isn't the garden studio where they filmed Dev's wedding, from the outside it looks like a mosque
the baker street set was roofed over in 1993 and demolished in 2002, the site now houses corry's stage 2. You can't miss this building, it's the one with the pictures on the side, best seen from the train, and the view on granada reports
to me the site has something that no other tv site has, its got so many different little areas and buldings to it! now the park is closed, and having been able to acces the site as an audience member it makes you realise how closely the theme park operated to the operational tv studios, literally meters away from it! its a shame it went maybe we should campaign to get the national trust to run it or somethign if granada ever moved!! haha
Aren't ITV bosses mulling over moving the present Manchester studios to the new site where BBC is going, in Salford - this would be just a case of building a new Coronation Street set (at least Coronation Street would then be in its native City of Salford rather than being filmed in Manchester!!!!), but everything else will already be in place with thank to the Beeb!!!!!!!
I wasn't aware Weatherfield always claimed to be in Salford rather than Manchester. the pseudo postcodes they always use are "GMxx xxx" (for Greater Manchester, a non-existant postcode).
Although the Cities of Salford and Manchester are conjoined to such an extent as to make the seperation virtually indistinguishable to the casual observer, it seems odd for Granada to have placed the fictional borough so definately in one or t'other (I SAY ONE OR T'OTHER)
Aren't ITV bosses mulling over moving the present Manchester studios to the new site where BBC is going, in Salford - this would be just a case of building a new Coronation Street set (at least Coronation Street would then be in its native City of Salford rather than being filmed in Manchester!!!!), but everything else will already be in place with thank to the Beeb!!!!!!!
I wasn't aware Weatherfield always claimed to be in Salford rather than Manchester. the pseudo postcodes they always use are "GMxx xxx" (for Greater Manchester, a non-existant postcode).
Although the Cities of Salford and Manchester are conjoined to such an extent as to make the seperation virtually indistinguishable to the casual observer, it seems odd for Granada to have placed the fictional borough so definately in one or t'other (I SAY ONE OR T'OTHER)
Well the Street was based on a Salford street when it first started I believe, however I think
Weatherfield
is just meant to be an area of Greater Manchester like Oldham or Stockport are for example.
Well the Street was based on a Salford street when it first started I believe, however I think
Weatherfield
is just meant to be an area of Greater Manchester like Oldham or Stockport are for example.
I think that was probably more from a design basis rather than anything else. Salford had alot more "Corrie-type" residences around the River Irwell area at that time, and it's true that Salford Quays is the setting for Weatherfield Quays now, so perhaps you are right.
The areas and borders have changed so much since 1960 when the programme started it's unbelievable.
I was born in Denton (not the Insp Frost one) which was in Cheshire, which became Greater Manchester, but is now the unitary area of Tameside.
Salford was Lancashire, and I'm sure Manchester was Cheshire until the creation of Greater Manchester.
Tis 100% set in Salford. Cant remember his name but him that was responsible for creating corrie was Salford born and set it in the surroundings he knew. A lot of it is still filmed around there. I lived in Weaste for a while (area of Salford) and they used Weaste cemetery a lot in those days.
I thought Manchester used to be in Lancashire but I could be wrong.
Tony Warren. And yes he based it on Salford, however im sure that in Soapland Weatherfield is just an area of Greater Manchester. We never here the characters mention Salford or Salford Quays - its always Weatherfield or Weatherfield Quays - so Weatherfield is instead of Salford if you see what I mean.
I thought Manchester used to be in Lancashire but I could be wrong.
You're not wrong, it became part of the newly formed Greater Manchester back in 1974. (Even my home town of Warrington used to be in Lancashire, but they changed that to Cheshire)
To be fair realistically the actual Corrie set is very close to Salford, it's just a quick drive further on down Quay Street, then after a Bridge you're in Salford, and the Ring Road you see on the Granada Reports background.
I was born in Denton (not the Insp Frost one) which was in Cheshire, which became Greater Manchester, but is now the unitary area of Tameside.
Salford was Lancashire, and I'm sure Manchester was Cheshire until the creation of Greater Manchester.
Denton is still infact within the County of Greater Manchester, it just has all local government matters dealt with by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (the ex-Metropolitan Districts are not officially Unitary Authorities as they existed before that concept was developed).
Manchester was, as has been said in the County of Lancashire until 1974 when the county of Greater Manchester was created.
As has been said, the "look" of Salford streets fitted the producers' requirements and was easy to get to (don't forget Quay Street is almost in Salford).
I was born in Denton (not the Insp Frost one) which was in Cheshire, which became Greater Manchester, but is now the unitary area of Tameside.
Salford was Lancashire, and I'm sure Manchester was Cheshire until the creation of Greater Manchester.
Denton is still infact within the County of Greater Manchester, it just has all local government matters dealt with by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (the ex-Metropolitan Districts are not officially Unitary Authorities as they existed before that concept was developed).
Manchester was, as has been said in the County of Lancashire until 1974 when the county of Greater Manchester was created.
As has been said, the "look" of Salford streets fitted the producers' requirements and was easy to get to (don't forget Quay Street is almost in Salford).
Spot on. Some things in metropolitan counties are still decided at "county level": Emergency services, civil planning and transport strategies. For other purposes the county councils of metropolitan counties were scrapped in 1986, and powers devolved to the metropolitan boroughs. Met counties still exist geographically/ceremonially, as well as legally.
This is why some atlases show met counties, while other maps (notably Ordnance Survey) regard the constituent met boroughs instead of the met counties as a whole-- regarding the met boroughs as de facto unitary authorities.
The Manchester conurbation was divided between Cheshire and Lancashire and a little bit of Yorkshire (West Riding)-- the River Mersey being the rough boundary between Lancs and Ches. The Wilson government of the 1960s recognised that Manchester and surrounding towns had grown/merged so much, it was acknowledged a county serving this area was needed-- just in the same way Lancashire was created out of Cheshire in the C12th!!
The report by Wilson's government called this new county Selnec (south-east Lancs/north-east Ches). Then Heath won the 1970 election, the local government changes were revised. In 1972 the name Greater Manchester was decided. 1st April 1974 it came into force.
In terms of pre-1974 boundaries, Gtr Manc is roughly:
>Stockport, Trafford (part) and Tameside from Cheshire.
>Manchester, Oldham, Trafford (part), Salford, Wigan, Bury , Rochdale and Bolton from Lancashire.
>Saddleworth from Yorkshire (it was decided that emergency services could get to Saddleworth better from Manchester than the other side of the Pennines in winter weather)
>The creation of Gtr Manc left an isolated piece of Cheshire around Tintwistle/northern Longdendale-- so this merged south into Derbyshire.
And it has remained thus ever since 1974. So the boundaries have only actually changed once since the 1960s.
BTW Warrington was split in two before 1974. North of Mersey was Lancs, south of the Mersey was in Cheshire. In 1974 the (Cheshire) Borough of Warrington was created so north Warrington and surrounding villages north of the Mersey transferred to Cheshire. Warrington Borough Council became a UA in 1998, but is still geographically/ceremonially in Cheshire.
The River Irwell, which runs alongside Granada's western perimeter (Water Street), is the boundary between City of Manchester and the City of Salford.
It's been on before, I haven't watched Corrie in a while, but it has been used previously.
Again thats a mock-up as the Metrolink does run near Granada, but it's the other way if you've ever been down the Altrincham or Eccles route or the normal Liverpool to Manchester railway line.
