Pat Phoenix, who played Elsie Tanner from the ITV soap's first episode in 1960 until 1984, and Julie Goodyear, famous for playing Rovers landlady Bet Lynch, married within a year of each other in ...

Nellie (Pat Phoenix) is weak and bedridden in her aging, decrepit house due to a bad heart. Living out of her front room, Nellie is looked after by her son Harold (Tom Bell) who is going deaf and ...

And right up to actress Pat Phoenix's last appearance in 1984, our Elsie was sending the men potty. In her final weeks in Weatherfield, old flame Bill Gregory returned to offer her the chance to ...

1. Against the Odds - When they met 20 years after first splitting up, Coronation Street star Pat Phoenix and actor Tony Booth fell in love again.Then Pat discovered she had terminal cancer. But ...