Late 80s Brookside

[James from London]

Linda gives Billy a lift home after they spend the night at her place. His attempts to keep a low profile don't go according to plan when he spills milk down his front, and Rod, Tracy and Sheila all walk in to find Linda crouched in front of him in a compromising position. Gerard insists on giving Tracy a lift home and then invites himself in for coffee. She hides in the toilet leaving Sheila to entertain him. "Be nice to him," advises Rod. "He's your boss." Meanwhile, Kirsty urges Rod to stick to his (false) statement rather than risk losing the support (and possible protection) of his fellow pig--I mean, police officers. There's a very interesting encounter between down to earth Sheila and larger than life Julia, whose tongue switches continually from cruel (pointing out that, as family, she has more rights to "the granny flat" than Sheila) to endearing (making Claire giggle with childhood memories of playing kiss chase) and back again. Sheila learns that Bobby had fallen behind with the mortgage payments on Number 5, and with the water damage, they'll only be left with "a couple of thousand between us" from the sale of the house. "I'm homeless with a child. It's not much to start a new life with," she complains. "It's more than I've ever had," Matty points out. Billy tells Sheila she can stay at the Corkhills as long as she wants, and impulsively suggests they go out for a meal. Sheila accepts, and is disappointed when he breaks the date to go out with Linda instead. "Just think of me as Cinderella," she smiles, putting on a brave face. Bobby goes on a working trip to Poland as a way of avoiding the anniversary of Damon's death, so Sheila and Matty arrange to spend the anniversary together "celebrating his life". Tracy is miserable when Jamie gets a job in Glasgow and then doesn't reply to her letters. Her mood lifts a little when Gerard goes on holiday and she bonds with fellow stylist Nikki, who had assumed previously that Tracy was sucking up to the boss.

[James from London]

November 1988. As part of her campaign to lure Billy away from "that Linda", Kath pretends that she wants to reconcile with Jimmy and suggests the four of them go out for a meal. Her plan is scuppered when Jimmy actually turns up at the restaurant. Linda flirts with Jimmy, but then realises what Kath is up to and leaves early with a none the wiser Billy. On the anniversary of Damon's death, we see Sheila at prayer: "I have such bitter thoughts about Bob ... I miss Damon so much ... Help me to be more hopeful about the future." She takes her anger at Bobby not being around out on Matty, who urges her to take strength and comfort in Clare. "I don't live through my kids anymore. How can you when they disappoint you or they die?" she replies through angry tears. Matty eventually persuades her that through her daughter, her studies, her religion and her own strength, she will find a way through her grief. Tracy's boss returns from his holidays and immediately propositions her sexually. Tracy confides in her gran, who just tells her not to worry or it'll spoil her looks. Julia is more concerned when Tracy tells her that Linda has given Billy an estate agents' brochure and that she suspects they are planning to move in together. Julia doesn't like the sound of that, as she still has her eye on the Corkhills' granny flat for when "Her Holiness" (i.e. Sheila) has moved on. She and Kath join forces to make Linda think Billy is seeing other women. Nor is Julia impressed when she sees that Sheila has hung a crucifix in the Corkhill living room. She questions how Sheila can continue to practice Catholicism now that her marriage has broken down. "I think people should work at their marriages more," she sniffs. "It's a shame you didn't tell your daughter that then, isn't it?" Sheila snaps back.

[James from London]

