The faces of Corrie in 1971

If you remember, last year I had a series of posts looking at the top 12 faces of each Corrie decade - the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s. For the next few weeks or so, I’ll be looking at the top 12 faces of each year between 1960 and 2013.

With thanks to Corriepedia for the information.

 In 1971, 104 episodes were broadcast.

1.    Annie Walker (76 episodes)
2.    Stan Ogden (75 episodes)
3.    Elsie Howard (75 episodes)
4.    Len Fairclough (72 episodes)
5.    Ray Langton (69 episodes)
6.    Bet Lynch (68 episodes)
7.    Hilda Ogden (68 episodes)
8.    Betty Turpin (68 episodes)
9.    Emily Nugent (66 episodes)
10.    Ken Barlow (65 episodes)
11.    Lucille Hewitt (62 episodes)
12.    Maggie Clegg (61 episodes)

Average age: 42

Note: This is the last time Lucille appears in the top 12

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Corrie - Friday's fantastic photo - June 12, 09

Look very closely at today's fantastic photo. There's something very odd about it, but what could it be? Here's Hilda Odgen in 1971, nagging Stan who's just lost another job. Nothing unusual that, I hear you say. And you'd be right!

The reconfiguration of No.4's interior a couple of years back, caused outrage amongst many Coronation Street fans, but Ashley and Claire Peacock's staircase wasn't the first one to mysteriously move. Oh no, siree. If you take a real, close look at this shot, you will see that the Odgens' staircase and doorway to the front parlour have swapped to opposite sides of the hallway - and for no apparent reason either! And then, as if by magic, it all moved back again a couple of months later. Weird.

Another staircase to move was the one in the Rovers, but whilst the actual layout (and size) of the pub interior has always been highly questionable - not to mention fluid - at least that move was included as part of the post-fire storyline in the mid-1980s. [Sky Clearbrook]