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?!

Yes Roy and Becky are great together ,she takes the mickey out of him but not in an malicious way
They are very entertaining together

Is the actress who plays Claire pregnant irl?

Becky and Roy are great, she’s like a dad to her. Great actress, over the top, because the character is. Plays it perfectly.

He’s like a dad to her, meant to say.

I've been thinking that for the last couple of episodes she's been in.

I noticed she looked pregnant in the last few episodes too. Forgot to mention it!

Yes she was. We are seeing episodes from late May 2008 at the moment, so these episodes being shown right now were filmed around early April 2008. Julia Haworth who plays Claire had a baby in July 2008, so she would have been about 5 and a half to 6 months pregnant in the episodes we're seeing this week.

https://people.com/parents/julia-haworth-s/

So she’ll be going on maternity leave soon? Well 2008 time maternity leave lol. Gets confusing when I use present language for past Corrie

I know what you mean LOL.

Where are all the resident's cars?

In my neck of the woods, people in a terraced street park right outside their houses (if there's room)

I just don't understand why the Street is always absolutely clear of cars! 🤔

I mean, Ken Barlow has a little Skoda hatchback, Paul Duckworth and Tyrone both have cars, and Kevin & Sally have a Ford Focus. Liam has a fancy sports car, too.

And then, over the road, Jerry Morton has a car, and Ashley & Claire have a Citroen Picasso.

Rita has a car too, and, as far as I can tell, doesn't have a garage attached to the shop premises.

But you hardly ever see them parked outside their various houses!

Not to mention Dev's Saab Convertible, which I would expect to see parked in front of the shop whenever he's there.

Where are they all parked?

It's a mystery! 🧐🤔

Maybe there's an underground carpark beneath the ginnel?

There must be!

Or some garages somewhere that ee don't know about.

We, not ee!
Typo error 🥴 !!

Maybe they used the big function room space the rovers used to have to build the car park 🤔

The Rovers kitchen baffles me aswell !

The living room and kitchen would need to be built out across Rosamund Street to allow that much room for the actual pub area.

And that fireplace makes no sense either.
There's no chimney.

They will be magic garages that appear as and when neeed much like magic bedrooms
When Derek and Mavis lived in Clurr and Ashleh,s house it waa a two bedroom
Now its a three bedroom ,aa Rawzie and Sawphie will be getting their own room.

The stairs appear to have moved too. When Fred was living with them the stairs went up sideways to the back of the lounge, near the kitchen opening and had open spindles. Now they appear to come down facing the lounge, with a bend/turn half way up and are fully enclosed.

I know!
Are we just supposed to not notice these things?

I’m sure the stairs moved when they had the fire,I remember being Claire was at the bottom of the stairs in the fire and they were in the living room

Oh yes! That could be it. I knew there was a fire at some point, but I thought I was getting mixed up with modern Corrie when Max set the fire at David and Shona's house.

And here’s Gail’s new fella

We’re about to get to the era of the upstairs rovers living room. Steve and Michelle used to be in it quite a bit if my memory serves correctly, but it was never seen before or since

That makes no sense they are always in the back room for everything !

They actually moved before the fire. The stairs were in the new position in April 2007 and the fire was in May. I thought I remembered this and a quick google shows this exact discussion in digital spy in April that year before the fire

I know. It’s so weird. There’s been 40 years of breakfasting and tv watching in the back room with no hint of an upstairs lounge but one does appear I promise!