Linda confronts Julia over her efforts to split up her and Billy, and Julia tells her that Doreen plans to return home at Christmas. Sheila is listening in the extension and realises she and Clare will have to find somewhere else to live. Linda tells Billy who makes Julia repeat the news in front of Tracy. Julia confirms that Doreen will be back, "provided everything's in order", which means Linda out of the picture and Sheila out of the extension. Sheila starts looking for a flat and Matty offers his support. Over coffee, they reminisce about their teenage days when Matty was courting Teresa and Sheila was seeing a lad named Paddy Ryan. (This contradicts the pathetically contrived storyline a few years later which rewrote history to make Matty and Paddy the same person and, even more ridiculously, Barry's biological father.) Matty, lonely again now that Bobby has moved out, makes hints of a romantic nature to Sheila which she deftly deflects. Tommo leaves hospital so Rod the Plod and the rest of his ploddy mates throw him a party. Tommo advises Rod to get out from under Kirsty's thumb, so Rod shags Emma the Plodette. Gerard asks Tracy to stay late at work to help with the Christmas decorations, and she ends up having to literally fight him off. Billy is worried when she is too upset to go into work the next day but won't say why, and asks Sheila to have a word. Standing outside Tracy's bedroom, Sheila makes a long speech about how people survive the most terrible things "even rape or losing a child", and eventually Tracy lets her in and tells her what's happened. Tracy swears Sheila to secrecy and refuses to tell her dad, for fear that he'll beat Gerard up and get into trouble himself (just like he did when he found out about her schoolgirl affair with the geography teacher). Sheila advises her to seek the support of a co-worker and stand up to Gerard. So Tracy enlists the aid of Nikki, and they tell Gerard what's what. He apologises and proposes a clean slate. Then dopey Nikki tells him about Tracy's affair with the teacher. Sheila puts the deposit down on a flat she can't really afford. Julia's conscience is pricked and she admits she lied about Doreen coming back. Incensed on behalf of Billy and the kids, Sheila throws her out of the Corkhill house. Julia is outraged, especially when Billy sides with Sheila. Barry shows up for Crimbo in a camper van. It's about to get really, really good ...

[James from London]

Barry teams up with Sinbad for a festive comedy storyline involving some poisonous cuddly seals. Rod the Plod lies his way out of trouble during the police enquiry and when Kirsty confronts him about the night he shagged Emma. At the salon Christmas party, Gerard tells Tracy he'll recommend her for promotion in exchange for sex, so she knees him in the groin. When she arrives at work a few minutes late the next day, he uses it as an excuse to sack her. She confides in Sheila who urges her to take Gerard to a tribunal. Billy also turns to Sheila when he receives a card from Doreen with an ambivalent message which intimates that she might be home for Christmas after all. Sheila offers to move out for the holidays, but Billy tells her to stay put saying, "As far as I'm concerned, she doesn't exist anymore." Julia turns up with Christmas presents for Billy and the kids, but hits the roof when she learns that Sheila has been put in charge of organising the Christmas dinner. She accuses Sheila of scheming to get her claws into Billy, and this time it's Billy who throws her out. Sheila is embarrassed, but tells him not turn his back on his mother-in-law. "She's a lonely woman."

[James from London]

Christmas Day, 1988. After the unspoken competition between the Grants and the Corkhills the year before to see who could have the loneliest, bleakest Christmas, the remnants of both families now come together for a much livelier Yuletide. In the morning, Sheila returns from taking Clare to visit Bob (whom she describes to Billy as "a bit lost") and, despite still being apprehensive about Doreen turning up, ("You don't think she will come back, do you?") makes a start on the Christmas dinner. Even though she has promised to be on her best behaviour, Julia cannot resist interfering: "Now we'll have this big pan for the sprouts ... They like to bob about, sprouts do." Billy and Jimmy come to Sheila's rescue by whisking Julia off to the ale house, leaving Sheila and Kath to get on with it. The doorbell makes them both jump, but it's only Kirsty ("I'd've died if that'd been Doreen"). In true soap fashion, we then cut to someone tossing a handbag into a cab and the driver saying, "Brookside Close, is it?" To accomodate all the guests at Christmas dinner, Jimmy and Barry fashion a table out of Rod's bedroom door, at head of which is placed Sheila. From her vantage point, she can see someone outside arriving in a taxi. Clare waving through the window makes her think it could be Bobby. She goes to answer the door, and sees the outline of a woman. Doreen? No, it's Damon's Debbie with a pram carrying a baby: Damon's baby. In the extension, Debbie explains that her father lied to Bobby and Sheila about her miscarrying. "We hate him now," she says, speaking for both her and her son whom she has named Simon (after Simon O'Brien, the actor who played Damon? Ahh). Sheila is overjoyed and imagines Bobby will be too. "He'll fall off his chair when he sees this one." Debbie breaks down talking about Damon: "Oh, Mrs Grant, I don't half miss him." Billy arises from his post dinner snooze and makes them coffee. "He's nice, isn't he?" observes Debbie. "Kind of thoughtful ... I'm really pleased for you." Her words take Sheila by surprise, who suddenly sees Billy in a different light. She invites him to join her, Debbie and the children for a Christmas afternoon walk in the park, where Billy and Sheila impetuously join Clare on the swings. Debbie and Sheila share an emotional good-bye, and Sheila is touched when Billy gives Debbie some money for the baby. Back at the house, even though he's "not used to seeing people kneeling down in the house, saying prayers and that," Billy presents Sheila with two sets of rosary beads, one for her and one for Clare, as a thankyou for cooking the dinner. Sheila is taken aback by the gesture. Something has now changed between them, but it remains unspoken.

