A fan account dedicated to Doris Speed MBE (3rd February 1899 - 16th November 1994), best known for her role as Annie Walker in Coronation Street.
Joined April 2022
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We’re now on Instagram! @DorisSpeedFans
Please follow if you’re on there!
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Coronation Street ~ 13th June 1973. Mavis starts work at The Kabin.
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#OnThisDay in 1977: Doris is awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday honours. She collected the award at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 29th November. #DorisSpeed
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The newspaper clipping in the photo is from The Manchester Evening News, 11th June 1977.
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Jun 6
I've often wondered where the birth certificate claim, re Doris Speed and her 'real age' came from. I guess now we now.
It was from the Daily Star, 8 October 1983. Knew it would be from a ghastly newspaper.
7 Oct 2023
40 years ago today, The Mirror boasted they had uncovered Doris Speed's real age and gleefully reported on it. Callous. Doris was ill in hospital, and had done nothing to hurt anyone. It really upset her and she never returned to Corrie.
The Stage condemned it a few weeks later.
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Coronation Street - 6th June 1977. Annie gets into the role of Queen Elizabeth I.
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Coronation Street ~ 2nd June 1969. Maggie takes Betty into the Rovers where Jack finds out she's an experienced barmaid.
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Coronation Street ~ 2nd June 1969. Betty is impressed with the corner shop but Maggie grows concerned when she says that she's come to look after her.
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This was brilliant. Doris Speed had been Annie on a different set in different times (1960-1983), but as soon as she got behind that bar she was the landlady again! Legend! 😍
#OnThisDay in 1988: Doris returned to the Coronation Street studios five years after her retirement to accept a cheque from Barclays Bank as part of the ITV telethon fundraiser. #DorisSpeed
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Annie! This is beautiful - a sweeping conquest, delivered with such finesse! Ernest was right - the Armada wouldn't have lasted five minutes! 😃
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Only Annie could effortlessly bring the word "deportment" into a conversation with Hilda.
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Coronation Street - 30th May 1977. Annie tells Ernie that she has got the brewery to provide a lorry for the float, on the condition that she plays Queen Elizabeth I.
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Coronation Street - 30th May 1977. Ernie tells Annie that she can't be Queen Elizabeth I.
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Coronation Street - 30th May 1977. Hilda tells Annie who she wouldn’t mind dressing up as for the Silver Jubilee float.
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#OnThisDay in 1988: Doris returned to the Coronation Street studios five years after her retirement to accept a cheque from Barclays Bank as part of the ITV telethon fundraiser. #DorisSpeed
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Wishing the lovely Anne Reid a very happy birthday today!
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May 26
#OnThisDay 26 May 1980
CORONATION ST. 2000
Here they are - posing for a picture for the Daily Record - the stars of #CoronationStreet getting ready to celebrate the 2000th episode . . .
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Thinking about in Julie’s book when she thought she’d be getting a telling off from Doris Speed just to be informed she could now call her ‘Doris’ 😆
Coronation Street - written by Geoffrey Lancashire (25th May 1966). Julie Goodyear makes her first appearance as Bet Lynch.
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May 24
TV📺24/5/69 ITV
1.25:World of Sport 5.0:Results 5.15:Land of the Giants 6.10:News
6.15:It's Vikki Carr 6.45:Des O'Connor On Stage 7.30:The Galton and Simpson Comedy 8.0:The Name of the Game 9.30:Rogues Gallery 10.30:News 10.40:University Challenge
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May 24
#OnThisDay 24 May 1969
Jack and Annie Walker from #CoronationStreet feature on the cover of the TV Times (in black and white in some regions, owing to an industrial dispute) and viewers are asked to nominate their perfect pub landlady.
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