I was hoping Rita was going to say they renamed it from "Florizel Street" in 1902.
I think the original name for the street was Albert Street
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Really? Never heard that before. I thought the well known story was that it was due to be named Florizel Street but that someone thought the name sounded a bit like some kind of household cleaning product, which it does a bit.
When the programme was created it was initially called Florizel Street and was changed for the reason you say. In the show's official history though, the street was built as Albert Street but renamed Coronation Street to mark the 1902 coronation.
Something I didn’t know, from the ‘Way You Are’ promo for ITV (1989), the Corrie clips (Vera arguing and Ken getting yelled at) come from the same episode, which was the second episode on ITV3 today.
Something I've noticed while watching old Corrie clips on YouTube, is how much Raquel's voice changed from her early years to the character we came to know.
It's more like Sarah Lancashire's own voice here:
but by the time she worked in the Rovers, it was a different voice altogether:
From what I remember watching on Granada Plus, her voice was normal when she first came in, then after a few months she went away for a few months, then when she came back, her voice jumped up an octave.
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I've just watched the classic Coronation Street broadcast earlier today on ITV3 from March 1989 when Alan Bradley attacked Rita and went on the run after she discovered his fraud. Gripping and totally believable to the watching audience, and very long remembered by all who saw it at the time...........contrast that with the Phelan nonsense that has gone out tonight, which seems like they are trying to get blood out of a stone, having dragged that out and into absurd heights of non believability, so preposterous has it become that it actually holds no genuine gripping tension whatsoever and is no more than a bad panto without the laughs.
Alan Bradley's transformation was slightly preposterous but out of all the Corrie villains, he was the most convincing and realistic.
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Richard Hillman is currently sitting in the audience of the Soap Awards next to Gail. Make of that what you will...
He was there because he was nominated for best all-time moment (the driving the Platts into the water scene). But Emmerdale won it for a big flypass crash three years ago instead.
Richard Hillman is currently sitting in the audience of the Soap Awards next to Gail. Make of that what you will...
He was there because he was nominated for best all-time moment (the driving the Platts into the water scene). But Emmerdale won it for a big flypass crash three years ago instead.
