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In January 1985, recently-widowed Hilda Ogden took in Henry Wakefield as her lodger. He told her he was an unemployed foundry worker but Curly Watts recognised him from the reading room of the library. He admitted to Hilda that he had been blacklisted from work for breaking a strike and she managed to persuade Mike Baldwin to employ him at Baldwin's Casuals. Soon afterwards union rep Ida Clough received an anonymous letter detailing Henry's past and threatened a strike unless he was fired. Mike Baldwin had no option but to comply. Henry disappeared from No. 13 and Percy Sugden suggested that she looked for him in the library. Sure enough, she found him in the maze of bookshelves and brought him home but he soon left Weatherfield to start afresh.

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  • In January 1985, recently-widowed Hilda Ogden took in Henry Wakefield as her lodger. He told her he was an unemployed foundry worker but Curly Watts recognised him from the reading room of the library. He admitted to Hilda that he had been blacklisted from work for breaking a strike and she managed to persuade Mike Baldwin to employ him at Baldwin's Casuals. Soon afterwards union rep Ida Clough received an anonymous letter detailing Henry's past and threatened a strike unless he was fired. Mike Baldwin had no option but to comply. Henry disappeared from No. 13 and Percy Sugden suggested that she looked for him in the library. Sure enough, she found him in the maze of bookshelves and brought him home but he soon left Weatherfield to start afresh.
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  • In January 1985, recently-widowed Hilda Ogden took in Henry Wakefield as her lodger. He told her he was an unemployed foundry worker but Curly Watts recognised him from the reading room of the library. He admitted to Hilda that he had been blacklisted from work for breaking a strike and she managed to persuade Mike Baldwin to employ him at Baldwin's Casuals. Soon afterwards union rep Ida Clough received an anonymous letter detailing Henry's past and threatened a strike unless he was fired. Mike Baldwin had no option but to comply. Henry disappeared from No. 13 and Percy Sugden suggested that she looked for him in the library. Sure enough, she found him in the maze of bookshelves and brought him home but he soon left Weatherfield to start afresh. In November 1990, Ken Barlow, deeply suspicious of businessman Phil Jennings and his developing relationship with Deirdre Barlow, asked a student contact named Linda Patterson to investigate Phil's past in the newspaper cuttings archive in the library but the search turned up nothing. In August 1992, a lovelorn Curly Watts joined the Cupid's Arrow Introduction Bureau where he was soon paired with a "Janet Shaw". They agreed to meet under the portico entrance of the library but, arriving under the pseudonym of "Gerald Murphy", he was stunned when Miss Shaw turned out to be his former fiancee Kimberley Taylor. They decided that fate had brought them together and they agreed to give their relationship another go although the second time around proved to be equally as unsuccessful as the first.
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