The Changing Sets of Coronation Street

Рет қаралды 9,445

2 жыл бұрын

From its humble beginnings as a row of flimsy wooden house fronts crammed into a tiny Granada studio to the vast expanse used today at MediaCity, Coronation Street has changed an awful lot in the past sixty years. The row of terraced houses with a shop at one end and the Rovers Return at the other is just as recognisable as ever, but beyond that, the street is worlds away from what the show runners could have ever conceived of back in 1960. In this discussion, we chat about the evolution of the external sets over the years, tracking the buildings that came and went, roads that were lengthened and (in the case of Rosamund Street) massively shortened, and other changes that viewers have seen come and go.
This video contains numerous pictures of the street over the years, so keep watching!

Пікірлер: 35

@actualbennett2245 Жыл бұрын

I loved the storylines about the builders when the new side of the street was going up in 1989, including Kimberly Taylor's priceless line in the Rovers after a brawl: 'Excuse me, you're stepping on Mr Watts!'

@ianhalsall-fox 4 ай бұрын

Amazingly well researched and as someone who was weaned on Corrie having been born 50 years ago and remembering the likes of Annie, Ena and Albert and my mum telling me all about how Valerie died in the Barlow’s maisonette I remained a massive Corrie fan until they sadly killed off Derek Wilton and Bet left after Rita pulled out of helping her buy the Rovers. You have put together such a wonderfully nostalgic podcast / vlog 👏

@ConversationStreet 4 ай бұрын

That’s so kind of you, thanks! So glad you enjoyed it.

@stevewelch5724 8 ай бұрын

Loved watching this. The original outdoor set was the back of the large warehouse which was behind the medical centre. The land was used for the tour which started in late 80s.

@chelles3835 2 жыл бұрын

I always enjoy your podcast G & M, but I super enjoyed this one. Fascinating!! Thank you so much for this. Michelle NZ

@stevek6432 Жыл бұрын

19:47, number 7 collapsed so that they could halve the set equally and fit them into the studio and just film the shop end or pub end. which is why you never saw the actual gap until 1968 when they moved outside

@donnaharris4420 8 ай бұрын

You mention a documentary about where everything was.....maybe you could find out what happened to the Select...the little room that they had wedding receptions in. It seems to have disappeared!! Really enjoying going through these podcasts (I'm doing some Christmas baking)..Cheers!

@cityfolkferal Ай бұрын

At 43:00 there’s a pic on Pinterest which shows the 1982 Coronation Street set. If you pinpoint the building in the middle the Grape Street set is on the other side of that where the carpark now is on that pic 😊

@stevek6432 Жыл бұрын

2:06, on the pic of archie street it's a funny irony that the 3rd house down from the shop is cladded given that number nine ended up being cladded, als the 3rd house from the shop

@jayrobinson7554 Жыл бұрын

Maybe Tony Warren always had it in the back of his mind and was waiting for the perfect time to incorporate it and then along came Vera Duckworth lol.

@stevek6432 Жыл бұрын

my idea for set expansion is to build a multi storey car park, hide behind a facade, then use the old car park space to expand the set further

@peterleigh7485 8 ай бұрын

Every bay window is actually half bays to fit more houses

@loureviews 10 ай бұрын

On the tour I was surprised to find that the postbox putside the corner shop was pink, not red! And you got to Coronation St via tram along 'Baker St'. I went just before the houses were built on the old factory site.

@stevek6432 Жыл бұрын

found it odd on the grape street set that they didn't rebuild number 7

@Dianaemanuel 7 ай бұрын

One mystery to me - when I used to watch the show growing up in the 70s and 80s - was the layout of those terraces inside. I do wish you'd do a video about this. I always assumed they were two up two down but I read somewhere that they were three-bedroomed terraces? Also what was going on with those half bay windows? It seemed like you entered through the front door with stairs in front of you and a passageway to a back room. But what about the front? Please help!

@jasbegs1258 Жыл бұрын

Am currently enjoying this - wish you would do one on the end of the ''select'' in the Rovers and how and why? Was this ever explained?

@ConversationStreet Жыл бұрын

I think it might have been quietly retired when the Rovers was renovated after the fire in the 80s. It never really made any sense that it was in there, so I think they just kind of hoped people would eventually forget! 😂

@LCGSports Жыл бұрын

@@ConversationStreet no 7 collaspe onf a faulty beam

@donnaharris4420 8 ай бұрын

I just posted this albeit without knowing you did too. I kind of wish they still had it!

@theguichardsadventures3720 2 жыл бұрын

I went on the tour last Sunday and we were lucky enough to be able to access the inside of the police station … I have it on my walkthrough KZfaq video guichard’s adventures

@ConversationStreet 2 жыл бұрын

Oh that’s cool! They didn’t let us in there last time we went!

@theguichardsadventures3720 2 жыл бұрын

It’s only been trialled for three weeks now!….. Oh and I was most disappointed with what Roy rolls really looks like through the letterbox 😂

@LCGSports Жыл бұрын

@@ConversationStreet number 7 collaspe because of a faulty beam

@peterleigh7485 8 ай бұрын

If you look at old corranation street the chapel is next to the rovers

@LCGSports Жыл бұрын

NO.7 collaspe of a faulty beam

@rol1517 Жыл бұрын

The 5th instalment of the set should be set around glass boxes and the smart lockdown city concept.

@barriegilbert1315 10 ай бұрын

Where does the tram/railway go which you see at the side of the Rovers/medical centre/chip shop actually go? as when you see high level shots of the street there are just rows of houses and a ginnel between the rear yards of the street and the adjacent street

@ConversationStreet 10 ай бұрын

One of the Street’s great mysteries…

@stevek6432 Жыл бұрын

there's a weird error on the 1990s building of the new houses as the gap between the platts, underworld and the kabin wouldn't be cobbles as that area was under the factory / community centre. and the rails were a throwback to the real world history of the site which was a rail goods yard. The rosamond street buildings which because the medical centre is called the stables and was where the good were, stabled, hence the raised area. the rails would never have existed in the corrie verse as there was never any railway activity on that site. So it's a bit funny that they have copied that error into the current media city set

@stevek6432 Жыл бұрын

I always found the story of them trying to find a viaduct a bit far fetched given the whole area either side of the bonded warehouse was rain goods yard with a bloody great viaduct going into the actual warehouse. quite visible from the Granada offices. In one book i read that grape street was real houses which just happened to be the right number between a pub and shop. hate it when they make stuff up rather than just say, we needed a space beside a viaduct, there was some opposite so we just hired it for 14 years