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24th January 1968: The 1960s were times of major change for the great industrial cities of the north as town planners, with little heed for the wishes of their own residents, demolished vast swathes of communities, all in the name of progress. Weatherfield was no exception and things came too close to home for some of the residents of Coronation Street when the council made a compulsary purchase order on Elliston's Raincoat Factory and the Mission of Glad Tidings in December 1967. While no one was sorry to see the monolith of the factory go, Ena Sharples was devastated that her home of thirty years at the Vestry would be pulled down. Come the day one month later, the residents watched with interest as a bulldozer tore at the fabric of the building while behind them, almost unnoticed, Ena turned away and sobbed into her handkerchief, unable to take in the sight before her any more...
 * For more information see Episode 742 (24th January 1968).