[b][quote=Lost Tripper[/B];84994462]
No need, i know and most people know corrie dont use a real hospital room
It is still saying i said the above quote!!!! Learn to quote

Let's try and get this quoting sorted ...



Hopefully this is sorted ... play on !

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Beg to differ. Try reading what I have said one more time and let's see if you comprehend this time round. Even if you don't understand, reading it out aloud with your finger under the words will keep you away a while.

I am totally confused with this quoting thing now...

Well I can certainly speak for Emmerdale on this one - they always mock up either outside of the Kirkstall Road side of the ITV studios in Leeds, where the HD studios are now used for Emmerdale interiors (the old one up the road is now the studio tour facility) as whichever hospital they are portraying. This was most recently used for Paddy and Pierce's tet-a-tet about his anger. All Emmerdale hospital exteriors are in the HD sets when / if used.

Emmerdale sometimes use an other location about half a mile down the road, though this is most normally used as a police station exterior.

Corrie's hospital set interior WAS behind the health centre set. Not sure where it is at Salford, nor what they have as exterior.

Holby and Casualty both use a purpose built fully-enclosed hospital set (both exterior and interior) at BBC Wales on Cardiff Docks.

Which is exactly what I was saying.


Fair play, I'm happy to be proven wrong I'm quite surprised actually, although I still doubt this is common practice these days. Unless reports are to be believed and the NHS really is desperate for cash

But that was over 20 years ago. For sure it may have been common practice to use real hospitals or old hospitals for series in the 90s and prior but soaps and Casualty/Holby City these days use purpose built sets or similar

I've emailed David Nugent to get him to settle this as someone currently involved in Corrie. Then there can be no argument.

I am not going to look up all the past episodes but do you agree it looks like whenever someone ends up in hospital in Corrie it is always in the same private room no matter what the problem the medical issue is or even when for example there was a minibus accident miles away. That room and the corridors around it are well constructed and realistic, a contrast to the sets of the houses and pub, cafe etc which are featured daily. The sets are not so realistic - the low ceilings and door frames are an obvious give away and the hospital scenes are in normal sized rooms.

So my question was what do they use for that ward which looks realistic. It could be a room adapted to look like a ward anywhere. A custom built set or filmed in hospital? I do not know - but those corridors are certainly realistic in scale. The A and E waiting room and the main entrance interior and exterior we see at times are as real as you can get.

My next point that Phelan is in a new room, laid out differently, without the interior windows needed to keep an eye on patients. It looks more like an office kitted out with a few medical bits and pieces. So I wondered why there was a change.

Programmes like Casualty are entirely different as wards have to feature in every single episode and for large chunks of it and not on the occasional basis as THE ward is.

So I don't know for sure whether THE private ward is in a hospital or not but various other interior film locations are definitely inside Salford Royal.

Hardly occasional! hardly a week goes by without someone being touch and go in the private room for days on end.

I've been in the hospital set. There's 2 private rooms and a sort of waiting room / ER with a trellis type divider. They move the bed to either end and use different side walls with different windows to make it less obvious, but its fairly easy to tell if you compare between recent-ish stays. It's not a real hospital! They use temporary signage to make a studio building into the hospital exterior, it's all at media city UK near Salford quays.

Perhaps 'occasional' is the wrong word nowadays given the number of times they have people admitted and the varying lengths of stay in THE ward, wherever it is No wonder they need a medical set - more hospitalisation than Casualty and Holby City put together!

It seems that Phelan's stay for his bump on the head has exceeded that of Sir Ken for his stroke and Anna's for severe burns treatment.

[quote=Lost Tripper;84993336]
They quite often show footage of the entrance to North Manchester General, too.

What's going on with all the strange quotes?

I have not been to the new set. Is it open to the public?

THE ward seems a very realistic looking set especially for one in a non medical drama. The need for a hospital set to be built and used so often means that so many story lines are SORs. The residents of CS must be the unluckiest in the country, healthwise.
Are there any other sets for interiors of public type buildings other than the pub, bistro, factory etc?

The outside of hospitals and other public buildings have certainly been used in the past. I will watch out for them in the future - as I said I cannot be bothered trawling back to find them but obviously large rooms used for wedding receptions etc are 'borrowed' not to mention more obvious things such as church interiors, airport and railway station scenes.

saw one behind the scenes on GMTV i think where they showed a general set which could be anything from hospital ward to classroom to prison visiting area,

some studios hire permanent sent like the one from the Bill which I think they still hire out to anybody who needs a police station to film in, the also have a court room and hospital set as well.
Then of course you get the real deal so want to film in an empty prison? come to Lancaster.

Casting my mind back, I seem to remember some dramatic scenes set in a railway station - was it Leanne involved? The character was supposed to be catching a train to London, and it was obviously Manchester Victoria that was used which led to some comments since Piccadilly is the station for London trains from Manchester.

I remember that. There were comments on this thread by people who clearly recognised the station and knew it was not the station for travelling from Manchester to London! Corrie, eh!?

Corrie invested a lot into a hospital set, hence why it is used so often.

instead if investing in adding a hospital they should invest in removing the horse piddle from the storys

They are also investing in a school set and a police station set.
According to reports on DS.

Deep joy - so more bullying and wrongful arrest storylines to look forward to?

The school is not a necessity, the police station however, is a priority to deal with the murder and mayhem on the mean streets of weatherfield.

all they need is a multi roomed multi floored building they can turn into what they like, simlar to what hollyoaks have

They ought have spin-offs like CSI NY/CSI Weatherfield, Midsomer Murders / Coronation Street Murders, Death in Paradise / Coronation Street or Father Brown /Father Billy.