Mr Rodgers (1971/4 character)

Mr Rodgers was one of five members of a panel interviewing applicants for the post of caretaker at the newly-built Community Centre in Coronation Street in May 1971. Along with Alf Roberts, Ernest Bishop, Miss Prowse and Mrs Mellish, he interviewed Mrs Helliwell, Hetty Thorpe, Mr Draper and Ena Sharples.

Ena was the favoured candidate for Alf and Ernie, mainly because of a combinations of threats and blackmail she had made to the two men. During the interview at Weatherfield Town Hall, Mr Rodgers remembered Ena from her April 1969 protest outside the Town Hall over the proposed demolition of an OAP clubhouse but Alf managed to talk him round from taking too negative a view of that occurrence. Nevertheless Mr Rodgers ended up voting with the two ladies for Hetty Thorpe to be given the job.