Percy Bridge was an out-of-work man who conned Elsie Tanner out of some money in January 1967. Percy told Elsie that it was he who pulled her grandson Paul Cheveski out of Weatherfield Canal when he fell in by accident a few months earlier. Elsie was confused by his behaviour at first, as he'd tried to talk to her in the Rovers and she had to wheedle the confession out of him after seeing him in the Street. When he told her who he was, a grateful Elsie cooked him dinner and gave him £2, feeling sorry for him as he was out of work.