Coronation Street - July 1981

[@djsamplegee]

I'm going to rewatch the entire 1980s thanks for these!!!

[@AllanTudor]

29th July 1981 royal wedding was on Wednesday and this theme royal wedding was on night of big day remember well I was 16

[@bridgetjones4702]

I’ve been watching these with a touch of nostalgia and sadnesses given how many of the stars have passed on and today another one in the fabulous Johnny Briggs aka Mike Baldwin. RIP Johnny 😞

[@Kevin-vc9nw]

He passed away a while ago

[@judgedredd3568]

I was 15 when this aired Just moved to Ireland from NYC and (1981 -1989) and I got hooked on this show......back in NYC for 32 yrs Seems like yesterday.....55 now ..time flies

[@neighbourhoodwitch18]

I was 11! Grew up with Grandparents and my Gran watched Corrie, so I remember it well. Only had the pleasure of visiting NYC once, felt very at home. I’m in Scotland. Corrie is appalling now, haven’t watched it for years, so loving the vintage episodes 😊

[@francesgillotti1378]

I moved to Connecticut in 1987 from Ireland and it was before WI-FI so nothing to watch .

[@djsamplegee]

Bang same. 55 live in NZ used to watch with my Gran

[@ginagina9720]

I remember watching these episodes with my mum, I’ve got fond memories of the royal wedding in 1981, I was a teenager and I remember the street parties 🎈 in our area, thank you 🙏 for the memories

[@Deborah4Antiques]

Love this show, the old ones!

[@kellyscourfield77]

Who’s the favourite characters back then in the good old days of corrie? I love Hilda and Eddie Yeats ❤ full of warmth and humour

[@theresapierce3934]

43 years ago and its still so much better than 2024.

[@sheenamcguire123]

Totally agree

[@tonismith640]

Wasnt life much better too 😢

[@Yaarbiriah]

The canal by Worsley really is picturesque with the style of houses and trees roundabout I used to pass by there twice a day on my way to school and back.. That was the early seventies. Even though the water was a rather bright shade of rust I still enjoyed the sight ! :) I wonder if they did anything about that since?

[@bsaunders5271]

Alma is absolutely maddening. I'm glad Elsie stood up to her. Being the boss's wife shouldn't entitle her to slope off whenever she fancies, and that dizzy face she pulls when she wants something isn't endearing at all, it makes her look simple.

[@ddrose06]

She does the same thing to Gail.

[@notonyournelly5475]

Audrey did the same thing in alfs shop..a few years later

[@02bher1]

I saw the actress who played Alma in the British series "Bad Girls" and she was fabulous; as was the actress who plays Shirley Carter. Isn't it wonderful to be able to visit back in time with these episodes? To think of how many of those gifted actors are no longer with us; except of course Ken and Rita.

[@williamf4544]

Alma was a flipetyjibit same with that Audrey character - i cant be doing with folk like that

[@bsaunders5271]

@@markkane66 is it? Oh thank god you pointed that out!

[@madwatermelon1316]

Annie Walker is the best landlady the Rovers has ever had. Very professional, full of class.

[@michelejohnson6459]

Imagine being locked in a room and having to listen to Albert and Susan!😮😢

[@michaelhammett9016]

Love Annie walker

[@dominewimbury2039]

RIP Meg Johnson (Eunice). Passed away yesterday. News was announced earlier

[@Alan-ss3xp]

I loved the tale she told in the Rovers about the guy who died suddenly and he fell into a woman with a big bosom. Jack said “what a way to go!”

[@hollandwawasan1221]

Rip Meg aka eunice ❤

[@nicolemclean9028]

Tracy got loads of aunties & uncles

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Anybody and everybody is, since she drops that kid off to anyone that will take her!

[@noeljr.7724]

​​@@chicagogyrl4846 Leaves her with anyone and if that person says they are busy Deirdre nearly turns on them or seems put out by it.

[@theculturedthug6609]

Can't believe Gail is still in the show to this day she'was depressing back in the 70s and 80s should have got rid a long time ago

[@angeladickinson7742]

What a miserable so and so she is.

[@AriAdu]

She had some good storylines

[@bsaunders5271]

Love when Hilda asks Elsie to take her wig off so she can see the TV screen

[@jaynehinds3339]

😂😂😂😂😂😂👍

[@ladygrinningsoul992]

That Mavis/painter storyline was tedious then and more so now!

[@noeljr.7724]

That's Mavis all over really. I grew up in the 90s and thought she was like someones Grandmother back then with how she goes on but even here in the early 80s she's exactly the same. She seems 40 years older than she actually is.

[@4oclocktimefortea794]

How did Deidre’s mum change from happy and sociable to the squeezed lemon misery guts she was in later episodes?!

