Coronation Street Very First Episode P2

[MrsWLeach]

One of the things I like about Corrie is the job reality. I've known people who've had to have two jobs to makes ends meet. Sean works at Underworld AND the Rovers. You don't see to much of that realism on this side of the pond. Everyone's rich or knows someone who is.

[MrsWLeach]

What are Surpluses?

[duncann]

@MrsWLeach They are the white gowns that church ministers and choirboys etc. wear in church.

[MrsWLeach]

@duncann  Oh, cool! THANKS!

[johnboytd]

MissBrookeAdams is CORRECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come back Ena and Elsie and the rest of the cast!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least the 'ams not off! (like the modern episodes!)

[MissBrookeAdams]

even this is mor entrertaining then the stories they do now

[littleniyah]

And no doubt, once you have your bay window, etc, you start looking down on where you came from, start equipping your children with faux-posh accents that get them battered every time they go to Wythenshawe to visit Grandma (hear the voice of experience?) I think it's something the middle class revolutionaries always failed to grasp: the passionate longing of so many working-class ppl to be 'respectable', to have that bay window and all it stands for.

[RiaLake]

Fascinating especially viewing Ena without a hairnet on!

[RiaLake]

Fascinating and interesting to Ena without a hairnet!

[kevinastraw]

"They won't eat you." And Ena comes in!

[littleniyah]

"He's always moody" - "Well, foreigners are"

"your Grandma Tanner was that bandy, she couldn't've stopped a pig in an entry"

And what is a "brass companion set"?

[thebedlingtonterrier]

@littleniyah A Brass companion set is a small shovel,a poker and a brush used with a coal fire

[givemethevalium]

There it is- Ken ordered the first ever pint (that WE saw) at the Rovers. Excellent to see him and Phillip Lowrie reunited in the same pub, 50 years later.

[littleniyah]

@givemethevalium It wasn't Ken, it was Dennis Tanner: Ken ordered fags, didn't he?

[jaimisbb]

ok so ken is old enough to smoke and drink but his father won't allow him to meet a girl at some hotel......wierd

[shakeafisttwice]

Ena Sharples steals it

[littleniyah]

@shakeafisttwice Ena Sharples' dialogue is so amazing I was stunned. If this had been performed on stage, critics would have been raving. Because it's a soap it doesn't get the recognition. Is anyone studying this at college? They should be! Look at what it tells you about life in working class Britain, all those subtle class nuances: "Esmerelda Street, eh? They're very bay-windowed round there." Such class resentment.

[shakeafisttwice]

@littleniyah I'm in the middle of doing my dissertation about this, it's about the gender representations and performances rather than class-however that obviously influences it

[littleniyah]

@shakeafisttwice Really, your dissertation? Brilliant! As to gender relations, the women steal this show entirely. There is plenty to go on. This is my own family background: however, my parents became "very bay-windowed" by moving to a private house, not council, and it does have a bay window! The street is half private and half council and true enough, the council houses don't have them.

[matthewsomethingteen]

is albert tatlock frank barlows brother

[Pinkwan]

dennis tanner cuite

[FIVECATSable]

ey up chuck episode 1 part 2 - will he meet that girl at the Imperial hotel?

[MsRosy45]

This was On ITV BBC never had adverts. Granada tv it was the start of ITv. Eastenders was on BBC and still is :) ive watched it from day 1. As like the archers lol ok so I'm old lol

[IDontLiveTodayJH]

"They're very bay window over there" ! lol the more I watch this the more I realise that im watching a different world.

[Ellis01234567890]

this is the first vid ive seen thats over a year old and has no dislikes

[sludgefingers]

... and from 7:24 to 9:13 Violet Carson's lines are brilliantly delivered and define the whole series. "Where're you being buried?" LOL.

[MeBenHalpin]

@sludgefingers Ah that was very well delivered from very strong minded old woman Ena Sharples (Violet Carson)

[sludgefingers]

At 5:40 : 'without a word of a lie, yer grandma was that bandy she couldn't have stopped a pig in an entry'. Do I detect the influence of Noel Coward?

[pauline5248]

Wonderful stuff! Did anybody notice somebody coughing In Florrie Linley's shop when there were no other customers? It happened twice. Oh the joys of live TV!

[sissors66]

annie walker never aged

[MeBenHalpin]

@sissors66 I agree, even when she left the show in 1983, she still looked in good shape.

[radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:02 To 0:15, It Was "Coronation Street" Break Video Bumper #2 From December 9, 1960.

[BobTheMunificent]

Brilliant! And the first use of "she were that bandy, she couldn't stop a pig in an entry" on Corrie!

[bradshawvincent]

by heck this brings back memories!

[mycorrieblog]

Thanks for this great video!

[TheWhitehall]

Annie Walker....actress Doris Speed. Could say so much with just a "look". Early days.

[ianpafc]

Where you being buried?

Typical Ena

Sharples best character theyve ever had

[JJBJJBJJBJJBJJBJJB]

has anyone else noticed how much media eastenders is getting for 25 years, i bet in december corrie wont see near as much for their 50th, just shows how the south is favored

[MeBenHalpin]

@JJBJJBJJBJJBJJBJJB Believe it will, still remember the media attention it got when it was 40 and 50 years on air is bigger milestone, wonder what the big storyline will be though.

[MusicalsMakeMyWorldS]

@JJBJJBJJBJJBJJBJJB I think with the major storyline planned it will get even more publicity.

[cbak12sg]

@JJBJJBJJBJJBJJBJJB Actually there has just been a superb drama on TV about the start of Coronation Street. The irony is that this was on the BBC! One of the stars was Jessie Wallace (Kat Slater in EastEnders), who played Pat Phoenix.

[JJBJJBJJBJJBJJBJJB]

@cbak12sg yes, i did watch it, and if you will see, my comment was made months ago before anyone new anything about it

[cbak12sg]

@JJBJJBJJBJJBJJBJJB You're right. I was always going to see the production on BBC4. Can't say I'm that bothered to watch the show itself.

[gallafey]

I must say that the standard of writting back then was alot better & so was the acting the storylines in presant Coranation Street episodes it seems the writers can't think of anything else other than people having affairs I mean the Kevin & Molly story is just the Kevin & Natallie affair recykled and seem odd that in living the street seem to forgot about that I think Sally I don't if she found out personlly I don't really care

[littleniyah]

@gallafey I agree with you. They just started showing it in Hong Kong. It's rubbish. The acting is wooden and the storylines have nothing going on. This stuff is practically Shakespeare, really it is. All this brilliant observation about a changing world, the character traits, and then Ena Sharples, amazing! I love the Barlow's class war. That's surely where Monty Python got their famous sketch, inverting this.

[BritishBuzzard]

I was a few days past my eigth birthday when this first aired. Haven't seen Coronation Street for better than thirty odd years, yet I remembered most all of these characters by name upon viewing this. Sorry, I'd forgotten about Linda (Tanner). Me Mum was born and raised right close to what would have been Coronation Street, so as you might imagine she never missed a show until she passed away in '72. The folk in this show were almost like family to us.

[mujibatt]

@BritishBuzzard wow your mum died young :(

its a great show..

[pflowerdew]

wot about the standerd of acting compared with current episodes!! Far better.

[seanokeogh1988]

"he's that moody"

"ah well, foreigners are"

hehe

[michaelleacy]

Amazing to watch now - arguing over an egg! And the fact that they'd buy eggs or ham that would be off

[m3site]

oh what fun to see Ken Barlow at this young age!

[MJJLWolf]

who was the woman behind the counter talking to ena?

[pahoboye]

hilarious...ena sharples....your whole life examined in one transaction...priceless

[santana160]

"very bay winda down there", priceless!

[pflowerdew]

@santana160

Eye lad reet bay winda. Fantastic impressionistic description of middle class urban life

[AlbieGray]

I also loved that line that Elsie said to Florrie before she went to put Kettle on, "You'll be all right on yer own, they won't eat ye, ye know." Nice line!

[pauline5248]

@AlbieGray That wasn't Elsie. That was the former shop owner who wasn't in it long.

[AlbieGray]

@pauline5248 Wasn't her name Elsie too? Elsie Lappin? I knew there was Elsie Tanner. Were you thinking of Elsie Lappin or Florrie Lindley.

[AlbieGray]

@pauline5248 I guess, I was referring to Elsie Lappin. The original shop owner. That was who I was talking about.

[pauline5248]

@AlbieGray You're quite right and I stand corrected. I've just checked on Part 1. If you're careful you can spot that the departing shop owner was indeed one Elsie Lappin; see the sign over the door.

[AlbieGray]

@pauline5248 Yep.



[thirtymphs]

What a wonderful introduction for Ena. It definitely set the standard for her character. :)