August's calendar and a run-down of various Corrie events, all of which make it sound like a programme nobody would ever want to watch. It includes the wonderfully specific nervous breakdown date of Bert Tilsley (on 1st August 1983, presumably in response to it being Yorkshire Day).

Deirdre, young, beautiful and fuming, with no-good cad Ray in August '75.

Details of a painful August in 1983, with the arrival of Percy Sugdwn, the departure of Chalky Whiteley, and Bert Tilsley's "nervous breakdown"

Our Brian with Gail, grinning happily outside the original incarnation of Tilsley's Garage.

As usual, my 1986 #CoronationStreet calendar has skimped on neither detail nor beauty. #Corrie #ClassicCorrie #GailTilsley #BrianTilsley #DeirdreBarlow #DeirdreLangton #OurBrian #BertTilsley #PercySugden #RoversReturn #MissPopov #KenBarlow #AuntiePamWithHerBasketOfHam #Dev #Aadi #ReneeBradshaw #Todd

Ken Barlow, already middle-aged in 1973, appearing to gaze lecherously at the dressed-for-the-weather form of Joanna Lumley, in that role that media likes to tell us nobody knows she played.

Hilda (looking doggedly determined); Bet (looking nonchalantly glamourous); and Vera (looking as if she stinks of fags and Woolworths’s scent at ear-splatting decibels) on the starting line of the Rovers vs Flying Horse 1984 Olympic egg and spoon event, beneath banners and bunting.

Details of pre-1986 July Coronation Street storyline highlights. Mainly weddings, but also the death of poor old Renee.

Renee (whilst alive) and Ivy (dressed as a ‘tramp’) and Vera (similarly dressed, with the missing tooth you could blame nobody for knocking out).

Is it too much to hope that Glenda Shuttleworth has the same 1986 #CoronationStreet calendar as me, and we are soon to see Alya, Bernie and Evelyn lining up with eggs on spoons outside Audrey’s - ideally opposing The Bistro? #Corrie #CorrieCalendar #ClassicCorrie #HildaOgden #ReneeBradshaw #BetLynch