[James from London]

The day after Boxing Day, Linda comes round and Billy lets her down gently. "Is there someone else?" she asks. "It's not quite like that," he replies. "There's not a word been said. Doesn't stop me knowing how I feel." Listening in the extension, Sheila realises that she's the one he has feelings for. Troubled, she goes to an unfamiliar church to sit and think. She ends up talking to a priest:

"It just seems that for so long, things have been taken away. Damon, Bob ... the house. Losing that was like losing a limb. I mean, I know we're not supposed to care about material possessions, but a house is different, isn't it? ... We were together as a family in our house, you see, and when I left, what was left? Clare. So I thought, 'Fine, I'll live for her.' And then Debbie came ... She's my son's - wife. Yes, she's my son's wife. When she came with the baby, it was like somebody had given me something back. Somebody was saying I could have things again, and when you realise you can have things again, you start to want them, don't you?"

"What is it you want?"

"Something I can't have."

"Why?"

"Churches are all the same, aren't they? Even when they're different. This one is nothing like the one I got married in, but being here reminded me: When I married Bob, I said my vows in a church and I meant them. Things don't always turn out the way you mean them to, do they? Now there's someone else ... He's alone, too ... But no matter what happens, even if I never live with him, I'll always be married to Bob, won't I?"

"Yes."

The following morning, Billy comes downstairs to find Clare alone in the extension and no sign of Sheila. He walks over to her old house, now boarded up, and discovers the back door unlocked. He climbs the stairs in the dark and finds Sheila crying in one of the bedrooms. It was originally Damon's room, she explains. "He couldn't believe it, a room of his own ... I had to come. New Year, I suppose. Wanting to say good-bye. So much happened in this house." He waits while she goes from room to room, saying her farewells. He then suggests they look to the future. "It's not that easy though, is it?" Aware of Billy's feelings for her, Sheila decides she must move out of his house. He insists that she doesn't have to, that this is her home for as long as she wants. "It's up to you," he tells her.

[James from London]

New Year's Eve. Billy invites Sheila to a party. Despite misgivings, she accepts, and scrubs up lovely. At the stroke of midnight, they are trapped on opposite sides of the room. Back at the house, they share a nightcap. Sheila again starts talking about moving out. "All's I wanna do is look after you," Billy tells her. "I know," she replies. They kiss. Barry and Sinbad's cuddly seal storyline requires Barry to nick Rod's plod uniform while he's asleep (Rod having been working nights). Barry tampers with Rod's alarm clock so he won't notice. As a result, Rod sleeps through the New Year, leaving Kirsty stood on her own at some crappy party full of extras.

New Year's Day. Billy takes Sheila, wearing her best Christmas jumper, for pizza where they discuss their situation and agree that, given their living situation and the probable reaction of their kids, it would be best for them to remain just good friends. By that evening, however, they're snogging again. They are interrupted by an oblivious Rod the Plod, his mind occupied with ways to pacify Kirsty. The next day, Billy comes home during his lunch hour hoping to catch Sheila alone, and is surprised to find her talking to a priest friend, Father Gibbons. Uncomfortable, Billy makes his excuses and leaves. Father Gibbons listens while Sheila explains her feelings for Billy.

"And you'd like me to say, 'It's up to you. It's your conscience. Carry on. If, in your heart, you truly love this man, it cannot be a sin in God's eyes or anybody else's.'"

"But you won't, will you?"

"In the eyes of God, you're still married, and marriage is a sanctity."

Tracy seeks legal advice over her dismissal, and is advised to deal with the matter internally if she wants to get her job back. She makes an appointment to see the salon area manager. Kirsty finds scratch marks on Rod's back. He tells her about an attack by a violent drunk he arrested, but she is sceptical. Billy comes home to find Sheila packing. She is going to stay with her sister in Basingstoke for "as long as it takes" to sort out her feelings. A crushed Billy is deprived even of the chance to drive her to the station; Barry has been talking to Debbie and now has some inkling of what's been going on, and politely but firmly tells Billy that he's "done enough for our family."

