1966

January
Ken Barlow has an affair with Weatherfield Gazette reporter Jackie Marsh, who covered David's accident. Val, meanwhile, is given a piano and has lessons from Ena. After strong disagreements, David and Irma Barlow decide to buy the Corner Shop from Lionel Petty. An ecstatic Stan Ogden celebrates eight draws on the football coupon - only to find that Hilda has incorrectly filled it in.

Jed Stone returns and resumes life at Minnie's. Emily Nugent has an offer from holiday friend St John Hunter to manage a souvenir shop in Majorca.

February
Albert Tatlock becomes friendly with Clara Midgeley and they visit Cleveleys together. After a farewell party Miss Nugent leaves ostensibly for Majorca, but conscience beckons. At the last minute she secretly goes to Harrogate to nurse her father, who is recovering from a stroke. Nasty Ray Langton appears in the Street and plunges into an affair with Lucille. He steals £5 from the Barlows when they baby-sit together.

March
Clara Midgeley proposes to Albert, who decides she is too pushy and turns her down. Elsie disconnects her feelings for telephone engineer Jim Mount when she finds he has no serious intentions of marriage. Jed Stone teams up with Dennis Tanner to run boarding kennels under the Viaduct.

April
Valerie tackles Ken about his affair with Jackie Marsh, but he swears it was platonic. Len sacks light-fingered Ray Langton for stealing a bottle of whiskey from the Rovers, and deducts the cost, along with the Barlow's £5, from his wages. Ray leaves the Street.

Ena Sharples, who has given her life savings to her daughter Vera, is caught shop-lifting in the Pick-a-Snip supermarket and fined £2. To add to her problems the Mission is scheduled for demolition. Social worker Ruth Winter tries to rehouse her, but Ena stubbornly refuses to co-operate.

May
Despite the disapproval of Annie Walker and David Barlow, Lucille and Irma both take £15 a week jobs at the newly-opened Elliston's Raincoat Factory. Bet Lynch rnakes her first appearance in the Street as a rag-trade employee, and Annie considers her 'rather common'.

Stan buys an ice-cream van but his rivals, the Bonarti's take all his business. Stan has to give up and sell off his surplus stock. Minnie is depressed because her cat Bobbie has the flu. Jed Stone takes her to the Orinoco Club to watch Randolph Sutton, to cheer her up.

June
Stan Ogden takes up the offer of an ice-cream round for the Bonarti's. Hilda suspects Stan of having an affair with Mrs Rose Bonarti and reports him for trading without a licence. Sheila Birtles returns from Rawtenstall, to lodge with Elsie and take a job at the raincoat factory. Jerry Booth and Sheila resume their affair.

July
Dennis Tallner returns to the Street £94 in debt from a gaming fiddle that backfired. Bookie Dave Smith makes Elsie an offer - he will pay the debt in return for 'favours'. Elsie refuses and Len gives Dennis a job to help him out. Ken Barlow holds an evening of cultural films at the Mission, but the distributors send nudist movies by mistake.

August
Jerry seeks a divorce from Myra, and runs into opposition from her father, George Dickinson. A glowing Annie is nominated by Colonel and Mrs Arkinstall as a candidate for the Federation of Women's Associations in the local election.

Annie is horrified when Jack insults the Colonel at a British Legion reunion, but all is not lost- Mrs Arkinstall diplomatically praises Jack's 'unyielding qualities'.

September
Election Day. Len opposes Annie as Independent candidate. They tie, but after a recount the result is the same. Len wins on the toss of a coin. At the Corner Shop, David and Irma are visited by a health inspector after the potted meat for the election party causes food poisoning

Hilda and Stan join David and Irma for a weekend away from it all in Wales. Their caravan is marooned by cattle, and an angry farmer threatens them with legal action. Jed Stone is arrested at Minnie's birthday party for receiving stolen blankets, and sentenced to eighteen months.

October
Linda and Ivan Cheveski return from Canada. Elsie, sacked from the Laundryer for taking time off, receives anonymous phone calls. They are traced to widow Mrs Robert Maxwell, who has become mentally disturbed.

Jed Stone, in Walton Jail, asks Minnie to auction his belongings. Neighbours conspire to offer more than they are worth. Annie Walker bids for a two shilling cameo brooch and discovers it is worth £15.

November
Young Paul Cheveski goes missing and is pulled from the canal by an unknown rescuer. Elsie rounds on Len, who blocked council proposals to fence the canal for financial reasons. Paul's father Ivan reads a newspaper report, which also blames Len, and after two pints, punches him. Later, in the Rovers, they make it up.

December
Stan Ogden faces Christmas on the dole after being made redundant from his milk round. Elsie returns to Miami Modes as supervisor. Former Gamma relief manager Neil Crossley leaves the Street arm-in-arm with Sheila Birtles - they plan to marry.

Ena's daughter Vera stays with her because she cannot cope at home. Ena accuses her of malingering, unaware that she is dying of a brain tumor. Val and Ken Barlow throw a Street fancy dress party in the Mission for Christmas. Annie Walker surprises no one by going as Queen Elizabeth I.


Written by Graham Nown
© Graham Nown, 1985. Reproduced with permission. Do not reproduce this without permission.

 

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