We’ve already discussed the various accessories Corrie characters have had over the years, but this post looks at the characters who have been wearing glasses.
Deirdre Barlow is the best known character to have worn glasses, having done for over forty years. Her glasses became her trademark and during the 1980s she was nicknamed ‘Sexy Specs’ due to men fighting over her. She did take off her glasses on her wedding day to Ken. Since 2001 she’s wore more slender, modern glasses after her old ones were crushed by a box.
Between 2006 and 2007, Claire Peacock once donned the same kind of glasses Deirdre wore in the 1970s and 1980s and the resemblance was uncanny. Renee Roberts also had glasses to rival those of Deirdre’s in the mid to late 70s. In recent years, Deirdre’s mum Blanche occupied large glasses that were reminiscent of her daughter’s. Betty Williams also wore glasses.
As for the males who wore glasses, well, there was Jack Duckworth with his plaster that held them together.Then you had Reg Holdsworth’s colourful ones and Curly Watts had John Lennon type glasses. Albert Tatlock, Jack Walker, Leonard Swindley, Ernest Bishop, Percy Sugden and Norris Cole are known for wearing glasses as well.
Do you remember any other characters that wore or wear glasses? Maybe just reading glasses?
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