OLIVER HOLT: My mum played Emily Bishop in Coronation Street for 56 years. It's only after I cleared out family home and found all the scripts she'd hoarded that I discovered just how adored she still is

OLIVER HOLT: My mum played Emily Bishop in Coronation Street for 56 years. It's only after I cleared out family home and found all the scripts she'd hoarded that I discovered just how adored she still is

The red-brick cottage where my mum and dad grew old stands alone in fields at the point where the Cheshire Plain thinks about rising towards the Peak District.