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• [Deleted User] Posts: 10

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  11/12/10 - 01:18 #2

  
  
  That was poor old Martha Longhurst. Didn't have much of a Street life did she!

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  11/12/10 - 01:21 #3

  awaa,thanks, my mums eighty years old, and we had a bet she was a Martha, -brilliant character',
  Thank you

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  11/12/10 - 01:28 #4

  Hers was the first shock death in Coronation Street as I remember.

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  11/12/10 - 01:31 #5

  From wikipedia:
  

  Originally, the bar was divided into three separate bars; the public, the snug (usually inhabited by unaccompanied ladies where drinks were half a penny cheaper) and the select (where drinks were more expensive but were served by waitress service).[3] As late as 1960, the ruling in the pub was that ladies were not allowed to remain at the bar after being served. These archaic rules were dropped in the early 1960s. When the fire gutted the pub in 1986, the three bars were knocked into one large modern bar.

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  11/12/10 - 01:35 #6

  How did she meet her end, back in the sixties there were no :shock deaths'?
  But I do remember her, portrayed as quite a caustic woman.
  (unlike Ena, that was the same, but had a tender side}

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  11/12/10 - 01:38 #7

  lady killigrew wrote: »

  How did she meet her end, back in the sixties there were no :shock deaths'?
  But I do remember her, portrayed as quite a caustic woman.
  (unlike Ena, that was the same, but had a tender side}

  
  This is how Lynne Carol (Martha) looked in 1988 ywo years before she died:
  
  http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AzT5pruwnbg/S_1nrAoOszI/AAAAAAAAIvk/jIvnuDK6xPI/s400/Lynne+Carol+1988.jpg
  
  http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100127102353/coronationstreet/images/b/b6/Lynne_Carol.jpg
  
  and as she was:
  
  http://www.virginmedia.com/images/Slide-16-Coronation-Street-Original-Cast-Martha-Longhurst-692549ck-290x400.jpg

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  11/12/10 - 01:41 #8

  thank you for that Marjuk,
  
  my mum wil be grateful !
  you are a star!!

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  11/12/10 - 01:48 #9

  These are Martha's final scenes
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAsaAWnscog

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  11/12/10 - 01:51 #10

  lady killigrew wrote: »

  thank you for that Marjuk,
  
  my mum wil be grateful !
  you are a star!!

  
  I thought those pictures when I first saw them were Margot Bryant (Minnie), as Lynne Carol changed a lot in those 24 years!

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  11/12/10 - 01:54 #11

  eye3 wrote: »

  These are Martha's final scenes
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAsaAWnscog

  
  There was a story in 1974.........
  

  The 1964 episode of her death, however, was not the last time Martha Longhurst featured in a Coronation Street storyline. Over 10 years after her death, Betty Turpin, barmaid at the Rovers Return, reported hearing a voice like Martha's in the snug. Ena Sharples claimed later in the storyline that she had seen the ghost of Martha Longhurst in the snug on several occasions. The residents used a ouija board to try and call Martha from beyond the grave. The storyline concluded with Martha's glasses being found in the Snug of the Rovers Return, in the exact position they were when they toppled off her face as she suffered a heart attack at the same table 10 years previously

  
  The continuity error was the glasses did not fall off her face she placed them down in the table!

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  11/12/10 - 02:07 #12

  another one, thank you eye 3,
  lovely to see Doris Speed and Jack behind the bar.
  Albert Tatlock, has not been mentioned in the 50'th birthday series, nor Emily Nugent, to my knowledge.

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  11/12/10 - 02:12 #13

  lady killigrew wrote: »

  another one, thank you eye 3,
  lovely to see Doris Speed and Jack behind the bar.
  Albert Tatlock, has not been mentioned in the 50'th birthday series, nor Emily Nugent, to my knowledge.

  
  I also think the 2005 return of Ray Langton was a fantastic story. He was also the second person to ever die in the rovers!
  
  Some say comebacks do not work, well his certainly did!

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  11/12/10 - 14:31 #14

  lady killigrew wrote: »

  How did she meet her end, back in the sixties there were no :shock deaths'?
  But I do remember her, portrayed as quite a caustic woman.
  (unlike Ena, that was the same, but had a tender side}

  
  She just keeled over at the table in the Rovers. Just people dying was a shock in those days and we didn't have all the spoilers in the papers /mags months in advance. I'm glad I don't read the mags etc because I had no idea who was going to be killed off this week.

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  11/12/10 - 19:50 #15

  lady killigrew wrote: »

  thank you for that Marjuk,
  
  my mum wil be grateful !
  you are a star!!

  
  Those pictures of Lynne Carol (Martha) in 1988 came from this video:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgcXfixWjhM

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  11/12/10 - 22:52 #16

  You've got to hand it to producer Tim Aspinall, he joined the show intending to cull the cast and by the end of his first episode Martha was dead and Frank's departure storyline had been set in motion. Even the most bloodthirsty modern producers can't compare!

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