I agree, & now it's soo much more mixed up in this 21st century,...I've only just recently, thort to look up, if there were the old days of the 60.s of Corrie Street, as growing up, I wasn't really fond of it myself but been able to see 3 lovely weddings so far on this that I missed out viewing @ home,...our mums loved Corrie street, & a lol, back in the day, ❤.
I could not have put it better myself , love looking at the old coronation street actors and storyline a world away from what passes for soap today , I ceased looking at it almost 20 years ago , seemingly it's got worse which does not surprise me
I remember watching this aged about 10. My mum watched it religiously. I can see her sitting there now. I couldn't wait to leave home so I didn't haveb to watch it. But I started watching it myself then. Wasted endless hours since. But it used to have acting, humour and a good feeling about it. Total rubbish now.
It's interesting to watch that in the early years of "Corrie", Albert was more sympathetic and Ena more bitter. Yet by the end of the 60's, the roles started to reverse with Albert becoming a grumpy old man and Ena more tolerant and slower to attack those around her.
Superb writing - looks like by Harry Driver - and acting. Back in the days when bodies were washed down and laid out at home. These episodes are historical documents. I doubt the trash they turned out from the nineties onwards will be remembered for fifty days, let alone fifty years.
The charecter of Ena is a very strong mancunian woman. You can see her about to cry and once the knock on the door comes she puts her hard face back on.
@@seltaeb3302 the very opposite in my experience. However, I never let personal experience cast judgement or stereotype in any way. That's worth remembering.
Doesn't ena state that Martha was 68 then says she was the youngest? But in the other episode when ena is accused of shoplifting gives her date of birth as November 14th 1899 meaning ena was younger. So the odd mistake maybe 😙
i saw a photo of Lynne Carol once taken out of her 'Martha' costume, no resemblance to her 'Street' character whatsoever , if i remember the photo was published in a book called 'The Real Coronation Street', in reality Lynne Carol was only in her 40's, a young actress playing old, the famous trademark specs belonged to Carol and were glass less, she went on to use them in some other things she appeared in, the younger Martha on the seaside booth recording is clearly more nearer to Lynne's own voice, and not the voice she put on to play the Martha we all knew. i believe the specs in this episode are another pair as Lynne said ''Bert (her real life husband), the glasses, i've left them on the (snug) table", i believe she said to him ''don't let them (Coronation Street) have them'', when Bert Palmer went to fetch them a props boy was about to take them saying they were needed for this episode, i read Palmer told him ''you'll have to get another pair'', i think this is documented in the book 'The real Coronation Street', can anyone confirm if i am correct about 'Martha's specs' story? Also i believe she burst into tears and was naturally consoled by her husband directly after the filming of Martha's scene (sat at the snug table, with her passport to Spain and her sherry and the other party goers singing 'Down at the old Bull & Bush' and 'i'll be your Sweet heart)'. is this episode directly after the 'passing of Martha' episode? or did Carol appear in any scene after her 'passing' episode. As people have noted clearly Margot Bryant (Minnie) refused to appear in the 'passing' episode.
I had an idea for a Coronation Street prequel! Set when the street was originally built, and featuring the very first residents. It would make great period drama and would run along side the modern show. The two shows could be interlinked. For example, a murder commited in 1902, and the body discovered over 100 years later buried in a backyard. ITV didn't seem interested in my idea. They wouldn't recognise a good idea if it bit them on the backside!
@@SteveGad Poor Tony Warren had an uphill struggle to get Granada to produce Corrie in the first place! ..... I'm glad he succeeded! Corrie, along with Classic Doctor Who, are two of my all-time favourite TV Shows!
@@michellefalleur960 Just imagine, a "Coronation Street" period drama! ... Queen Victoria only recently deceased! ... What would the street look like? ... My working title for the series would be, "Coronation Street: 1902" or "Coronation Street: The Beginning" or "Coronation Street: All Our Yesterday's" ... The show could run for 58 years (1902 -1960), and would end where the modern show began in December 1960 ... ITV Studios would have to build a SECOND Corrie set at Media City, but as it would have looked when it was first built in 1902 ... People could visit the 1902 set, and the 2023 set!
