At the Corner Shop at the end of Coronation Street, former barmaid and new owner Florrie Lindley takes over from Elsie Lappin who is retiring but staying on a short while to show her the ropes. Elsie advises her to allow some customers tick but not the Tanners from No.11. In that house, Elsie Tanner confronts her son, Dennis, about 2/- missing from her purse. Dennis has been struggling to get a job since getting out of prison but Elsie accuses him of not trying hard enough. She wishes they were more like the respectable Barlow family at No.3. At that house however, student son Ken is in conflict with his postman father Frank who thinks he's being a snob about their working class habits. Ida is interested in a girl he's meeting but Frank objects to his plan to take her to the Imperial Hotel