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Coronation Street through the years

Coronation Street: Gail and Tricia — 1975: Gail and Tricia - 'Proof that everyone was young and wild once.' Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Ken Deirdre wed — 1981: Ken Barlow and Deirdre langton wed. It'll all end in tears. Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Rita Fairclough — 1983: Rita Fairclough mourns her husband Len. Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Elsie Tanner leaves the street — 1983: Elsie Tanner leaves the street, a sad day for devoted Coronation Street fans. Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Duckworth family — 1984: Vera, Terry and Jack Duckworth – 'Arguing can be a family hobby.' Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Hilda Ogden — 1984: Hilda married Stan Ogden in a hurry six days after she tripped over him in a wartime blackout, the joke for writers being he had the next 40 years of daylight to rue his mistake. Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Ivy Tilsley — 1985: Ivy Brennan, previously Tilsley, previously Nelson, was Gail's mother-in-law, Vera Duckworth's best friend and a devout Catholic. Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Deirdre and Ken Barlow — 1989: Deirdre and Ken Barlow – 'A good rule of thumb in life is to think, ‘What would Deirdre Barlow do?’ then act utterly to the contrary.' Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: ITV ARCHIVE — 1992: Bet and Alec Gilroy 'welcome' Raquel to the staff of the Rovers Return. Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Audrey Roberts and Fred Elliot — 1995: Audrey Roberts, mother of Gail, has a cuppa with Fred Elliot. Photograph: ITV / Rex Features/ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: SHOWBIZ Street 1 — 2003: Todd Grimshaw makes a pass at Nick Tilsley, the first gay kiss in Coronation Street. Photograph: PA handout photo

Coronation Street: ITV ARCHIVE — 2003: Richard Hillman drives 'a people carrier holding Gail and her kids into the canal while playing the Wannadies’ You and Me Song at full volume.' Photograph: ITV / Rex Features/ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Liz and Jim McDonald — 2005: Another episode in 'Liz McDonald’s daily toil with passionate yet booze-sodden Jim.' Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Steve McDonald — 2009: Steve McDonald in trouble again. Could it have something to do with his 'constant stream of warlike, belligerent or plainly demented wives and girlfriends'? Photograph: Mark Campbell / Rex Features

Coronation Street: Sophie and Sian: 'The Corrie lesbians' — 2010: Sophie and Sian AKA 'the Corrie lesbians'. Photograph: Mark Campbell / Rex Features

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