@@marcse7en I think that's a great idea, the amount of stuff they put on TV today, they could surely do with something like that, I think It would get peak viewing figures .
@@michellefalleur960 No soap has ever had a "Companion Period Prequel." It's a totally unique idea! ... "Coronation Street ~ The Early Years" ... Just imagine the world news to rock early Weatherfield: 1912 the sinking of Titanic ... 1914 the menfolk of Weatherfield are called up for service in WWI ... 1939 the outbreak of WWII ... 1945 the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ... I would love to have met Coronation Street creator, the late Tony Warren. I wonder what he would have thought about a Corrie period prequel?
@@thomaswhittaker4137 back in the early 60s, Working class folks had a life expectancy of 60, most of the ones that made it to a grand old age of 80 or more were usually the well off, those who could afford the best of everything and avoided the pitfalls and dangers of everyday life. A good age for a miner was 55. Old Martha or the actress who played her was only 50 at the time
Brilliant! I was 6 or 7 when this went out, I vaguely remember Martha dying but I didn’t know what it all meant I had no real concept of death, it amazing to see characters like Emily who still pop up once in a blue moon, I haven’t watched it in years I sometimes catch one of the re runs from the 80’s or 90’s (or whenever it is) they are not as good as these (apart from being amazed at Steve when he was thin) I wish they would show what old ones of these they still have but it’s not only the cast who’ve passed away my parents who watched this every week with my gran who lived upstairs they are all long dead I guess today’s tv audience would find this too slow and in black & white! Thanks for the upload!
Ena was such a strong but compassionate lady.just as l remember my grandparents. The had too be strong and resourceful in those days.god rest them all.
Didn’t it turn out that Stan used to be handy with his fists- like Percy apparently was? Martha and Hilda were quite similar-even with similar husbands!
Brilliant brilliant brilliant. Proper drama. Great telly. One hundred and thirty eight times better than any episode of the current rubbish. Poor Martha.
In onè episode Ena says to Minnie ànd Martha "do you remember when we sung àu Lang syne all six of us? 1936. Implying that they used to have a much bigger friendship group
@@mirandawinstead6540 The six Martha referred to is their husbands, by the time we meet the 3 ladies they are all widowed, but that reference was about their late husbands.
Plus there’s another woman about to arrive who’ll fill Martha’s shoes a lot easier than you...a certain woman who’s always got a cigarette and curlers in her hair...
Thank you Auntie Corrie2, I'm trying to find Ena Sharple's on the piano in The Rovers playing 'She's A Lassie From Lancashire' . I think it was played when Minnie Caldwell died? Can anyone help please?
I will keep an eye open for it - wasnt anything to do with Minnie - the character was still alive and living elsewhere when Ena left the street - i think she was the last to die in real life
Totally agree. Today nobody is a good actor. They just mumble words and play themselves. Their dull selves. Ken Barlow is the only one who can compare year by year....
Not sure what his real name is, but I think the actor of Paul is worse. Ok, Paul’s been through a lot with Kel, but it seems he only has one emotion-anger. And don’t get me started on the new Todd...
"That's one summer she got a kiss without a kick comin' after it." You can see despite everything that might have been said between them over the years, Ena really was very fond of Martha 😢
Saw our Minnie, just had to. Arthur Lowe an our Ena💓🇬🇧💯🆘🗣️🤔😵🤩💸💰😢 By end of part one, 👍💯🇬🇧 I'll be catching up from the beginning of it all again 🤠 Old friends 😁👍💪💯🇬🇧 🆘🙏😇 What a great bunch of fine actors and actresses 💯💪👍they all were 👁️☠️👁️🆘😱 TV is crap threw it out🆘 have a look at BANANZA from the start, here the messages 👍💯🇬🇧 going back to the beginnings 🤔😳🤫😁✌️
Love the fact that Ena laid Martha out. Now all the Gens and Millennials can scramble around to find out what that means. Yes, snowflakes - it used to happen that way.
