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| | Ena Sharples - TheBestLinks.com - Coronation Street, Soap opera, 1970s, 1980, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | She almost always wore a double-breasted coat and hairnet, and, with her two cronies, Martha Longhurst and Minnie Caldwell, would spend much of her free time in the Rover's Return drinking milk stout. |
 | | By the 1970s, the character mellowed considerably, so that by the time the actress left the programme the final time, Mrs Sharples was generally well-regarded and extremely popular with viewers. |
 | | When Ena left the programme in 1980, Violet Carson had already left many times for health reasons, so the producers and writers of Corrie expected her to come back eventually. |
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