Classic Corrie 4

[KANNET]

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Yep, and the sardonic raised eyebrow!

He's a Nurse don't you know,and the only nurse at wether field general apparently .....

YES to the eyebrow!

He must be exhausted covering every dept of the hospital in his professional life, and babysitting "his lot" as well as Sally's kids most nights.

I was always impressed they found the time to make a teapot of tea at breakfast time.

And the fact he's never at work unless one of his neighbours is in A&E ,having an operation ,giving birth etc 🤣

I like the Nick/Leanne story. Lots of chemistry between the actors. Modern Nick is still into fitness isn’t he? That said, I haven’t watched it for about five years!

Bill returns I think. Ends up with that woman who looked like a blonde Cherie Blair. She was Molly’s aunt, sold sandwiches.

Spider must be coming into it soon.

A couple of days ago there were several households having proper breakfasts round their tables. Now they seem to treat themselves in Roys. I always like the Rovers staff sitting round having elevenses in the back room.

@Liverbird77

YES to the eyebrow!

He must be exhausted covering every dept of the hospital in his professional life, and babysitting "his lot" as well as Sally's kids most nights.

I was always impressed they found the time to make a teapot of tea at breakfast time.

We always make a teapot of tea at breakfast time and several during the day. We only ever brew it in a teapot because it's so much nicer than tea brewed in a mug.

Hang on a cotton-picking minute! Surely the lofts of a row of terraced houses were never just one continuous space! Were they?

Surely the attic space above each house would have a brick partition walls, extending upwards to the roofline, to separate each attic from its neighbours, wouldn't it?

I mean, Curly's attic must be private, because he's got his observatory up there.

So it must just be the lower end of the street where the builders must have got fed-up when building the dividing walls. They just got up as far as bedroom height and said, "That'll do, let's go to The Rovers."

Or summat like that...

The open attics are very common in our part of the world and MrsMM would be the first to LTB (me) if I made tea without a pot.

One side of our terrace had been bricked up, we did the other side. There used to be rumours of a family of renting a house then moving other people in along the terrace attics.
We have tea in a pot too, but my daughter's boyfriend makes tea in a mug,adds milk and keeps the teabags in. Yuck.

Are open attics a thing!?I live in a council house not to far from wether field I would be horrified if my neighbours could get into my house 😱

Open attics in old terrace houses were definitely a thing. One of the houses (Curly's now I think) was rebuilt by Len Fairclough so the run of attics would stop there.

Many years ago there was a storyline where Len Fairclough crawled through the spaces to watch Elsie Tanner in her bedroom. I’m very old!

I'm fairly sure open attics are against current building regulations. They must have been a fire hazard apart from a security risk, but saved money when the houses were built.
Len was a good grumpy, but the first celebrity sex abuse case I can remember.

But as a pp has mentioned, Curly has his observatory in his attic! The ones Les crawled through were absolutely tiny, it doesn't make sense.

Len Fairclough rebuilt Curly,s house ,it might be a different set up?

I wondered how the loft space is for about 3 houses and doesn't extend right up to the Rovers, although they did show Leanne and Nick meeting in a ginnel I hadn't seen before so maybe theres a break in the houses.

Shared roof space was common on our old street. Once a neighbour came home and saw a pair of legs disappearing into the loft, he'd been burgled, they'd broken into a house further down and done the row of houses via the lofts.

I've always wondered about cellars!

The Rovers has one, but seemingly none of the houses do.

The Bistro has one, but why would what was once just the arch of a railway viaduct have a cellar?

And the ginnel between The Rovers and Number One is supposedly there to make room for the pub toilets - which must mean the toilets are only about two feet wide

The ginnel/gap hasn't always been there, was only added after somebody pointed out that anybody going for a wee in The Rovers toilets, must actually be doing it in Ken and Deirdre's kitchen

I watched a very old episode on you tube somebody's wedding in the 70,s in the rovers very large function room,where is that space now?

talking about the loft space , years ago Hilda damaged Elsie Tanners ceiling by climbing through the loft space and banging it with a broom to get Suzi & Gail to be quiet , or something like that

@x2boys

I watched a very old episode on you tube somebody's wedding in the 70,s in the rovers very large function room,where is that space now?

I read that the 1986 fire was basically an excuse to remodel the Rovers and address the fact that it had far too large a footprint based on its exterior and the layout of the wider street. The three bars and the function room were all knocked into one, and the Rovers significantly shrank at the same time.

What I want to know is, where did the upstairs living area come from (and then go)? When the McDonalds first had the pub (pre-Cindy Beale), it suddenly acquired an upstairs kitchen/living area, having previously only had bedrooms, and you hardly ever saw t’back room anymore. Then one day it simply disappeared again.

It will re emerge when they need it like Mavis,s house suddenly turned into a three bed when keV ,Sally and the girls moved in ,I wish my house would grow an extra bedroom,Gail's pissing me off being judgemental about Leanne and the Battersby ,s ,where was that Judgement when her 12 year old daughter got pregnant ???

I haven’t watched in a while- is Fiona still pregnant or not?

Yes she’s pregnant

Thanks @justthecat. Do other people not know?