Captain Platt

Captain Platt was the head of the bomb disposal squad who defused the unexploded device that Stan Ogden and Albert Tatlock found under the flags in the backyard of 1 Coronation Street. He came from Cheadle Hulme, just outside Manchester, and had boyhood memories of the Manchester Blitz of 23rd December 1940. He was played by John Quayle, many years before he appeared as semi-regular Anthony Stephens.