[sunshineboyuk]

I'm 5 years behind but I just had to post about Damon Grant in denim shorts that made me and my mate sit up and both simultaneously shout at the
tv ," He looks like a prostitute" , " Look Damon's a Rent Boy"

It's the summer of 84 and Harry and Edna are moving next door , Heather's finally gotten rid of her evil Irish relatives , Damon's in love with one of Bananarama , probably Keren , Huge Ducksie's just got a job as a trainee Chef at the Adelphi and I want to reach through the screen and hug him and tell him well done and across the road the Jackson's have been it by a storyline the size of a truck at the speed of nightmares.

[James from London]

Sheila: "If I sleep with you, Billy, I'll be finishing my marriage. I know it's finished already, but it's finished because of things that have happened to me--Bob going, Damon dying. They're all things that have happened to me. I can still say, 'Bless me, Father, I have not sinned. These things happened to me.' But if I sleep with you, Billy, I'll be finishing it. I'll be closing the book and I won't be able to open it again. But I've still got to carry on seeing Bob and I haven't got it in me to lie about something like that and I haven't got in me to tell him the truth either, because I know it would crucify him ... I lived with him for thirty years and I loved him for the most of it. Just like you and Doreen."

Billy: "It's you I love now."

Sheila: "And if I sleep with you, Billy, I'm not just finishing a marriage, I'm starting a new one."

Billy: "I said it's you I love now."

Sheila: "... I'd be married to you just the same as if I'd walked down the aisle with you and maybe that's a Catholic thing, but I don't think it is. I think it's just me. It's just the way I am."

Billy: "Anything else?"

Sheila (getting upset): "Yes. I'm frightened ... There was only ever Bob. For thirty years, there was only ever Bob. Till that man put a coat over me and - Any man who isn't Bob--even you, Billy--would he remind me of that man?"

[James from London]

"Beans or spaghetti?" calls Billy from the kitchen. Sheila enters from the extension wearing a dressing gown, even though it's only lunchtime. "We could eat later if you like," she says nervously. Surprised, Billy starts to lead her toward the stairs, but she is reluctant to go up to the bedroom he shared with Doreen. "You're me wife now," he tells her. A little while later, they're sitting on the edge of Sheila's bed. "It doesn't matter," she says. "It does," Billy replies and walks out. She finds him down by the river, where he and Jimmy used to play when they were kids, where "Maureen McNamara stuck her tongue down me throat when I was fifteen. Took us a week to get over it."

Billy: "You know before I said the river helped and you asked me how and I said it just helped?"

Sheila: "Yeah?"

Billy: "I was lying. I know exactly how it helps. It's been flowing for millions of years, and when we're all dead and gone, it'll still be flowing. When you think like that -"

Sheila: "You realise we're all insignificant."

Billy: "Yeah. But I didn't say it, because I don't say things like that, do I? I've always used these. (He looks at his hands) A spark with a wife and kids to feed and a mortgage to pay. Eyes down. Work, work, work. Don't stop to think. But I can think, Sheila. All week, I've done nothing but think ... All week, I've looked at it from your point of view, and I knew what you were gonna say. But I told meself everything would be all right, "as long as I get across the one thing that matters, everything'll be all right." Because the one thing that matters is, I love you. Well, I got that across, and everything's not all right.

Sheila: "But that's my fault ... I spent all morning telling you how difficult it was for me, and the more I told you how diffifcult it was for me, the more difficult I made it for you ... Has it ever happened to you and Doreen?"

Billy: "No."

Sheila: "It was good, was it, that side of things?"

Billy: "Yeah."

Sheila: "Then it is my fault ... Do you know who I grew up with? Clark Gable and the Virgin Mary. Clark's eyes would twinkle. Next minute, it's moonlight on the beach and the waves are crashing in. When I came to do it myself, it was nothing like that. It was clumsy and it was messy, and the sounds I could hear weren't the sounds of waves beating on the shore, it was me mother banging on the celing. OK, I came to terms with that. So it wasn't going to be romantic like a Clark Gable movie, but nobody could stop me enjoying it. I was wrong. That's where the Virgin Mary came in. Nuns bowing down to her, explaining that she was pure because she'd never known man, but we were all gonna know men and we were gonna be impure and we should be ashamed of ourselves and ashamed of our bodies. We were married for years before we could do it with the light on."

Billy: "Must've saved a fortune on the leccy."

