Episode 569 (25th May 1966)

Plot
Minnie has been overworking and is told to rest. Bobby goes down with flu and they are both nursed by Jed. Stan starts with his ice cream van. The skeleton staff moves into the factory in readiness for the opening and two fo them, Bet Lynch and her friend Cilla investigate the Rovers. Stan does well in the ice cream van. Irma and Lucille get jobs at the factory, as welders. Annie is horrified. Jack reminds her that she started off in the weaving shed. Irma gives Hilda the job of assistant at the shop. David is annoyed. Ice cream baroness, Rose Bonetti catches Stan on her patch and declares war on him.

Regular cast

 * David Barlow - Alan Rothwell
 * Annie Walker - Doris Speed
 * Jack Walker - Arthur Leslie
 * Ena Sharples - Violet Carson
 * Minnie Caldwell - Margot Bryant
 * Albert Tatlock - Jack Howarth
 * Len Fairclough - Peter Adamson
 * Lucille Hewitt - Jennifer Moss
 * Stan Ogden - Bernard Youens
 * Hilda Ogden - Jean Alexander
 * Irma Barlow - Sandra Gough
 * Jed Stone - Kenneth Cope
 * Bet Lynch - Julie Goodyear

Guest cast

 * Wally Tanner - George Betton
 * Ruth Winter - Colette O'Neill
 * Mrs Bonetti - Lila Kaye
 * Boy - Ian Dawson
 * Cilla - Sandra Downes