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<blockquote data-quote="cobbles" data-source="post: 237840" data-attributes="member: 5138"><p><strong><u><span style="font-size: 18px">Annie Walker</span></u></strong></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]22696[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]22697[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]22695[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Annie Walker was introduced on the 9th December 1960 as the landlady of the Rovers Return. The licensing was in the name of Jack Walker, but anybody who walked into the pub could soon tell you who really ran the shop. She was played by Doris Speed.</p><p></p><p> Annie was a snob, viewing herself as a cut above her patrons and often letting them know. She had come from a good background in a well to do family, but that had took a tumble leading her to eventually end up at the Rovers in 1937 after several years ending up manning the joint while Jack went to serve in the war.</p><p></p><p> Her storylines would include assumption that Jack was having an affair and almost splitting up with him, her informal adoption of Lucille Hewitt and the death of her husband Jack Walker. </p><p></p><p> Essentially Annie served as a constant in the show 24 years running the Rovers - bossing around her barmaids including perhaps the most famous team of Bet and Betty - and snobbing at her neighbours and the commonality of them. She had an obsession with social class and status that stemmed from her own personal fall down the ladder, a desperation to cope with it or rebuild it perhaps? </p><p></p><p>Either way she managed to find somewhere her eccentricities were tolerated - and even became much liked among the locals to the point of them helping her keep her pub following Jack’s death - on a backstreet in Weatherfield.</p><p></p><p>She left the show in 1983 - sadly as a result of a press story getting out showing that Doris Speed's real age was 14 years older than she had always claimed. An unnecessarily cruel thing to do to a lady her age and quickly followed by a burglary at her home address that sealed her departure from the show. Initially as a brief period of rest she never returned - moving into a nursing home shortly afterwards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cobbles, post: 237840, member: 5138"] [B][U][SIZE=5]Annie Walker[/SIZE][/U][/B][U][SIZE=5][/SIZE][/U] [ATTACH type="full" width="189px"]22696[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" width="315px"]22697[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" width="210px"]22695[/ATTACH] Annie Walker was introduced on the 9th December 1960 as the landlady of the Rovers Return. The licensing was in the name of Jack Walker, but anybody who walked into the pub could soon tell you who really ran the shop. She was played by Doris Speed. Annie was a snob, viewing herself as a cut above her patrons and often letting them know. She had come from a good background in a well to do family, but that had took a tumble leading her to eventually end up at the Rovers in 1937 after several years ending up manning the joint while Jack went to serve in the war. Her storylines would include assumption that Jack was having an affair and almost splitting up with him, her informal adoption of Lucille Hewitt and the death of her husband Jack Walker. Essentially Annie served as a constant in the show 24 years running the Rovers - bossing around her barmaids including perhaps the most famous team of Bet and Betty - and snobbing at her neighbours and the commonality of them. She had an obsession with social class and status that stemmed from her own personal fall down the ladder, a desperation to cope with it or rebuild it perhaps? Either way she managed to find somewhere her eccentricities were tolerated - and even became much liked among the locals to the point of them helping her keep her pub following Jack’s death - on a backstreet in Weatherfield. She left the show in 1983 - sadly as a result of a press story getting out showing that Doris Speed's real age was 14 years older than she had always claimed. An unnecessarily cruel thing to do to a lady her age and quickly followed by a burglary at her home address that sealed her departure from the show. Initially as a brief period of rest she never returned - moving into a nursing home shortly afterwards. [/QUOTE]
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