New Developments at the old Granada TV Studios
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video we take a tour of the Old Granada TV studios and look at the new developments happening in the area. Allied London very kindly invited me to see the work being carried out at the Iconic Manchester studios. We take a look at whats left of the old Coronation street set and look inside the Granada building. The project manager tells us about the work and new infrastructure. We see the old Weatherfield police station and look inside some old TV studio dressing rooms. This is a cross between a tour and an urbex Urban exploring video. We even see Jeremy Kyles dressing room
We also look at the old Bonded warehouse in manchester built by the railway companies. Some great old buildings to be seen. This is also some great TV heritage footage #coronationstreet #Granada #manchesterhistory - บันเทิง
This video brings back many memories of Granada Grape Street warehouse. I actually worked for the architects, surveyors and engineers consultants who refurbished the building and built the second and full size Coronation Street set which had proper brick walls and complete roofs. The Grape Street warehouse originally contained indoor sets for the Sherlock Holmes series, not to mention a facade of 10 Downing Street but located indoors. On the opposite side of the building from Grape Street, the architects were also responsible for the design and construction of the outdoors Baker Street set for the two Sherlock Holmes series. The glass doors through which Martin entered the building led into a spacious reception area and the brickwork surrounding the two columns was added as an architectural feature and fire protection for the metal columns behind. I seem to remember that all the other cast iron columns and steelwork were retained as original appearance but were sprayed with intumescent paint for fire protection. Actually the project manager was slightly wrong, the interior brickwork of the warehouse was cleaned well before the current developments, this was carried out at the time of the original refurbishment of the warehouse back at the beginning of the 1980´s. I remember it well. I suppose by the time I started work on the renovations and other construction in 1982 or thereabouts, the project manager would not have even started infants school and obviously cannot possibly be aware of the extent of previous works so long ago.
Brought back some memories, worked on the studios when it was being made into the tours. Walked so many miles and all over the warehouse when Sherlock Holmes was being filmed with Jeremy Brett.
Amazing to see in the old place again, well done ..
What an absolute pleasure to watch. Granada TV has so many happy memories for all of us in Manchester. It was such a shame when it moved to Media City. Granada was like our very own mini Hollywood. Thanks for making this video and sharing.
Thank you Keith I totally agree. Granada was uniquely Manchester
Martin Zero I’m going through all your videos. I love them all. Just watched the hidden house in the woods Hopwood Hall in Middleton, just round the corner from me. Thank you for making all these.
You're right in something you said there Martin, you drive down a road you haven't been on for a few years and think: "When did they build that and what the hell used to be there?" So it's great to see something as it changes from one thing to another. Great video and it's good to see see something with officialdom at your side. Well done to the developers for supporting you like that.
I'm a Black Country lad and love all this stuff, you've got an absolute top channel! Very happy to have found you! It was the trap door at the bottom of the cut that caught my attention to begin with then I learned I have many many videos to catch up on!!!!
Thank you for creating this. A lasting legacy to TV history. Please keep it forever! Many iconic people and characters have been in this wonderful space. This was a pleasure to watch. 👍🏻
ONe from the archives! Bless the gent - the terror in his eyes when he's having to speak on camera (I'd probably be the same) - you make it look easy, Martin, clearly :D
Especially impressed with that through the tunnel illusion.
In the early to mid 90s, whenever it was around that time, I took my parents to the Coronation Street tour that was open then. It was fascinating and very enjoyable, I have photographs. It's a shame that it's gone now, to build more office blocks. Just what we need, more empty office blocks like there are all over the country.
I’m a train driver at Manchester Victoria and it’s amazing how many areas are being redeveloped. I hope the developers are going to feature underground parking for all these new offices and apartments.
Top vid Martin,I worked as a plasterer for 20 years and was lucky enough to work in a lot of the old buildings in town,I worked at the central library on its refurb for about 18 months,I also refurbished the royal exchange building but the library you would have loved,there were many secret doors cellars and rooms,also in the attic at one of the highest points there was some ww2/plane spotters writings on a board next to the skylight stating planes spotted with times and dates,I remember seeing the word focker with a ruff drawing of a plane with a cross through it,they obviously had a guy up there during the raids taking down info.
Thats Brilliant. Wonder what happened to those boards and drawings
I think they were kept in place Martin,I remember the Forman sending a guy up to cover it in perspex 👍
Great video! Good to see how it was before it all changed!
