Template:26 December

26th December 1966: Valerie Barlow had the idea of organising a fancy dress party for the street residents in the Mission of Glad Tidings. She and Ken decorated the hall and everyone turned up in their costumes on the day which up until that point they had kept a secret. Well almost everyone - Hilda Ogden couldn't afford a costume and Ena Sharples was too busy nursing her dying daughter, Vera Lomax. Dennis Tanner and Len Fairclough were annoyed that they had both come as Batman while Elsie Tanner raised eyebrows in her low-cut traditional Spanish dress. The star of the show though - and determined to be so - was Annie Walker who made a superbly timed late entrance as Elizabeth I and was delighted to win a prize for her efforts.
 * For more information see Episode 630 (26th December 1966).