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22nd September 1971: Ray Langton's over-developed sense of humour sometimes got him into trouble and never more so than when in April 1971 a prank on Stan Ogden resulted in him getting the sack. Feeling guilty, Ray offered Stan a job at the builder's yard and began to regret his actions as Stan botched up job after job for several months - when he could be bothered to work at all. Meanwhile Stan was aggrieved that Ray and Len Fairclough didn't trust his skills and, at the suggestion of Minnie Caldwell, he decided to make some home improvements at 13 Coronation Street to show off to them and decided to use the plans for a serving hatch he found in the yard office. There were two problems: the plans were for a works' canteen and the resulting hole was rather large for the back room of a terrace house; and secondly, the hatch was to a room where the Ogdens didn't eat their meals in the first place...
 * For more information see Episode 1115 (22nd September 1971).