Coronation Street

It’s always been there, on the old set it was basically a way to explain the adjacent Science Museum building. There are gates to it near Streetcars.

They only care about it now because it was a way to get the development stopped, after various residents had sold their houses.

Exact what I was thinking.

In my town, Argos just opened up a huge new store, as a click & collect only. A few days before they announced they would be closing a lot of them.

(basically they built a giant Sainsbury's in 2015, then for some reason they didn't actually want to move the Sainsbury's from it's current location, so they just had this massive empty brand new supermarket building they weren't using and finally just turned it into an Argos along with a section for B&M, Iceland and a KFC to move in)

It's been there for a long time, it's what they claimed the building that was actually the MOSI that faced the old Coronation Street set was, and they rebuilt the facade of it at the new set. Certainly there was a "Nuttalls Brewery" sign and gate on the old set in the early 00s at least, from when Streetcars first appeared next to where it is. It's not something that magically appeared out of nowhere for this storyline.



We've already seen storylines about the brewery on the ITV3 episodes, for example Jack moved over to their beers when he took over the Rovers in 1995, and we just saw Harvey Nuttall in a 1997 episode on ITV3 this week, talking to Alec.

Not something you see everyday...

What's that? All I can see is an asterisk.

Current Peter's first appearance.

A modern slide for the first ever Corrie about Acquired Compliance Editing. Says it's part 2 of 2 so must've been accidentally aired before the second half of the programme.

The famous story about this episode is that Vera was in a coma for all of it because Liz Dawn was a notorious corpser and they knew she'd cock up any lines she was given.

That has been done exceptionally well! You could almost believe someone had discovered a videotape of the first episode.

Only just got round to watching the late night ITV3 episodes, the 1970 episode seems really strange because of all the American characters in it!

I think this is the first time this episode's been seen since it was broadcast, never shown on Granada Plus or released on VHS or DVD.

I really wish we could see more episodes from the 60s, 70s and early 80s get broadcast.

It’s not quite the same as being broadcast, but there are a good number of episodes from the 60s and 70s streaming on BritBox. They’ve picked a good selection too, including the train crash from the late 60s.