Template:11 September

11th September 1961: Frank Barlow worried when Ida was late returning from a visit to see Beattie Pearson who had just come out of hospital. As he fretted, Ken volunteered to take the bus to Beattie's to see where she had got to and found that she had failed to turn up. When Ken returned and told Frank the news, he insisted on ringing the police from the Rovers (the pub having the only phone in the street). While the residents fretted, the police were able to use Frank's description to put two and two together: a woman had been knocked down and killed in Gray Street that morning but she had no identification on her. A policeman turned up on Coronation Street to break the sad news to Frank that he was now a widower...
 * For more information see Episode 78 (11th September 1961).