<P> Coronation Street's 1968 set was not all that different from the interior version previously used, with the wooden facades that had been used in the studio simply being erected on the new site . The only real change seen on screen was natural light illuminating the street for the first time . In late 1968 the street was constructed in brick, with roofs and back yards added later . The set was still reduced in scale and quite cramped and even though the pavements and cobbled street were now real, the cobbles were not parallel to the houses, and ran diagonally down the street . The first exterior set was referred to as "the coldest place on earth" by actors and crew since they disliked working on it due to a near - constant wind which blew directly down the street . Filming on the new exterior set was kept to a minimum, not only because the actors disliked the set, but because of the higher cost of using film for exterior sequences . </P> <P> The site later became the New York Street at the now - closed Granada Studios Tour complex . The site of New York Street set has been used again in Coronation Street, notably for Davenports (the firm Sally Webster worked for when she embarked on an affair with her boss, Ian Davenport); the strip club where Lloyd Mullaney met Cheryl Gray and also as the location for Weatherfield's tram stop where Izzy Armstrong was mugged in 2011 . In 2012, the site featured as the location of a casino and another strip club in which the character Kylie Platt (née Granger) was working . </P> <P> In 1982 an almost full - size exterior street was built in the Granada backlot, with the cobbles running in the correct direction . The new set was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1982 . The properties were constructed to a scale of 7 / 10; the new backlot at MediaCity UK is constructed to 9 / 10 . </P> <P> Parking for the prop vehicles were located where you would expect the western end of Crimea Street to be . This is where most vehicles were seen to be heading when leaving the street via Viaduct Street, however those that left via Victoria Street were in reality heading to a dead end, where the Granada bonded warehouse was . </P>

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