Life on the original Coronation Street - from tourists to celebrity neighbours
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukGrowing up in Salford, David Taylor can still hear the milkman rattle across his old cobbled street. Mill workers came home with fluff stuck to their coats.
Women swept their front steps. Children raced each other in carts made from old pram frames. Though life on the street was wholesome, it was mostly unremarkable.
That was until a few years later when it was unexpectedly launched into stardom. In the autumn of 1960, Archie Street inspired what would later become the longest-running soap opera in the world.
It was stumbled upon by show creators Tony Warren and Denis Parkin who were out scouring Ordsall for film set ideas.
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