Coronation Street

The exterior shots for the old Roy's were done at La Contadina Italian restaurant in Prestwich, Manchester.







Edits are in bold.

I knew about the remodel in 90s but didn't know about the kabin move and stuff

When Roys Rolls first moved, it used to be in a slightly different place (presumably, because it was just a facade at that point, with the rest of the street being built behind it, in the show, the Victoria Street version cafe has always been in the same place)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WAC_tMhPQws/Uyl5_q_QIlI/AAAAAAAAAGI/XhGzSL5G8Uw/s1600/roysz.png

I'm curious though, was Victoria Street supposed to be a newly built row of shops? Or did it just appear as if it had always been there?

If we want to be particular about things even the location of Victoria Street has moved around over the years!

Here's Dennis Parkin's original map of Weatherfield from 1961:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-98mkda8HuT0/UWMEpExvuTI/AAAAAAAAKTY/2oJBQoW3IFw/s1600/Coronation+Street+Map+1961.jpg

And here's an updated map from 1976.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111208164511/coronationstreet/images/f/f3/Coronation-street-map-1975.jpg

Notice how Victoria Street moved to t'other side of the viaduct in the 1970's! Today's location is more accurate when looking at the original idea for Weatherfield.

A signed version of the 2nd map was sold on Dickinson's Real Deal the other day.

it was was mid 80s wasn't it wehn the Big factory went on fire and got replaced by houses? also what was the deal with Gail living in the flats? Where was the Supermarket Reg and Curly worked in?

The factory fire was in the 1970's. It was replaced by the houses in 1989-90 when Mike Baldwin sold it to developers.

So it sat there empty for years waiting for redevelopment? So corrie does take after real life

Jesus, Betty Turpin and Alf lived quite a while away from Coronation Street...

And if Rosamund Street has now turned 90 degrees, does that mean that there in no longer a Mawdsley Street?

Back when Steve McDonald was a builder, he was the gaffer of the project to open the new group of shops. New or a conversion I can't recall.

People seem to have missed out that the original Roy's Rolls was Jim's Cafe ran by Alma & Gail.

According to this map, it's pretty much in the location visable under the viaduct on Mawdsley Street(?)

http://www.corrie.net/start/map.html

Was he the one that cuts conners to save money? and resulted in the building getting damp with crap cerment. How did there reslove that issues? It just seems to have been whitewashed, plus we never see inside the the Doctors anymore. Was it closed down because of the doggy building?




I never mist that out, it was just never brought up Did we ever see Jim?