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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cobbles" data-source="post: 238368" data-attributes="member: 5138">Something a bit different as neither of these a really worthy of full biographies....Elsie Lappin[ATTACH=full]22780[/ATTACH]Elsie Lappin was the first owner of the corner shop in the show, though she quickly sold it Florrie Lindley and upped sticks within two episodes. The character was brought into the initial episode to help Warren write the gossiping aspect of the show that would enable him to introduce some of the other characters on the street through opinions of an established resident to a new resident. Elsie wasn't short of advice for the newly incumbent Florrie Lindley with a load of tidbitsSusan Cunningham[ATTACH=full]22779[/ATTACH]Susan Cunningham was a short term girlfriend of Ken Barlow's in the earlier episodes who he was concerned about bring back to Coronation Street. She was at the centre of his row with his father Frank about taking her to the imperial hotel. A rather inconsequential character until a baffling recon in 2010 than saw Ken finding out that a lost letter she'd sent in 1961/1962 regarding the fact Susan had found she was preggers by Ken with a son who she'd name Lawrence. Ken never met Lawrence until 2010 Ken found the letter down the back of his skirting board and got in contact with his long missing son Lawrence - his grandson James would briefly move into No 1 Coronation Street.</blockquote>