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EastEnders is one of the best known programmes made at BBC Elstree, but the site’s production history goes back long before Albert Square appeared on screen. The Elstree site has been part of British film and television history for more than a century, making it an important heritage location
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EastEnders is set in fictional Walford, but its real production home is Borehamwood in Hertfordshire. That contrast is part of what makes the soap interesting. On screen, viewers see an East London community. Behind the scenes, that world is created at the BBC Elstree Centre, outside London. Borehamwood has a
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The BBC Elstree Centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, is one of the most important locations in EastEnders history. Although the soap is set in the fictional London borough of Walford, the programme has been based at Elstree since it began in 1985. The site has a long screen history. It originally
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The Albert Square exterior set is the centre of EastEnders and the most recognisable part of Walford. Although the soap is set in the fictional London borough of Walford, the famous Square is filmed at the BBC Elstree Centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. EastEnders first aired in February 1985, but the
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Before Emmerdale moved to its purpose built village set at Harewood, the real village of Esholt played a major role in the soap’s history. From 1976 until 1997, Esholt was used as the main village location for the programme. Esholt is a real West Yorkshire village near Bradford. Its
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Emmerdale may be set in a fictional Yorkshire village, but the programme’s production life is closely connected to Leeds. The city and surrounding areas support the soap behind the scenes, giving it studio space, production facilities and access to nearby rural locations. This Leeds connection is important because Emmerdale
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Emmerdale has always depended on its Yorkshire setting. The village set is central to the show, but the countryside around the fictional village gives the soap much of its atmosphere. Fields, farms, country roads, stone walls and open rural spaces help make Emmerdale visually different from other British soaps. The
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The Emmerdale village set on the Harewood Estate is the modern home of the ITV soap’s fictional village. For viewers, it is the place where the Woolpack, the village shop, the church, the cottages and the familiar stone built streets come together to create the everyday world of Emmerdale.
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Coronation Street is set in the fictional town of Weatherfield, but its screen identity has always been tied to Greater Manchester. The programme’s main exterior set provides the familiar cobbles, houses and businesses, yet the wider city gives the soap an extra layer of realism. Manchester landmarks and nearby
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Coronation Street may be best known for its purpose built exterior set, but the programme’s connection to Greater Manchester reaches beyond the cobbles. Trafford and the wider city region have long provided useful exterior filming locations, helping the soap expand its world whenever a story needs to move beyond
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Before Coronation Street moved to its current home near MediaCityUK, its history was rooted in Quay Street. The former Granada Studios site in Manchester was the long time home of the programme and remains one of the most important locations in British television history. Coronation Street began in 1960 and
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The Coronation Street exterior set at MediaCityUK is now one of the most recognisable television locations in the country. For viewers who have spent years watching Weatherfield on screen, the chance to walk along the cobbles in person turns the fictional street into something surprisingly real. The current set, brought