[@dominewimbury2039]

New directors by the 90s who wanted her to be that

[@jonathancheetham7683]

It was a wise move! Lol

[@ghostdemon7936]

Blanche was funny though. She had some good one liners amd her sarcasm was off the scale. I loved it.

[@cn4936]

Different actresses I presume 🤣

[@williamf4544]

Ive been to Corfu - never again - i have never seen so many insects of all shapes and sizes and wasps everywhere - rats crawling along the telephone wires while your dining alfresco and dont get me started on the toilet arrangements - disgusting in every way

[@philstrachan]

Thanks for posting these! Takes me back to my childhood 👏🇦🇺✨️🍻

[@philipbryans3062]

My favourate people are Jack and Vera i liked Stan and Hilda to

[@jakehaymes4438]

Too in English

[@chicagogyrl4846]

If Deidre snaps her fingers, Emily jumps! 😂🤣

[@mattburke3457]

Watching this makes me want fish and chips so bad lol, closest we come to it is a fish fry on a Friday in upstate NY, but it doesn't hold a candle to proper fish and chips...

[@annmc8392]

And tea! I have to stop myself putting the kettle on every time someone says would you like a cup of tea😊😄

[@hollandwawasan1221]

Same here! English fish and chips with a pickled onion and lots of vinegar! My favourite meal as a kid. Mind you we usually only could afford the chips and vinegar cos dad was on the dole even though he graduated Oxford University.... getting a pickled onion took a visit from gran 😊 ❤

[@hollandwawasan1221]

Drooling for F&C here in Malaysia where its nonexistent and yes feel like putting the kettle on every time they do in the show here 😅

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

My favourite as to be fish & chips and mushy peas with lots of salt and vinegar and bread and butter

[@R31922]

Dreary loves her aprons doesn't she.

[@StCloud-ns7vt]

ugh shut up Deidre

[@bipbippadotta3680]

Somebody commented on another episode that Annie Walker is like George from Rainbow. I can't unsee it now 😂

[@clairexxx7473]

I have thought this for years! 😂 I’m so glad others think the same!😂😂

[@RiaLake]

Eddie: "Hello Mrs Walker, how was Monte Carlo this year? (No response from poker-face Mrs Walker.) Well how was the plastic surgery clinic then? Closed by the look of it."😆🤣 I shouldn't really laugh but Mrs Walker's behaviour makes it easier!

[@theculturedthug6609]

Indeed one should not.

[@annmc8392]

@@theculturedthug6609 😁

[@alexanderjones9572]

All very well Bert telling Fred to tell Annie to get lost-but would HE tell her that?

[@paullynton-green6570]

In a word .no.

[@paulinecorreia5538]

Fred brags 😮that he isn’t afraid 😱 of Annie Walker. You could of fooled me. 😅 😂 😊

[@ddrose06]

That clever clogs, Rita, is in her glory when she's taking the piss out of Mavis. To me, it borders on the sadistic. She wasn't a clever clogs, when she and Len were being interviewed by that adoption woman. No, in that instance, she came off as a proper dafty.

[@sherylbarker9465]

I hate the way Rita speaks to Mavis, in fact I find Rita very boring

[@theculturedthug6609]

@@sherylbarker9465 Amzing that the boring ones seem to stay on the show the longest.

[@angelapay3718]

@@theculturedthug6609 not amazing to me seeing i find it quite sinister as we now know how people in the entertainment industry conduct themselves around children……… Eg Jimmy Saville Rolf Harris even the bloke that plays Ken was accused of rape then there’s Peter Adamson (Len Fairclough) dubious “swimming lessons”. & don’t get me started on our past & present MP’s. Weinstein’s hijinxs blew the lid off the perversions of Hollywood.

[@paullynton-green6570]

Yeah l think ritahas a sadistic streak.she enjoys making people look stupid.

[@AriAdu]

She was very sadistic towards Mavis

[@lorrainemackin3749]

Poor Fred Gee Nothing ever goes right for Him. But you can't help but Laugh at Him. An the way he epresses that look on His face everytime he says Yes Mrs Walker.. Lol 😄😄

[@mattburke3457]

They did this painting storyline w Mavis and a fellow student in her art class again years later when her and derrick were married

[@Yaarbiriah]

He's such a nasty miseryguts I can't feel any sympathy.. a wonder Eunice sticks him! :D

[@paullynton-green6570]

Fred is his own worst enemy.

[@bsaunders5271]

He resembles the ultimate cabbage patch kid.

[@muriellee-dd6hh]

Why is fred always sniffing

[@teenabrunk83]

Fred previous job was the pig man he's sniffing out truffles!

[@marieince3239]

Fred and eunice really get on my nerves him huffing and puffing her twitching ugg .

[@Kidraver555]

Ruskin was a victorian philosopher, author, artist and art critic, he was a critic of Turner, Ghandi quotes Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice' book as an influence on his thinking, Ruskin was a socialist and this is the reason he got the cold shoulder from the establishment of the time.

