Janice Berry was the Community Centre’s Youth Club leader when Ken Barlow started his job as Community Development Officer in November 1975. Nothing more than a schoolgirl herself, Janice was instantly attracted to Ken and tried to chat him up, emphasising that she found boys her own age too immature and preferred older men. When she pointed out that both of them being single, they had a lot in common, Ken replied that there was the matter of some twenty years between them. Janice was not to be put off though and brought Ken cups of tea and offered to get her dad to help with the club’s electrics.