I used to work for one of the property managers that took over the OGS and had the chance to explore everywhere before any of the construction/deconstruction started, and I mean everywhere! It was a wonderful chance to see the inner workings of the studios and got some great stories out of it. We even found the old Granada sign, in bits on the top floor of the bonded warehouse.
You are welcome Martin. You are doing an awesome job and reading some of your contributors comments is most enlightening. When some of the areas off-the-beaten-track like the areas round Mayfield, Kampus (Whitworth Street) get the light of day shone on them once more new treasures are being seen. My later career was as in the Civil Service and I knew they were looking to make the Mayfield area home to 5,000 Civil Servants, the Whitehall of the North. That seems to have ended. They were looking at the Embankment (Manchester Exchange) and a site in Liverpool. AFAIK it's been shelved. Perhap's Manchester City Region's Doge, Andy Burnham has his own Doge's Palace at Churchgate House with his own apparatus to run the devolved powers, Health, Policing, Education and training, Housing & Transport.
Have you done a film on the Corn Brook🤔? Best wishes 👍
As I said before, I used to work at Granada TV in the 90s. I remember the door to the underground canal was much bigger. It was in the basement next to the Make Up room, showers and near the Transmission Suite. The big metal door was the size of the aperture of the canal with a smaller access door on the left. I went through the smaller access door within the huge metal door.
A great video Martin, you did well not to let the cat out of the bag in your live transmission the other week. Well done for Bren, very generous in letting you behind the scenes.
Hi Martin. Yes that was it. It was all in the planning stages when I did the Livestream 😃
Always wanted to check out the surviving Granada studios building being a massive modernist fan..Sydney Bernstein had an apartment on the top floor with a rooftop garden...love to have seen that.
A big thank you to the developer and the project manager for allowing access and for showing Martin around!
Yes thank you 👍
Brilliant video, the old and the new. The bonded warehouse reminds me of the 1830 warehouse at MOSI round the corner. This had direct loading with a hydraulic system. Great to see a glimpse of the future too.
Hi June, yes those old Warehouses were amazing. Love the vaulted ceilings
Bloody hell, Silverdale Street. I grew up on adjacent Cherryble Street. Sad to see those streets have now been demolished. Many memories there.
I agree it is sad that the places we loved have gone but we have the memories and that's something.
Hi Martin, well that brought back some memories. I can remember in 1996 when working in the UK, my wife and I went round the Granada Studios and the Corrie set. There was also a small amusement park and a tour of the inside studios. There was also the Sherlock Holmes series set attatched to the Corrie set. Inside the Bonded Warehouse (which was used as inside studios), a part of the of it was a giant carousel with all the different rooms set up in a quarter of the circle.
The Bonded Warehouse - the pumphouse you show was used to operate the cranes to lift the bonded goods from inside goods vans
to different floors of the warehouse, hence the trapdoors in the ceiling of the floors which you pointed out. There was a similar goods warehouse in Ashton Under Lyne across from the bus station.
Keep them coming Martin.
Cheers Kenneth 👍
Brilliant insight to how it used to be. Thanks so much
Great to see investment in the city. Sometimes we can't stave everything. The area will be fab with people on the streets day and night. Hopefully lots of retail.
Bonded warehouse is amazing! It will last 100s of years with a small amount of TLC and $. Nice to see a video focussed on Manchester's future.
Thanks Paul. Yeah it will be very interesting to see the changes
Martin Zero As far as I’m aware it’s still going to be partly a TV studio as well
Worked at Liverpool Rd goods depot for a while in 1975. Unloading sultana's of all things. You could look down on the original Corrie set from there. The bonded warehouse wasn't being used for anything at the time, but we went in for a good look around. Great vid Martin
Hi Aidan wow that would have been amazing I would have loved to have seen it then. Its amazing trains were still running past the station werent they. Thanks very much 👍
It was nice to see the old Manchester Evening News especially when I realised it was the date of our wedding (still together ) Interesting video as usual. Christine
Am glad you liked that clip. Your wedding day thats brilliant. Well at least you know what you missed on Telly 😆Anyway congratulations 👌
That’s so funny 😂
Great video Martin,bring's back so many happy memories of when I used to work at the studio's tour back in 1993
Yeah I wanted to work there as well
Many thanks indeed to your Bren - that was a very special treat. Is there now a follow up Martin to this given it was presented here in 2018? Love to see what it looks like now - 2022! Cheers
Another belter Martin, your passion for our city is superb. Thanks for the upload, loved it.
