Percy Bridge

Percy Bridge was an out-of-work man who conned Elsie Tanner out of some money in January 1967. Percy told Elsie that it was he who pulled her grandson Paul Cheveski out of the canal when he fell in an accident in November, a few months earlier. Elsie only knew that he'd been rescued by a mystery man and welcomed Percy into her life when he told her what he'd done. Elsie was confused by his behaviour at first, as he'd tried to talk to her in the Rovers and she had to wheedle the confession out of him after seeing him in the Street. When he told her who he was, a grateful Elsie cooked him dinner and gave him £2, feeling sorry for him as he was out of work.

In actuality, it was not Percy Bridge who rescued Paul from the canal, but Dave Smith. Elsie found out a few weeks later, just after giving Percy money to pay off his old landlady whom Percy claimed was withholding his clothes until he paid her. In the Rovers, Dave produced Paul's cap as proof that he was there, and an appalled Elsie managed to get her money back from Percy. The incident brought Elsie and Dave closer together.

While in Coronation Street, Percy went after the shop flat but Emily Nugent returned to the area and David and Irma Barlow rented it to him instead. He also spent some time in the Rovers, getting friendly with another unemployed man, Stan Ogden. Percy told others that he was brought up by his then-85-year-old grandmother who lived in Bessie Street, but whether this is true or whether he was only in the area to get close to Elsie is unknown.

1967

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