CORONATION Street star, Pat Phoenix, put the newly-trained croupiers through their paces when the Bolton Lido opened its doors in March 1963. About 1,400 gamblers and fans packed into the former cinema in Bradshawgate and heard Pat denying rumours that she was secretly engaged, “I should be so daft,” she said. Pat Phoenix played Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street from 1960 to 1973 and again from 1976 to 1984.