When the war ended Alfred and Ena met up again and he told her that his marriage had been in name only he'd had to marry the daughter of someone his father had owed money to. But you *are* destroying me. Kirk's has been sat in a deck chair in Blackpool since the late nineties. Rita Littlewood: I've seen some hard-faced b*tches in my time but you take the bloody gold medal! In 2010, a short online video titled Ken: A Life on the Street reiterated that she was no longer alive when Ken Barlow (William Roache) told his grandson Simon (Alex Bain) that she was "long dead now". Identify yourself you disgusting banana worshipper! Your chest came flat-packed and you haven't put it together yet! Children Leanne Battersby: I can't eat this! In 1978 she commented to the TV Times that "Violet Carson was destroyed the day Ena Sharples first appeared in Coronation Street.". Rita Littlewood: Well, I've just developed the ability to tune out when he starts wittering. Last appearance Number of appearances Sally Webster: Sarcasm doesn't suit you, Soph. In an interview, Violet Carson described Ena as "the eternal busybody, the rock of ages; when things are going well, she is the old bag, when things are going wrong, she is the first one they turn to", in another interview she said that children weren't frightened of Mrs.Sharples, Violet Carson said "children will come and hold Mrs. Sharples' hand". Eve Wilson: Everywhere's got a problem, hasn't it? Ena's tendency to boss her children around had led to daughter Madge not speaking to her, and upon receiving feedback from nephew Colin Lomax about what Madge had been saying about Ena behind her back, Ena cut Madge out of her will without a second's thought. Well you certainly have! Leanne Battersby: Get a good handful did ya! I can't trust you! Yet she still frequently indulged in a glass of milk stout in the Rovers Return, unwilling to allow lay preacher Leonard Swindley to dictate how she lived her life outside the Mission. She was eventually offered her job back. Mina Parekh: That's very clever to have a little sewing kit in your bag. Run For Your Life (feat. For caring? Since 2017, ten sequential classic episodes of the series from 1986 onwards have been broadcast weekly on ITV3. One of the hairnet props was sold at auction for 65 in 2005 to a Dutch gentleman, who had bought it for his mother, a lifelong fan. Anyway, it's only a little mistake and the printer's put it after the 'S' in Websters and now it looks like the auto centre belongs to all of the Websters instead of just you! Ena married Alfred in 1920 and they had three children: Vera, Madge and Ian. Ena had a health scare in 1962 when she suffered a minor stroke, brought on by hypostatic pneumonia. Blanche Hunt: I'm a realist - I don't live in fairy-land like you do. Blanche Hunt: Good looks are a curse, Deirdre. Sean Tully: Think think. And you can take that any way you like! Rosie was the one who spotted it, she's so sharp - I should have asked her to do the proof- reading. It's loaded. At first Ena approved, but she later advised Minnie to call it off as she would be in a better position financially as a single person. Duration Of her old adversary Ena Sharples, she said: "That woman's tongue. Blanche Hunt: Oh! The character was absent for several spells in the late 1970s but Carson always returned when she was able - similarly, she was expected to return after her appearance in Episode 1983 (2nd April 1980) but the actress suffered a serious bout of anaemia and could not return. Maya Sharma: Yes, well, you never know when you might want to stitch someone up. Jamie Baldwin: Well, we wait. I am Ena the Lamia. Ena Sharples: If I had my way, I'd like to go like me mother did. After a week, she moved to St Annes, as she realised she could not stay at Elsie's for much longer without getting into an argument. Ena Sharples - Searchlight Brewery - Untappd From left to right, Ena Sharples, Bruce Forsyth and Peggy Mount during rehearsals for the Daily Mirror Television Award show, 29th July 1962. Ena Sharples Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images [deliberately knocks another load of tins and jars off the shelf]. She won't hear you - she's as deaf as a post! An attentive student with a strong Christian upbringing, Ena became devoted to her religion and developed a firm belief in the importance of rules, regulations and morals. The relationship turned downward yet again towards the end of the war when Elsie began letting soldiers stay in her home for room and board - Ena saw this as a brothel and wrote Arnold another letter, leading Ena and Elsie to have a vicious brawl in the Mission before Leonard Swindley pulled them apart. 1960-1980 Ena clashed with many members of her family, especially her children. I've never heard so much self-indulgent whinging in all my life! It must have had some place, or else viewers would not have reacted so well to Ena Sharples. Her friends gradually left her life Martha had died in 1964 and Minnie left in 1976 to live at Whaley Bridge with their old friend Handel Gartside (Harry Markham). When Ena discovered his scheme she 'sold' him Onward Christian Soldiers, exposing him as a fraud. I was okay till I met you. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators. Unfortunately, she often jumped to conclusions, assuming the worst of people, or exaggerated the truth. Ena was first seen to wear a hairnet in Episode 5. Ian died after only two days, and Alfred died in 1937 during the Depression, leaving Ena a widow with two children. Tracy Barlow: We don't normally dress for breakfast. Norris Cole: No, I most certainly did not! The 10 best Coronation Street characters | Culture | The Guardian Robbie Sloane: [Robbie ties Hayley to a chair. This beer is no longer being produced by the brewery. The rustier the better. In February 1980, Ena was moved out of her flat while necessary refurbishments were made to both the flat and Centre. Ena was at her best in arguments, whether on the attack or the defensive. Ena's older brother Tom emigrated to America in 1912, seeing no job opportunities in Weatherfield. Despite her willingness to gossip about the sordid details of her residents, Ena was very guarded about her own private life and resented Martha for discussing her health problems with Vera. Ena was prone to hay fever. Vera died in 1967, in Ena's home, of a brain tumour. *Carson, who played street stalwart Ena Sharples for 20 years, died in 1985 in Cleveleys, Blackpool. In 1969, Ena's capacity to interfere almost ended in tragedy when she told off bookie Dave Smith for hassling Minnie, who had been gambling and owed Dave money. I am Ken, but I am not a leader Don't look at me for your answers I am just a man Trying to make sense. Frankie Baldwin: You can't do that. She quickly regained her speech and mobility, but the following year was diagnosed with arteriosclerosis. TV Shows. [Points at Deirdre] This one - she were in prison! 1966: Ena struggles to cope when Vera has weeks to live. Day and night. Eileen Grimshaw: Yeah, and Sarah's been through half the lads in Weatherfield. Deirdre Rachid: Oh, I say, you look very glam! And I kept denying it and denying it and denying it 'cos I was so scared of losing you. Your knees are going to tremble, your feet will turn to lead. After the Mission was demolished, Ena became caretaker at the Camera Shop and then at the Community Centre. In 1980, in a fit of pique over delays to her flat's refurbishment, Ena left Weatherfield on another of her sojourns and this time she never returned. Valerie Tatlock: Well it wouldn't do if everyone was alike, would it? Buy "ena sharples, ena sharples quotes" by Varshadesigns as a Poster. With Glad Tidings gone, the closest place of worship was the Victoria Street Mission, and Ena kept close tabs on the comings and goings there. As Ena barely got along with its current resident, Elsie Tanner, she had no compunctions about evicting Elsie and her son Dennis so that she could live there herself when the Mission was closed. Blanche Hunt: [to Tracy] You're remarkably chipper. Sorry my name's Melanie and I'm an alcoholic. What did you lace it with, ProPlus? Matters were made worse after Ena fell over and was knocked unconscious while looking after Tracy Langton. Blanche Hunt: He's a looney and she's a man. Shelley Unwin: [Shelley arrives at a pedestrian crossing in her wedding dress, prompting a perplexed look from an old lady] I jilted him! Ena watched her daughter wind down over several weeks until she died in Ena's bed in January 1967. Coronation Street (also known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. [Dev has just said he'd like to stay at home and take care of Sunita, who is ill, instead of going abroad to marry Maya]. After he verbally attacked her in the Rovers, the Street's residents united to oust him. 6, a purpose-built OAP ground floor flat. She was fined 40/-. She appeared in the first-ever episode, broadcast on 9 December 1960, and stayed with the show until 2 April 1980. Elsie represented the antithesis of Ena's lifestyle: during World War II, Elsie had separated from Arnold and raised two children by herself. Jamie Baldwin: [feeding Warren a hangover cure] Good lad. Later that year Ena's great nephew, Tom Schofield (David Holliday), visited her and invited her to her brother's home in the US for an extended stay. You sound like a parent whose kids go to Weatherfield High, a parent with no ambition. Hayley Cropper: Where did you come from? George Wilson: Exactly - there's good and bad everywhere. Ena Sharples: If that's Old King Cole I'm Huckleberry Hound; if you don't know what you're watching you want to keep your trap shut. Norris Cole: Oh well, don't blame me when you're in pot up to your waste! It's Dougie Ferguson he's been hurt. Ena smashed a window with her bag in anger, and when they both finally calmed down, and Ena agreed not to evict Elsie, Elsie made the ballsy statement that made everyone laugh under their breath: "Well you'll pay for that window!" Even the usually stalwart Ena gasped at that! Blanche Hunt: They say that alcohol loosens the tounge. Although a fixture of the programme from 1960 to 1980, Ena was only seen regularly until 1974 when Violet Carson suffered a stroke, which kept her off-screen for most of the year. Minnie was usually content to let Ena do the talking while she only partially listened. We will be the Websters' family auto centre! Rita: [shouting at Len] "Tommy Cooper couldn't tell a story as daft as that! It's illegal! A Hairnet is a small, often elasticised, fine net worn over long hair to hold it in place. Blanche Hunt: Good and bad in this room! Marriage job - on the gob!". Leanne Battersby: [the day before Mike's funeral, Ken has entered the pub and given Leanne a dirty look] If that Ken Barlow looks at me like that tomorrow, I'm gonna bop him one. Ena/Quotes | Daily Life With A Monster Girl Wiki | Fandom Ena took that one step further - the self-proclaimed moral voice of the street, Ena was a law unto herself, making sure to know what went on in the lives of every resident, to the extent where they weren't sure themselves how much she knew. We are working flat out to try and get work done and you're wasting money! 