Coronation Street , Weatherfield Coronation Street ( postcode M10 9KC ) is a residential / business street in Weatherfield , connecting with Rosamund Street on the west side and Viaduct Street on the east . Built in 1902 , it originally comprised a row of seven terraced houses , with the Rovers Return Inn and Corner Shop at the end points . The Street , with its vintage cobbled road separating the north and south sides , was situated behind Hardcastle ' s Mill in Victoria Street . The south side of the street has been subject to extensive re - development , the largest and most recent of which took place in 1989 which involved the building of three new houses and several retail and industrial units . Businesses currently operating in Coronation Street are the Rovers pub , D & S Alahan Corner Shop , newsagent The Kabin , knicker factory Underworld , Websters ' Auto Centre garage and Audrey ' s Hair and Beauty Salon . History . Construction . By the turn of the century , Sir Humphrey Swinton ' s vision of new Weatherfield was taking shape . Tenements were being cleared and demolished , and replaced by modern working class housing . Two of the last streets to be constructed were Mawdsley Street and Albert Street , two rows of terraced houses built in the shadow of Hardcastle ' s Mill , a major centre of employment since 1882 . The new houses were partially intended as accommodation for the mill ' s workers , and Charles Hardcastle was involved in their planning . Upon Swinton ' s death in 1900 , his mistress Mabel Grimshaw saw his plans to completion . In keeping with most local streets , the houses in Swinton ' s streets were typical two - up - two - down terraces . Each of the seven houses in Albert Street consisted of a front room , a living / dining room with a coal fire for heating and an adjoining scullery on the ground floors and three bedrooms on the upper floors . They contained no indoor lavatories , with outdoor toilets installed in the backyards . The Street also included a Corner Shop at the Viaduct Street end , and the Rovers Return Inn at the opposite end . The shop contained its own accommodation and flat , while the Rovers ( initially named " The Rover ' s Return " ) , owned by brewery Newton , Ridley & Oakes , was built with living space for its tenants . Although technically part of Victoria Street , the Glad Tidings Mission Hall was built at the same time as Albert Street , servicing the residents ' religious needs . The Mission ' s vestry had an entrance on Coronation Street , used by the resident caretaker . Construction of the terraces was completed on 8th August 1902 , one day before the coronation of King Edward VII . In honour of his succession , the Street ' s name was changed to Coronation Street , and the first families started moving into their new houses on the day of the coronation . Development . After World War II , areas of Weatherfield started being re - developed , with demands for more housing resulting in Victorian terraces being emptied and demolished and replaced with tower blocks or other modern structures . In 1961 , a rumour spread among the residents that Coronation Street was to be among those pulled down , although it was safe on this occasion as Ena Sharples had actually misread a notice about Coronation Terrace . Nevertheless , the Street did face re - development in 1968 when the council bought the Glad Tidings Hall and factory with a compulsory purchase order and demolished them both , to make way for a new block of council - owned maisonettes to be built on the site . The building consisted of three one bedroom , single storey OAP flats and four two - storey maisonettes above them . The maisonettes were not a success - they were cheaply built and were damp , and several lay empty . In 1971 , Valerie Barlow , who lived in the maisonettes at No . 14 , died when she was electrocuted by a faulty plug socket , leading to a fire . Although the flats were saved , the council decided to demolish them after deciding that they were not safe to live in . Further rebuilding took place on the site following the fire . At the viaduct end of the Street , a Community Centre was built , complete with a small flat for a caretaker . Next to the Centre , a warehouse was erected , despite protests from local residents . The warehouse was bought by Mark Brittain , a mail order catalogue company , which used the premises until the building was gutted by fire in 1975 . The following year , Mike Baldwin , a London businessman , bought the building , renovated it and opened a denim factory called Baldwin ' s Casuals . In 1989 , deciding that the locals no longer needed the Community Centre , the council sold the site to Maurice Jones , a local property developer . Jones also approached Mike Baldwin and made an offer to buy the factory , and Baldwin agreed to sell . The buildings were demolished on 20th September 1989 and in their place came a whole new development of homes and businesses . The Jones development was comprised of three houses , four shop units and three flats . The new houses were larger than the terraces on the other side of the street , and each had a small back garden . Two shop units were situated at Nos 2 and 10 , each with a flat above , numbered 2a and 10a respectively . Since 1992 , No . 