Freda Woods

Freda Woods worked at the Legion. Stan had told Hilda that he was going there (although he actually went to the Social Club) and when he came home at 3am, Hilda was suspicious. Hilda later heard Mike and Bert talking about the new barmaid, Freda, at the Legion and when Ernie accidentally called Hilda Freda, Hilda thought Stan must have spent the night with her.

When Hilda went to the Legion to confront Freda, she assumes Hilda to be her mothers’ new home-help, as she has a bad leg. Freda explains to Hilda that she gets offers to walk her home from a different man every night, and she then invites them in for coffee. Consequently she can’t be sure that one of these men wasn’t Stan, although she doesn’t remember a man with a moustache. Later, Eddie brings her round to the Rovers to prove she doesn’t recognise Stan. Stan, upon seeing her, describes her as a ‘bit flash’ and assumes it is Eddie’s new woman. When Hilda points Stan out to Freda she replies “ooh, I would be hard up, wouldn’t I?”

She appeared in Episode 2109 (17th June 1981) and was played by Rita May, in her second role in the programme.