I liked the grubbiness of the original exterior set. It felt grey and industrial. The viaduct was dark and imposing and even the bricks in the houses were slightly less orange. In 1982 set suddenly everything was clean and the bricks of the buildings and the viaduct etc all the same colour which I think is very unnatural looking. Coronation Street should have a feeling of deprivation and industrial grime to it. The addition of the new houses on the other side of the street make that almost impossible now. There's no feeling of decay or of the place being a poor working class back street. The original set managed that much more successfully somehow.

But there is no industrial grime anymore - and hasn't been for decades. The soot and smoke from homes and industries disappeared with factory close downs and central heating The 1980's was very much the start of restoring and cleaning up old properties....

I do agree, there does need remnants of dirty brickwork and grimy pavements, and that's something that was missing from the 1982 set. But what I meant by rattiness was the size of the original set. The houses were sooo unbelievably small! The house sizes look a tad more realistic on the 1982 set IMO.

Not sure what they're going to do about the green moss and all those little touches that have embellished the current set over the years.

There are many times when I've been down in the north of England visiting and I've seen streets or area's, run down and grubby and I've thought that is how Coronation Street should look. Not everywhere has been scrubbed and polished and of all the places to be scrubbed up surely an unimportant backstreet in an industrial setting would be the last? It should be rusty lamp-posts with weeds growing up the side of them etc. EastEnders achieved that look excellently when the show first started and if you compare Walford in 1985 to Weatherfield, Walford looks much more lived in. The designers of Walford actually noted the fact that Coronation Street was to clean looking when they were approaching the design for Walford. Having a stylish upmarket bistro at the bottom of the street doesn't help with making the setting anymore believable I must say! lol



Oh the houses look so small I agree. It looks odd when you see cars on the set or how the narrow the bay windows are in each little house.

Just saw this on Twitter https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BEBmcKzCMAAl7SR.jpg:large

shouldn't number seven be built with 'newer' (as in 30 year old) brickwork as it was built in 1982 not 1902


the cobbles were already there, the set was put on top of them

It's still not gonna look much like a real street, though is there any real need for it to? I just wish at least one major change was happening, like the 'posh' side of the Street being redesigned or the terrace row being extended by one house, the Rovers then taking up the width of three instead of two.

Anything new on this?

How quickly do you think builders can build things?!?!

A few new pics I found
http://i.imgur.com/2ABvxqd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8wEnVS2.jpg

Mawdsley Street looks done here
http://i.imgur.com/ETkGPxZ.jpg

Thanks for these pics, Pyramid. It's all coming along nicely (what little we can see of it, anyway!)

I really can't wait to see the whole thing when it's finished... just a few more months to wait. Feels like it was all announced years and years ago...

Have you not seen Extreme Makeover Home Edition? They can whip up an eight bedroom house in about 45 minutes, sometimes they do need the Muppets to help though.

Where is Mawdsley Street? Is that the street with Roy's Rolls?

No that's Victoria Street. Mawdsley Street is the one directly behind Coronation Street.

It's strange, Mawdsley Street used to be referenced quite a lot (quite a few characters lived there), but it seems they've forgotten about it's existence over the last few years.

Wow, really starting to take shape now,

Spotted this on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnywa...-19134572@N00/

Wow it's really coming along nicely. Can't wait!

Strange to think the street itself is now basically complete

Has the Mawdley Street facade (the houses directly behind the terrace backs) always had as much detail as we can see here? To me it seems like they're putting more effort into the windows and everything. It is weird that we never EVER see or hear of anyone from that row, considering they're facing the backs of the Street!

They've always had windows and such, but never roofs

Great new pics - not been up with this thread for the past few weeks so I apologise for my silence

Coming along brilliantly by all accounts, shouldn't be long before it's nearly finished. I reckon they'll be adding the details and finishing touches rather soon?

What is exciting is that the Rovers will be completely new - it won't be an exact copy of what we're used to on screen. The Rovers on the new set will actually pre-date the one that get reconstructed on the current set, if that makes sense. It'd be great if they held off reconstruction until the new set was finished, having the reopening of the Rovers as the event to mark the move to the new set. As we all know though, Owen can rebuild an entire viaduct, a newsagents, a corner shop and a bistro in the space of a month with the help of only two other builders so the Rovers should only take him a couple of days

Will they be incorporating underfloor heating beneath the cobbles to counteract the fact they'll be working besides Salford Quays?

Having taken a closer look at Pyramidbread's most recent picture, I am very much inclined to say that the new set is considerably bigger than the existing one!!!!

I'm so excited to see it on screen!

I know this sounds weird, but every time I lol at one of the pics I can never visualise it..
I just can't work out what I'm looking at lol! So frustrating.. Everyone else seems to be having a whale of a time looking at them lol

What are you struggling with Liam?

Choose a photo and I'll see if I can help explain it ...