Read Coronation Street stories on the British Newspaper Archive

With thanks to the British Newspaper archive for this wonderful little snippet which we're sharing with fans today.

Since Coronation Street first aired on TV in December 1960, there have been reviews in newspapers of its episodes. You can now read early reviews and revisit the surprises and scandals from the series in the archive of British newspapers. It's well worth a look and you can read the headlines from news articles over the years. But if you'd like to read the full story then you need to set up a (free) account online.  

If you're interested, have a look here.

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Interview with Coronation Street archivist Helen Nugent

Christine Warren at the Coronation Street Fun Pages has published an exclusive interview with Helen Nugent who is the show archivist. Christine has a great interview where Helen tells her all about her job. There's a lot to it!

Helen has been in the job for 16 years. She reads all the scripts and summarises them, then updates each character's biography. All this is used by the Press Office and the Directors as well. She notes particular clips of film for future montage use or use by the media. She also gets to oversee official merchandise which is still being produced. She also is in charge of historical continuity and it's interesting to see her views on what happens when things get changed:

Yes, it does get tricky from time to time, but the thing is, it is a work of fiction, and sometimes the Producer will tweak history a little in order to have a good storyline.  For instance, we may change someone's birthday so they can have it on a day we go to air.  We know the diehard fans get upset if we change events of the past, and quite rightly so, and we do try very hard to stick to Coronation Street's rich history, but sometimes if we have a story we want to tell, it can't be helped.  I may not always agree with it, but ultimately it is their decision.

She has a lot of interesting things to say and the interview is very much worth a read. There are some great photos as well.



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Corrie cameraman shares his Street memories

This is very interesting and was sent to me by Coronation Street actor Dave Dutton, the man who's played the most parts ever in the show. You can read about him here!

It's an interview with Les Chatfield, who was for many years one of the Corrie cameramen and later became a director on the programme.  The interview comes from the Granadaland Oral History Project. You can follow them on facebook.

In the interview, Les talks about his time on Corrie and mentions a fair few of the original cast in his musings. It's well worth a read at
http://granadaland.org/coronation-street/les-chatfield/

If you like the archive material, you might also enjoy my interview with the show's original Head of Wardrobe, Edna Walker.

Also, a mention that Daran Little's BAFTA-winning programme The Road to Coronation Street is on ITV3 tonight (Sunday 27 December) at 10.45pm.  If you haven't seen it yet, it comes highly recommended.

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