Thank you Tony 😃👍
At 7:10-ish ... that wasn't a gift shop, that was the replica version of the Rovers Return used as an actual pub built originally for visitors to the original Granada Studios Tour. After the tour closed during the early to mid 2000's the replica of the Rovers was sometimes used as a waiting area or overflow area the studio audiences, as it was directly opposite the old Audience Entrance, that eventually was used as the Weatherfield Police Station set in Corrie.
This is why I love downloading these vids, the memories are priceless! Another awesome upload Martin! I remember the seeing old 'Coronation Street' show on the t.v in New Zealand when I was a very young lad and to see the actual filming site is just brilliant!
Thanks very much
Another fine video Martin, working my way through them all. Love seeing the changing face of Manchester and it’s history. Thank you 👍
Many thanks David
Great photo which just jogged a memory that for a long time I thought I might have imagined. I remember as little kid getting on my mates shoulders & looking over the gate by the pillar on the left. The reason I have doubted myself is I remembered there being just the fronts of the houses a small gap then the backs. Someone told me they did the filming of the indoors in a studio. I was gutted when i first saw they weren’t real houses LOL. So when as a much older person I went to look at the street they were real houses so I presumed I must have been wrong. Didn’t have google to check back then and the thought never came to mind till i saw this photo. Love old photos.
Thanks very much
This one was brilliant. I had seen a few videos of people getting access to the old Coronation St, but never realised the large image was still there. I really hope they preserve the image, that would become an iconic part of the development. The Bonded Warehouse is some building. Really well-made video!
Thanks mate, yeah the picture through the viaduct was brilliant. Loved that warehouse
Yet another great video Martin well worth waiting for
Thank you Roger
I worked at Granada Studios Tour for a while. On nice days I ate my lunch around Coronation Street! This brings back lovely memories...
I applied for a job as a guide but never got it
Blimey, that was certainly their loss!
Wow great stuff, really enjoyed that
Yes Allied London have done some great work and this looks like it will be another transformation for Manchester. Thanks for the video.
In the early 1970s I was an actor in in a production of "Zigger-Zagger" by the Manchester Youth Theatre (written by Peter Terson), at the Granada "Stables" Theatre on Quay Street, a great little "in the round theatre". As a company we were introduced to several of the "Corrie" stars of the time, including a very nice almost posh lady called Jean Alexander (aka Hilda Ogden).
Later I visited the Granada site for a tour studio tour when they were running "The Granada tours" as a tourist attraction. Our tour was paid for by my employers ICL (later bought by Fujitsu IT services). the ICL tower block in West Gorton has recently been demolished. Manchester changes continuously and has done all my life. (Great video)
Hi Kevin great info. Must have been great to meet Hilda (Jean Alexander) 👍
Please never delete this video. So amazing to watch.
Allied London should be applauded for allowing that access. Top stuff again Martin. You have to get access to the canal at some point! That would be cool as f&*k. Top one. Nice One. Get sorted.
Hello thanks very much. Yes I was blown away when they allowed little old me around the site. I am very grateful to them.
Check out a programme on here called peter kay remembers granadaland or something like that, he went through that door and stood beside the canal.
wow .. it really was good of them to let you in and see.. love the bonded warehouse I worked in one of these old railway warehouses in the 1970's.... solid stuff
Hi Tim. Yes Bonded warehouse great place. Built almost bomb proof 👌
That was AMAZING! I remember going on a tour of the studios when I was a kid. It's great to get an idea of how things will change. Also, that Bonded warehouse!!! It's a gorgeous building inside! The arched ceilings! Amazing! Another great one Martin. Such a privilege as well!!! Oh and that door to the canal...leaves us with a bit of mystery. Would be amazing if you get to have a look one day.
Geraldine I would love to see the canal. Yes those vaulted brick ceilings are incredible 👌
I visited the studios on a school trip .
Again you’ve done an amazing job. This is exactly what people want to see. You’re very talented!
Absolutely brilliant!!! Great achievement to get this access. Thanks again keep up the good work. Cheers Jo
Hi Jo thanks very much 👍
Absolutely fascinating video Martin, thank you and to Bren for allowing you access.
Hi Richard, yes a big thank you to Bren and the team at Allied London
Absolutely fantastic. Really enjoying your episodes. This is so much better than television. You have such passion for all your uploads. You should have your own channel......... I would watch telly then lol. You alone are worth the tv license. Keep up the good and very enjoyable work. Thank you so much.
great t see their revitalising the old buildings they have an awesome presence and detailed building teqniques which they dont replicate due to cost .
fantastic Martin
Great video Martin as always! Thanks to Bren as well for showing you around!