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

I remember the wedding of Prince Charles and princess Diana in July of 1981 a momentous occasion with street parties and everyone watching it on television a good day it was

[@stephielulu9096]

The good old days of Corrie

[@barbcaine1608]

Rita is such a bully!

[@angelapay3718]

A nasty piece of work

[@annmc8392]

She was wasn't she, but I don't think she realised it.

[@Kevin-vc9nw]

Rita saying Mavis was no pin in girl was a bit harsh

[@lorrainegriffin1443]

I don't watch Cornation Street now,back n the day it was brilliant ❤

[@clarea1801]

Tracey is so cute

[@queendeirdre7436]

Fred and Eunice, a match made in Hell! Each out for what they can get 😮

[@kw3593]

They so deserve each other ‘

[@karenjames3964]

Dreary gets on my nerves 😬

[@larkatmic]

In America, Fred and his lady would be have been thrown out to the street. A fully grown man and his wife??? Pathetic. There are plenty of jobs and places they could have moved to and start a new life. Very juvenile and entitled. And Vera Duckworth would be fired for her attitude and demands.

[@londonlady227]

Pretty clueless rent you about the state of the UK back then. High unemployment and many lived one paystub to another. I would say that Fred should've had savings to give them options as well as Eunice, as she had a full time job too. Personally I think Mrs Walker was too hard considering how long Fred worked there.

[@larkatmic]

@@londonlady227 Thanks for responding, Maybe so. But any man no matter what time or era, should never allow his lady to roost over him. When you do you will suffer. He should have, like you said, saved while working and made clear to his wife that she must follow his lead to leave Annie’s nest, not to use a situation conceived by her to stay. Now he is just playing like his wife in victimhood, that he helped in creating. And everyone can see how pathetic he has become. Mrs. Walker has always been a shrew and uncaring for her long term employees. Fred knew this about her for years as he wise crackingly talked behind her back on many episodes lol. I just love this show!

[@Kevin-vc9nw]

It was the 80s when the tories put everyone out of work

[@alexanderjones9572]

Very clever, Deirdre! Getting Tracy to stay with Aunty Emily, so she’s not lonely, then asking her if you can go away with Ken, so you’re not lonely!

[@bsaunders5271]

Very rare for Deirdre to put any effort into making Tracey feel ok about being left. She is mostly far too busy putting herself (and whichever man is in favour that particular week) first. A selfish maneater, and a rotten mother, always introducing different 'Uncles' to her daughter, and talking about extremely unsuitable matters in front of her. Boo hiss!

[@lindarowe8550]

@Long John Silver I never liked her

[@lordwalker71]

People don’t seem to get that there a child labor laws and kids her age can’t work many hours in a day and that’s why Tracy is always been sent off screen

[@marieince3239]

She leaves that kid with anyone but herself just like Tracy did with amy .

[@peter0010]

Had no idea that Alma ever met Elsie

[@BazilGent-nf7zj]

Thought stan not supposed to be eating eggs?

[@katrinahopkins6208]

Exactly, Stan is supposed to be allergic to eggs 😮

[@kw3593]

That plot point was ignored immediately after it occurred. Weird

[@paulinecorreia5538]

I think 🤔 it was really funny 😅 how Elsie told Mavis about selling those sexy magazines. Mavis got really angry 😡 about it. 🎊.

[@timmytrimble4069]

''He'd be kaylied before they got the glass coach out the garage'' :)

[@hollandwawasan1221]

It doesn't make sense how a shop that sells newspapers and sweets could afford staff and newspaper boys&girls and pay a salary that lets the staff go for holidays overseas as well as being able to give Alan and Bill loans/gifts of thousands of pounds sterling ..... and then a cafe that sells F&B with brisk trade can't afford proper staff

[@DaveyC95]

Rita is such a cow. That Maurice could be a perv, and she's encouraging him to paint Mavis nude Love Elsie Tanner. I cannot stand, Poison Ivy, Fred or Eunice. Annie Walker is being unreasonable though. And Billy cannot be coming to stay, because according to the Corrie Wiki Fandom site, the last time he appeared in 1979, was the last time he worked with Doris Speed I just love the way they all walk in and out of each others houses on Coronation Street. There is no way that was happening in the 1970s and 1980s. I've asked older members of my family about that. It's definitely artistic licence These episodes are new to me, as they were made before my time, just. So, Thanks for the upload

[@theculturedthug6609]

Fred was much better off when he was a single fella about town.

[@MarilynVanWinkle-mr1ji]

The actor & actress playing Kens children are terrible.

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

2:05:28 Blanche 1981 😱

[@NICKROBERTS23]

"I'm 18 now" says Susan Ida Barlow, buying her Uncle Albert a drink....yet she is still 16????

