Why does Ken Barlow never mention his parents?
I am not a regular Coronation Street viewer, but I have read on the Internet (it might have been on a Digital Spy post) that Ken never mentions his parents for some reason, and there are no photos of them on display. I know they were only in the early years of the series (His mum Ida was killed off less than a year after Coronation Street started), but I would have believed for reasons of continuity, that Ken would mention them occasionally.
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Oh go on
He has an old photo album full of pics of his parents and his brother (it was shown in the New Year's Day 1990 episode where Ken attempted suicide), but yeah, it's strange that the only "relative" of Ken's on display as a picture is "Uncle" Albert Tatlock!
Stellas mum I in the show.
She never mentions her parents but she lives with this women who she happens to call mum;)
Well you can't blame Ken for not doing the same. Hasn't she been dead nigh on 40 years? Don't think Deidre would like her moving in as a house guest!
Yes but I bet a woman who has been dead for 40 years would still have a more interesting personality than some people I could name on the street. She'd probably smell better than some of them too.
Yes, sorry, blame the wine, no work today so I had a few extra glasses.
Albert Tatlock was more of a father figure to him.
I had heard how Ken was close to his first wife's Uncle Albert. I saw the earlier post about Albert's photo being in on display, but it does seem a bit odd that there aren't photos of Ken's parents and brother on display as well, although it was interesting to hear about his photo album.
The actress who played Ken's mum was called Noel Dyson and she was very posh in real life, I saw on the Internet that she was educated at Roedean and later at a Paris finishing school! I remember seeing her in UK Gold repeats of Father Dear Father in the early 90s as 'Nanny' the housekeeper.
I too don't doubt this
She quit the role of Ida in 1961 because she lived in London and got fed up commuting to Manchester every week to do Coronation Street.
She appeared in two Carry On movies, Carry On Constable (1960) and Carry On Cabby (1963). She was also in the 1979 BBC sitcom Potter with Arthur Lowe. Her last job, before her death in 1995, was playing Helen Mirren's mother in Prime Suspect.