Emily Bishop

Emily made her first Street appearance in 1961, the second longest surviving character in the Street.

In the 1960s, Timid Emily Nugent was secretary to the Weatherfield Mission Circuit. She jilted Leonard Swindley of whom she had admired from afair at the altar in 1964. She had been a shop assistant at Gamma Garments and eventually became manageress. She then worked at Ernest Bishop's camera shop, Dawson's bakery and Mike Baldwin's factory. She married Ernest in 1972, but six years later he was shot by two youths. In 1980 she married Arnold Swain who turned out to be a suicidal bigamist. The marriage annulled, she took in lodgers Curly Watts and Kevin Webster before becoming stuck with Percy Sugden. In 1993, the Rev. Bernard Morten proposed marriage but dumped her when he found out she had suffered a mental breakdown. As of late, Emily has had a reasonably quiet life aside from having to put up with her gossipy lodger Norris Cole and in 2003 when she survived Richard Hillman's attempt to try and kill her off. A devoted Christain, Emily lives at No. 3 and is now long since been retired. Emily is played by Eileen Derbyshire.