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Article: Coronation Street 40th Birthday: WE LIVE IN CORRIE, TOO; Scotland's 'TV' Streets have same proud spirit.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- November 29, 2000
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Byline: GARY RALSTON
THE cobbles of Coronation Street have echoed for 40 years to the footsteps of characters who have built the strongest community on British telly.
But while Ken Barlow, Curly Watts, Rita Sullivan and Jack and Vera Duckworth are unique, their addresses certainly are not.
There are five Coronation Streets in Scotland and every one has the same spirit and sense of pride in their identity as the fictional inhabitants of Weatherfield.
They are spread as far apart as Wick in Caithness to Carstairs Junction in Lanarkshire, Coaltown of Balgonie in the ...