2 has been a hairdressing salon and No . 10 has housed newsagent the Kabin , moved from its Rosamund Street premises in 1990 . Flat No . 12 was adjacent to Flat 10a . No . 16 was a garage unit , bought by Mike Baldwin in 1992 , his first business venture in the Street since the sale of the factory , but it wasn ' t until 1997 that he opened lingerie factory Underworld in No . 14 , the largest business unit in the Street . Unit 14 was first used by Phil Jennings as the headquarters of PJ Promotions in 1991 . The new south side of the Street also contained some greenery , including a tree and bushes , lending Coronation Street some rare visual splendour . In 2003 , a bench was placed between the salon and bushes , dedicated to the memory of murder victim Maxine Peacock . Despite the many changes made to the south side of the Street , the north side remains relatively unchanged , although modifications and improvements have been made to individual houses both inside and outside , and the middle house , No . 7 , was rebuilt in 1982 after collapsing in 1965 as a result of a shift in the mine workings upon which the street was built . The original cobbles on the Street still remain in place . Weatherfield Council intended to dig them up and replace them with tarmac , but a campaign to save the cobbles was set up by the residents in December 2000 which resulted in their preservation owing to the road not being a major thoroughfare . More recently , Coronation Street was the site of a major disaster when on 6th December 2010 , an explosion at the Joinery bar in Viaduct Street caused a tram to de - rail from the viaduct and crash into Coronation Street , causing damage to the Corner Shop , the Kabin and the flats above and injuring many people . The residents pulled together to help each other out in the incident , but the destruction claimed the lives of butcher Ashley Peacock , Corner Shop worker Molly Dobbs and an unfortunate Cab Driver passing by . List of buildings in Coronation Street . North side . The Rovers Return Inn ( or simply " The Rovers " ) pub is situated at the corner of Coronation and Rosamund Streets and is the central meeting place of the residents . Originally subdivided into the Public , Snug and Select bars , the Rovers was refurbished in 1986 after a fire gutted the pub . The Snug and Select were removed and Public expanded in a significant modernisation of the pub . The living area of the Rovers comprises a sitting / dining room and kitchen on the ground floor ( mainly used as a staff rest room ) . Owners Newton & Ridley sold the pub to Jack and Vera Duckworth in 1995 and since then it has been privately owned , although the brewery continues to supply the pub ' s ale . The current owner and landlord is Steve McDonald , along with his mother Liz McDonald and girlfriend Michelle Connor as co - owners and co - landladies . Past tenants and licensees include Annie and Jack Walker , Bet and Alec Gilroy , Fred Elliott , Shelley Unwin , and Stella and Gloria Price . Once again in 2013 , another fire gutted the pub leaving £90 , 000 worth of damage . 1 Coronation Street is the leftmost terraced house and is adjacent to the Rovers . Albert Tatlock lived there from 1918 until his death in 1984 , and the house is currently the home of Ken , Tracy , her daughter Amy and Tracy ' s ex - husband Robert Preston . Ken ' s wife Deirdre died in July 2015 whilst staying with good friend Bev Unwin . In 1981 , the front parlour was converted into a bedroom for Albert . The room has since housed the late Blanche Hunt and is now Amy ' s bedroom . 3 Coronation Street , next door to No . 1 , is home to Emily Bishop and Norris Cole . Emily has lived there since her marriage to Ernest Bishop in 1972 . Aside from the renovation of one of the bedrooms into a bathroom , no major improvements have been made to the house . In the summer of 2013 , Norris bought the house off Emily . 5 Coronation Street is the next house along and has been lived in by the Langtons , the Tilsleys and the Battersbys . When Mike Baldwin bought the house in 1976 , he had the wall between the front parlour and the living room knocked away , giving No . 5 the first open plan living room in the Street . Chesney Brown , his girlfriend Sinead Tinker , Kirk and Beth Sutherland and Craig Tinker are the current residents . 7 Coronation Street in its current form was built by Len Fairclough in 1982 . The original frontage of No . 7 was demolished in 1965 after a faulty beam caused major damage which the owner , Edward Wormold , deemed too costly to be worth repair . The space was occupied by a bench for most of the intervening years . As a result , the brickwork of the house is newer than its neighbours . Dev Alahan currently owns the house . Widower Dev and his children Aadi and Asha are the current occupants . Previous residents have included Rita Fairclough , Curly Watts , Danny , Frankie , Jamie and Warren Baldwin , and Maria Connor . The downstairs of No . 7 was also made open plan at some point in the 2000s . 