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9th April 1979: Hilda Ogden never seemed to learn and was always making the cardinal mistake of going away for a few days to stay with family and leaving Stan on his own, or worse, with Eddie Yeats. Even she though couldn't have predicted what she would find when she returned on this occasion - a live chicken on her back room table. She was further startled to find a full coop in the back yard as Eddie had gone into the business of rearing them and earning money from the eggs. However his plans to keep them on Albert Tatlock's allotment had been scuppered when permission was refused by the council and 13 Coronation Street seemed the obvious fall-back. She was further annoyed when she discovered that each of them had been named after a woman in the Street and the one she had met first carried her own name...
 * For more information see Episode 1901 (9th April 1979).