3:58 "There wasn't enough fat on her to fry an egg"!!
Ena had some fantastic lines! 🤣 🍳
Elsie and Ena. The two best characters in the street through its entire history.
Amen
Agreed
Minnie Caldwell is adorable! She's so innocent but funny without meaning to be.
Mr Swindley, Miss Nugent, Jack and Annie Walker, Elsie Tanner, iconic names and characters brings back fond memories.
That
Awesome moment, when you see old programs / actors, & it reminds you of the good old days
Thanks for sharing
Very sad and Ena is a lot more understanding that you may think at first blush. Lovely episode.
Superb actors and brilliant script writers then .Corrie has been silly for the last 25 years
It went to pieces after 1997 I reckon - when the last great characters, Mavis and Derek, left the show.
Silly is putting it nicely, it’s horrendous now. A ghost of its former self
I agree with that, gone down hill since they changed the cast for loads of teenagers.
I agree, & now it's soo much more mixed up in this 21st century,...I've only just recently, thort to look up, if there were the old days of the 60.s of Corrie Street, as growing up, I wasn't really fond of it myself but been able to see 3 lovely weddings so far on this that I missed out viewing @ home,...our mums loved Corrie street, & a lol, back in the day, ❤.
I could not have put it better myself , love looking at the old coronation street actors and storyline a world away from what passes for soap today , I ceased looking at it almost 20 years ago , seemingly it's got worse which does not surprise me
Beautifully acted...so bittersweet.
I remember watching this aged about 10. My mum watched it religiously. I can see her sitting there now. I couldn't wait to leave home so I didn't haveb to watch it. But I started watching it myself then. Wasted endless hours since. But it used to have acting, humour and a good feeling about it. Total rubbish now.
It's interesting to watch that in the early years of "Corrie", Albert was more sympathetic and Ena more bitter. Yet by the end of the 60's, the roles started to reverse with Albert becoming a grumpy old man and Ena more tolerant and slower to attack those around her.
Superb writing - looks like by Harry Driver - and acting. Back in the days when bodies were washed down and laid out at home. These episodes are historical documents. I doubt the trash they turned out from the nineties onwards will be remembered for fifty days, let alone fifty years.
Minnie Caldwell: Where's Bobby? I want Bobby!
That was so sad!🤧
Love Minnie Caldwell
The charecter of Ena is a very strong mancunian woman. You can see her about to cry and once the knock on the door comes she puts her hard face back on.
I'm not a lover of Mancunians👹, they're a bit shhhh d.o.d.g.y😉, give me a Liverpudlian anytime🥰👍.
@@seltaeb3302 the very opposite in my experience. However, I never let personal experience cast judgement or stereotype in any way. That's worth remembering.
@@seltaeb3302 I'd rather a mancunian that a scouser any day!!!
Poor Martha! It was a different world... brilliant show back then.
Mr Rusty they should of kept her rather than having the ogdens
Loved the Ogdens
Minnie's cat is a better actor than those on drivel st these days!!!Tribute to a lost generation
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Absolutely! That's why I am 'anti-'Corrie these days.
I stopped watching almost 5 years ago. It started making my skin crawl... sigh
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Wow, that's harsh!!!😂😂😂
@@auntiecorrie2787 10 years plus since I stopped watching nothing like the old ones 😍😍😍
@@auntiecorrie2787 new era
when you refer to minnie's cat his name was bobby , show a little respect please
I'm 68 this year! I'm a walking coffin then! Cracking scripts. Oscars wouldn't get any better a tell thee.
I'm 65 this month, so I have three years left!
I'm 67 - they didn't age well.in them days did they
Ty so much for uploading these episodes great fan from nz here ❤
Tony Warren would be spinning in his grave if he could see how bad the show is now.
