As it looked six hours ago, picture courtesy of Media City UK

Not much to see just yet

I wonder how different it will look.

This is how it used to look
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...25_468x282.jpg

How it will look from the outside
http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/asse...501646_itv.jpg

How it looked in June
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...alford-007.jpg

How it looked in August
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/...1d8ce171_b.jpg

A look at how much bigger the Rovers will be (double window)
http://i55.tinypic.com/x4584z.jpg
http://seasiderspodcast.co.uk/wp-con...ers-return.jpg

A model of the finished product
http://i54.tinypic.com/28mhftl.jpg
(Looks like the Brewery wont be closed off now)

How it looked in September
http://i55.tinypic.com/2jaxlol.jpg

How it looked earlier this month
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6031/...d6608ba9_b.jpg

It looks much the same, the slanted part of the window seems a little bit wider.

Look at the upstairs windows on the plan and the pic

LOL, it took me 10 minutes to try & figure out what you meant. I still didn't think of upstairs!

I'm still trying to work out whether we will notice how much bigger the sets are on screen?

Thank you for the pics Pyramid! Seen quite alot of you around on the forum today!

Lol, the pub looks a bit more like a real life pub with two windows like that, looks wider (Intrestingly in the early days, the Rovers was Woolpack sized)

Oh this reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. I'm watching the 60s boxset atm and was surprised to see that the Mission's hall was next to the Rovers. There is no sign that it was ever there now, was the viaduct we see now always meant to have been behind it?

just a question, what exactly is that viaduct (or archway) next to the rovers return? There is no Tram going across it, and there are houses opposite Coronation Street at the back. I never got what its purpose was.

I think in the very early episodes they only had one side of the street set up, so it was probably there for convinence

This is a picture of the Victoria Street entrance from a later episode
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__...hall_front.JPG

I hope that on the new set the make Viaduct Street look better

It's just some sort of arch it seems
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xmOA0bzoqz...athy+map+2.png

I have to wonder, on the new set, will they still have areas like these

(Police station)
http://i41.tinypic.com/2csdq0w.jpg

Town center/tram stop (Also has been used as Davenports, and a Strip club exterior)
http://i1.cdnds.net/11/27/550w_soap_blog_100711_4.jpg

I'm pretty sure the tram stop is in the area where the New York set was on the Granada Studios tour.

Looks interesting... was kind of hoping the houses backing onto Coronation Street (to hide the Granada building) would have been a full shell, rather than a facade.

Could've added some characters to the Street, with them living around the back.

didn't know that was a set, they could of spruced it up abit and used it more often and made weatherfield seem abit bigger

Just had a quick look on Google Street View and you can see 'Davenports' from Quay Street, near the entrance to the former Studios Tour.

They should use it more often; given that the characters must use the tram to get around.

That's one thing I'm surprised was used in the location of the new set, a proper working tram line.

There's a door to the right of the Rovers entrance that I don't recall ever seeing on screen. Is it a side passage between the Rovers and Barlows?
I also don't remember seeing it on a plan that somebody posted here a few months ago

From memory it used to be gated, and I believe used as an entrance for deliveries from Newton and Ridley.

Has been boarded up for a while now; and you are right, it doesn't appear in the new set plans.

Edit: found a link!

http://www.geolocation.ws/v/W/4d9932...tion-street/en

http://binged.it/rEOHwr

is this the area? its not verry clear though.

Yes, that's the right area.

http://binged.it/uIJ5yR

If you look at the Bonded Warehouse where the stairs with the canopy is, that would be the area used for Izzy's mugging.

Funnily enough, the original outdoor set for Coronation St. was erected around that part of the Studios.

And if you go to around 19 minutes into the following video; there's a shot of the inside of Davenports: http://youtu.be/cyDLWgYjmGM

It seems they are (from next weeks episodes)
http://i39.tinypic.com/2mmsbvt.jpg

I wish they'd get a move on with building it. This seems to have been going on for ever!

I had hoped this was a chance to make the sets more realistic and life sized but from what I've read from Phil Collinson - it's not changing at all and they are only re- building the set that they currently have. I thought there would be at least another street or two. Think of all the possibilities that could be featured regularly:-

- the Weatherfield Arms
- frescos/ precinct
- Bessie St school
- all the neighboring streets
- weather field Quay

I hope they make the houses less Toytown and hope there will be room for expansion. So the Rovers backroom on Rosamund St will be sorted out finally

I think the street will be wider so cars can be left on the street etc kens car which seen to only be on the set when needed.

Why do you think that?