GRANADA STUDIOS - Old TV Footage - Summer 1998 - BBC UKOK

[@mikekaraoke]

Went there a number of times in the 80's, 90's, 2000's, + once in the 2010's before it closed in Dec 2015!

[@suesmith4366]

Great day out I went in the 90s never stopped having fun all day 🤩

[@wiggywaggo9647]

"If you're very lucky, you might get a glimpse of one of the stars on their tea break" 😅 How utterly tragic that sounds

[@Stagpro99]

Granada reached a "DEADLINE". 👻

[@GorlWorldComments]

does anyone remember a hologram ghost in the tour?

[@YNL1031]

That wasn't a hologram

[@GorlWorldComments]

@@YNL1031 whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@davidmunchen1406]

Went there with me mam in 1996... I just remember the Aliens ride

[@DavidMichaels-q5d]

I don't know why they closed it.

[@wishkid79]

The main reason was ‘Coronation Street’ and the increasing number of episodes being filmed for broadcast each week. When the theme park opened in 1988, Corrie only went out 3 times per week. This only required one days shooting (Mondays) on the lot for exterior street scenes. So, for the other days when the set wan’t in use, it was available to the park Tuesday to Sunday. So, with the increase in filming capacity, not only was the exterior set in need of expansion to create more filming locations. Baker Street on the theme park was demolished and replaced with Victoria Street, onto the expanded set, bringing Roy’s Rolls, Prima Donner and Elliott’s Butchers onto the permanent lot for the first time. They also needed more lot shooting days, which was increasingly making the set unavailable to the public, or when pick ups were needed, for example, they’d film scenes with theme park guests on the set, which from a production stand point was less than ideal. As the ‘Coronation Street’ set was the star attraction to the theme park, not having it available when needed made the rest of the theme park untenable.