Happy 55th birthday to Coronation Street

(This post was originally posted by Flaming Nora on the Coronation Street Blog December 2015, reposted to this blog with permission.)

Cast photograph, 1960

Coronation Street celebrates its 54th anniversary today, December 9th 2015. 

The very first episode of Corrie aired on December 9th, 1960.

Our blogger Barry (Sunny Jim) captured the first 50 years of Corrie in 50 blog posts, which were then turned into an online book by one of our readers - have a look at it here.

Happy anniversary, Coronation Street!

Have a look at the first Coronation Street episode here and read our blogger Tvor's review of it here.

And if you have not yet seen The Road to Coronation Street, the BAFTA winning film about Tony Warren bringing Corrie to life, then it's highly recommended.

You might also like to read our interview with Edna Walker, Coronation Street's first ever Head of Wardrobe. She dressed the Corrie icons such as Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanner.  Read her interview here.





Deirdre: A Life on Coronation Street - official ITV tribute to a soap icon. Available here.


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