9 Coronation Street is the home of Tyrone Dobbs , who bought the house from Jack Duckworth in 2008 , his daughter Ruby , his partner Fiz , and her daughter Hope . Aside from a brief spell at the Rovers , Jack lived there with his wife Vera from 1983 until Vera ' s death in 2008 . In an effort to make the house look better than its neighbours and increase its value , Vera had the front stone - clad in 1989 and renamed it " The Old Rectory " in 2002 , although her efforts actually had the opposite effect . Previous occupants include Ken , Valerie , Susan and Peter Barlow , Jerry Booth , Len and Rita Fairclough , and Gary and Judy Mallett . 11 Coronation Street was the longstanding home of the Tanner family and later Alf and Audrey Roberts , and the Webster and McDonald families . Eileen , Jason Grimshaw and Todd Grimshaw currently live there with lodger Sean Tully , who sleeps in the front parlour , which has been converted into a bedsit . 13 Coronation Street is the rightmost house of the terrace and is owned by Kevin Webster after purchasing the property from Steve McDonald . The Ogdens lived there from 1964 to 1987 , and the Websters from 1986 to 2008 . The Ogdens left their mark on the house with a home - made serving hatch from the dining room to the front room , and a mural covering an entire wall in the back room ( since painted over ) . The house was damaged in a fire in the December 2010 tram crash and lay empty after then - owners the Peacocks moved out . Sophie Webster also lives there . The Corner Shop at No . 15 borders Viaduct Street , and owned by Dev Alahan and the shop banner reads " D & S Alahan " ( as in Dev and Sunita ) . The shop has been refurbished several times , most notably in 1985 when owner Alf Roberts converted it into a self - service mini - mart , converting much of the space taken up by the shop accommodation to extend the shop space . Prior to 1985 , the Shop ' s owners generally lived in the ground floor accommodation . The shop was also refurbished in 2004 after a major fire caused by Maya Sharma . On 6th December 2010 , the shop was reduced to rubble after being struck by a derailed tram . Molly Dobbs died in the wreckage . The shop was rebuilt and is now open for business again . 15a Coronation Street is the flat above the Corner Shop . Although most shop owners have rented it out , some have chosen to use it for storage or live there themselves . The entrance to the flat is in Viaduct Street although its address is Coronation Street . It was damaged after the 2010 tram crash but was rebuilt and it is currently owned by Dev Alahan . Previous occupants include Bet Lynch , Ken Barlow and Tim Metcalfe . South side . 2 Coronation Street is a business unit , built as part of the Street redevelopment in 1989 . The premises was first used as a charity shop run by Emily Bishop but in 1992 Denise Osbourne opened a salon there . The business was taken over by Fiona Middleton in 1996 and the current salon , Audrey ' s , is owned and managed by Audrey Roberts . Maria Connor and David and Kylie Platt are employed at the salon . 2a Coronation Street is an upper - level flat situated above the salon . Maria Connor and her son Liam are the flat ' s occupants . 4 Coronation Street is the rightmost house on the south side of the Street , built in 1989 , and home of the Websters since 2008 . Sally Webster currently lives there with her partner Tim Metcalfe . Past residents include Mavis and Derek Wilton and the Peacocks . The house was gutted by a fire in 2007 and extensively refurbished afterwards . The house is also notorious for being the scene of Richard Hillman ' s 2003 attack which left Maxine Peacock dead and Emily Bishop seriously wounded . 6 Coronation Street is the middle house on the Street ' s south side . Its first residents were Des and Steph Barnes , and over the years it has also been home to the Harrises and the Mortons . In 2007 , Tracy Barlow killed boyfriend Charlie Stubbs in the house . Anna Windass , her boyfriend Owen Armstrong and Anna ' s adopted daughter Faye lived here from 2008 to 2014 . It is now home to Yasmeen Nazir , her husband Sharif and their grandchildren Alya and Zeedan . 8 Coronation Street is the leftmost house in the south side of Coronation Street and original occupant Gail Rodwell still lives there with son David , now the owner , and his wife Kylie , her son Max and their daughter Lily . It is the only house in the Street with a garage attached . The Kabin at No . 10 is a newsagent owned and managed by Norris Cole . The Kabin was opened in Coronation Street in 1990 by Rita Fairclough , who relocated the business from its Rosamund Street premises and managed it until her retirement in 2009 , although it was briefly owned by Sharon Gaskell in 1999 . In 2000 , Rita opened a post office in the shop , although it has since been closed . The Kabin also underwent major rebuilding work following the tram crash in 2010 . 10a Coronation Street is the flat above The Kabin . Rita Tanner has lived there , with a few breaks , since opening the shop in 1990 . Rita lives there alone . 12 Coronation Street is a second - level flat adjacent to 10a , which currently vacant . When Alec Gilroy lived there in 1998 , he built a door between the two flats which was removed at some point after he moved out . Previous residents have included Ken Barlow , Reg and Maureen Holdsworth , Steve and Karen McDonald , Chris Gray , Jason Grimshaw , Tina McIntyre , Tommy Duckworth , Brian Packham and Julie Carp . 