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#OnThisDay 22 February 1962
THE MEN BEHIND CORONATION STREET
With Ena and Elsie, Minnie and Martha, Annie and Concepta, #CoronationStreet is a woman's world created largely by men, including #TonyWarren and Derek Granger . . .
#OnThisDay 14 December 1994
JULIE GOES TO SEE THE QUEEN
Landlady Bet Gilroy chose her daintiest earrings when she went to visit the Queen yesterday. #CoronationStreet star Julie Goodyear was invited by the show's creator, #TonyWarren, when he went to receive his MBE.
#OnThisDay from December 1995
The #CoronationStreet magazine reunites some of the early cast, chats to #TonyWarren - The Man Who Started It All, and remembers the Dec '75 pantomime and Audrey & Alf's Wedding from Dec '85.
Happy 65th Birthday 🎂 @itvcorrie without #TonyWarren there would never have been the cobbled street! I've been a fan since day one. Over the years I've known so many cast members loved most of the story lines. This program has been part of my life #corrie #CoronationStreet
#OnThisDay from December 1992 - THE STREET
The #CoronationStreet Companion has an interview with the show's creator, #TonyWarren.
There were greyhounds and whippets a-plenty back in 1962.
Whilst in 1992, the Duckworths get a grandson.
Plus, a poster of #SarahLancashire.
#OnThisDay 4 December 1960
THE STREET WHERE THEY LIVE
#TonyWarren toured pubs in greater Manchester for two months. It was in the cause of television. The results of his researches can be seen in a new fictional serial, #CoronationStreet, beginning next Friday . . .
#OnThisDay 29 November 1987
Farewell to Hilda Ogden . . . her own exclusive story -
WHY I HAVE TO LEAVE THE STREET - As told to #TonyWarren, the creator of #CoronationStreet -
MEN, MARRIAGE AND WHY I STAYED SINGLE
#OnThisDay 28 November 1969
The show the experts didn't like . . . WOULD IT BE THE SAME IF IT WAS CALLED 'FLORIZEL STREET'?
#CoronationStreet creator #TonyWarren can't get over the show's fantastic popularity. But fame as the creator of the series hasn't brought fortune . . .
#OnThisDay 19 November 1993
MR. WARREN: THE GREAT STORTYELLER
Creator of #CoronationStreet and bestselling author #TonyWarren tells the Hull Daily Mail:
"I travel extensively. I do it on my own to look for more stories. I'm a storyteller - as simple as that."
#OnThisDay 16 November 1991
#TonyWarren, creator of #CoronationStreet, tells the Telegraph about - THE HOUSE WHERE I GREW UP:
"As a child I craved colour and it was a colourless place... You can learn a lot hiding under the table with the chenille cloth pulled down."
#OnThisDay 12 November 1961
ENA OF CORONATION STREET IS BORN
by #TonyWarren in the TV Times -
The 25-year-old originator of #CoronationStreet tells of the 11th hour decision that turned Violet Carson into Ena Sharples . . .
#OnThisDay 28 October 1969
AS ENA'S FATHER WAS SAYING
#TonyWarren, who created #CoronationStreet out of his head, has met with a little legal trouble over a book he has written called I Was Ena Sharples's Father.
#OnThisDay 28 October 1960
The first announcement of #CoronationStreet appears in the press when the Manchester Evening News alerts viewers to a new . . .
BACK STREET SERIAL
. . . to run twice a week from December. #TonyWarren is working in partnership with Harry Kershaw . . .
#OnThisDay 21 September 1986 in The People:
TELL IT ALL, LUV JUST AS IT WAS -
The true story #PatPhoenix wanted the world to know, by #TonyWarren who created #CoronationStreet and Elsie Tanner . . .
English screenwriter Tony Warren, best known as the creator of TV drama “Coronation Street”, was BOTD in 1936. #tonywarren #bornonthisday #supergays #coronationstreet
#OnThisDay 25 June 1995
The People "is tops for soaps" with stories like:
JAIL AND JUNK SHAME OF EASTENDER PATSY'S BROTHER.
DEN AND ANGIE IN SHOCK #EASTENDERS COMEBACK.
GAYS GO NUTS for #CoronationStreet, according to #TonyWarren and #LilySavage.
THIGH THERE - #MichelleCollins.
#OnThisDay 19 June 1983
#CoronationStreet creator #TonyWarren gives his take on one of Coronation Street's biggest stars:
"#PatPhoenix works as hard at being a star as she does at playing Elsie Tanner."
Whereas she claims: "I Believe in Love - not brief encounters" . . .
#OnThisDay 15 June 1980
KIND HEARTS OF CORONATION STREET - They didn't walk away when I was defeated - #TonyWarren, who created TV's longest-running hit #CoronationStreet, reveals who helped him through his addictions . . .
#OnThisDay 12th June 1983
#CoronationStreet creator #TonyWarren interviews Jean Alexander, alias Hilda Ogden, who reveals:
WHY I SAID NO TO LOVE.
We're also introduced to some #Corrie masterminds, including a 17 year-old #DaranLittle!
Died #otd Tony Warren (1936-2016), English television screenwriter, 9 years ago today #TonyWarren life story...
#OnThisDay 22 February 1962
THE MEN BEHIND CORONATION STREET
With Ena and Elsie, Minnie and Martha, Annie and Concepta, #CoronationStreet is a woman's world created largely by men, including #TonyWarren and Derek Granger . . .
#OnThisDay 14 December 1994
JULIE GOES TO SEE THE QUEEN
Landlady Bet Gilroy chose her daintiest earrings when she went to visit the Queen yesterday. #CoronationStreet star Julie Goodyear was invited by the show's creator, #TonyWarren, when he went to receive his MBE.
#OnThisDay from December 1995 - The #CoronationStreet magazine reunites some of the early cast, chats to 'The Man Who Started it All', #TonyWarren, and remembers the Dec '75 pantomime and Audrey & Alf's Wedding from Dec '85.
#OnThisDay 29 November 1987
Farewell to Hilda Ogden . . . her own exclusive story -
WHY I HAVE TO LEAVE THE STREET - As told to #TonyWarren, the creator of #CoronationStreet -
MEN, MARRIAGE AND WHY I STAYED SINGLE
#OnThisDay 28 November 1969 -
The show the experts didn't like . . . WOULD IT BE THE SAME IF IT WAS CALLED 'FLORIZEL STREET'? -
#CoronationStreet creator #TonyWarren can't get over the show's fantastic popularity. But fame as the creator of the series hasn't brought fortune . . .
#OnThisDay 24 November 1993
#CoronationStreet creator #TonyWarren speaks to the Liverpool Echo - MY GOLDEN CITY - "I think women are stronger than men. But all of the characters I create are me. I still regard them as my children - only now I've got an extended family of 41!"
Out of retirement... Nancy Banks-Smith: 'I grew up in a pub – I thought #Corrie was a documentary' #TonyWarren
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Genius... #TonyWarren
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