Yes, I agree Mags.
Still no-one seems to remember ‘Len’, or do they?
Us or in the programme JBR?
I remember Len.
I meant us!
The last time Len Fairclough was in the programme must have been the '70s or perhaps even the '60s, and I was assuming that many people here would not have been watching it that long ago.
Perhaps I’m wrong.
I remember Len … and I used to watch Corrie when it was black and white TVs 
I remember Len and I’m not so old 
If they are writing Rita out via Alzheimer’s, it’s not a good storyline. Like two weeks ago she was as fit as a fiddle, now she’s forgotten loaning some money and setting the alarm, to expecting Len for tea. All in 2/3 weeks.
Think the writers have seriously lost the plot of late
Yes, I remember watching the first episode at the end of 1960. I would have been only eight, yet for some reason I found it entertaining. I suppose I could relate to it, living in a back-to-back house in Bradford!
It was black and white for the next eight or nine years, and I think that somehow lent reality to the programme in that setting.
I remember Len Fairclough too.
Didn’t he have ‘a thing’ with Elsie Tanner?
Entirely agree Missy. It is happening far too quickly - unless it is not supposed to be Alzheimers?
Maybe it will be a brain tumour or something else?
Yes he did. They were amongst the original actors in the soap. I seem to remember that Len later got off with Rita, though.
Yes, I think you’re right JBR.
Do you remember Minnie Cauldwell too, Ena’s friend? 
Gosh, doesn’t that seem another lifetime ago now.
Look at how much older we’ve all got!
… and the third lady in the Snug, Martha Longhurst
Oh gosh Mags, yes, you’re right.
Are we really that old?
I’m afraid so Mups
And the first landlady, Annie Walker. And Uncle Albert Tatlock.
Phelan seems to have lost the plot too - he can’t seem to decide whether to cave Andy’s head in or to nurture him with favourite snacks and medication - and did my eyes deceive me or did he actually kiss his head before he left?
Perhaps they will make Phelan mentally ill… like people reckon most criminals are!
Phelan is pure evil, did anyone see his lightbulb moment last night.
Ena Sharples, Minnie Cauldwell and Martha Longhurst: the three witches.
My dad used to refer to the woman opposite our house as Ena Sharples.
And the henpecked Jack Walker!