Coronation Street place at university, and thus found his working-class background—as well as his parents, Frank and Ida (Frank Pemberton and Noel Dyson)—something of an embarrassment. The character was one of the few to have experienced life outside of Coronation Street. In some ways this predicts the growth of globalisation, and the decline of similar communities. In an episode from 1961, Barlow declares: "You can't go on just thinking about your own street these days. We're living with people on the other side of the world. There's more to worry about than Elsie Tanner and her boyfriends." Roache is the only remaining
Frank Barlow (Coronation Street) Street for a new life in Wilmslow. He sold the shop and celebrated his farewell in the Rovers Return Inn, on the same night Martha Longhurst (Lynne Carol) died. He left the street two weeks later without saying goodbye to Ken. Frank made two further visits to the street, once in 1967, when Ken refused to pay a fine and instead went to prison, and then in 1971, when he arrived for the funeral of Ken's wife Valerie (Anne Reid). Frank died at some point between 1971 and April 1975. Frank Barlow (Coronation Street) Frank Barlow is a fictional character