1116 27th September 1971

[@jacksugden8190]

Reginald Marsh [1926-2001] aka Mr Smith got everywhere, he was prolific actor, covered 177 screen and tv roles, liked him as Humphrey in the Thames Television sit-com series George & Mildred.

[@SimonandJojo]

Reginald Marsh (Dave Smith and Reg Lamont in 'Crossroads') lived round the corner from us, he would often have a chat, a really lovely person, my best friend was an actress and had been in 'Coronation Street' herself, so Reginald Marsh and ourselves we had plenty to talk about, he had many happy memories working on 'Coronation Street'. My best friend played Mrs. Parsons and said Violet Carson (Ena) was one of the nicest, loveliest people to work with. All the scenes in the snug are sad in one way without Ena and Minnie's other friend Martha (played by a younger actress playing older), Lynne Carol.

[@mohammaddavoudian7897]

The best soap ever produced in Britain. Every member of the cast gave his or her very best. I am addicted to this wonderful show!😍

[@stancrouch9642]

Just gotta love Minnie. She's about the only one who can put Ena in her place. And she's so cute!

[@shivkptheorganist3809]

24:47 - "YOU'RE A BIGOT ENA" - I absolutely adore Minnie! She's the cutest and the best, God bless her

[@lyndaoneill6483]

Haha, old acid tongue Ena,she was so good with her sharp retorts.The Ogdens were great from day 1.Oh how slim and trim they all were,those were the days.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Yes. I don’t know how Stan got so big. Bette gained weight in later years, too, but still looked glamorous!

[@givemethevalium]

Feels weird to see a non-Northern character in this era of Corrie (it’s 6 years before Mike Baldwin); Dave Smith feels more like a Crossroads character somehow

[@chicagogyrl4846]

If Hilda’s cleaning is not good enough, why does she keep her??!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Emily is drinking a tiny sherry that would not affect a mouse, and she makes a big deal about it! 😂🤣

[@LW-dq2em]

4:46 - Ena opens the kitchen door but OBVIOUSLY hands the vacuum cleaner to someone.

[@Velasca]

'Ooh I could just go and slap her silly face for her' Haha go on Minnie

[@stevenedwardmaylott6078]

Looking like one of the twelve apostles lol

[@popazz1]

Minnie could be just as acerbic as Ena when she wanted to be. The times Ena's heart thawed were few and far between. She really was a cantankerous old git.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

She’s had those bags under her eyes since day 1, and 10 years later, she still has them. She had that net on her head forever, and never took it off! Why??!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I remember when Erna told Minnie, “ You’re man mad!” 😂🤣

[@JAY-lo3sx]

I always thought Emily was sad & down because of the death of her husband but it looks as if she was always that way.

[@mohammaddavoudian7897]

Her character has always been a complaining, whining one. Extremely monotonous. She always looks and sounds as if she is crying.

[@stevenmoffett494]

Corrie has lost its way nowadays. This is what is should still be like

[@robertamcmunn3642]

Bett looks like Nellie Olsen in Little House on the Prairie.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Looks nothing like her at all.

[@StCloud-ns7vt]

"Your trouble is you've got working class tendencies" 5:40 !!

[@StCloud-ns7vt]

@Alberto Hell yea!

[@carolineg1872]

19:41 Dave buying Piccadilly cigarettes? My Dad smoked those.

[@SimonandJojo]

What did Ena do in the background? just after Minnie delivers the line "I'm going to do something naughty" ?

[@jamesbailey9936]

Emily looks older in 71 and looks younger now

[@alirichards8876]

Minnie rules! ❤

[@scottpeacock5492]

Stan, I couldn't put a serving Hatch between the Kitchin and The Diner Room Could I, Hilda Why not?? Stan That a Bearing wall, Hilda What a Bearing Wall? Stan, It holds the flaming house up don't it, lol

[@willewinky]

None of these birds had tattoos or looked like oil rig workers. Ah the good old days !

[@chicagogyrl4846]

British ladies look like oil rig workers??! And what exactly does an oil worker look like??! 😂🤣

[@willewinky]

@@chicagogyrl4846 Some of the birds I know are like Glenn Hughes, you know from the Village People who sang 'Macho Man'...

[@williamf4544]

Its true what Dave Smith said - my Grannie worked down the coal mine

[@nguyendailam6703]

So hard to figure out the story lines with so many missing episodes.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

This isn’t the only channel that has these. Other episodes on other channels.

[@JAY-lo3sx]

The Grate Reginald Marsh. Had know idea that he was ever in Coronation Street. It’s grate to see who was once in the show. P. S that’s not a serving hatch that’s A garage door.

[@gordonbennett5638]

Stan and Hilda could have moved their dining table into the front room which they otherwise didn't use.

[@popazz1]

Oh perish the thought,lol. The front room, or parlour, was for special occasions only like receiving posh guests and for laying out dead relatives for viewing. No-one used the front room for something mundane as eating.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

@@popazz1 ALL of Hilda’s guests came to the kitchen! They never showed the front room entirely, and from what I’ve seen there was no furniture or anything else in it, so it was not used for those purposes. This is 1971, not 1871.

[@firstnamelastname-oy7es]

A serving hatch the size of a window on a wall that doesn't even separate a kitchen from a dining room?

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I think it looks nice! Worse is why is there a window in that room that opens up to the kitchen??! Same in Bette Lynch’s flat! 😂🤣

[@chicagogyrl4846]

How can the grocery hear Stan, and how in the world did plaster fall from her roof, when Stan’s flat is down the street from the store, no where near it??! 😂🤣

[@wolflupus788]

The spivi in the brown trilby.!

[@andywright3450]

Len fairclough was right boozer

[@chicagogyrl4846]

They all were alcoholics! None of them could go one day without a drink, especially Elsie!

[@earman8]

The day I was born

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

Growing up in the 1970`s this was staple stuff. Of course I had no idea at the time that Ena Sharples was the northern Philosopher. But its true what she says - and as likely as not all of my misfortunes are as a result of not being able to fit the thin edge of a spade between my balls. Eyeballs. Ps, I never fancied any of the women then. I fancy every one of them now - apart of course from Ena Sharples and Annie Walker.

[@jacksugden8190]

Except for the lovely Bet Lynch, all the other women were battleaxes.

[@Itbmurr1]

Minnie told Ena! 😂

[@user-ep3ck5re4o]

MC vrs ES now that’s a boxing match worth attending 👌👊🏻👊🏻

[@roderickscott7429]

5.55 Minnie 1,Ena 0.

[@sunboycold9164]

Ena cracks me up - Enoch smith 😂

[@bethshields4903]

Brill!

[@happiness4812]

9:27 why is the door locked?

[@kathleenkreuzwiesner8857]

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[@markstevens9660]

Ken was a bit of alright 👀 .....

[@jamesbailey9936]

Mark Stevens still is , in my opinion

[@williamf4544]

Oh for goodness sake - anything with a pulse and hairy legs

[@popazz1]

@@williamf4544 Hahahaha. Don't think Kenneth ever bared his legs,lol.

[@stancrouch9642]

I was thinking the same thing. Quite handsome.

[@williamf4544]

@@stancrouch9642 Oh dear the quicker this self incubating malarky is over with the better its making folk go rather strange