So you think you're one of Corrie's biggest fans? Test your knowledge with this trivia quiz book. What faulty household item caused the death of Valerie Barlow in 1971? Who died after being run over by a Blackpool tram in 1989? If you’re more at home in The Rovers than anywhere else, these brain-teasing questions will be right up your street!
Everything you need to know about Britain's longest-running and most popular soap is found here in this impressive book. Celebrating 60 years since the show's creation, this book is an exhaustive, compelling and entertaining history packed full of features and long forgotten imagery. It takes you through every year in a unique timeline that highlights key plot lines, significant production events, together with an impressive amount of photography. You'll discover features on characters, famous actors, royal visits, births, deaths, marriages and murders, together with interviews with key actors, producers and production staff. A special section on the show's creator Tony Warren, shows how the programme evolved from page to screen and is illustrated with rare imagery and artefacts from his own archive. There are even special gatefold pages that open out showing how the set has developed over the years and family trees of the major characters so you can see the complex web of relations for the likes of the Barlows and the Platts. 60 Years of Coronation Street will be the ultimate celebration of a show that's shaped British television and prove to be the 'must-have' gift for every Corrie fan.
From the time when Rovers Return landlady Annie Walker first cast a disapproving glance at Ena Sharples gossiping with Minnie Caldwell to the traumas caused by the tangled love lives of the Websters or the McDonalds, viewers have been gripped by the lives of those who live in one street in the northern town of Weatherfield. Just like any other street in the country, the locals living there have changed dramatically over the years since the rest of Britain first paid the area a visit in 1960. There have been many marriages, births, and deaths, with characters such as Elsie Tanner, Hilda Ogden, Alf Roberts, or Mike Baldwin fading into the past as new faces move into the street. The one man who has remained ever since we first saw him there all those years ago is, of course, Ken Barlow. Despite the changing nature of its residents and the many disasters and tragedies that have befallen them, one thing in the street always remains the same. Defying all the dark intrigue and neighborhood squabbles, the people who live there maintain a close-knit community, supporting each other through the tough times and celebrating the good times. This is the complete story of Coronation Street.
From the moment that The Rovers Return opened its doors to television viewers, the pub has witnessed everything, from births, deaths, brawls and break-ups to weddings, wakes and even its own ghost. This Coronation Street companion book contains all the action from over 50 years, along with lots of photographs to remind fans of both the dramatic and hilarious events in Rovers' history. Coronation Street first hit British screens at the end of 1960, a groundbreaking show based on real life and using accents that had never been heard on British television before. It was an instant hit, and has remained consistently one of the UK''s most popular shows.
Containing a unique selection of removable memorabilia, intricately reproduced in facsimile form, and hundreds of rarely seen archive photographs, this landmark, updated edition provides an amazing record of 50 years of life on Britain's most famous street. House by house, and calling in at the factory, the Rovers, the Kabin, and the corner shop, we discover all sorts of fascinating lost treasures, from adoption certificates, invitations, love letters, and holiday photos to divorce papers, handwritten notes, football-pools forms, birthday cards, clocking-in cards from the factory, prison visiting forms, and much more. In this new edition of The Treasures of Coronation Street, Corrie historian Tim Randall threads it all together to paint a vivid and evocative history of each premises on the street, piecing together the stories of the generations that have passed through from the evidence they've left behind. Subject Television soap operas Completely up to date, this new edition of The Treasures of Coronation Street includes all the most recent story lines, plus new pictures and items of memorabilia. Coronation Street is the longest running and most watched British soap opera, as well as the longest running soap opera in the world. Corrie is broadcast around the world in Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, and Sweden. Every Coronation Street fan will want this stunning, collectible edition--a tangible piece of Street history.
Containing previously unpublished removable memorabilia, intricately reproduced in facsimile form, this album provides an amazing record of 45 years of life on Britain's most famous street. The accompanying CD features dialogue highlights.
Everything you need to know about Britain's longest-running and most popular soap is found here in this impressive book. Celebrating 60 years since the show's creation, this book is an exhaustive, compelling and entertaining history packed full of features and long forgotten imagery. It takes you through every year in a unique timeline that highlights key plot lines, significant production events, together with an impressive amount of photography. You'll discover features on characters, famous actors, royal visits, births, deaths, marriages and murders, together with interviews with key actors, producers and production staff. A special section on the show's creator Tony Warren, shows how the programme evolved from page to screen and is illustrated with rare imagery and artefacts from his own archive. There are even special gatefold pages that open out showing how the set has developed over the years and family trees of the major characters so you can see the complex web of relations for the likes of the Barlows and the Platts. 60 Years of Coronation Street will be the ultimate celebration of a show that's shaped British television and prove to be the 'must-have' gift for every Corrie fan.
Over 5000 episodes after its first transmission on 9 December 1960, Coronation Street has become a national treasure. Ever changing and evolving it continues to captivate more people than anything else on television. In this fully illustrated history of Coronation Street's forty years on the small screen, you can read every major story line ever featured on the show, rediscovering each major and minor event. Using the book's unique index you can also follow the specific story of any of your favourite characters - Mike Baldwin's escapades, perhaps, or the many ups and downs to the Duckworth family...There's complete diary of anniversaries: an account of all births, marriages and deaths; and a complete plan of Coronation Street itself. There is also a comprehensive Who's Who, with family trees for some of the great Street families. With a decade-by-decade breakdown of events on the Street over the years, this is fascinating must-have for genuine fans. Following on from the highly successful 40 Years of Coronation Street, now fully updated in paperback, The Coronation Street Story is the biggest, most gloriously illustrated, and most comprehensive companion book ever published.