[@GinaRussell-c2c]

I thought that because she was born in 1965 so it makes her 16 depending on what month she was born she could still be 15 in this episode and if she was 18 she got to be born in 1963

[@alexanderjones9572]

Why would a social worker ask Emily (who lives at no 3) about Len and Rita ( at no 9)? What could Emily tell them? If it’s who lives nearest on either side, surely that would be Ivy and Bert, or Elsie?

[@acesigma06]

They used Emily as reference, due to the fact, she adopted too

[@bsaunders5271]

Probably because Emily has lived in the street for a great many years, and is seen as a pillar of the community. She likely has a more lofty social position than other neighbours.

[@scottranger8909]

Eunice gets on my wick

[@EveHenleySpread]

💯 agree! I’m just wanting to fast forward through that whole storyline.. dull and not funny!

[@bsaunders5271]

God, she is awful. Not one redeeming quality.

[@bsaunders5271]

@Long John Silver which was well deserved. Fred was truly god awful.

[@bsaunders5271]

Mine, too.

[@scottranger8909]

@@mohammaddavoudian7897 they both were horrible lol

[@2500mike]

Between Mavis and Fred these are hard to watch

[@bsaunders5271]

Totally agree.

[@Kevin-vc9nw]

Absolutely love Hildas laugh

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Bert could have had a job, but he turned it down! He had no right to go around complaining that he doesn’t have one!

[@londonlady227]

Ironically watching this the day after the coronation of Charles and that Rottweiler, Camilla. How naive everyone was of what was going on, Charles was seeing Camilla even then. Poor Diana, she wasnt an angel, none of us are, but she didnt deserve any of that.

[@edward6960]

Neither did he, he should've been allowed to marry the woman he loved rather than that poor, daft girl. 3 lives ruined just because the queen mother didn't like Camilla.🤦

[@scottanthony6269]

There's hidden depths to Mavis

[@fannycraddock99]

Meg Johnson was brilliant as Eunice Gee.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why was Hilda sitting in the back behind Elsie??!

[@algie-t2w]

Annie Walker's like most employers, all in favour of loyalty so long as it remains in their favour.

[@louiseowusu246]

7.40 - Ernie is alive again!

[@angelapay3718]

I spotted that 😂

[@chicagogyrl4846]

That’s what Mavis gets for telling Rita all of her personal business! 😂🤣

[@algie-t2w]

When Stan and Eddie are together in the house they look as though they're in a 'civil partnership'.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I can’t believe a cute man asks Mavis out and she turns him down, and he actually must talk her into it! Unbelievable woman! 🤣😂

[@kw3593]

She is only happy if she is miserable 😂

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Emily says the painter talked her into it! Well, Miss Emily, I’m sure that Mavis would rather be with a man than you! And she was so rude with that painter! She blurted out a cocky “no” and sat down! I think she’s jealous of Mavis! 😂🤣

[@noeljr.7724]

I find Mrs.Walker getting rid of Fred a bit odd. Surely she would have waited for him to get confirmation before hiring someone else. That said I don't think he's a very likeable character.

[@ijeoma1992]

They should have kept this Susan

[@bsaunders5271]

A broom with a wig on top would have been better than Wendy Walker, who came next.

[@malimbep4298]

​@@bsaunders5271😂😂😂😂😂

[@kevinfitzsimons41]

Tracy shows very little signs of the devil incarnate she will become!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@theresapierce3934]

Eddie and his " ers".

[@algie-t2w]

If only they knew about faithless Charlie. Before, during and after the wedding busy bedding Camilla.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I can’t stand people who make big plans then break them! When it happened to me, I never spoke to the people again!

[@algrant1354]

Temple tudor and simple minds.good tunz int caf

[@bipbippadotta3680]

1981 was an outstanding year for music along with 1979.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I knew that they wouldn’t hire creepy looking Fred!

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I thought Hilda had a color set!

[@kw3593]

It got repossessed

[@chicagogyrl4846]

The controlling Fred comes out!!Too bad she didn’t wait to get to know him better, instead of getting married after a few dates!! 😂🤣

[@HelloImNik]

Susan was a crappy actress. Shame. But glad they replaced her :)

[@lucyjane103]

FIRST COMMENTS: ‘ I have me rights!” No Different now in 2023. !!!!!

[@SharonMulligan-jy8yt]

Loved Hilda and stan and Eddie and bet and betty all them that when corrie was corrie not like today sorry to say would not watch corrie now do not like it

[@paulinecorreia5538]

Morris sounds like a cat 🐈 name. 🎉 😮

[@jaynehinds3339]

God forgive me but I cannot standvTracy omg 😳

[@theculturedthug6609]

I bet she took days to learn those lines...

[@cathy3613]

I’ll iii i😅

[@algie-t2w]

If only they knew about faithless Charlie. Before, during and after the wedding busy bedding Camilla.