(They laugh)

Sheila: "Anyway, I'm still a Catholic. It's seen me through some terrible times, but it's saddled me with a conscience. And it's a conscience I can't ignore, especially now, especially with you and especially in the bedroom."

Billy: "It'll be all right ... We just won't worry about it ... I mean, we can always take up scrabble."

Then, later that day, it happens. Afterwards, Billy makes Sheila laugh by putting on her dressing gown and a Clark Gable moustache. Aw. Two mornings later, Barry arrives back from Birmingham earlier than expected. He decides to surprise his mother with a cup of tea in bed, but he gets the bigger shock. He doesn't like what he sees.

Sheila: "What did you expect me to do? Stay on me own for the rest of me life?"

Barry: "I didn't expect you to just go across the road! ... You've just grabbed the nearest man to you, Mam. That's what you've done. The nearest man to you ... He's a scab and a tea leaf. For years you've been going on about me dad and his principles, Mam, about how I never lived up to them. And you go to bed with a scab and a tea leaf."

Sheila: "You know nothing about Billy ... You know nothing about your father and his principles either. He didn't stick to his principles, he clung to them. For ten years, he saw everything he valued being wrecked and all he did was cling to the wreckage. He just kept spouting his slogans. Damon died. A son that he loved and cherished died, and I wanted him to take me in his arms and rub away the pain, and he just kept spouting his slogans. OK, I can understand that, I can understand it was his way of dealing with the pain, but I wanted him to take me in his arms! He just kept spouting his slogans! Billy isn't like that. He's got his principles too, but they're all here, they're all under this roof. It's people first and to hell with the rest. Now, they may not be the best principles in the world and they may be nothing compared to your father's, but I am sick and tired of all the suffering and the grief and the sorrow and, God help me, they're what I need right now! So you'd better accept that, Barry, because if you can't, you'll just have to go. Because right now I need him far more than I need you."

So Barry goes, but the van won't start. Billy agrees to let him use the phone provided they have a man to man talk first. Barry accuses Billy of taking advantage of his mother. Billy tells him that if he's worried about her, he should stay and keep an eye on her. "I might just do that," Barry replies. "I might just stay and get me leg over your Tracy." Billy lunges at him in anger. "That's how it feels!" shouts Barry. "That's exactly how it feels!" Debbie stops by with Simon, Damon's baby. Sheila asks if she'll consider Barry as a possible godfather, and tries to hide her disappointment when Debbie tells her she doesn't plan to have Simon christened. Barry asks Debbie if she'll take Simon to see Bobby. Debbie agrees, on the condition that Barry make an effort to accept Sheila and Billy's relationship. He tries, but cannot bring himself to shake Billy's hand. He and Sheila try to patch things up, but he is still hurt. Before leaving for Birmingham, he gives her some money and asks her to open a savings account for Simon. Sheila and Barry have a tender but difficult farewell. She worries that he won't return, and asks his former best mate Terry to keep in touch with him. Terry reflects on how Barry made also him choose between their friendship and his relationship with Crap Sue. Sheila finally sorts out her old furniture and moves some of her things into Billy's house on a permanent basis. Tracy returns from visiting Jamie in Scotland ("Let's just say I'm disappointed in Jamie," she says, which is the last we hear of him) and is bemused to find Sheila's knick knacks everywhere. Sheila urges Billy to tell her the truth about their relationship--even Harry Cross knows by now--but he procrastinates. Meanwhile, Rod finds his first dead body, gets officially engaged to Kirsty (although anyone with half a brain can see his heart's not in it) and carries on seeing Emma on the sly.

[James from London]

Sheila admits to Billy that she sometimes feels guilty about their relationship, but decides "I've just to believe that God won't abandon me if I've got it wrong." She still isn't ready to "come upstairs" with him, however. "Planning a wedding has got to be one of the most boringest things on this earth," declares Rod and Tracy catches him kissing Emma. Not satisfied with an offer of job relocation from the salon, Tracy takes Gerard to a tribunal. On the day of the hearing, she is harrassed by a reporter and then Gerard approaches her, using everything from intimidation to emotional blackmail ("I've got a wife and kids!") to try and get her to drop the case. When the hearing is postponed, Tracy starts to get cold feet about proceeding. She has kept the case a secret from the rest of her family, confiding only in Kirsty. When Rod finds out via the local paper, he is reminded of "the worst day of me life", when he was still at school and read the grafitti about his sister's affair with the geography teacher on the toilet wall ('"MONTY GAVE TRACY CORKHILL A SWISS ROLL." if I remember correctly). He goes mad at Tracy, accusing her of leading Gerard on to get her name in the paper. Angry, Tracy comes dangerously close to telling Kirsty about Rod and Emma. Kirsty eventually persuades Tracy to pursue the case on behalf of all the other women who have been sexually harassed, or worse. The hearing gets underway, but there's no sign of Tracy's only witness, Dopey Nicky. Finally, she shows up.

