Len & Elsie - The Coronation Street Collection 9 of 9

It was the tempestuous, on-again off-again relationship that dominated the 1960s. Elsie Tanner and Len Fairclough delighted fans as they fell in and out of love with each other, never able to decide if they were right for each other. The Coronation Street Collection invites you to relive one of the Streets most memorable relationships...

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Entertainment

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• coronation street
• corrie
• rita
• dennis
• elsie tanner
• len fairclough
• ena sharples
• rovers return
• 1960s
• tony warren

[ohwell94]

@CarlD2 wow Elsie knocks on the door walks in and says only me the door was onlocked Sad to see those days gone now.. We have keep the doors firmly shut and locked now home or not how times have changed (for the worse it seems sometimes!) and they don't make the characters or storylines like this anymore

[MegaGlamma]

Corrie could do with a few more fiesty older women like Pat Phoenix - wasn't she utterly fabulous!

[montrealandtor]

Both Elsie and Rita are among my favourite women on Corrie...they certainly had some degree of similarity, not just superficially (glamorous redheads) but in some areas of temperament. Not surprising that Len married Rita.

[Messylin]

@CarlD2 - you hit it on the nose. Essentially, this is what all soaps are missing now - depth. I suppose the writers don't trust viewers to be intelligent or imaginative and so cater to the very basic impulses for sex and action.

[CarlD2]

Thanks so much for sharing this. I'd seen the episode where they found out Len had died but never the scenes where Elsie comforts Rita.

Elsie was such an incredible character and her relationship with Len was so complex, fun, heartbreaking, addictive. The show doesn't know or care how to do that anymore.

[Feisty1967]

Christ, I just got it Mike Baldwin. My memory is getting shocking these days.

[FatknackerMacca]

How heartbreaking is the scene between Rita and Elsie here? Superb acting from Barbara Knox.