Just how unlike real life is Corrie!

[lynbrown]

You wake up with suspected flu, call the doc, and within an hour, there he is at your door. If only!

[magicmick]

Dotty how many murders have there been on the cobbles? never been one in our street over the last 40 odd years that I know of

[pugthedog]

magicmick i am smiling here do you want to tell dotty what keaw yed is the morris dancer's is that on the way to bolton before daubill

[dotty.]

oh we had a really good one here in 1990, a couple were murdered about 500 yards from here, they were scousers and had hidden out from drug dealers up here in the woods but were found and they killed the woman, beheaded the man and burnt their bodies in their tent and chucked his head in the local nature reserve lake.

[pugthedog]

has anyone ever counted how many of corries resident's have been in jail fancy having neighbour's like that

[dotty.]

my daughter is a morris dancer lol!

[craft1948]

The street of terraced houses one street up from my old house had a pub, a hairdressers, a bakery, a post office, a fish and chip shop, a corner shop, an electrical shop, a vets, a working mens club, and a doctors' practice.

[mike11111]

Dotty you are not only showing your age but also false memory syndrome. It was not a knicker shop but a high-class ladies' outfitters called Gamma Garments. Mr Papadopoulos was the owner, often mentioned but never seen, whilst Mr. Swindley was the manager. His assistant was Miss Nugent (Emily). Gail Potter (as then was) did not work there but was assistant to Elsie Tanner in a much more down-market establishment called Miami Modes.

(Wonder if I can get my Ph. D. out of all this knowledge?)

[Jeza]

No uncle tom COBBLER craft.

[boxtops]

I remember when the Queen Vic was sold - they first mentioned it on Tuesday, by Thursday Phil (I think it was Phil) hasd the cash in his hand.

[hc4361]

boxtops. Boooga orf with yer Eastenders on a Corrie thread

[craft1948]

lol Jeza I forgot the newsagents where you could take your watch repairs and dry cleaning...............

[boxtops]

LOL - same difference though, what happens on one happens on the other - I haven't watched either of them for years!

[dotty.]

gail did work there with cheryl someone

[Jeza]

I do watch corrie but not enders. All they do is shout. i watched it when it started for about 3 months. All I see now is the trailers.

[magicmick]

Pugthedog Not to sure of the keaw yed story I know the basics, the story is told in stain glass windows in a pub on the A6, also that sounded a interesting street craft 1948 was that in the NW?

[craft1948]

No that's in York magicmick.................

[mike11111]

Have done some research. Gail did indeed work in a clothing shop with Suzie Birchall (Cheryl Murray). The shop was called Sylvia's Separates, owned by Mike Baldwin.

[pugthedog]

magicmick i came from hindley before i got married 40 years back my hubbie is a howfener i will try and tell the story the farmer had a new gate fitted then a cow got it's head stuck in it the farmer didn't want to spoil his new gate so instead of sawing the gate he cut the cow's head off