gives her something like £20 and says 'keep the change' when she'd paid out over £200 (not a good business plan there)
Her freezers broke

Jaqui Dixon ( I loved her hair . She went blonde to dark then streaked to blonde . It never suffered ) She slept with Rosie Banks son , paid for the hotel as he was skint , lost her virginity , he was a real cocklodger . Claims poverty then turns up with new clothes .

The Shadrachs family of 5 in a teeny bungalow that Greg (builder) was extending but never seemed to finish as he was off shagging Suzanne Farnham

The family where the Dad was a truck driver , Mum trained as a teacher , older daughter Sami , son was a football star and the younger daughter Katie .
Sami had an affair with an older bloke with teens who hated her .
Married Owen and had a daughter and went off and left her overnight ( I think there was a fire or something)

Sami was very Animal Rights and got on the nerves of the Drs girlfriend who was a Scientist ( Dr and sister were Chinese IIRC , his wife died and the sister looked after his child)

I miss Brookie .

Didn't like the Corkhills much though .
There was Rod the Plod's wife who couldn't read and got one of the neighbours (?Peter) to teach her which of course made Rod assume they were having an affair .

Mike Dixon and Beth Jordache spiralling into debt .

And of course the Gangster / Jaqui's Club Protection Money (he was in City Lights )

Remember when Barry and Terry ran a Tool Hire business - they pronounced it 'too-liar' it took ages to fathom what they meant .

And Sandra the Nurse - I had the Miss Selfridge "Kiss" lip-print dressing gown too Grin

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 28/06/2020 19:02

Ohh one more - Diane Keen was being courted by Ron Dixon and David Crosby .
She always seemed to be on the take , turning up at lunch time , being given lifts etc.
She took Ron to a very depressed terraced row of houses . He was Hmm

Then at the end , Ron and David are moving furniture for her she suggests they stop for lunch . Ron is "No way , scrounger"
David is "Ok , lets do it"

She directs them to a huge beautiful house that isn't a resturant , its her house . She asks David to move in with her . She wanted someone who wanted 'her' not her millions .

x2boys · 28/06/2020 19:16

Terry turned out to be a,bad,un in real.life apparently he's saved time for armed robberyShock,Damon and Debbie ,I was devastated when Damon died Sad

TumbledGlass · 28/06/2020 19:22

Frank and Chrissy Rogers were the parents of Sami and Katie. They split up and Frank was meant to be marrying someone else , was it Bev's sister or aunt?, he was killed on his wedding day when Jimmy smashed into his car.
I think Tony Dixon died as well.

x2boys · 28/06/2020 19:28

I think Chrissy and Frank as lost a son? Geoff? Will Google it .

JaneJeffer · 28/06/2020 22:08

Some Brookie people on the soap awards celebrating 21 years on ITV.

MrsSiba · 29/06/2020 01:15

I found Brookside Close the other day when on our daily walk. It was rundown for a while after the show ended but has now been spruced up with real people living in it.
Going to check out the link to the episodes now.

Patsypie · 29/06/2020 01:50

Harry Cross and Ralph! Sulky Karen Grant! Poor Heather and her junkie gay husband ( the one after Roger). Happy memories. It was really groundbreaking in the early days

TotalEclipseOfTheHeartAndSoul · 29/06/2020 01:58

I can vaguely remember that storyline although don't remember the details! 😯. Remember Sue Johnson and Ricky Tomlinson and their kids Barry, Karen and Damon I think? Also a Samantha with long dark hair.

managedmis · 29/06/2020 02:19

Wasnt there an episode where Sinbad had to consider amputating his legs to save a child after an explosion?

^^

Grin

Only on Brookside

Didn't Ron Dixon have the Moby Dick? Like a big van?

I remember the incest storyline - I was about ten and my parents were like, whatever, you can watch it Hmm me and my brother we like Wtaf at each other but watched it anyway.

Totally loved the Jordache's and the patio storyline. I remember Mandy crushing up the pills with a rolling pin. The suspense was incredible!

Another huge crush on Barry Grant here ♥

managedmis · 29/06/2020 02:23

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/tv/stars-brookside-stars-now-12116487

Just for you lot

LaureBerthaud · 29/06/2020 02:40

There was Rod the Plod's wife who couldn't read and got one of the neighbours (?Peter) to teach her which of course made Rod assume they were having an affair

Didn't Peter rape her but got away with it because the Farnhams' Polish nanny fancied him and gave evidence in his defence?