Coronation Street - 20th May 1964

[@daviddixon1011]

Thank you for this ! Corrie was great.Sadly it is now so bad.I watched it religiously until 5 years ago then its decline was rapid.Same with Emmerdale. Sad!

[@andywood5699]

Same here. Haven't seen it for a number of years. They started knocking off so many characters I loved and It got very American soap with outlandish stories. Oh well. Nothing ever stays the same.

[@shirleysmith1713]

Totally agree 👍🏻

[@Williamottelucas]

Interesting. I gave it up maybe 30 years ago for the same reason. Then gave up the box entirely soon after.

[@viennacat1]

The funeral procession at the beginning of part 2 is such a sad moment, beautifully filmed, almost documentary in style. It places the fictional Coronation Street in the real world environment of the day.

[@happiness4812]

What is the name musical piece please?

[@kaiserwilhelmi6405]

@@happiness4812 It is a French piece from 1962 called “Si simple est celle histoire” by Pierre Arvay et son orchestre

[@lucylawson-paul9622]

Beautiful piece-have just found this on KZbin. I too was very taken with the haunting quality of the funeral sequence when I first saw this video a few weeks ago. Very well done by the Coronation Street production team and cast of 1964

[@kaiserwilhelmi6405]

@@lucylawson-paul9622Always been very surprised this episode wasn’t included in any commercial release. I feel it’s just as important an episode as Martha’s death was.

[@damiencrowley2506]

I absolutely get what you are saying. It looked more like a documentary of the time rather than the usual soap filmed in a studio.

[@lionelalberts2650]

So much better in those days than the rubbish you get today which is appalling.

[@cardinalpuffpuff547]

Amazing sequence of old Salford before it was completely cleared.

[@fannycraddock99]

Gosh, I have not seen this episode since it was first shown. Very sombre but so well acted. Ena as usual was right on the button. Thanks.

[@Crimpycurls]

This was literally the day I was born

[@PaulC_9721]

My late Nanna loved this, in her hard life this was her outlet

[@dannyhardie3495]

Wow. I never thought id get to see this episode🎉

[@susanannsmith5566]

I remember Martha passing away but didn't remember the funeral.

[@archibaldchuff3557]

What a superb actress Violet Carson was. Her delivery is sometimes faster than a machine gun. The line: "I've known you since your bum nearly showed through your bloomers Lily Longhurst as was" is particularly slick. Wow.

[@rebeccahayes1007]

Long awaited episode. Thankyou

[@lucywilliamsx1002]

Wow the funeral prosession scene so poinient and sad and beautiful you don't see things like that in soaps these days x

[@happiness4812]

11:14 Len always ready for a fight in those days😂😂😂😂😂

[@stevecharlemagne5441]

The saddest but one of the best episodes of 1964

[@barefootcontessa3112]

A bad but truthful depiction of real life, that hasnt changed any over the years

[@nigelwatson1443]

This was so touching, and with music. Coronation Street today, in a word, is Dark, just like Emmerdale. Take both off and screen these again. Ena from Corrie and Annie from Emmerdale Farm, plus Amos, would be applaud!!!!

[@williamf4544]

Wow an episode i have never ever seen - amazing because i though i had seen them all that are available

[@irenepeddle1002]

Coronation Street writers have always paid their for amazing actors!

[@KevinHannon-t5d]

Coronation Street was a lot better them days. More grittier characters. I think coronation Street has lost its identity not the same any more. No Elsie Tanners or Mrs sharpies Annie Walkers of this world.. And may I add. Proper Northerns. Not like the ones of today. I wish for the old days. But I know that it's lost a thing of the the past a distant memory 😔

[@denisescutt1865]

No morals just woke trash

[@lillianflorence6056]

Watched it at the time, so dad,❤

[@bostonblackie9503]

No realism today. Back then it was about folks struggling to survive!

[@DanielHarris-z8j]

As a funeral director i can tell that coffin is empty 😂 two men carrying it as if it was paper with out the straps and bariers

[@PE-dq2em]

Such northern folk no longer exist. They were obliterated.

[@ysgol3]

The most idiotic decision in Corrie history (excluding nowadays of course when it's all idiotic) was the killing of Martha Longhurst, thus destroying that wonderfully funny trio and depriving us all of so much more fun.

[@markrymanowski719]

I watched the very first episode. I'm 36 now.

[@sonofednawelthorpe8609]

You’re not old enough to have seen the first episode in 1960 I’m nearly 67 and watched the first episode when I was 3 with my gran and we watched it for years. I remember these early episodes.

[@markrymanowski719]

@@sonofednawelthorpe8609 I was 6 then. 70 now. Chopin's Funeral March comes to mind.

[@lillianflorence6056]

So sad,❤

[@denisescutt1865]

Boycotted all soaps now. No morals in the storylines and so so woke they went broke.This old Coronation street was brilliant

[@johnrafferty8087]

They knew how to drag somthing out1

[@londonnodippydolly6635]

In real life Lynne Carol (Martha Longhurst) was a very elegantly dressed lady, with lovely dark wavy hair, and was only in her forties, very clever actress to play someone in their late sixties, even Martha's round glasses were only props, and had no lenses in! Did i hear right, did Ena Sharples say to Lily "i remember you when yer bum nearly showed through yer bloomers Lily Longhurst"

[@williamf4544]

Ken Barlow took after his father - and thats not a compliment by the way

[@happiness4812]

I know . Frank is a right cow😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@paulmason6474]

Did Concepta ever deliver those cakes

[@ohuntermc9321]

Nice. Do you have Lucille’s last episode? 1st July 1974?

[@GlenBoyle-w7v]

I can see where they have. Based Sally' on coro street from Mrs Annie walker.

[@chriswaring5565]

IVE JUST BEEN TALKING TO MR HODGERS DID HE CALL YOU NAPOLLIAN CAPTIN MAINWARING?

[@benwesley1899]

Do you have 22 April 1964 please?

[@dianestevens2659]

Who died?

[@karylhogan5758]

Martha

[@grahamnancledra7036]

Looking at the filmed street scenes, In 60 years the North hasn't changed much has it?

[@Tidybitz]

In the early days, the outside scenes were filmed in the studio.

[@cardinalpuffpuff547]

This part of Salford was cleared in the early 1960s and the population moved out to Little Hulton, Coronation Street survived where the rest of the city was lost. A super sequence.

[@matthewlovelock6928]

Charlie Moffatt looks so weird

[@Tidybitz]

People make me laugh, saying Corrie isn't the same as it was then. NO it isn't because nothing is the same as it was, we are not the same as we were however much we wish differently. Corrie had bad storylines then just as it does now, but it's still good. Ì've watched it almost from the start too and I was around in 1960 even though very young. In those days there weren't many youngsters in it, even though many were around in reality, we have to suspend belief in TV sometimes just as we have to in films. It aint a documentary.

[@eyezj7412]

Well said. I wouldn't watch modern day Corrie but the comparison is ridiculous

[@fluxington]

I agree to a point and have left a similar comment somewhere else, but I think you're forgetting that people watching do 'believe' in what they're watching to some degree. My point is that today's Corrie reflects a modern society, which for many people is degenerate and broken compared to the past.

[@joannedibben2352]

It's hard to describe how much I like the old episodes I think it was the ordinary folk in the street with there daily struggles it all seemed colour full interesting and good honest story lines.ive nothing against Corrie now but the old ones seem so real and I long for the old days sometimes.i doubt you'd understand it's a feeling you get from it

[@Sarcastic-weirdo2043]

Where is Tyrone 😂

[@happiness4812]

10:32 Gladstone Bag❤❤❤❤