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Clara Regan was the blonde lady friend of Stan Ogden, who was a resident of 19 Inkerman Street.

Clara took a fancy to Stan in July 1968, when one of his window rounds brought him to her address at 19 Inkerman Street. Stan spent time with Clara in September 1969, when it turned out that Steve Tanner was murdered on the same night. Stan worried that he would be questioned by the police and forced to give an alibi, thus exposing that he was spending the night with her.

She provided an alibi for Stan in July 1973 when he was one of the suspects in an attack on Bet Lynch, who was found badly beaten in an alleyway. He was later forced to admit to wife Hilda that he was spending time with Clara, although nothing serious was taking place.

Following Stan's collapse in Coronation Street in early 1975, the round was taken over by Hilda and Eddie Yeats and 19 Inkerman Street was one of their jobs one day in March. Clara invited Eddie to come inside to fill his bucket and he ended up spending a while in her company - although he did report back to Stan that Clara had "briefly" enquired about him.

When Stan went missing in March 1976, Hilda suspected that he was with Clara and stormed round to confront them at her address, only to find she had another boyfriend named Barney Moss. Barney sent Hilda packing on Clara's behalf.

Clara was still living at Inkerman Street in March 1983. When Eddie and Stan went out on another cleaning round together, Eddie volunteered himself to get a bucket of clean water from No.19 - seemingly in order to personally carry out the task of cleaning Clara's windows and ordered an annoyed Stan to push the cart along the ginnel.

Stan Ogden referred to the character as "Mrs Danns" in Episode 791 (15th July 1968). She was first given the name of Mrs Regan in Episode 833 (16th December 1968) and the first name of Clara in Episode 1019 (26th October 1970). The majority of references to her were cryptic variations of just "19 Inkerman Street"
The character remained unseen and uncredited on both her voice appearances. It is not known who voiced the character in Episode 1075 (5th May 1971), but Paula Tilbrook voiced the character in Episode 1479 (24th March 1975).
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