Christmas on Coronation Street
By DINNERLADY
@lazydaizee (6732)
United Kingdom
February 17, 2020 5:51am CST
I found this book in a charity shop the other day and I decided to buy it even though it has a Christmas theme and it is now the middle of February. The reason I brought it was because it is a story about Coronation Street which is a long running British soap opera which first started in 1961 and is still going strong today.
The story is about one of the character`s early life and about how she grew up in a nearby slum and moved into a house on Coronation Street. The character featured in the story was Elsie Grimshaw who was known throughout the series as Elsie Tanner.
Do you ever watch Coronation Street or any other soap operas?
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
19 Feb 20
It is still running now. I used to enjoy watching Australian soaps too like Neighbours and Home and away which were popular back in the 1980s.
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Feb 20
@lazydaizee Home and Away is still going.
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
20 Feb 20
@JudyEv I used to like watching Home and Away back in the 1980s because Summer Bay looked like a really nice place. Do any of the original characters still have parts in the programme? I can remember a middle aged couple owning a café where everything seemed to happen.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
19 Feb 20
@lazydaizee I gave up soap operas in the '70s.
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
19 Feb 20
Do you ever watch any soap operas?, I suppose they do not have Coronation Street where you live.
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
20 Feb 20
@just4him I don't blame you because most of them show the same storylines over and over. Just with different characters, always the same sort of problems.
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@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
17 Feb 20
I used to watch a couple of American soaps. I got out of the habit when I went to boot camp: I was gone ten weeks, came home to the soaps, and nothing had changed in the storylines!
I’ve never seen Corrie but I know about it. In fact, an actor in one of my favorite old ITV shows, Kenneth Cope (from Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) ) was on Corrie in the early 60s. (He met his wife in the show!)
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@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
19 Feb 20
@lazydaizee — I didn’t see it until I was a teenager in the mid-70s. There was an independent TV station near where I lived that showed old movies, old American TV shows, and most of the 60s ITC shows (The Prisoner, The Baron, Department S, etc.) They renamed R&H “My Partner the Ghost” for the US airings. The DVD box set has those US opening titles on it as part of the “extras.” 
All that exposure to late 60s TV shows is why I have a “region-free” DVD player! 
All that exposure to late 60s TV shows is why I have a “region-free” DVD player! 1 person likes this
@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
20 Feb 20
@FourWalls I enjoy watching shows from the late 1960s, it is good to see how things have changed.
@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
19 Feb 20
I remember watching Randall and Hopkirk when I was a child. I found it pretty scary at the time when the `ghost' kept popping up all over the place.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
22 Feb 20
@lazydaizee yes and I hope it turns out to be a good read as well
@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
19 Feb 20
It is a nice cover, good colours and very eye catching.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8765)
• United States
17 Feb 20
I've never heard of it, and I don't watch any soap operas. Cute cover on the book!
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
19 Feb 20
Yes, it is a nice cover, that is what drew my attention to the book when I first saw it.