16 Coronation Street is a business unit , originally used as the premises for MVB Motors . Kevin Webster owns and manages Websters ' Auto Centre , with Tyrone Dobbs as partner and Luke Britton as a mechanic . Underworld is a lingerie - making business , occupying the largest building in Coronation Street . Phil Jennings was the first to use the unit , as a headquarters for PJ Promotions . Mike Baldwin bought it to house print shop MVB Print , which later became Dun 2 A T , operated by Steve McDonald . In 1997 , Mike launched Underworld on the site in partnership with Angie Freeman . Underworld stayed in the Baldwin family until Mike ' s sons Danny Baldwin and Adam Barlow sold their shares to Liam and Paul Connor in 2006 . Paul ' s widow , Carla Connor , currently owns and manages the factory and employs several of the Street ' s residents as machinists and packers . In 2010 , following an explosion inside the factory caused by Tony Gordon , much of the infrastructure was rebuilt . Demolished buildings . Elliston ' s Raincoat Factory was originally Hardcastle ' s Mill , which was opened in 1882 ( before the rest of the Street was built ) by Charles Hardcastle . The business survived until 1931 , by which time there was much less demand for cotton wear . The mill was one of the many businesses in the country to close in the early years of the Depression . The following year , the four - storey unit was bought by Jack Elliston , who completely refurbished and modernised the interior and re - opened it as a maker of raincoats . The factory ' s output was changed to PVC hats and coats in 1966 , but poor management resulted in Jocky Elliston deciding to close it for good in 1967 . The unit was sold to the council , which at the time was seeking to redevelop the area . The Glad Tidings Mission Hall was a community hall used by a Christian evangelical movement . It was an important part of the lives of the Street residents early in the Street ' s history , but congregations thinned in number in later years and in 1965 it faced closure until it was merged with the Bold Street Mission . Ena Sharples was the Mission ' s caretaker from 1937 and lived in the Vestry , although she resigned when the Mission was used as a Community Centre in 1966 , only returning when the Centre closed . The Mission was closed for good in 1968 when it was purchased by the council , which pulled it down shortly thereafter . The Maisonettes were a block of two - storey apartments that were built by the council in 1968 . Their architecture was in keeping with the brutalist style that was fashionable at the time . Home to Ena Sharples , Ken and Val Barlow and Effie Spicer , the flats were demolished when an electrical fault in the wiring resulted in the death of Valerie Barlow , and the council deemed them unsafe . The Community Centre was owned by the council and was built in 1971 . For much of that time , Ken Barlow served as Community Development Officer . The Centre was used for a variety of functions including wedding receptions , clubs , discos , parties , and meetings , the last such building providing such facilities to exist in Coronation Street ( other than the Rovers ) . Ena Sharples worked as caretaker for the centre and lived in an adjacent flat , which had its own entrance onto Coronation Street . The flat was later lived in by Percy Sugden . Property developer Maurice Jones purchased the Centre from the council in 1989 , and demolished it in readiness for his Street redevelopment . The Mark Brittain Warehouse was operated by a mail - order firm owned by Sir Julius Berlin , and built after the maisonettes were torn down in 1971 . Ken Barlow also worked there as staff supervisor , and Gail Potter , Tricia Hopkins , Ivy Tilsley and Edna Gee were employed there . When a fire gutted the warehouse in 1975 , the business folded . The following year , it was renovated and became Baldwin ' s Casuals , owned by Mike Baldwin . The denim - making business ran until 1989 when Mike sold it , at a high price , to Maurice Jones . Machinists included Ivy Tilsley , Vera Duckworth and Ida Clough . Community . As a Street with many places for the residents to meet and gossip , Coronation Street is a close - knit community , with most residents on friendly terms with their neighbours . This was especially true in the 1960s , when there were fewer houses and many of the residents had lived in their homes for many years - Albert Tatlock , Ena Sharples , Elsie Tanner and the Walkers all had roots in the Street dating back to the 1930s , and they were cornerstones of the community , although for different reasons : the Walkers were respected due to their lengthy service in the Rovers , Albert was the Street ' s oldest and longest standing resident , Ena was Mission caretaker and primary gossip of the Street , and divorcee and single mother Elsie was the usual subject of the gossip due to her tendency to get involved with married men . Although they did not always get along , the Street residents all knew each other very well and it was not an uncommon occurrence for them to walk into each other ' s houses without knocking . Coach trips took place every so often in the 1960s , with most Street residents going along to places including Blackpool on two occasions in 1961 , the Blue John Mines in 1965 and the Lake District in 1969 . They also acted together in plays or pantomimes performed in the Glad Tidings Hall or the Community Centre . By the 1960s , however , things were already starting to change . Kenneth Barlow , a student at Manchester University , was a young radical who had been brought up at No . 