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?!

Thank you, I forgot about the rewiring 👏🏻👏🏻

Maria has suddenly acquired a new Fiat Punto.

I'm guessing she's having the crash damage to Liam's Mitsubishi repaired, and the Fiat is a courtesy car (some sort of logo on the driver's door)

I'd love to know where all the residents keep their various cars 🤔

In every terraced street I've ever seen, in real life, each resident always tries to park at the front of their own house.

Gets a bit awkward if some households own more than one vehicle!

Is Ken going to pretend to go and visit Peter down South, but actually go and spend a couple of days (and nights) with Martha?

I remember seeing the Stephanie Beacham character, but have no recollection of how the storyline turned out... 🤔

Its up there with the many mysteries of the steet
Where does everyone sleep in Eileens house
When did Kevin and sallys house aqiire an extra bedroom
When Mavis and Derek had it i distinctly remember them saying it was a 2 bed
In fact the whole downstirs layout was different too
Why has the rovers suddenly aquired an upstsirs lounge/ kitchen thats never been seen before?
Where did large function room ( shown in the early days of corrie) from the rovers go?

I know!

All those things are a mystery.

The writers must think we don't notice anything - or if we do, they expect us to just suspend disbelief.

I still haven't got over the stairs in Ashley and Clare's old house suddenly moving to the other side of the living room 😲

So is Carla on maternity leave now? I’m guessing it also won’t be long until Leanne is

Yes exactly!

Yes shes gone for a few months now.

Where did Carla go after driving away from Tony and the factreh ?

And why didn't Maria tell anyone that she saw Tony sprawled across the bonnet of Carla's car and almost get run over as Carla drove away at high speed in the pouring rain?

And then kneeling on the cobbles, shouting for her to come back?

@PlattyCat oh I'm really tempted to join you in the abondment if classic Corrie. I still want to see the denouement of the Tony Gordon storyline I think.

David is driving me to distraction calling Tina "Teens"

Jason looking gorgeous in that white naval uniform!

I cant help but think Becky might have been better off sticking with jason
Whilst hes not the sharpest knife in the drawer he is very good looking and appears devoted to her
Are we meamt to beleivec that Clur amd Ashley have been back for months ?Also Ashley laid off kirk when buiness was bad but has since takem on Graham?

Nothing is making much sense any more, is it?

I still can't get over David coming out of the house and seeing Maria in her crashed car, unconscious and possibly dead.

He just treated the situation as a joke and laughed!

Is he somehow mentally deranged?

What happened to Jed in the end?

If he's in hospital with another stroke, who is looking after his cat?

Jed is a newcomer to Wigan - I don't suppose he's got to know any neighbours yet.

So many questions...🤔

I really worry about that poor cat. He's had so much trauma lately.

I think Jed is alive, but because he spoke to Carla, Tony rang his thug mate to go round and give him a beating.

We seem to be getting into the era of people always having the table lamps in their houses switched on in the daytime!

I mean, who does that?

Makes no sense to me 🤔

I can never understand why they are all cramped up in one room and they all sit at the table when most of the houses have two rooms downstairs.

Also how have Fizz , kirk , chesney and julie ended up in that house?
When Les and Janice where in it , it was a council house
Les cant just pass on the tenancy to who ever he wants m

I suppose as long as the rent is still getting paid, it doesn't really matter who is living there.

I'm still baffled about the stairs in Ashley and Clur's old house!

Now Kevin and Sally's, of course.

Why did they suddenly move to the other side of the living room?

I dont know but didnt Mavis and Derek have a dining room?⁷
Whats happened to that ?

I reckon that's what Ken is planning. But if Deidre rings Peter, he won't be there. Maybe he's going to go for a day or two, and spending another day or two with his new flame!

I know!
Terraced houses have two rooms downstairs.

Why do we hardly ever see them sitting in the front room?

And, yes! The new upstairs lounge/kitchen in the Rovers makes no sense at all.

I'm seriously thinking of stopping watching - but I want to just see how the Tony story ends up.

Yeah, I would have chosen Jason. Solid, dependable, hard working young man, and he is very good looking. And yes, he adores Becky.. Steve's not awful looking, and is quite easy on the eye but he is a philanderer, and he is unreliable.... He was horrible to his first wife Vicky - though tbf he was very young, he cheated on Karen, then eventually just finished with her because she was high maintenance (which he knew when me married her,) and he was vile to Michelle. Treated like shit on his shoe.

AND he messed Becky about something awful too. He's one of these people who wants what they can't have, and then if they DO get it they grow bored with it quickly, like a child with a new toy.

Yes, I can't remember how/where Tony ends up. I do remember what happens with Ken and his canal boat lady though. I won't say though. I know this is not a spoiler-free thread, as it's already been broadcast some years ago, but I won't say, in case some posters are watching it for the first time...