When it was announced that the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to pen an ode to Corrie for the soap's 50th anniversary this year, we asked Corrie fans to pen their own odes too.And so, here's the first, below. It comes in from Llifon Jones who blogs wonderfully at the Coronation Street Corner.
Back in 1960,
A little soap began.
That would in time give us,
The likes of Hilda and Stan.
In the sixties, you had the Walkers,
Ena, Elsie and Len.
And not forgetting Albert,
Minnie, Martha and Ken.
With the seventies came colour,
Plus Bet, Rita and Deirdre.
And the violent death of Ernest,
In Mike Baldwin’s factory.
Only Ken was there by ‘84,
All the originals had gone through the door.
And the eighties saw the deaths of Brian Tilsley,
Stan Ogden and Alan Bradley.
The nineties saw great changes
Bidding farewell to Mavis, Alf and Bet.
As well as new characters,
We saw an expansion in the set.
And now reaching fifty,
Corrie’s still great.
We still go to Weatherfield,
At half seven and half eight!