Very poignant and beautifully written. A world.................gone with the wind.
yes,beautifully written.Some lovely lines.Worth hearing again.
Doesn't ena state that Martha was 68 then says she was the youngest? But in the other episode when ena is accused of shoplifting gives her date of birth as November 14th 1899 meaning ena was younger. So the odd mistake maybe 😙
A lovely episode - one of the best and a nice tribute to a great character
I’m the same as Minnie when something happens/ where’s my cats? I need my cats! 😾
I agree coronation street was great back then but I can't for the life of me why we don't see all of the 60's episodes.
If all of the 60s episodes do become available then you won’t see them here, it’ll be on a streaming platform of some kind (Britbox, ITVX etc).
i saw a photo of Lynne Carol once taken out of her 'Martha' costume, no resemblance to her 'Street' character whatsoever , if i remember the photo was published in a book called 'The Real Coronation Street', in reality Lynne Carol was only in her 40's, a young actress playing old, the famous trademark specs belonged to Carol and were glass less, she went on to use them in some other things she appeared in, the younger Martha on the seaside booth recording is clearly more nearer to Lynne's own voice, and not the voice she put on to play the Martha we all knew. i believe the specs in this episode are another pair as Lynne said ''Bert (her real life husband), the glasses, i've left them on the (snug) table", i believe she said to him ''don't let them (Coronation Street) have them'', when Bert Palmer went to fetch them a props boy was about to take them saying they were needed for this episode, i read Palmer told him ''you'll have to get another pair'', i think this is documented in the book 'The real Coronation Street', can anyone confirm if i am correct about 'Martha's specs' story? Also i believe she burst into tears and was naturally consoled by her husband directly after the filming of Martha's scene (sat at the snug table, with her passport to Spain and her sherry and the other party goers singing 'Down at the old Bull & Bush' and 'i'll be your Sweet heart)'. is this episode directly after the 'passing of Martha' episode? or did Carol appear in any scene after her 'passing' episode. As people have noted clearly Margot Bryant (Minnie) refused to appear in the 'passing' episode.
I think they regretted killing off Martha afterwards. There was still some great stories to be told.
Ena was an amazing character
I love the old ones, wish I could see them all in order.
Yeah I feel the same way. I watch dad’s army and minder that way.
There are dvds out but not sure if its all the episodes.
@@hannahparsonson5842 ok 👍
I had an idea for a Coronation Street prequel! Set when the street was originally built, and featuring the very first residents. It would make great period drama and would run along side the modern show. The two shows could be interlinked. For example, a murder commited in 1902, and the body discovered over 100 years later buried in a backyard. ITV didn't seem interested in my idea. They wouldn't recognise a good idea if it bit them on the backside!
@@SteveGad Poor Tony Warren had an uphill struggle to get Granada to produce Corrie in the first place! ..... I'm glad he succeeded! Corrie, along with Classic Doctor Who, are two of my all-time favourite TV Shows!
That really would be a good idea, very well thought.
@@michellefalleur960 Just imagine, a "Coronation Street" period drama! ... Queen Victoria only recently deceased! ... What would the street look like? ... My working title for the series would be, "Coronation Street: 1902" or "Coronation Street: The Beginning" or "Coronation Street: All Our Yesterday's" ... The show could run for 58 years (1902 -1960), and would end where the modern show began in December 1960 ... ITV Studios would have to build a SECOND Corrie set at Media City, but as it would have looked when it was first built in 1902 ... People could visit the 1902 set, and the 2023 set!
@@marcse7en I think that's a great idea, the amount of stuff they put on TV today, they could surely do with something like that, I think It would get peak viewing figures .
@@michellefalleur960 No soap has ever had a "Companion Period Prequel." It's a totally unique idea! ... "Coronation Street ~ The Early Years" ... Just imagine the world news to rock early Weatherfield: 1912 the sinking of Titanic ... 1914 the menfolk of Weatherfield are called up for service in WWI ... 1939 the outbreak of WWII ... 1945 the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ...
