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Brookside close as it looks now
Here brokkie fans, thought you might like to see it now that real folk live in it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd93ZcW5Vao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd93ZcW5Vao
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I bought a house a few years ago, purely because it was built by the same developer and reminded me of living on Brookside Close!!!
I went there about 5yrs ago when it really was in a sorry state. It was REALLY surreal and actually quite creepy!
I was in my absolute element wandering around but my boyfriend was bored shitless. He just didn't get the fascination at all.
Yes it took a long time to get them fit for people to live in, I wonder if the new owners were brookie fans.
They did indeed, as did the Burtons and interestingly Mrs Cunninghams house was the first house on the close, even when Brooksife was still running, it was obscured from view and not used to film in Brookside so was picked up by HO.
Like my husband ...he can't see my interest in either Corrie or Emmerdale ...he's never watched a soap in his life....:o:o:o
Wasn't that Mick Johnsons house?
Just out of interest, is that a working class part of Liverpool?
From memory it's actually a very affluent suburb of Liverpool. The cul de sac of Brookside Close is within a larger development of the same style of houses, so you drive off the main road, into a real development of new (ish) houses (built at the same time as Brookside Close so are in a very similar style) then as you pass by a few streets you hit the entrance of Brookside Close (where there was once a security office and a gate which has since been demolished) there is number 1 and 3 on your left as you turn the corner (number 1 being the Cunningham home in Hollyoaks which was never actually featured in Brookside) then as the corner turns you enter into the cul de sac of houses which we know as Brookside.
Many of the properties were redeveloped when Hollyoaks used them as a set after Brookside folded (mainly being home to the Deans and Burtons) but they were redeveloped once again after the properties were sold on and are now barely recognisable as the houses we once knew as being home to the Grant, Dixon, Farnham and Jordache families.
Nope, it was never used in the soap and I can't even remember it being their, but the other two next to it I do recall.
The one on the right? http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54300000/jpg/_54300203_brookie075.jpg
That was actually the canteen for cast and crew, so wasn't used as a character home.
Recently the security office at the entrance to the Close has been demolished and is due to be replaced by a new house, not sure if that has been built yet. But all the other houses are the originals from when the close was built.
Thats the one I mean, I cant remember it being their, but I guess it must have been the camera angles used at the time.
One of them invites people in for tea and a look around inside.:o
That was around the time they introduced the shopping arcade, which was a new set built miles away in a different part of the city.
That perhaps was the story of Brookside itself. The houses were new at the time but the characters were often working class who had moved up the social ladder just a little.