Sweet soap memories

READER Luke of Dundee’s letter about the spat between Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street piqued my interest.

I was a 12-year-old when I watched the first episodes of the soap, which depicted a world that has completely disappeared.

I loved the characters of Ena and Elsie – the first the stern, steel-spined guardian of the local mission and the latter the soap’s answer to Jezebel, with her flame-red hair.

Thanks for jolting my memories.

Miss B Waters, Inverness

SPINE OF STEEL Corrie’s much-loved Ena Sharples