THE best Corrie storyline in the programme's history saw serial killer Tricky Dicky plunge to his death after driving his family into the canal.
The tale brought back memories of a similar real-life incident which happened in Leigh in 1960 when Leigh's Rhodesian RL star Ted Brophy drove his green Austin van out of a pub car park and in to the canal -- not out of malice but after a few Saturday night scoops.
He was spotted there next morning swimming about and then standing on top of the submerged vehicle puzzling how to retrieve it. It being a cold morning he had donned a thick jumper which was sopping wet.
On the Monday he had to call in a crane, and reader Joan Szymanowski remembers standing at the end of her street watching the vehicle being hauled out, water pouring from it, just like the Street scenes!
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