What are your first memories of Coronation Street?

What are some of your first memories of watching Coronation Street?

I've been watching the show since before I can remember. Corrie was always part of our house, it was always on. I used to watch it with my mam and my grandma as my mam tutted at Elsie Tanner's antics and grandma and I relished in Elsie's naughtiness.

I can't recall any exact first moments or storylines, and the point at which I turned into a regular watcher is lost in the mists of time.

However, I must have tuned in properly around 1974, at the age of 10 years old. 1974 was the year that the women went to Majorca when Bet won on Spot the Ball, a storyline I remember, and love.   I also remember scenes of Elsie Tanner rinsing her stockings out in the kitchen sink, smoking, applying make-up and crying it off again.

What are your first memories of our favourite show?

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Coronation Street memories

In response to the post about Stephen Hancock (Ernest Bishop) earlier in the week, John M told us that the storyline of Ernest's murder was his earliest Corrie memory. Back when we broke the news of the planned tram crash, I said that the train crash back in 1967 was my earliest memory. It was certainly the first major story I remember though I have a vague memory, aren't they all nowadays, of Ena and Minnie walking down the street with Ena urging Minnie to hurry up as she was dawdling to avoid stepping on the cracks in the pavement.

So, Coronation Street blog readers, what are your earliest memories of goings on down our favourite street?