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
Brookside close as it looks now
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Ahh thanks for this 
I'm obsessed with Brookie I wish it was still with us.
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'm obsessed with Brookie I wish it was still with us. 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 was in Liverpool last year...couldn't leave without paying a visit to Brookside...seemed quite surreal walking round the close... feel sorry for the residents they must get fed up with people like me being inquisitive ...
Originally Posted by sorrento:
“I was in Liverpool last year...couldn't leave without paying a visit to Brookside...seemed quite surreal walking round the close... feel sorry for the residents they must get fed up with people like me being inquisitive ...”
“I was in Liverpool last year...couldn't leave without paying a visit to Brookside...seemed quite surreal walking round the close... feel sorry for the residents they must get fed up with people like me being inquisitive ...”
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.
Originally Posted by actual_soap:
“Glad to see it looking better, because it looked awful for a long time”
“Glad to see it looking better, because it looked awful for a long time”
Yes it took a long time to get them fit for people to live in, I wonder if the new owners were brookie fans.
Originally Posted by Flukie:
“The Dean family from Hollyoaks lived in one of those houses in 2004 and 2005.”
“The Dean family from Hollyoaks lived in one of those houses in 2004 and 2005.”
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.
Originally Posted by craig_25:
“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.”
“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.”
Like my husband ...he can't see my interest in either Corrie or Emmerdale ...he's never watched a soap in his life....
Originally Posted by radyag:
“I dont remember that light brown house next to the grants house, unless its a recent new build.”
“I dont remember that light brown house next to the grants house, unless its a recent new build.”
Wasn't that Mick Johnsons house?
It looks surprisingly small, it's really just a tiny cul de sac.
Just out of interest, is that a working class part of Liverpool?
Just out of interest, is that a working class part of Liverpool?
Originally Posted by Eurostar:
“It looks surprisingly small, it's really just a tiny cul de sac.
Just out of interest, is that a working class part of Liverpool?”
“It looks surprisingly small, it's really just a tiny cul de sac.
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.
Originally Posted by Eurostar:
“It looks surprisingly small, it's really just a tiny cul de sac.
Just out of interest, is that a working class part of Liverpool?”
“It looks surprisingly small, it's really just a tiny cul de sac.
Just out of interest, is that a working class part of Liverpool?”
it's, a mix of working class who have done well and moved up the social ladder and lower middle class who can't afford better.
Originally Posted by craig_25:
“Wasn't that Mick Johnsons house?”
“Wasn't that Mick Johnsons house?”
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.
Originally Posted by radyag:
“I dont remember that light brown house next to the grants house, unless its a recent new build.”
“I dont remember that light brown house next to the grants house, unless its a recent new build.”
The one on the right? http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...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.
Originally Posted by omnidirectional:
“The one on the right? http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...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.”
“The one on the right? http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...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.
Originally Posted by dd68:
“The residents must find al the wandering people a bit of nuisance”
“The residents must find al the wandering people a bit of nuisance”
One of them invites people in for tea and a look around inside.
I used to work at Brookside back in 1990-1991 and some of the houses not used for filming were used for costume and make-up, editing suite, canteen and green room. I was in the production office, which was actually a portacabin behind the house used for make-up.
Originally Posted by annielou:
“I used to work at Brookside back in 1990-1991 and some of the houses not used for filming were used for costume and make-up, editing suite, canteen and green room. I was in the production office, which was actually a portacabin behind the house used for make-up.”
“I used to work at Brookside back in 1990-1991 and some of the houses not used for filming were used for costume and make-up, editing suite, canteen and green room. I was in the production office, which was actually a portacabin behind the house used for make-up.”
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.
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