I would love to have met Coronation Street creator, the late Tony Warren. I wonder what he would have thought about a Corrie period prequel?
A RARE treat!! Marvellous .. MANY THANKS 💜
Brilliant, I was totally engrossed.
Brilliant characters great story lines loved all of these old characters
Thank you for the memories I don't watch today's corrie not worth it
It happens she were 68. Then, that age was old. Now it isn't really. How times change!
Well, at that rate I'd better make the most of my last 3 years. Lol
@ Domineering Wiimbury
It's still pretty old now, I'm 71 and pretty active but a lot of my friends have died in their early 60s
@@thomaswhittaker4137 back in the early 60s, Working class folks had a life expectancy of 60, most of the ones that made it to a grand old age of 80 or more were usually the well off, those who could afford the best of everything and avoided the pitfalls and dangers of everyday life.
A good age for a miner was 55.
Old Martha or the actress who played her was only 50 at the time
Yes and people looked old, even in their 50s.
Suz V2017 I was thinking the same
Omgosh I cried so much, dear Martha ❤️🤍💙
Wonder what it’d have been like if Lilly and Wilf had become regular characters?
Love these ones even though I wasn't born till 5 years later
Brilliant! I was 6 or 7 when this went out, I vaguely remember Martha dying but I didn’t know what it all meant I had no real concept of death, it amazing to see characters like Emily who still pop up once in a blue moon, I haven’t watched it in years I sometimes catch one of the re runs from the 80’s or 90’s (or whenever it is) they are not as good as these (apart from being amazed at Steve when he was thin) I wish they would show what old ones of these they still have but it’s not only the cast who’ve passed away my parents who watched this every week with my gran who lived upstairs they are all long dead I guess today’s tv audience would find this too slow and in black & white! Thanks for the upload!
Not seen Emily in 3 years 🤔
@@Iluvthe1960s she has a nephew in the show but he doesn't talk about her to my knowledge
A marvellous episode - one I've never seen before.
A lot of them have pass on now rip all that have gone
Poor Ena, she's lost her friend.
Ena was such a strong but compassionate lady.just as l remember my grandparents. The had too be strong and resourceful in those days.god rest them all.
Beautiful and touching.
A whole episode about a death! There's so many deaths/murders these days a death is got over by the ad break to make way for the next one!
In my opinion life is like a book. Each new day is like turning a page in your life. So hopefully all of us get to the last page of our own book.
Didn’t it turn out that Stan used to be handy with his fists- like Percy apparently was? Martha and Hilda were quite similar-even with similar husbands!
@Saul Goodman the actor threated to quit if they made him a wife beater so they didn't write him as such
Minnie Caldwell... magnificent 😊
Brilliant brilliant brilliant. Proper drama. Great telly. One hundred and thirty eight times better than any episode of the current rubbish.
Poor Martha.
It's still grim up north
this is awesome
So did I gather Martha once had an affair? If Percy was so abusive all the time, I'm not a bit surprised! Maybe if he'd treated her better...!
I don't see why they couldn't have kept Martha and had the Ogden's too.
A great view over Ordsall, Salford, towards St Clement’s Church.
Didn’t Martha, Minnie and Ena also have a friend called Florrie Ledbetter-who died before the series began? I remember Ena mentioning her.
In onè episode Ena says to Minnie ànd Martha "do you remember when we sung àu Lang syne all six of us? 1936. Implying that they used to have a much bigger friendship group
and bertha Butterfield from viaduct street
@@mirandawinstead6540 The six Martha referred to is their husbands, by the time we meet the 3 ladies they are all widowed, but that reference was about their late husbands.
I was 10 watching now tears, end part one enough time to put kettle on.
Salford, my home town, was such a good, sane place then. And Coronation Street then was great. So real.
Arthur Lowe, before he starred in Dads Army.
Lovely episode thank you, do you have the following episode at all please?
Thank you so much
At 0:57 Here we have Captain George Mainwaring Esquire.
