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New Corrie set - What would you like to see?
Pyramidbread
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What would everyone like to see on the new set?
I think it'd be good to see a little more of Viaduct Street, and definately Mawdsley Street, VictoriaStreet could also be more realistic
The only thing is, how will they explain the disappearance of the Brewey (In real life, the science museum) and the Warehouse/Victoria Court (In real life, The Bonded Warehouse)
I think it'd be good to see a little more of Viaduct Street, and definately Mawdsley Street, VictoriaStreet could also be more realistic
The only thing is, how will they explain the disappearance of the Brewey (In real life, the science museum) and the Warehouse/Victoria Court (In real life, The Bonded Warehouse)
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Also, a wider street to allow cars to actually park xD
Yep the wideness of the Street is definitely the main flaw with the current set. The lack of parked cars has become increasingly unrealistic over the years.
Aye lol, if they'd tried to park cars on this set, only bikes would be able to drive down the street xD
It would be pretty easy to explain in Manchester - they got demolished! Grade 1/2 listings mean very little here. All that is left of Boddington's Brewery is the chimney! http://www.flickr.com/photos/rossendalewadey/4879491355/
I would also like to see the street behind Coronation Street, and thus a bit more of both Viaduct Street and Rosamund Street. That way you could get a much wider sense of the community, and it would feel much more credible a setting.
They should also rectify anomalies like there being no side windows in the Rovers exterior set, but them being there on the interior set.
I also think the corner shop could become a real working set with windows that really do see out onto the street, like the kebab shop does.
This is a real opportunity for Corrie to finally look real and credible. I personally could easily swallow a few visual continuity changes from the old set to the new one, in order to really make the outside set 100% authentic. We'd soon get used to it.
Hopefully they'll widen the street so they can then make the houses bigger and still shoot comfortably.
The area I would love to see back would be the street that is on the other side of the viaduct and was always there prior to 1986 when the arches were filled in (the old titles used to have a milk float driving through where The Joinery now is (or was lol) ) as this is where Betty was supposed to live. The Flying Horse as a proper exterior set would be a nice touch as well
1. The removal of that ridiculous viaduct Julian Perkins put in in 2000
2. More Rosamund Street, Viaduct Street, Inkeman Street, etc
3. Satellite dishes that point the right way
4. The disposal of that bloody stone cladding on Jack and Vera's old place. Move on!
BIG opportunity here, hopefully along the lines of how Shameless have done it, by building an arcade, several streets, the pub and other outdoor buildings.
It's really exciting!
Perhaps build a few extra houses around the back (to allow for 'on-location' filming perhaps?)
The houses being full-sized and fully decorated too; so they could film in the properties rather than have a character pretend to look out of the window onto a painted cloth.
And, if they wish to keep the tram, actually build the site next to a tram line rather than using CGI?
I agree considering that the recent CGI footage omitted the damn thing!
What a waste! Demollition of a historic Brewery to make way for a car hire place!
p.s - What is the Brewery on the south side of Manchester, I can remember drivong past it in 2000, near an Asda and Old Trafford.
I live over the river from the former Boddies Brewery - even the chimney has gone! It was dismantled over the last few weeks.
The other brewery to the south is Scottish and Newcastle - who make (made) Fosters.
Check out the live CGI in last Thursday's episode. (when you were looking down the Street when the title sequence started.)
It's there to the left of The Rovers.... yet is not in other episodes as you've mentioned
Yes I remember seeing that when I was up there! Saying that Fosters was also made where near where I live, until the Brewery (that was resited in 1980) was closed down earlier this year.
Most of all though, and this is not an outdoor set, but I'd like to see Freshco return. In recent years, the Street has become very closed off and characters rarely leave, and that wasn't always the case. Take the focus off the factory for a while, and reintroduce the supermarket. Maybe Dev's empire collapses, and he's offered a manager position? Graeme could work there as a trainee butcher, Mary could get a job as supervisor, and we meet a whole new set of characters.
At the moment I'm very conscious that I'm watching a television set - whereas when I watch something like Emmerdale that set is so realistic it never crosses my mind that it's not real.
There is no actual "authentic" difference between the two.
Yes, but when the street was built in 1902, the residents couldn't afford cars and those old back streets tended to be very narrow. The building of the new houses in 1989 could not widen or alter the existing width of the street as Maurice Jones only bought the factory and community centre sites, not the rights to widen the street!
Bit off topic but Salford council's decision to demolish Langworthy Road School (an excellent Victorian building) kind of shows the contempt our local councils in the North West have for any historic buildings http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7021/langworthy.jpg
http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=683