Audrey Fleming Audrey Fleming ( née Bright ) was a resident of 3 Coronation Street from 1968 to 1970 . Audrey married Dickie Fleming when she was seventeen but fell in love with Ray Langton , causing Dickie to walk out on her . She left the Street when she failed to convince Ray to leave his fiancée Sandra Butler for her . Biography . Audrey Bright was born in 1951 in Preston , England . While still a schoolgirl she dated apprentice engineer Dickie Fleming and Dickie bought a house for them , 3 Coronation Street , Weatherfield . With the neighbours gossiping about the unmarried teenage couple setting up home , they married in secret and set the neighbours straight by showing them their marriage certificate inside a pass the parcel during their housewarming . When she left school Audrey got a job at the petrol station on Union Street for £8 a week . When prompted she sent a photo of herself to the " Miss Petrol Pump Beauty Contest " and ended up winning £50 , despite Dickie ' s reservations about her posing in a bikini . Audrey turned down the opportunity to make a career out of beauty contests and returned to the less glamorous life in Coronation Street . Audrey and Dickie were friends with the younger crowd in the street , especially Lucille Hewitt and Gordon Clegg . Audrey did her best to support Lucille when she was jilted by Gordon . Builder Ray Langton bought Audrey her first drink in the Rovers Return Inn on her 18th birthday . Two months later , the Flemings took him in as a lodger , and Audrey started work as Ray ' s secretary . Ray fancied Audrey but didn ' t make a move right away . Dickie , both paranoid and protective of Audrey , threw Ray out of the house but apologised when he came to his senses . However , there was an attraction between Ray and Audrey and when the street residents arranged a coach trip to the Lake District , Ray agreed to go along to keep Audrey company when Dickie had to stay behind to revise for exams . Eventually Dickie changed his mind and went after all , but Audrey spent more time with Ray during the trip and went away with him . Having already kissed her some weeks previously , Ray tried to tempt Audrey into an affair but Dickie interrupted him before he could make his move . Ken Barlow had to step in to stop Ray and Dickie fighting . The coach crashed on the way back to Weatherfield , and although neither Audrey nor Dickie were seriously injured , Ray had an infection in his spine and was paralysed for some months . The Flemings took him in but Audrey found the stress of coping with Dickie and an infirm Ray too much to cope with and went away to visit her mother , with Emily Nugent taking over at No . 3 for a while ( she also found them difficult and left eventually ) . When Audrey returned , Ray was engaged to Sandra Butler , who had been friends with Audrey . Audrey was jealous but tried her best to hide it . She didn ' t hold out for long though and threw herself at Ray , finally admitting she loved him , but he wanted to stay faithful to Sandra and moved out of the Flemings ' house to avoid Audrey . Wanting to know where she stood , Audrey went to see him at the yard and they kissed again , Ray unable to resist her when she was standing in front of him . Although she was fond of Dickie , he didn ' t excite Audrey and she was starting to find him boring . Despite the kiss , Ray still kept his engagement to Sandra , intending to forget about Audrey as best he could but trouble was caused by a jealous Lucille Hewitt , who told Dickie about the kiss . Audrey confessed to him that she loved Ray . She let Dickie walk out of her life and when it started to seem clear that Ray wasn ' t going to give up Sandra , Audrey resigned from the yard and left the street . Eighteen months later she agreed the sale of No . 3 to Ernie and Emily Bishop when they got married but sent her cousin Vicki Bright to make the arrangements . Vicki revealed that Audrey ' s divorce from Dickie was all but finalised after an attempt at reconciliation had failed although Ray was not cited in the petition . She had done nothing in particular since moving away from Weatherfield . Quotes . " Me and Dickie have only been in complete agreement once - recently we agreed we were both right about being wrong for one another . " ( Final line )