 Martha becomes the cleaner at the pub and suffers embarrassment when old schoolfriend Ted Ashley (Jerold Wells) revisits Weatherfield to catch up with old friends, and she mistakenly thinks he is courting her.Minnie Caldwell ("née" Carlton) is one of the original characters in the long-running British soap opera, "Coronation Street".Minnie, played by Margot Bryant from 1960–76, was a timid and lovable elderly woman who went about with the more dominant characters of Martha Longhurst and Ena Sharples.