3 but had grown dissatisfied with the working class way of life , considering his neighbours starved of culture and politically ignorant , concerned only with themselves and their immediate surroundings . In 1962 , he wrote and article which was published in " Survival " magazine criticising the working class , and his neighbours took it as a personal attack against them and their way of life . Ironically , despite his intentions to break away from his roots , Ken has now lived in Coronation Street even longer than Albert did . In the 1970s and 1980s , familiar faces gradually left the Street and new families moved in . A notable event which put Coronation Street on the map occurred in 1973 when Councillor Alf Roberts was chosen as the new Mayor of Weatherfield . His opponent , Len Fairclough , lived in the Street , and Alf also had strong connections to the Street through his work at the Community Centre , and his Mayoress was Rovers landlady Annie Walker . Alf was elected Mayor again in 1994 and the following year was awarded the OBE . At one stage , Coronation Street ' s name was to be changed to Alfred Roberts Place in honour of Alf . Coronation Street also narrowly avoided a name change in 1962 when the council decided to rename all but one of the Coronation Streets in the area , and this Coronation Street was to be given the name Florida Street . Ena Sharples wrote to Prince Philip to enlist his help , and he ensured the Street kept its name . Organised excursions and plays fell by the wayside in the late 1970s . Although the Community Centre was a focal point of the community , the community it serviced enveloped much more than Coronation Street , and as a result events were better attended than any such events held at the Mission had been . Since 1989 , the Street has not had a Community Centre although the abundance of meeting points , workplaces and long - standing residents has meant families of the Street still interact with each other frequently , usually helping each other in times of distress or lending a sympathetic ear when required . Significant incidents . On 1st February 1961 , the residents were evacuated to the Mission when a gas main exploded behind Coronation Street . They were evacuated again on 9th September 1964 , this time to the Mission ' s cellar , when an unexploded bomb was found in No . 1 ' s yard , and most recently on 26th February 2007 when a bomb was found in No . 4 ' s garden . On 10th May 1967 , a train crashed through the viaduct onto Coronation Street , resulting in a frantic rescue operation for anyone trapped under the rubble . Len Fairclough , Jerry Booth and David Barlow searched through the rubble for survivors . The search turned up Sonia Peters , who was already dead , and Ena Sharples , who was found just in time to be saved . On 7th March 1979 , a timber lorry lost control while driving through Rosamund Street and crashed into the Rovers , injuring Alf Roberts , Len Fairclough , Mike Baldwin and Betty Turpin and killing the driver . Concern was raised for Tracy Langton , who had been left in her pram outside the Rovers while her mum Deirdre went inside for a minute to speak to Annie . Deirdre was convinced Tracy was dead but Tracy had actually been taken away by Sally Norton before the lorry hit . On 8th February 1993 , Lisa Duckworth was hit by a car in the Street and later died in hospital . Since the council had imposed a one - way traffic system in the Oakhill district of Weatherfield , many road users had been using Coronation Street as a shortcut and traffic in the Street had increased 500 % . In 2004 , Maya Sharma tried to kill Dev and Sunita Alahan as revenge for Dev dumping her for Sunita . She tied them up in the Corner Shop flat and set fire to it , and waiting in her car across the Street to watch . Fortunately , the neighbours noticed the smoke coming from the shop and they were rescued by Charlie Stubbs and Ciaran McCarthy . Furious , Maya accelerated and tried to knock them over with her car but crashed into the viaduct . On 12th January 2007 , Tracy Barlow murdered Charlie Stubbs in No . 6 , as revenge for his affair with Maria Sutherland . Other murders in the Street include Des Barnes , who was beaten up by drug dealers in the same house in 1998 , Ernie Bishop , wages clerk at Baldwin ' s Casuals who was shot during a robbery in January 1978 , Tommy Harris , who was killed by his daughter Katy in a moment of rage in 2005 . On 8th October 1997 , Don Brennan died when he drove his car into the viaduct . From 2001 to 2003 , financial adviser Richard Hillman lived in the Street at No . 8 , and resorted to desperate measures to gain control of the assets of several residents while being married to an oblivious Gail Platt . One of his actions included the murder of Maxine Peacock at No . 4 , although his crimes were discovered by Gail shortly afterwards . In March 2012 , Frank Foster was murdered by his mother Anne during an argument over his rape of Carla Connor . Many other deaths , from natural causes , illness or suicide , have also taken place in Coronation Street .