At this early stage, I'm quite happy to give the thumbs up to Glorious Gloria, the horribly-wigged mother of St Ella of the Back Room. You get the impression that Price Senior was some tie-dyed free spirit from the late 1960s and certainly seems less highly strung than her beige-clad daughter.
Introducing the previously unseen kinfolk of Street residents has proved to be a mixed affair down the years. For every Sylvia Goodwin there's an Amy Burton. Remember her? She arrived at the back-end of 1987, the hatted-harridan who was lucky enough to be Vera Duckworth's dear old mum. Except she wasn't a lovely old lady. Amy was a thieving, repellent banshee of a woman and thankfully her tenure was a brief one. Or how about Mike Baldwin's dad, Frankie, played by veteran actor Sam Kydd? Frankie was a one-man parody of the Eastend. I'm surprised they didn't have him playing spoons in a blitzed-out Bermondsey terrace.
Of course, back in the day, no one really had parents in Corrie. Did Len, Elsie, Emily or Bet ever mention a parent? How about Stan & Hilda? Mind you, the Oggies were so un-family friendly that they managed to forget about two of their own kids. Whatever happened to Sylvie and Tony Ogden? Are they still outside in't cludgy?
Some residents conveniently forget their nearest and dearest of course. Sally has barely mentioned her sister Gina in the past twenty five years. She was a bit annoying, I suppose. No wonder their mother looked so haggard. Likewise, Kevin and Bill obviously can't be bothered with their closest relative Debbie (pronounced De-beh), the weeble-like sister that time forgot.
I suppose that's nothing though compared to Bill having chosen not to remember his other son. Yes! Had you forgotten about him too? Cast your mind back around 400 years to when Bill got wed to rubbish hairdresser Elaine. She produced another little Webster around 1985 who was given the truly horrendous name of Carl. Where is the 27 year old Webster now? Isn't it time we met him again? I'm sure he could stir up a bit of trouble for Bill and Kev.
How about a mother for Marcus too? I'm picturing a very gay-friendly fifty-something mum - one of those 'all guns blazing' mothers who stride out in Gay Pride parades with a mortified (but secretly pleased) Marcus some way behind. Are there other long lost family members who need to be dragged onto t'cobbles? Surely Rita must have a living relative. How about a nan for Fiz and Chesney? Or let's have a lovely little storyline where Dev's parents arrive and take him away. Forever.
I remember last year Rosie saying that she had been on the phone to 'Aunty Debbie', I wondered when she had ever come into contact with rowsay and sofay, she could pass them in the street and not even know them, fairweathered aunt- Micky
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see Emily's Sister Norah turn up , last we saw her was in 1978 for Ernie's funeral !
ReplyDeleteI use to enjoy Beattie Pearson's visits to her father Albert Tatlock! - always wanted to be the dutiful daughter , but never was !!!
ReplyDeleteI imagine her now in her 90s taking residence in a nursing home - grumbling like a female Albert !!!
Fiz and Chesney have a brother, Billy, who showed up at Cilla and Les's wedding. He was a bit of a tear, probably could cause a bit of Les-like Trouble with a capital T. On second thoughts, maybe we don't need any more of that!
ReplyDeleteI reckon with a grandbaby in residence it's about time for another visit from Gobzilla, Jackie Dobbs!
Ken has never mentioned Lawrence since James slunk off. Dev has a whole slew of adult children floating around the city somewhere, too. Amber was the only one we got to know. He's even got a grandchild.
Interesting comments! I was occasionally a bit perplexed with Molly's father, Diggory. I recall that he operated a bakery in the Coronation Street vicinity and employed Liz at one stage. He soon left the area and we never saw him again. He was certainly mentioned by Molly, Tyrone and Auntie Pam but never came to visit baby Jack or attend Molly's funeral. He seems to have been completely forgotten now, despite the fact that he still has a grandson living on the street. I never really liked Diggory's character much and could never really understand his purpose or relationship with Molly so all of this is probably a good thing!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Izzy and Katy's mother will ever make an appearance. She left Owen with the girls when they were young and they've had nothing to do with her since. Izzy basically raised Katy while she was still a teenager so Owen could go out and work. As much as Anna now seems to be the girls' mother figure, I bet an appearance by their mother would set the cat amongst the pigeons with Owen! I often wonder how things would go down if Eddie re-appeared to visit Anna and Gary? I'm still waiting (and hoping) for this!
I have a very hazy vague recollection that Diggory died after he moved away from the street.
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As long as they never bring Sunita's dad back, unless they've recast him.
ReplyDeleteDiggory didn't die, JB - Pam said the shock of Molly's death had made him so ill he was unable to attend the funeral - in reality he's busy writing pantos and appearing as a professional Dame.
ReplyDeleteThanks for clearing that up for me! I also recall that Tyrone and Molly went to visit Diggory when she was pregnant with Jack. Tyrone was driving a faulty car in the countryside at the time, lost control, and then crashed it.
ReplyDeleteAhhhhh! Thanks Cobblestone!
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Will we ever find out what happened to Dennis Tanner's sister Linda Cheveski.
ReplyDeleteYou know the article mention Dev and if I recall correctly Dev bought the shops from Vikram's father after Vikram had the drug troubles with the taxi firm. Wouldn't it be nice if Vikram and his sister paid their cousin Dev a visit?
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