See the Coronation Street Tour at Christmas as the Old Granada Studios get ready for winter Snow on the cobbles and Christmas trees all round for Weatherfield residents a month before the festive day VIEW GALLERY Christmas has arrived at the Coronation Street Tour, where there's tinsel on the Rovers bar and snow settled on the roof of The Kabin. Visitors can take a trip through a winter wonderland Corrie style as the sets have been transformed with Christmas trees and festive decorations. For 53 years, viewers watched Corrie residents celebrate Christmas on the cobbles at the Old Granada Studios set - and now they can experience fairy lights twinkling outside Audrey’s salon, close-up. The interior sets have been given a seasonal makeover, with each location, including Underworld and the Duckworth’s home, dressed to reflect the characters who lived there. But due to Carla Connor’s history of heartbreak over Christmas, there's a distinct lack of festive cheer in her flat. Other new additions include a Christmas video montage at the start of the tour, which is a rollercoaster of the fights, tragedy, weddings, births, deaths and hilarious antics filmed on the set over the years. From Les Battersby buying a live turkey for Christmas dinner in 1997 to Ashley and Claire Peacock’s eventful wedding in 2004, Corrie fans can relive the best Christmas on the cobbles storylines. It takes a team of six, two weeks to dress the set fully with 21 Christmas trees, 977 baubles, 10,000 fairy lights and 800 tonnes of fake snow used during filming of the festive episodes. PATinseltown: The Rovers has been decked out for the festive period Juliana Delaney, Chief Executive of Continuum Leading Attractions, the company that runs the tours, said: “I’m so pleased those who have yet to experience the tour will now get the chance to, and those that have seen it, in a whole new ‘white’. “As the snow falls on the nation’s street, it’s difficult to imagine a more delightful place to be in the run up to Christmas.” Visitors can experience a Weatherfield Christmas between Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, January 11 2015.

• published: 23 Nov 2014
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