One of the very many joys of writing the Coronation Street Blog is when you receive an email from someone you've never met before and he sends you some wonderful Corrie pics that he's found.
Coronation Street fan Paul van der Hart in the Netherlands emailed this week to say that he found these old photographs of Elsie and Dennis Tanner (Pat Phoenix and Philip Lowrie) on a visit to the Netherlands in 1967.
They were there for the opening of a new De Gruyter supermarket, an
event that was kicked off by ringing a bell in a British themed pub in
Amsterdam. The hatted gent in the photographs is the supermarket's
owner, Mr Piet de Gruyter.
Paul tells us that Corrie
was broadcast in the Netherlands between 1967 and 1975 with 428 episodes broadcast. Interestingly in 1981 a Dutch actor played a character
in Corrie: Lex van Delden played Dirk van der Stek (who dated Deirdre
Barlow).
All I can say to Paul for sending us these pics is Met vriendelijke groet (Kind regards!)
Corrie connections to Holland continued when Ray Langton naffed off to
work there, leaving Deirdre as a single mum to Tracy. And of course,
Roy and Hayley's Amsterdam trip goes down in Corrie legend too.
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Sunday 21 August 2016
Pics: Corrie's golden couple open Dutch supermarket, 1967
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3 comments:
Great pics. Corrie must have been very popular there at the time. I wonder why they stopped showing it.
Ah, lovely Pat Phoenix! Love Elsie Tanner.
I love the glamour, she was beautiful.
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