Coronation Street

6 years? Crikey time flies! I think the first post is when Rita was charged with allegedly attacking Chesney for stealing sweets from The Kabin or something.

Speaking of the railway arch that was once part of the location of the pre-1982 outdoor Corrie set, I've unearthed
the old pics I took way back in September 2005, when that arch was used for the Davenports car dealership . . .


http://pc.djgm1974.operaunite.com/html/content/mcr-granada-tv-davenports-1.jpg

http://pc.djgm1974.operaunite.com/html/content/mcr-granada-tv-davenports-2.jpg


(These pics are currently hosted on my own PC via OperaUnite, so they may occasionally not show up.)

forgive if im wrong but that looks like the New York street from Granada Studios?

Yes, that was indeed (between 1988-2000) the New York street area of the former Granada Studios Tour complex,
although the NYC style facade and shops were taken down and removed sometime after the Tour closed down.

On the far left side of the first pic, there's a doorway with an INFORMATION sign above it. That doorway, and the
space behind it, is sometimes used as one of Weatherfield's three police stations. A second one is around the corner, opposite the replica Rovers Return, and usually used as an entrance for studio audiences.

There's another one I believe is on location somewhere, which IIRC, was used when Roy Cropper and Ken Barlow
were mistakenly arrested for being involved in selling/receiving cannabis or some other Class B illegal drug!

kool. miss those days of Granada Studios. If i remember rightly there were shops and attractions within the viaduct arches so must have been quite deep.

I miss the Granada Studios tours as well - hard to believe its been a decade since it closed. I wish they would bring it back. Yes there were shops, restaurants and other attraction in that area.

The location of the pre 1982 set was around there somewhere but ive yet to find the exact spot when ive taken a walk around there during my trips to Manchester.

you can't get to the location Jez, it's within the boundaries of Granada, but it was exactly infront of the bonded warehouse building

here's an old pic of grape street when it was a public road with the bonded ware house and the roof of the original corry terrace just visible

http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/web/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=7102

it's dated 1985 which is incorrect as the new set was built by then, more like 1975 by the look of the vehicles

next pic is the other end of grape street which shows houses on the right which is now Granada offices and in the left the gap where the street set is now, with the bonded warehouse in the backgrounds

http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/web/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=79876

this is odd but in one old corry book it says the original outdoor set was a real terrace of 7 houses between a pub and a shop

why say that when all the other books say what it really was, a scaled down facade

Thanks so much Steve! You have just solved the mystery of where the original outdoor Corrie set was! I know exactly where it is now. I have been in the studio audience a couple of times at Granada in Manchester so have been in the bonded warehouse and also walked past that area shown in the photo.

This probably relates to Archie Street in Salford. This was the original inspiration for the Street and featured in the original opening titles until around 1968. In the early days some outdoor scenes were filmed there but it soon became too problematic due to crowd control issues. Archie Street no longer exists as it was demolished in the 1970's but St Clement's Church which was located at the end of the original street still exists.

Here is a photo I took in 2005 - you can see the bonded warehouse and the road which runs alongside it. I never realised this used to be a public road - always assumed it was all part of Granada.


http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v615/201/98/1275800564/n1275800564_179407_4124.jpg

It was around here that they filmed the scene where Liam was killed.

thought I'd sent you that old pic of grape street some years back jez, when we talked about going to the manchester archive and sorcing some old maps and photos of the area around the studios
(don't bother now it's closed till june for refurbishment)

anyway Jez that pic you provided the single story building next to the warehouse is visible on the old pic as well so the old set started where the steps are, funny on the old pick you can see the back yards as well and they aren't even joined to the frontages.

had a corry book as a child which had a big photo of the present outdoor set taken from I guess, the roof of the bondage warehouse judging by the hight of it, and grape street is a public street, when i went on my first studio tour in 1991 it was part of granada.

the book I mentioned where they said about the original outdoor set they did mean the grape street set because it said "somebody, nobody knows who, looked out of a granada office window one day and there it was, grape Street, a row of seven derilict houses sandwiched between a pub and a shop, right on their doorstep."of course there wasn't a factory and a gothic style mission hall opposite so that's why they put the flats up. Just find it really odd that somebody writing a factual book about anything be it coronation street or the mona lisa, should fabricate some of it.

Thanks for those photos DJGM, that's how I recall it.

Gail is getting to be like Henry VIII... divorced, died, divorced, died, died (as opposed to Henry VIII divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived... I think that's right!)