[Ome]

Who has the old videos of Brookie ?

Like the 'Lost Weekend' etc....

Sadly I bought them all ha ha

[Brookside Close]

I have the last one 'Unfinished Business' It's completely OTT but still highly entertaining. It also has one of my favourite actresses - Sarah Jayne Dunn in it, which is an added bonus.

[Ome]

I have the last one 'Unfinished Business' It's completely OTT but still highly entertaining. It also has one of my favourite actresses - Sarah Jayne Dunn in it, which is an added bonus.

I'm so biased, over Brookie vid's

Sadly not do I own their vid's I STILL WATCH THEM Ha Ha Ha .



Long live this great soap.


Tell me 'Brookside Close', do you have the rest of the videos they released ?

I say videos because I haven't found any of these classics on DVD. Much that that upsets me.


Also 'Brookside Close' Who was your favorite character ?

[Ome]

Unfinished Buissnes was crap but the bonus Features were pretty good, is there no sign of the other Barry Grant movie getting put on DVD where he goes looking for revenge for the men who killed Damon, that looked much more entertaining than Unfinished Business

You shock me !!!!

How can you remember Damon ?

[Ome]

I'm glad Brookie finished! Good on ya C4. It was falling in ratings what do you expect.

Being an Eastender fan, does that mean you like constant shouting and mothers telling their children they are dying just to ruin their relationship with their loved ones. ?


Hell I watched this soap this week to see the actress that plays Sheila come in to it, and low and behold there's a another woman dying on the sofa !!

Or is it gangster type character that you like ?

[Ome]

No not when he was actually on T.V as I wasn't even born then.



The Woman Dying on the Sofa was Jessie Shadwick from Brookie

Abby !!!!

You are amazing me the more you post !!!


She was indeed Jessie, how the hell did you know that ?

[Brookside Close]

Tell me 'Brookside Close', do you have the rest of the videos they released ?

I say videos because I haven't found any of these classics on DVD. Much that that upsets me.


Also 'Brookside Close' Who was your favorite character ?

Sadly I only have the last one. I'm not sure if the others are still available but i'd love to see them one day. Especially 'Friday the 13th'.


As for my fave character i'm not sure.. I loved Jacqui Dixon though. Then there was the legends like Jackie & Jimmy Corkhill Other faves include Susannah & Katie. As for the comedy characters i'd have to say Julia & Bev! It's a travesty that Sarah White hasn't been offered another tv role.

[Ome]

Julia and Bev were fantastic, I love them both. Sadly the actress that played Julia Brogan died. I'm not sure why an actress like the one who played Bev hasn't gone on to greater things, she was wicked

Do you remember Marie Jackson ? Her mother was played by Emmerdale favourite Betty (the one that loved Seth Armstrong) I don't know her real name. She had story lines like saving her (wronged) husband from jail and looking for Petra.

Do you remember her ?

Did you have the pleasure of watching the seige with the nurses Pat, Sandra & Kate ?


Oh I could go on about this great soap.

[Brookside Close]

Julia and Bev were fantastic, I love them both. Sadly the actress that played Julia Brogan died. I'm not sure why an actress like the one who played Bev hasn't gone on to greater things, she was wicked

Do you remember Marie Jackson ? Her mother was played by Emmerdale favourite Betty (the one that loved Seth Armstrong) I don't know her real name. She had story lines like saving her (wronged) husband from jail and looking for Petra.

Do you remember her ?

Did you have the pleasure of watching the seige with the nurses Pat, Sandra & Kate ?


Oh I could go on about this great soap.

Unfortunately I only started watching from the mid-90's as i'm only 17 so I missed most of the great storylines of the early years. I've heard it was legendary in the 80's though.

I think I started watching from about the time Beth & Mandy were sent to prison for Trevor's murder.. from what I remember it was great stuff! Brookie at its best.