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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Paige Oldfield

Life on the original Coronation Street - from tourists to celebrity neighbours

Growing up in Salford, David Taylor can still hear the milkman rattle across his old cobbled street.

Mill workers came home with fluff stuck to their coats. Women swept their front steps. Children raced each other in carts made from old pram frames.

Though life on the street was wholesome, it was mostly unremarkable.

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