Tiny houses, wonky cobbles and a bitter wind: Secrets of the 'lost Coronation Street'

For decades, Coronation Street was filmed in Manchester city centre - before its production relocated and its iconic set was demolished.

And this year marks ten years since filming of the long running ITV soap moved to Media City, situated on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford.

Granada Studios was the former headquarters of Granada Television, later ITV Granada, from 1956 to 2013 - and the place Coronation Street was filmed from 1960, until the move to the other side of the Irwell.

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The layout of the street itself was based on Archie Street, Ordsall, in Salford. The original Archie Street has long been demolished but it did appear in the original show's opening credits.

From its first episode until 1968, the complete set of Coronation Street was contained in one studio - both interiors and exteriors. This meant the houses were smaller in scale - at three-quarters the size of a regular home.

As a result, the soap's stars like Violet Carson, Pat Phoenix and William Roache, were forced to walk more slowly to appear in scale with the smaller houses. It wasn't until 1967 that production techniques had advanced enough to allow the soap to be filmed on separate interior and exterior sets.

Initially, the set's pavements and cobbles had been painted on the studio floor. But, in 1967, the decision was made to build a separate outside set on some old railways sidings near to Granada Studios.

This meant that for the very first time, natural light could be used to illuminate the outdoor scenes instead of studio lamps. A year later, the new street was constructed but was still smaller in scale. But at least the pavements and cobbles were