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Anne Kirkbride (1983)
Anne in 1983, more than 10 years after she first joined the Street.
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Bill Roache, Anne Kirkbride and Johnny Briggs (1983)
Deirdre's love triangle with Ken Barlow (Bill Roache) and Mike Baldwin (Johnny Briggs) in the early '80s was one of Coronation Street's most successful storylines and a national talking point.
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Anne Kirkbride and Johnny Briggs during a break from filming (1986)
Anne on a break from filming with Johnny Briggs in 1986.
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Anne Kirkbride as Deirdre (1989)
Deirdre's eye-catching glasses made her one of Corrie's most recognisable characters. Here, Anne appears in a promo shot as Deirdre in 1989.
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Anne and co-stars with Doris Speed at a book launch (1992)
Anne with former co-star Doris Speed (Annie Walker) in 1992, when Speed returned to the show's set for a book launch.
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Anne Kirkbride as Deirdre with Al Nedjari as Samir (1994)
Deirdre on the day of her wedding to Samir Rachid in 1994. The pair tied the knot after meeting and falling in love in Morocco, but their partnership was cut short by Samir's death the following year.
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Anne Kirkbride arrives for Coronation Street filming (1998)
Anne arrives for filming in 1998 at the height of the 'Free the Weatherfield One' campaign, when Deirdre was wrongly imprisoned for ex-lover Jon Lindsay (Owen Aaronovich)'s fraud.
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Anne Kirkbride as Deirdre (2000)
Anne in another stylish cast shot as Deirdre in 2000, when Coronation Street marked its 40th anniversary.
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Ken and Deirdre remarry (2005)
Ken and Deirdre remarried in 2005 in the same week as Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. 12 million people tuned in for the wedding episode.
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Anne Kirkbride, Kate Ford and Bill Roache (2010) - Tracy is released from prison
Deirdre was reunited with her daughter Tracy at Christmas 2010 when the scheming character was released from prison unexpectedly.
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Anne with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (2010)
Anne met Camilla in 2010 when the Duchess paid a visit to the Corrie set for the show's 50th anniversary.
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Anne Kirkbride and Bill Roache with waxworks of Deirdre and Ken at Madame Tussauds Blackpool, July 2011
Anne Kirkbride and Bill Roache with waxworks of Deirdre and Ken at Madame Tussauds Blackpool, July 2011
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Deirdre and Rita discover Ken's affair (2012)
Anne as Deirdre shown with Barbara Knox (as Rita) during a 2012 episode of Coronation Street in which they discover Ken's affair with Wendy.
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Anne Kirkbride with Bill Roache during filming (2013)
Anne filming on location for Tyrone Dobbs's Coronation Street trial scenes in 2013.
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