Street Tours

Yes, You can. We went to a Garden where the stars learn scripts on a VIP day - and next to the Enterance of MSI, down a small street - is the ITV Granada Studios. Through a little gap - you can actually walk straight onto the street. Even though - it is constantly protected by big iron gates & security guards.

*Quakes with excitment* Thrilling! :-D

Granada Studios tour closed - what madness !!!! Thank goodness for the internet. I logged on to find the opening times before travelling 350 miles to visit for the third time. My son was looking forward to seeing it all, especially as he is interested in a career in television. The UK never ceases to amaze me, a sad country indeed. Do you think L.A. would have closed such a fantastic visitor attraction - I don't think so.

I have visited the studio in 1988 & 1993 and was looking forward to do so again next year before sailing the QEII to New York. What a disappointment.

I have just come back from a trip to the Manchester Science and Industry Museum and i heard it was possible to see the Street from a window. The problem was, the window was in the children's area where we werent allowed to go!! i was so annoyed!! I have only been once to Granada Studies but i really wanted to go again!!! Im so upset about it!!! I think it is maddness that they closed it! The lst time i went, i was only about 9 years old so i didnt really appreciate the tour as much as i would now.

I've always been a huge fan of Corrie, and was really disappointed to find the tour has been closed. Why close it when it attracted so many tourists????? I really do hope it opens again, I'd love to walk across the Corrie cobbles and see their houses and the Rovers return! My grandma once went and saw them filming cool or what???? ps.rosie is da best, I'd love to see that family filming!

Does anyone know of a website anywhere with a valid reason as to why they shut it?

Perhaps to voice our discontent we should gather near the studios on filming days and continually sound airhorns to disrupt their activities, and show that we regard them the same way they have regarded us...with contempt!

My mother used to watch coronation street , now i watch it regularly, and my daughter and son watch it too. we would of loved to visit the street this summer and was very disapointed to read that we could not.my mum visited when she was with us .My daughter and I would have liked to as well.

Hi how disappointing that Granada Studios have closed.
I visited with my husband, then again with my mum and dad and son. Now I was searching to find opening times to take my daughter and her friend and its shut!!!!
This street is an on going national heritiage and the younger generations are still interested in visiting following in their mums and nans footsteps please try and reopen. The whole experience was great going behind the scenes to the make-up, weather dept etc. really good fun I am sure there is still a need for this type of entertainment.

OH NO!!!
I'm a faithful Canadian fan who has barely missed a show in over 8 years and was planning to visit the set on my first trip to England this fall - I'm devastated to find out that I no longer can!

What a disappointment!!!

Any chance they might change their minds? Any suggestions for any sort of Corrie experience while in England?!?

ssI have been in a lucky position to provide a service for certain props on the set. I have actually been on the set watching them filming several times. It's really strange when you walk thru the dark studios to be presented with a brightly lit rovers return set, complete with Bev behind the bar and all the other cast. I have also been inside some the the shops and house, the house are just dirty bare brick inside and some of them have offices at the top which are very small. The corner shop is just blue walls inside with a few metal shelves, it's a real mess. I have seen most of the cast and crew wandering around and I can tell you it's a nice treat.

My daughter is 13 yrs old and is an avid fan of Corrie. I have told her that a few years back I visited the studio and had a fantastic time looking at the set. She is staying up in Manchester this week on a summer camp and would love to go Granda TV studios. Now I will have to tell her that the hightlight of her week has been extinguished! THANKS!

Last Friday, here in New Zealand, I was fortunate to win breakfast at the Hilton Hotel with Kate Ford (Tracy Barlow). What an amazing woman! She was so down to earth and easy to talk to, it was probably the highlight of my life. I am a huge fan of the show, and of Kates character Tracy, and now having met Kate, a total fan of hers! I could not speak highly enough of her. She is just tops! Back in 2003 I went all the way to England, and top of the agenda was Liverpool for the beatles, and Manchester for the Coronation street tour. I was devastated to find they had stopped the tours...I couldn't believe it! I even went back over the next year, but still no luck. They must realise that there is still a huge amount of people worldwide each year, who would love nothing more than to be able to walk those famous cobbles of The Street. Come on Granada!!...get your act together!!...and listen to the fans!! If it opened again, I'd be on the next plane over!

