List of Brookside residences
Family Characters Years present
Taylor Gavin Taylor ( died 1982 ) , Petra Taylor ( died 1983 ) 1982-83 When Brookside began Number 10 was owned by the Jacksons . Tragedy struck in 1982 when Gavin Taylor died Petra unable to cope without Gavin committed susicide a year later
Jackson George Jackson , Marie Jackson , Gary Jackson , little George Jackson 1983-1985 Petra Taylor 's sister Marie Jackson and her husband George moved into the house after Petra went missing . After Petra 's death as her next of kin Marie inherited Number 10 . Marie had a long-standing feud with Sheila Grant over the way Sheila 's son Barry treated Petra . The Jacksons moved away from the close and rented Number 10 to Terry Sullivan . In 1985 Marie sold Number 10 to The Corkhill Family
Corkhill Billy Corkhill ( left 1990 ) , Doreen Corkhill ( left 1987 ) , Sheila Corkhill ( 1988-90 ) , Rod Corkhill , Tracy Corkhill 1985-90 In 1985 laborer Billy Corkhill and his wife Doreen purchased Number 10 and moved to the close from the council estate . Billy was a scally always getting into dodgy deals with his younger brother Jimmy . When Billy fell behind on mortgage repayments on Number 10 the bank threatened to repossess the house . Doreen had an affair with her boss for money and when Billy found out he chucked Doreen out and drove his car over the neighbors ' lawn . Billy then started an affair with Bobby Grant 's wife Sheila . Sheila moved in with Billy after her split with Bobby and the pair married in 1990 . Billy and Sheila decided to move away from the close in 1990 and moved down south
Corkhill Rod Corkhill 1985-1993 , Diana Corkhill 1990-1993 In 1993 having been looking after the house for three years Rod Corkhill got word from his dad Billy that he and Sheila wanted to put Number 10 up for sale so they could afford a bigger house in Basingstoke . Rod was settled so he applied to the bank for a mortgage and was successful and bought Number 10 off Billy and Sheila . Rod and Diana were happy together for a few months until their marriage broke down and Rod left Brookside Close for a job elsewhere
Corkhill Diana Corkhill 1993 Following her divorce from Rod , Diana received Number 10 Brookside Close as her divorce settlement and lived in the house and was heavily supported by neighbors of Brookside Close . In late 1993 Diana found love again and was offered a job near to where he lived so in 1993 Diana left Brookside Close to start a new life with her new boyfriend and sold Number 10
Jordache Trevor Jordache ( died 1993 ) , Mandy Jordache , Beth Jordache ( died 1995 ) , Rachel Jordache , Sinbad ( 1995 ) 1993-95 In 1993 Mrs Shackleton bought Number 10 off Diana Corkhill to be used as a safe house for domestic abuse victims . Mandy Jordache rented Number 10 and her children Beth and Rachel moved in to get away from her abusive husband Trevor . In late 1993 Trevor found Mandy and wormed his way back in and started raping Rachel and hitting Mandy . Mandy killed Trevor with a kitchen knife and Sinbad , who had taken a shine to Mandy , helped bury Trevor under the patio . Soon after Sinbad bought Number 10 off the Shackletons to prove to Mandy he is serious about her . In 1995 when Trevor was dug up by Eddie Banks and Jimmy Corkhill , Mandy and Beth were sent to prison where Beth died of heart disease . Mandy won her appeal and returned to Number 10 to be with Sinbad . Later in the year , Mandy gave birth to her and Sinbad 's daughter Ruth . She and Sinbad sold Number 10 to Jimmy Corkhill . When Mandy left the close in 1995 to work in a women 's refuge she left Sinbad devastated
Corkhill Jimmy Corkhill , Jackie Corkhill , Lindsey Corkhill , Little Jimmy Corkhill ( 1996 ) , Kylie Corkhill , William Corkhill ( born 1997 ) 1995-2001 In 1995 Jimmy Corkhill used some of his drug money to buy his brother Billy 's old house Number 10 off Sinbad Sweeney for £45,000 . Jimmy 's wife Jackie moved in . Mandy and Sinbad continued to live in the house until Mandy left the close and Sinbad moved into Number 5 with Mick Johnson . Jimmy and Jackie 's daughter Lindsey Standow moved in after leaving her husband Gary . By 2001 Jimmy and Jackie 's marriage broke down and Jackie moved away from the close in late 2001 . The pair later divorced with Jimmy buying Jackie 's share of Number 10
Corkhill Jimmy Corkhill , Tim O'Leary , Emily O'Leary ( died 2002 ) 2001-2003 Following his divorce from Jackie , Jimmy took in lodgers Tim and Emily O'Leary and treated them as if they were his own family . In 2002 following the armed siege on the close , Emily died in hospital leaving Tim devastated . By 2003 Jimmy was in rivalries with both Sinico , who wanted to buy the close to make way for a new road , and drug dealer Jack Michaelson , who had just purchased Number 8 . Jimmy was one of the group of residents who hung Michaelson out of the bedroom window of Number 8 leading to his death . Jimmy 's daughter Lindsey Corkhill returned to the close along with new fiancée Barry Grant and offered Jimmy the chance to live with her and Barry in Newcastle upon Tyne . After much persuasion , Jimmy finally agreed and sold Number 10 to Sinico . He was the last person to leave the close , painting the words game over on all of the houses and drawing A D on the street sign so that it read Brookside Closed
Brookside Close -- Number 10
A documentary featuring Lloyd Grossman and Carol Smillie and book were produced in 1998 by Mersey Television entitled No . 10 , The Unluckiest House in the world ? . This featured the mishaps of the residents of Number 10 detailing Gavin Taylor 's death , Petra 's suicide , George Jackson 's wrongful conviction , Billy and Doreen Corkhill 's debts , Trevor Jordache 's rape of his daughters and murder by his wife and eldest daughter , Jimmy Corkhill 's drug addiction and responsibility in the deaths of Frank Rogers and Tony Dixon , and Little Jimmy 's murder by drug dealers . Emily O'Leary was later pushed to her death from an upstairs window during an armed siege in Number 10 in 2002 but this was after the publication so was not featured .
Television soap opera Brookside started in 1982 set on a new-build residential cul-de-sac, Brookside Close. In 1991, Brookside Parade was added, bringing businesses to the soap. The programme was discontinued in November 2003.