# Event Details - **Event Name**: Coronation Street is 65! Classic Corrie Manchester Tour - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 11:30 am – Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 01:20 pm - **Event Description**: The Manchester institution is 65 so join Corrie tour guide Willie Eckerslike on this nostalgic journey through the soap's city centre hauntsAbout this Event“Now the next thing you want to do is get in a signwriter in. That sign above the door will have to be changed.”Those were the opening lines of the world’s most famous television programme, spoken by Elsie Lappin to Florrie Lindley on 9 Dec 1960. Florrie replied: “It’ll seem funny ’avin me name outside me own shop."What about that? Not even Ken Barlow to Ena Sharples. But those lines ushered in a phenomenon, an institution, that is now 65 years old.Coronation Street was not an instant success. Granada only commissioned 13 episodes. Few within the company thought it would last its run. However something caught the viewers’ imagination. Perhaps it was the liberal use of Northern phrases like “eh”, “chuck”, “nowt”. Perhaps it was the Dickensian gravitas of the cast’s names (purloined from Pendlebury Church graveyard). Perhaps it was the setting: Archie Street, Ordsall, with its compact terraced houses, backyards, corner shop, pub and church, less than a mile from Grandaland.Sixty-five years of drama and farce, life, loves and laughs have followed on Britain’s most famous TV street, land of cobbles, factories, terraced houses, Kabin and Rovers Return, the success buoyed by the wonderfully drawn cast of characters past and present – Vera & Jack, Hilda & Stan, Elsie, Ena, Ken and Len; Bet and Betty; Liz and Lloyd; Steve and Norris; Stape and Fiz; Sonny Jim and Schmeichel.New Manchester Walks’ Coronation Street tour takes you from the centre of Manchester to the heart of Weatherfield, in and out of the haunts of the actors, actresses and characters who have made Coronation Street Britain’s best loved soap.This is the sort of thing you’ll hear on the walkWhen Julie Goodyear first turned up at Granada to play Bet Lynch in 1966, a friend gave her a lift into Manchester in his van. In the back was a cement mixer. Julie expected the pal to drop her on the main road, but as it was raining he insisted in pulling up outside the TV company's front entrance on Atherton Street. By an amazing coincidence Pat Phoenix was just getting out of her Rolls Royce at the same time. Pat looked Julie up and down “as if I were a piece of dog dirt on her shoe,” as Julie recalled, and said, “‘Don’t you ever, ever dare to upstage me again, young lady.’” - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/manchester/coronation-street-is-65-classic-corrie-manchester-tour/100001939317142779 - **Event Categories**: coronation-weekend, art, theatre, performances, entertainment, dog - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes - Location: Midland Hotel, Peter Street, Manchester - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Manchester - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Midland Hotel, Peter Street, Manchester - **lat**: 53.47798030000001 - **long**: -2.2470535 - **full address**: Midland Hotel, Peter Street, Manchester, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Coronation Street is 65! Classic Corrie Manchester Tour - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c99da1a39feead24c2fa109f117ef0ebf9e6bb99126693703230e11d7182be08-rimg-w648-h365-dc2e1915-gmir.jpg?v=1766047623 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Coronation Street is 65! Classic Corrie Manchester Tour being held? - **A:** Coronation Street is 65! Classic Corrie Manchester Tour takes place on Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 11:30 am to Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 01:20 pm at Midland Hotel, Peter Street, Manchester, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Coronation Street is 65! Classic Corrie Manchester Tour? - **A:** Coronation Street is 65! Classic Corrie Manchester Tour is organized by New Manchester Walks. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Coronation Street is 65! Classic Corrie Manchester Tour is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Manchester, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Coronation Street is 65! Classic Corrie Manchester Tour sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Coronation Street is 65! 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