I went on the granada studios tour when i was 12 and thoroughly enjoyed walking down the famous coronation street.Its such a shame that this tour is now closed.Maybe its because the show films more episodes now that they just havent the time for tours?By the way,anyone else who went on the granada studios tour,can they remember the part of the tour that took you into a make-up department,where the guide explains the sighting of a ghost,then a special effect of a ghost/hologram of an old man walked straight throught the middle of the room!Quality!Apart from seeing coronation street,that was a personal highlight of the tour!

We visited the Science museum earlier this week and watched them filming from the windows of the 'Xperiment' room.
At one point Shaun from the factory turned and looked up at us and waved, and Violet looked up and smiled. Tracy Barlow was sitting on the pavement waiting for her turn to be filmed.
Gayle's back garden is right below the window, so it is a very clear view. You can only see one section of the street though, near the corner shop.
At the time we went (early afternoon), there was no one there stopping you going into the Xperiment room without children (although we did have them with us, that was why we'd gone), but earlier on there had been queues for the room so they were counting you in.
I too think it's a shame they closed the tours, I went once and it was excellent. There's a new generation of people watching corrie now (our children), and we'd love to be able to take them. If people were stopping going, perhaps they had the entry price too high?

I'm so gutted that you can no longer visit the street. Who makes these kind of decisions?? I was a student in Manchester but left just as the Studio tours began & I always thought I'd get there one of the days but each time I returned to the city it was for a wedding or party so I never got chance. I've lived in France for 16 years now & apart from a couple of trips back to the UK each year have to resort to updates on the internet to follow "Corrie" which of course I do avidly. Planning ahead to what I'd really like to do for my 40th Birthday next year , number 1 idea was to visit the street & bring my family with me.
Manchester's a great city & prides itself on its social / economic history & working class culture so surely it should reopen what in my opinion is one of the key elements of Manchester culture.

Guess it'll be a visit to the Science museum next year.

i have visited coronation street twice in the nineties and was really looking forward to taking my daughter who is a massive fan of the show aswell, it is such a shame they closed it,i also agree with john savident beloved fred who said instead of tryng to put the show out so many times a week,bring back the quality. and im sure if they revamped and brought back the tours it would bring a whole legion of fans from this country and abroad to walk on those famous cobbles.

How disappointing! My wife & I are big fans & were planning a trip in April 07 to England, especially with a trip to Manchester & to the set of Coronation Street. This makes no sense not to continue to build your brand & show your loyal fans some support back. VERY VERY frustrating.

We want to take our grandchildren on a visit to The Street. They are great fans and will be so disappointed if they cant go.

I visited the street twice once when i was about 7 then again when i was about 11 years old i would have loved to visit again i am truly gutted it has stopped doing tours i think they should really consider starting it back up again please please, i'm 24 now my mum took me and my sis, i would love to have the opportunity to take my kids there x

Went there once, really enjoyed it.... SHAME on closing it down.Found it very interesting, and saw some of the actors up close.viz Johnny Riggs Where can I put in a protest and see if we can get it re opened?

Dissappointed....from CANADA

Our entire family is very very disappointed about the tour closing. I have been a fan since age 7 and my husband (whose mum grew up in London) watched on and off as a child, but has been an avid fan the past 18 yrs. Both our sons (7 and 10) have been watching since birth, really. We are coming to the UK for a visit and was trying to find a way to see The Street - it being at the top of my boys list of things to do while in England. We recently saw Jenny McAlpine (Fizz) when she arrived at the airport in St. John's, NL only a few metres away from us - and my eldest wanted to say hello but chickened out. Now we are not even sure if we will stay in Manchester as we have no friends or family nearby. If there was some way..

Well I wanted to take my child and i was very very disapointed when i looked up how much it was on the internet that it was closeed.i went into the manchester science museum and yes you can see the weathy arms and kevin and tyrones graage and jason and charlies workshop you can see clair and ashleys garden and jerry's house next door and darren's shed is huge in real life you can see gails house also underworld and the corner shop and last you can see jack and verer's house
Someone needs to get through to granada tv to get them to open it back up!!!

