21b Marsland Road

1973: Lucille Hewitt is lonely in her new bedsit

21b Marsland Road was an old building in Mossley Range, Weatherfield. By 1973, it had been converted into bedsits. George Scully was the landlord of the property, charging tenants a high rate of £6.50 per week for a room and usage of a shared bathroom and landline telephone.

In January of that year, Lucille Hewitt moved into Room 2, her first time living by herself. As the room wasn't much to look at, she set upon making it more homely by painting the chest of drawers purple and attaching a poster of Marc Bolan to the wall. By doing so, she angered her landlord who told her not to make any more changes without permission. In addition to this, she wasn't able to play her radio as it would garner complaints from her neighbour, and the landlord made a profit off the electric meter by charging tenants a higher rate. Although miserable there, Lucille was too proud to tell her friends back in Coronation Street, having walked out on her guardian Annie Walker.

After two weeks, by which time Annie, Billy Walker and Elsie Howard had seen the bedsit and been suitably horrified by the squalid conditions, Lucille accepted an invitation from Elsie to move into 11 Coronation Street. However, Scully refused to give Lucille her rental advance back and, inspecting the bedsit for damages, accused Lucille of breaking an element in an electric fire and demanded £4 from her to repair it, holding her suitcase as security. Alan Howard managed to retrieve the case by threatening Scully with the police and correctly observing that the element had been broken long before Lucille moved in.

List of appearances

1973

• Mon 29th Jan (Lucille's bedsit and communal hallway)
• Wed 31st Jan (Lucille's bedsit and communal hallway)
• Mon 5th Feb (Lucille's bedsit)
• Wed 7th Feb (Lucille's bedsit)
• Mon 12th Feb (Lucille's bedsit and communal hallway)
• Wed 14th Feb (Lucille's bedsit and communal hallway)