CLASSIC CORRIE THREAD. Now in March 2008.

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Wow soooo much has happened since the last thread was started - almost a year ago... We were in June 2006, and now we're in March 2008.

Keith was still in the street then, (who was dating Audrey,) and had just been booted out of his house by Charlie Stubbs. Now Charlie is dead after being killed by TracyLuv who is in prison now, and is never seen!

Les Battersby left in 2007 after going to work as a roadie with a band.

Ronnie was in it (Steve's girlfriend at the time) and was trying to set Steve up for a hit and run she had done. And Lloyd had just joined. Streetcars.

Mike Baldwin had just died. (Early 2006.)

Leanne Battersby and Mike's son Danny Baldwin were still together (after he left his wife Frankie for Leanne.). And in late 2006 Danny's son Jamie Baldwin (who was dating barmaid Violet Wilson) started having an affair with Danny's ex - wife Frankie... (His stepmum!) Obviously Violet finished with him.

Now Jamie has just left the street with Violet, (after they made it up,) with a baby she has had with Sean Tully. (Sean and Violet were platonic friends.) Sean is distraught that they have left, and he doesn't know where they've gone.

Janice and Cilla were at each others throats, but now Cilla has gone - to live in Las Vegas, leaving poor Chesney with Kirk and Fiz.

Amber had just arrived back then - Dev's daughter, and now she's part of the furniture!

Ashley was fighting for the right to keep Joshua after his bio dad Matt said he wants him. They had a court order for Matt to have access, but Matt has hardly been seen since!

Poor old Fred Elliot has died! (October 2006.) He was just about to marry Shelley's mum Bev too. Ashley's butcher shop is starting to have problems. (Financially.) Bev and Shelley are no longer on the street.

And now we have Tina McIntrye who only came into Corrie a few weeks ago, and is with David Platt, and currently pregnant by him!

The Mortons joined not long ago, and have the kebab shop, and new owners of the bookies have surfaced. Father and son. (Harry and Dan.) Both currently sort of dating Kelly Crabtree and her long legs! But Dan is starting to have eyes for Leanne.

Jason and Sarah got married in late 2007, but it didn't last long, after Jason saw Sarah as spoilt and selfish, and uncaring (after her brother David ran his car into the canal and she only cared about her wedding.) David was offered a job with his uncle Stephen (In Milan,) and Sarah tricked Stephen into thinking David was a drug addict, and she had the job instead! (David had had some drugs a little while back that Bethany had accidently eaten, so Stephen believed Sarah.) Jason and Sarah have now split and Sarah is now living in Milan with uncle Stephen, and she's taken Bethany with her!

Vera Duckworth died very suddenly just a few weeks ago, leaving Jack devastated. His grandson Paul - and Molly and Tyrone have been consoling him. Although Paul did just steal £3000 off Jack via a betting slip that Jack had lost and Paul found. So he takes after his father - Terry!

Big Jim McDonald came back after trying to stop Elizabeth (his ex wife Liz) from marrying Vernon. The slightly-annoying-and-ever-so-bonkers-but-still-nice-and-stable musician she has been dating for a while (on and off!) They were dating for a while, then Liz had an affair with Derek - Newton and Ridley delivery man! That was quite short lived and Vernon forgave her and Liz and Vernon got married in December 2007.

Rosie Webster has had a fling with her teacher, John Stape - who was dating Fiz! That caused a big furore, as Kevin hit John, and then went to jail for 2 weeks for it.

Roy Cropper just got back from Mozambique where he has been visiting his wife Hayley who is a volunteer out there.

Maria is pregnant by Liam Connor, and Liam's sister in law Carla is jealous and has tried to come between them. Liam got hurt on a recent trip to the Lake District with Maria, and called out Carla's name when he was drifting in and out oof conciousness! Despite this Maria still agreed to marry Liam!

Oh, and Leanne is getting bored running her restaurant! And Chesney is starting to really struggle at home with no mother or father there.

Probably much more that I have missed out.

Wonder where we'll all be at when this thread ends?!

That was a very clean skip Steve was rummaging in

How can michelle throw Steve out of his own pub?

I wondered that too! It belongs to him. He bought it to run with his mum. Bit daft if he does leave. Even if I had cheated on my bloke (if we were dating,) I wouldn't be leaving my OWN property if he had just moved in with me as a lodger. Because that's what Michelle is at this point, a lodger.

Michelle also relies on Steve for her job, as well as her housing.

