For the latest Coronation Street news and spoilers - sign up here It's certainly difficult to settle on just one but Corrie fans have spoken and Hilda Ogden has been chosen as the greatest Coronation Street character of all time in our reader survey.
Britain’s best loved cleaner, famed for her hair curlers, pinny and her living room 'muriel' in her living room was played by the late Jean Alexander from July 1964 until Christmas 1987 when she bowed out with a stirring rendition of Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye in the Rovers Return.
Hilda's departure, for a new life in Derbyshire, attracted more than 27 million viewer following a 'Save Hilda' campaign from fans not realising it was the soap star's decision to leave.
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