The growth of the BBC Television and ITV after the Second World War encouraged more folk to want TV sets. The Coronation of ...

Thousands of characters have literally grown up on the cobbles before our eyes and now our archive, Mirrorpix, has unearthed ...

Coronation Street has a long history of incorporating real-life family members into its cast, but some fans were left stunned ...

Mark Eden, who played Coronation Street villain Alan Bradley ... TV show The Avengers and the 1970s detective serial Lord Peter Wimsey. Later in his career he appeared in Doctors and Casualty ...

Anne Reid is best known for her roles in Coronation Street, Dinnerladies and Last Tango ... She married TV producer Peter Eckersley in the 1970s. He died in 1981. Reid was made an MBE in the ...

has unearthed rare images of the real-life weddings of two of Coronation Street's biggest-ever stars. All taken in the 1970s, these are bound to stir some memories, or offer a glimpse into the past.