1940

Events

Joan Walker is born.
8th January - Linda Tanner is born.
5th March - Norris Cole is born.
6th March - Jed Stone is born.
23rd April - Sheila Birtles is born.
4th May - Bet Lynch is born.
June - Sam Burgess is killed at Dunkirk. His widow Alice leavesWeatherfield for a new life in the countryside.
29th June - Brendan Scott is born.
23rd July - Audrey Potter is born.
December - Marjorie Barlow is killed when a brick wall falls on her while she and Albert Tatlock rescue Ken and Ida Barlow. The department store where she worked, Baxendale's, burns down in the same air-raid.
24th December - Sidney Hayes is killed when caught in an air raid in Gas Street.