Hi Benjamin. Thanks very much. Yep Bren did a great job
I don’t know Bren but he seems like a really helpful guy, also he’s handsome.
Yeah he was a very nice guy. He was part of a team that invited me so Iam very grateful to Bren and his team
I used to work at Granada TV in the 90s. I have been into the underground canal. There is a path on the left hand side, stalactites hanging from the ceiling and the water was gin clear because it has not been disturbed in many years.
What a bloody little gem of a channel. Thanks, you do a great job and I'm sure in years to come historians will be using your video's to reflect back upon:-)
Another great video Martin, i enjoy watching your videos .
Wow what a privilege!
Really kind of them to give you access & a tour.
It was. I was very lucky and hats off to them for allowing me to go around 👍
That was great, thank you Martin.
Thanks very much Mike 👍
Nice one Glen cheers Martin that was well interesting ✌️
well done!!!!! I Went to see the old set of Coronation Street back in 2014 tour. It was really great to see all that before demolition!!! Thanks Martin!
Thanks Arnaldo
Superb video, on the 70s Coronation St set photo on the wall by the Bonded Warehouse you can see the sign "Newton and Ridley" which was the beer sold in the Rovers Return! I can just imagine Albert Tatlock, Ena Sharples and Hilda Ogden on the other side of that wall.. Them wert days! Fab.
Indeed Mark
That was excellent - thanks!
Great video as usual you get where water wouldn't keep up the fantastic work of informing us about our great city and great things that are happening
Hello Paul thank you very much. Dunno about getting where water wouldn't I never got behind that door to the canal 😆
Great video wish I could walk round there with you you would bring back memories of when I was a TV extra work at Granada studios
Fascinating stuff. Really kind of Bren to allow you access.
Well done Martin and thank you for another great vid.
Hi Christopher, thank you. Yes I was very grateful for the tour
working on this project at the moment really enjoyed this video. at the moment the site is just a big trench. so was great to watch this and look at what it used to be like. I totally agree with you we for get very quickly how things that change used to be. Great video mate keep up the good work
Thanks Chris. I really want to get into the Canal down there !!! 😀
I take it you mean the canal that's behind the door in granada old studios?? could you not gain access at the bottom of water Street where the canal is open to the public?"
would love to help you out but I am just a labourer on site 🙁
That brickwork is something else!, awesome architecture that warehouse!, great work Martin!😜✌
Another fantastic video Martin, well done. I remember doing the Piccadilly Marathon as it was then and running past the Granada Studio buildings, I visited the Coronation Street set with my wife and mother in law in the late 1980's I still have some photo's of us sat in the Rovers Return! Thanks for all your hard work.
Thanks very much Peter
Top video, those ceilings in the bonded warehouse are amazing. I hope the channel gives you more opportunities to do stuff, thanks for showing us all around too!
Hello, yes I loved those ceilings. Am hoping we can do more stuff like this.
Absolutely amazing and very interesting!!!
Thank you Marilyn, much appreciated
Brilliant video Manchester's always changing so fast Time & progress stops for no man Great seeing behind the scenes of all this history before its all gone Big thumbs up 👍to the project manager bren for showing you round nice to see large companies interacting with the little man great stuff Another excellent video Martin keep up the good work thanks 👍
Thanks mate, really enjoyed this one and yes great to see the plans in advance
Wow! Nice to see them blending the old with the new! Hope you get to see beyond that door into the Canal!
Amazing video and the music is awe inspiring
I’m from Yorkshire but I love your videos and there contents. I’d love to have the confidence to go out and do what you do bringing our history back to life. Keep up the good work mate.
Thanks very much Christopher
Very pro! I enjoyed this!😀👏
Excellent video yet again Martin not only are you preserving history I think your making history these videos will be used long after we have gone I suspect 👍
Cheers Carl. Yeah it will be good to be able to go back and see what it was like as its all rapidly changing there
Magic video... I remember my dad drove down Grape St in 1960s, stopped at the old wooden gates to let me have a nosey at the Coronation.St set . Great memories.
Cheers Tom
Fantastic to see all that. I did the Coronation Street tour about 30 years ago, it was amazing.
