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The television institution has held on to a unique identity across six decades A scene from Coronation Street in 1974. ‘Over its six decades the show has dealt with subjects ranging from teenage pregnancy to assisted dying.’ Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock A scene from Coronation Street in 1974. ‘Over its six decades the show has dealt with subjects ranging from teenage pregnancy to assisted dying.’ Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock Fri 11 Dec 2020 13.23 EST Last modified on Fri 11 Dec 2020 23.37 EST In the Coronation Street writers’ room at Granada Studios, a magnificent black and white photograph of Ena Sharples used to adorn the wall. Wearing her signature hairnet, the legendary denizen of the Rovers Return snug is looking out at grimy 1960s Manchester. According to the onetime scriptwriter, Frank Cotterell Boyce, someone wrote a caption for it: “When I was a lass there was Coronation St, Inkerman Street, the Red Rec. And the rest of the world was all talk.”

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