YES!
Steve owns the pub.
Michelle is only there as his partner, and just an employee.
She has no rights to the premises at all.
Do the scriptwriters think we're daft?

Steve should've retorted "get outta my pub" a la Peggy Mitchell. Yes it's completely daft, Michelle has no right to stay in Steve's home/pub.

Thank goodness Eileen remembered that Steve actually owns the pub. Hopefully he'll now sling screaching Michelle out.

Always had a soft spot for Steve, it’s the twinkling eyes probably.

But the sooner he wakes up and boots Michelle out the door of his pub the better. She’s doing my head in.
Begone awful chav woman with your screeching and how dare you throw accusations at twinkling eyes, after all your shenanigans !

😂😂shes awful though who does she think she is? Ordeing Steve out of his own pub she doesnt have a leg to stand on.

All of them Conors (with one n) sat in Steve’s pub and back room drinking his wine and sleeping in his house! Ok Steve was in the wrong so maybe Ryan can stay but the rest of them can do one

also what the feck was michelle doing pulling each tap for 5 seconds? Was that supposed to be her cleaning the lines??

Completely agree that it's hilarious that Michelle is ordering Steve out of HIS pub. He's in the wrong for cheating of course, but she can't throw him out! 😆Like everyone else here, I am not a fan of Michelle. She's so annoying!

I really dislike Jerry Morton's ex - Teresa. Her mouth really annoys me. LOL! Can't put my finger in it why, she just always seem to be sneering.

How has Eileen not seen her sister Julie yet? 😆

I also really dislike the new character Molly's 'auntie Pam.' I'm sick of her already! 😬'Ooooh, I can get you one of them at less than half the price it is in the shops!' Proper dodgy!

I also agree @Middlemarch123 that Steve has something about him. He is quite attractive. It may be the twinkle in his eye, or that he's quite funny, and generally a nice guy.

He's never had a problem attracting the ladies! And they've all been decent too!

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but Michelle has said (to other people) at least twice that Steve has a pot belly, he's balding, he's average, blah blah blah. Strange way to talk about the man you're in a relationship with/in love with. I don't know what Steve sees in her to be honest. She's clearly attractive physically, but apart from that, I can't see it. She has a shit-ton of baggage, she's arsey, she's stroppy, she's shouty, and she's always got a crisis going on!

Flipping heck, what had Raaawsie got on (or hadn’t) to go to work in ? Suprised that Sally and Kevin didn’t make her go back and change !

I know right! In all the places I have ever worked - and the majority of them were offices - no WAY would I have been allowed into the building dressed like that. I would have been laughed at and told to go home and change into something more suitable! The outfit she was wearing looked ridiculous for a workplace.

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Yes, I fancy Steve too - he's improving IMO as he gets older.

I prefer men who aren't perfect (and have a bit of a belly)

Nothing wrong with sexy Dadbod! 😋

Michelle really needs to leave - the sooner the better.

@WheresThatCatGoneNow re; Steve! I agree!

I'm quite fond of Kevin too.

Definitely wouldn't kick him out of bed...

Why does Rosie (and to a lesser extent, Carla) hold her handbag in such a strange way? She has it looped over her forearm, nearly up to her elbow, and then extends her forearm in front of her. It looks really weird. It seems to be very heavy too - what on earth can she have in it as she only works across the street from her home!!

Eileen’s quip “a bed of Rosies” when Stape was interviewed for cabbie job was why I still watch Classic Corrie.

I think its just a trend i have seen a lot of celebrities carrying bags like that
We are in 2008 now so the internet and trends are goung to become far more familiar.

Rosie's handbag - and the way she carries it- stresses me out too @PistachioTiramisu 😆

I need to get out more. 😂

It's a HUGE handbag, and as you say, her house is 33 seconds walk from where she works. What can she possibly need that requires a supersized handbag like that?!

As @x2boys said, it's a kind of trend I guess. Some young women even carry little chihuahuas in theirs! 😆

DH and I were watching this together, and we nearly pissed oursleves laughing at this comment! 😆

As you say, this is what 2020s Corrie is missing.

Rosie thinks shes very important and styles her self on Carla 😂
I cant quite remember but ib 2008 i dont think they have quite reached the stage where everyone is on line for everything

The HUGE handbag thing was based on the likes of VB etc walking around with them so they looked tiny back in the day so am guessing it was based on that as well.

I loved that scene around the table with Liz, Sean and Betty.