A Day on the Corrie Cobbles...

Last week the family and I headed across the Pennines to explore the lovely but seemingly always rainy city of Manchester and then strut down Corrie Cobbles! We were one of the first families to bag tickets to the tour of the old Granada studios and look round the Corrie set and being big Corrie Fans we booked them for sooner rather than later as we were excited to follow the path of Ena Sharples, Karen McDonald and good ol' Tracey Barlow!

After touring the dressing rooms, green room, costume department (I actually touched Carla Conner's Wedding Dress made by Hayley Cropper!) we were able to see inside some of the internal sets that were used for filming corrie! We were able to see Carla's Flat, The Platt's House, The Factory, The Rovers (I even had the chance of Pulling a Pint!), the Barge (from Ken's Lover) and the Duckworths back room (which now belongs to Ty & Fizz!) We also saw the standard coffin with a number of plaques, Becky McDonald's Jordan-style Wedding Dress and many other famous artefacts and props from the Soap! 

Then we were allowed onto the street, onto those famous cobbles! Where we could explore the Kabin, Nick's Bistro, the Alahans Corner Shop, Websters Garage and all the houses that littler the street and provide homes for our much-loved Corrie Characters!

After peering through the windows and posing outside the doors of all the houses, we were able to strut down the street a la Kylie Platt and mock a cat fight a la Gail and Eileen!

Surprisingly, the Set's seemed rather shabby and it was weird to think that behind those doors were empty rooms of nothingness - not the rooms we have an insight into on the soap usually!

What surprised me the most, was the fact that the view under the bridge was merely a canvas print giving an illusion of continuing streets!

Its safe to say we had a fab time on Coronation Street, it was fascinating to see the street up close and personal and I will never watch Corrie in the same way again! Whether you are a Corrie fan or not, it is well worth the visit, if you can get tickets before the exhibition closes!