Coronation Street School

Coronation Street School was a comic strip that ran in the short lived IPC comic School Fun. An issue of School Fun went on sale every Monday for 33 weeks between 1983 and 1984.

Coronation Street School, described by Graham Kibble White as 'one of the more unlikely concepts...but somehow it worked" (The Ultimate Book of British Comics, Allison & Busby 2005), told of the adventures of junior versions of all the regular street characters. Young Ken Barlow was head boy, with a magnificent hair and fought for the attentions of Deidre with Mike Baldwin, Deidre Barlow mooned over Ken, Albert Tatlock bored everyone, Bet Gilroy had a leopard print blazer, Stan Ogden and Hilda Ogden rowed, and Eddie Yeats stole everything that was left lying around.

Plots in the comic sometimes paralled those in the soap so that when, onscreen, Rita Sullivan taught Mavis Wilton how to drive a car in the comic Mavis was learning how to ride a bike.