Yes, if you look at the 360 Degree picture thing, look at Underworld's front doors, and the 3 thin windows above it, well the windows BEHIND there, on the mill... those are the windows on the first floor of the Museum of Science and Industry, in the hands-on area, mainly for kids (adults CAN go in without restriction!), and from there you can see the street.

I visited the Studio Tours on no less than 3 occasions over a period of 10 years.

However, one of the problems with it is that it tended to be something most people only did once. In other words, once you've visited the set of Coronation Street you've seen it & that's it.

The closure of the Studio Tours came at a time when television companies were coming under pressure to rationlise resources and reduce costs. This is the reason why it closed because by 1999 the company was running the tours at a loss!

If the studio is closed because there is not expected to be enough interest, why do people keep watching the show? On the basis it has been going for 40 odd years,is that not testimony to keeping it going? What is the real reason for closing it?

I went to Manchester on holidays this summer and had planned to take a tour of coronation street but i was told that the tour had closed down several years ago however on the 2nd floor of the museum of science and industry(MOSI) in the X-periment room you can see the settings of coronation like Gail Platt's back garden, Ashley Peacock's back garden, Vera and Jack Duckworth's house, D&S corner shop and The Kaben. I went to the museum around 10:30 on a wednesday morning and there wasnt many people in the Xpirement room so i went straight over to the window and i was lucky to arrive at the time of them filming out Gail Platts backgarden with Gail,David and their next door neighbours.they were filming a scene with david hiding a gun out his back it was great!!! i stayed there for about 2 hours and then went out for lunch. I was told there was a restaurant near the studios that the cast went to such as Vera & Jack Duckworth and Les Battersbey so i went there unfortunately none of them were there but there were loads of pictures of them. After lunch we headed to the aircraft museum ( opposite MOSI) but we decided to take a quick look at the settings again. We looked out the window and Sean,Jamie,Audrey and Bill were filming on the street whenever they finished a scene Sean waved to us. Then the cast were getting ready to film out Ashley Peacocks back garden and i saw Claire and Eileen reading there lines.

*It was a great expierence*

We saw the coronation street set from the windows of the first floor in Manchester's science museum. We wanted to see more so we left the museum and turned left, walked a couple of hundred yards and turned left into a side street at the bottom of which were large iron gates. this is the entry /exit the corrie stars use when arriving / leaving a filmimg session. we got a brilliant photograph of Michael Lavelle (Kevin Webster) with my son, and an autograph from Cilla! We saw David Platt and Jason Grimshaw but they were too busy to stop. Later we saw Molly, Michelle and Maria. Kim Marsh (Michelle) arrived in her car and later waved to us as she walked along the set. A very exciting day for both me and my son. It was a Monday so it would be worth a visit on this day as I presume this must be a filmimg day.

How utterly selfish of those (people), for want of a better word, to close the tours down. i have been a fan for the past 30+years, my grandson 12, and grandaughter 9, have been plaging my life to take them to Coronation Street as they are now avid fans. I dont think the people who decided to close the tours realised that the younger gerneration are growing up with corrie as we did and would love to see were it's filmed and see the houses, cabin, pub ect, shame on all of you who were invoilved in this decisition.

Get a grip Ninja Moose. What you are reading are very disappointed fans!!! I have been watching for 33 years and was planning a trip there this Spring with a friend of mine who is also a huge fan. It sucks!!!! that we will not be able to even get a glimpse of something we feel so close to!!!!

I'm sorry Deborah, I already have a firm grip, not least upon Manchester's tourism industry, as I work on developing it. Of course I don't labour under the misapprehension that the character or set of Coronation Street is real.. so maybe i'm not the one needing to get a grip. On the other hand I do understand people are disappointed, but as I said earlier, tours just aren't feasible due to filming everyday. I for one would much prefer 5 episodes a week rather than a visit to a run down set every few years.. and i'm sure others would agree

This should help shine some light on tit...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada_Studios_Tour

hi my name is miss deeann kemble i am 27 years old from coventry and was wondering how do i get to met john from coronation street or write to him in person as i think he is a great guy in it and quited liked him alot and wanted to write to him to say what a great actor he is

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Unfortunately, as an employee of the Tourist Board I don't think you'd get very far with your petition. Rather you should petition Granada Studios. Finally, the window from the MSIM has been blacked out because people kept taking photographs... Just have to stick to watching it on telly like most people i guess..