Welcome to Corrie that is Coronation Street, Maryport, not Manchester. It would be easy to muddle the two, however, as Coronation Street Maryport appeared in an advertisement in prime-time television this week, sponsoring the popular and long-running soap. The advertisement was for Argos, which has become only the fourth major sponsor in the soap opera’s 60-year history. Gavel Street resident Kimberley Benson watched it all happen. “My mum, Julie Howley, lives in Coronation Street and I can see her house from mine. “We got letters in December asking us to move our cars off the street between 7am and 5pm on day.