Hi Philip yeah me to sometime late 80's
Great video I did the Granada Studio your back in 1988/89👍
That’s a fantastic video Martin! I bet that was a treat going round the old studios. I went on a tour there about 25 years ago or so. I remember as a kid I was an extra in a new soap they were filming there that never took off. I think it was called Albion Market. I’d forgot about it it until watching this video and it brought the memory back of being inside the studios. That was good of allied London and the project manager to allow you access and show you round. 👍
Remember watching Albion market. They took it off for eastenders to start, took the same time slot
Hi Simon I do just remember Albion Market. Never watched it. Yeah it was very good of them. I was really chuffed
This is absolutely fantastic I did the Corrie tour a couple of times. And the one think I wanted to do was look inside the old Granada building but wasn’t allowed. So for you to look round was fantastic thank you I got to see it before it was to late. To see the old dressing rooms 👌 brilliant
Thanks Kevlar
😪😪😪 the feels, remember going round there as a kid with my mam and dad now its all going😪😪.. Top video lad cheers👏👏👏👏
It was a top day out! I think I went with school as well as with my Mum and Brother
Great video again Martin , it's good to see what they are planning with the old studio site . More impressive is that they actually took you round the site so you got a lot more information from the team . It sound like a mighty big project .
Hi, yeah its a massive project gonna be 5 years. Yes I was very lucky to get access
Great video, Martin. Fascinating stuff.
Thank you Ryan 👍
Brilliant , well done Martin. Watch all your documentaries.
Great video martin and a very big thanks to you and Bren for letting you have around there and us watchers have a look on your video.
I went there a couple of years ago after a New Order gig at the castlefield bowl. The New Order after party.
Hi Mate thanks very much. Very envious of you seeing New Order there
love the arches for the floor above
Really hope you get to do a comparison video, when it's all finished! That would be really good for historical purposes...
Another top class vlog - keep them coming 👍
The thought of who had walked them corridors in the studio complex. Amazing video as usual Martin.
Thanks Robert. Yes can you imagine the stars that have been there !!!!
great stuff
Your videos of Manchester are a real gem mate. It’s so important to capture history and record changes. Your videos are so professional and well presented. Love your work mate.
Thanks very much Chris
Martin Zero welcome mate!
Another great video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks very much 👍😃
met the late great Anthony Wilson there once during a tour. and have had a chat with Mr. Kyle when he was making a pilot for a new show. miss the old times ;)
Wow 👌Brilliant
@@MartinZero it was at the time apart from the kyle meeting ;) #highstakes Wilson was a decent bloke had a good chat about music in general - I was a teenager at the time :)
That was so interesting Martin,the mix of old and new presented not as a contest but an evolution. So cannot wait to see how this looks when I fly over next year.
Hi Andrew yes its going to be very interesting. I am looking forward to the Factory !
excellent Martin
you have to get us behind that door
Thanks mate, and I will deffo try
Went down Coronation Street in 1989 as part of the Granada Tour!.... One of my favourite days out!
brilliant video again,better than watching TV.
Thank you Leslie 😃👍
Excellent video as always
Many thanks Ron 👍
Great video, as always
Thanks very much
Thanks Martin, very interesting and informative. Pete
Thanks Pete
Interesting mate another good vid keep the good work up dude.
Thanks very much Scott 👌
Nowt stays still as we say here in the North. Its good to see old and new side by side and wonder just what it will be like in another 100 years time? Thanks for another great vlog Martin.
Hi Brian many thanks. Yep great to see money and investment. I do like what they have done in the heritage area with Bonded warehouse and George Stephenson's Bridge
Great vid Martin, documenting a changing city! Like others have said, likely in 100+ years time, your productions will be “unearthed”, but from a digital archive, as opposed to literally dug out of the ground.
Great content 👍🏻👏🏻
what can I say, great as always
Thank you very much Tony
Great video Martin and a testament to your video making when project managers take you around their site, kudos to you mate.
That name Globe & Simpson interests me as my Brother used to work for a small company in Pontefract servicing diesel pumps and general auto electrics and they were called Globe & Simpson, not sure if that is a pure coincidence or not.
Well done mate, looking forward to the next one.
Hi Steve thanks very much. The Globe and Simpson building (original) was the small building where Quay street split. Possibly same firm
Am gonna enjoy this vid.i visited several times there and I remember they had checkpoint Charlie lol
Top Vid Martin, I went Granada studio tours 3 times in the 90s and had a pint of Newton and Ridley beer in the mock up Rovers Return. walk down the cobbles of Coronation Street and inside Baker Street too. I lived in Portishead marina (Bristol) until 2019 and funnily enough my neighbour was Jonny Briggs Aka Mike Baldwin, lovely chap and will always speak to you, he likes his drink and chocolate haha. Good Stuff. :)