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Anne Reid departed the programme in January after ten years playing Valerie Barlow. As Reid was adamant that she would not be returning, the writers decided to kill off her character, and retain William Roache in order to explore Ken Barlow's life as a single father. As well as writing out Anne Reid, Val's death by accidental electrocution provided a means for the writers to scrap the maisonettes. Since 1968, the majority of the maisonettes hadn't featured in the programme, and the writers felt that the opposite side of the street could be better used. Within the storyline, Val's death caused the maisonettes to be deemed unsafe and demolished. In their place, a new Community Centre and mail-order warehouse were built, providing a raft of new storylines which dominated the first half of the

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abstract	Anne Reid departed the programme in January after ten years playing Valerie Barlow. As Reid was adamant that she would not be returning, the writers decided to kill off her character, and retain William Roache in order to explore Ken Barlow's life as a single father. As well as writing out Anne Reid, Val's death by accidental electrocution provided a means for the writers to scrap the maisonettes. Since 1968, the majority of the maisonettes hadn't featured in the programme, and the writers felt that the opposite side of the street could be better used. Within the storyline, Val's death caused the maisonettes to be deemed unsafe and demolished. In their place, a new Community Centre and mail-order warehouse were built, providing a raft of new storylines which dominated the first half of the year. Graham Haberfield returned as Jerry Booth after a three-year absence in October. All other cast additions of 1971 were in some way connected with the centre/warehouse storyline: Bryan Mosley returned as councillor Alf Roberts, finally joining the main cast exactly ten years after his first appearance, Thelma Barlow made her debut as dithering warehouse secretary Mavis Riley, and Lynne Perrie joined as warehouse checker Ivy Tilsley. Glamorous and laid back, "Ivy Tyldesley", as she was initially credited, bore little resemblance to the Ivy of later years, and had an entirely different backstory. Frank Pemberton and Daphne Oxenford returned after long absences for Valerie's funeral episode. According to Pemberton, his comeback was meant to test the waters for further appearances, but the actor died seven weeks after recording his scenes. For the storyline of Alan Howard's affair, scripts were written with Irma Barlow as the other woman, but due to Sandra Gough absenting herself just before the scenes were shot, Judith Barker was brought back as Janet Reid, and the storyline went ahead with Janet in place of Irma with minimal changes to the scripts. Gough returned to the programme in October, but was dismissed two months later without an on-screen exit. Gough was later quoted in the press as saying she was tired of playing Irma and kept taking time off to be with her husband, hoping to be sacked.

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