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19th August 1974: It was in many ways an ordinary day for the residents of Coronation Street. At the Mark Brittain Warehouse, Ken Barlow, the Northern Executive Administrative Assistant for the company, eat with the staff in their canteen, keen to listen to their concerns and grievances. He quickly learned that they wanted unionisation. Across the street, Billy Walker asked Deirdre Hunt to help out at the short-handed Rovers and then ran her home afterwards. At the meeting to discuss the union, one of the more strident voices was that of Vera Duckworth while at Deirdre's house Billy met her mother, Blanche Hunt - two of the most memorable residents of the street had arrived...

Note: In this debut appearance, Blanche was played by Patricia Cutts and not the much-missed Maggie Jones
 * For more information see Episode 1418 (19th August 1974).