£22. Serves her daughter and son in law right!!!
That's £450 in 2019 money.
That's Percy Thrower doing the obvious & not good cat 😺 meeeeeoooow.. impersonation! True.
Perfect.
Minnie Caldwell and Ena Sharples were the female Laurel and Hardy.
Heart rending.
I wonder if Martha and Hilda would have been friends.
Bit soon to talk about taking Martha's place with Ena and Minnie, Elsie!! I agree with Annie there.
Plus there’s another woman about to arrive who’ll fill Martha’s shoes a lot easier than you...a certain woman who’s always got a cigarette and curlers in her hair...
We knew how to mourn then
Thank you Auntie Corrie2, I'm trying to find Ena Sharple's on the piano in The Rovers playing 'She's A Lassie From Lancashire' . I think it was played when Minnie Caldwell died? Can anyone help please?
I will keep an eye open for it - wasnt anything to do with Minnie - the character was still alive and living elsewhere when Ena left the street - i think she was the last to die in real life
This new lot on Corrie couldn't act to save their lives. Anthony Cotton being the worse one
Quite agree give me the old ones any day itv 3 has the old ones on every day
I was in the Apple store a few years back and he was being argumentative with a member of the staff, just like his screen character
Totally agree. Today nobody is a good actor. They just mumble words and play themselves. Their dull selves. Ken Barlow is the only one who can compare year by year....
Not sure what his real name is, but I think the actor of Paul is worse. Ok, Paul’s been through a lot with Kel, but it seems he only has one emotion-anger. And don’t get me started on the new Todd...
Dialogue 🌟
Great. Thanks : )
They think 68 is ancient 😅
Ahh Mr Mainwaring!😍
"That's one summer she got a kiss without a kick comin' after it."
You can see despite everything that might have been said between them over the years, Ena really was very fond of Martha 😢
Bobby. 12:55 you can barely hear Ena and Minnie 😂😂
" Will someone let that cat out! "
Mr. Hodges voice sounds just like Vincent Price.
“1,572”
It 'appens..... She were sixty eight ! 😱
My aunt whom is 75 would be quite something then
Saw our Minnie, just had to.
Arthur Lowe an our Ena💓🇬🇧💯🆘🗣️🤔😵🤩💸💰😢
By end of part one, 👍💯🇬🇧
I'll be catching up from the beginning of it all again 🤠
Old friends 😁👍💪💯🇬🇧
🆘🙏😇 What a great bunch of fine actors and actresses 💯💪👍they all were 👁️☠️👁️🆘😱 TV is crap threw it out🆘 have a look at BANANZA from the start, here the messages 👍💯🇬🇧 going back to the beginnings 🤔😳🤫😁✌️
Perhaps the worst axing in the shows history
Aww
She were 68 , so young !
And the actress who played her was only 50 at the time.
It happens she was 68!
Graham d
I loved hilda ogden too
Albert was such a sweet old soul in the younger years, but in his latter years they turned him into the more awkward cantankerous old soul.
8:13, why does mini go into number 9, thought she lived at number 5
3:39, is Albert checking his line?
iloveitsomuch
Len was an annoying character
Mr cartwright
No it was val kens wife
So Martha was only 68.
Love the fact that Ena laid Martha out. Now all the Gens and Millennials can scramble around to find out what that means. Yes, snowflakes - it used to happen that way.
You ok hun?
She was 49 not 68
The actress was 49 but played a character of 68. A huge character/actor age gap.
Was Minnie the one who died of electrocution when plugging in an electric fire? I vaguely remember my nan mentioning it.
MJam - from London Val died using hairdryer I think
petnzme01 was hairdryer. When she collapsed she knocked heater over which started fire
Not sure how Minnie (or Ena) died-of course, they’d both be dead now.
black and white
I don't think Peter Adamson want
To say that Martha longhurst is dead
Big mistake killing Martha off, I'd rather they killed Minnie off actually and kept Martha.
I'd rather they didn't kill anyone off
corrie was good one time,