0 comments Elsie helped Ena understand to stop trying to stifle Vera, because then she would end up having no control over Vera at all. Vera hadn't yet been told her condition was terminal. Betty Turpin: With his reputation for proposing, you know, they'll have fixed a date already! The first reference to her was made in the 1985 spin off video 'The Jubilee Years' when Ken Barlow revealed that Ena had "died a couple of years ago". She was furious to be replaced by Valerie Barlow while on holiday. picture. "Passion meek - on the cheek. Ena spent much of early 1978 with the Lomaxes in Hartlepool, who offered to house her permanently but she refused. As caretaker of the Mission of Glad Tidings, it was her responsibility to act in the best interests of the Mission's constituency, as her behaviour in public reflected on them. Ena alerted the other residents about it and Val was rescued. Played by The war years involved many highs and lows between Ena and Elsie - Ena helped deliver Elsie's first child, Linda, in Annie Walker's living room, but later wrote a letter to Arnold about Elsie's affairs with soldiers, which led Arnold to return home and rape Elsie. Almost always wearing a double-breasted overcoat and hairnet, she spent much of her free time in the serials' early years with her two cronies, Martha Longhurst (Lynne Carol) and Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant), in the snug bar of local pub The Rovers Return Inn, drinking milk stout. Ogden, Ena Sharples - all gone Yet I remain. Is there some correlation between how boring you are and how much you drink? Rita Littlewood: [about Norris's secret book] The hero of his novel has got himself caught up in a menage-a-trois! Rosie Webster: They sell clothes and stuff. Actor Michael Melia has claimed in an interview that he thought the character of Ena was "the most forbidding face on the street. Norris Cole: [after seeing his ex wife] It were like seeing a vicar in a tracksuit, unnerving. Far from showing gratitude that Vera was the only daughter to stand by her, Ena was particularly hard on her as Vera had been dropped as a child and Ena was never convinced that she was right in the head. She was subsequently fined 40/-. Ena then allowed Vera to go out on her own, and encouraged her to date Bob Lomax, who worked with them at the welding factory. Alice Raybould Tom Schofield Ken Barlow: You mean they think they do cos they don't know any better. Despite their difficult moments, they were always there for each other. After Martha's death, Minnie was perhaps Ena's only close friend left. 56 Ena Sharples Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Creative Editorial Video Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 56 Ena_sharples Premium High Res Photos Browse 56 ena_sharples stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Hayley Cropper: Listen to her, Tracy Barlow. Valerie Tatlock: Well what's wrong with it? Grabs the side of the duct tape gagging her mouth] This might hurt. Betty Turpin: Does it matter! She had two elder siblings, Alice Raynold (ne Schofield) (18851965) and Tom Schofield (d. 1973). As she no longer had the luxury of rent-free accommodation, Ena took on a job at the Corner Shop. Ena was pleased as it occupied the exact spot where the vestry had been. Around 1917, Ena met Alfred Sharples, who had been sent home because of a leg injury. [Hayley looks at Carla. Corrie Quotes Thanks for a great year. You do go with other women. ena sharples, ena sharples quotes Poster by Varshadesigns Father Albert Tatlock was foisted on her as "co-caretaker", though she insisted on being called "senior caretaker". Blanche Hunt: Do you think they wrote their own vows? Vera Duckworth: No, But I will be 10 minutes after I get you home! Gail Platt: Again? Minnie was embarrassed at Ena trying to fight her battles and disappeared. Ena Sharples | Coronation Street Wiki | Fandom In 1977, Councillor Tattersall (George Waring) tried to sack Ena so that his niece could take her job, but Alf Roberts (Bryan Mosley) fought on Ena's behalf. Ena's forcefulness and argumentativeness was her key strength as well as her biggest weakness. Swindley was forced to re-hire her when a suitable replacement could not be found (Ena had bribed the other candidates to turn the job down). . RM2D319A2 - Coronation Street creator Tony Warren and actress Betty Driver, who plays Betty Turpin, at the Granada studios in Manchester unveiling a blue plaque in memory of Coronation Street legend Violet Carson. Although she criticised Minnie for having her palm read in Blackpool, Ena went to have her own palm read once she was sure her friends had left.