Mrs Thacker

Mr Bond was a sour-faced woman who sat next to Minnie Caldwell before Sunday Service at the Glad Tidings Mission Hall on 31st December 1967.

The news had just broken that the council had bought the mission with a compulsory purchase order and was going to demolish it. Mrs Thacker had mixed feelings on the matter; on the one hand she was tired of being shunted about, having already left Bold Street Mission when it amalgamated with Glad Tidings in 1965, and on the other she was relieved at no longer having to endure the draughts at Glad Tidings. Her gripe caused Minnie to leap to Ena Sharples's defence, telling Mrs Thacker that Ena worked herself to the bone in her position as Glad Tidings' caretaker, though Mrs Thacker hadn't meant her comment as a dig at Ena.

The cold, combined with Minnie's attitude, caused Mrs Thacker to walk out before the service had even begun, causing the dwindling congregation to shrink further, much to the dismay of lay preacher Mr Bond.


 * Mrs Thacker was the second of three pre-Vera Hopkins parts played by Kathy Staff, credited in this instance as "Katherine Staff".