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Viaduct Street is the street on the very east of Coronation Street ending with Corner Shop and The Kabin. It was built in the 1886 and was the third street to be built after Victoria Street. Its name comes from all the small viaduct's which connected the streets together under the original railway line, London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and runs parallel to it. It has a train station situated there which now links Weatherfield to central Manchester via the Metrolink tram system.
The first building on Viaduct Street was a workhouse for workmen and their families who were building the terraced houses (i.e. Coronation Street and so on) to support the growing Industrial boom. The workhouse shared the corner of Viaduct Street and Victoria Street and once completed some of the men moved their families into the area they built and got jobs in the Industry whilst the others moved on. The workhouse was torn down and replaced by Hardcastle's Mill. A makeshift hotel stood next to the workhouse but it later became redundent and the owner burnt it down after going into debt, killing five people; he was sent to prison for 30 years.
This street also had the Viaduct Street Social Club, a popular hangout for the locals. In 1967 a tram came crashing off the viaduct and onto Coronation Street. A year later the Weatherfield Council sealed up the damaged section cutting Coronation Street and Jubilee Street off. The Councils reasonings were to "contain traffic flow in residential areas". Locals on Jubilee Street believe it was to replace the damaged viaduct so that it wouldn't fall again. 43 years later it did. (cff)
Mike Baldwin's factory burned down in 1971 killing Edna Gee and two others closing it down.Viaduct Street is the street at the east end of Coronation Street. The viaduct was closed off for good in 1989 when Maurice Jones built the 'posh' houses on the south side of Coronation Street. New buisnesses have opened on Viaduct Street such as Turner's Joinery which housed in one of the viaduct arches. In reality, the entrance to the joinery is actually the entrance to studio one where the interior sets of the houses and shops featured on Coronation Street, as well as the Rovers Return Inn. Also the Viaduct in reality only has four arches, when the cramped studio exterior was built outdoors, the viaduct at the end of this set was a real viaduct that ran close to Granada Studios. You can see Turners Joinery in the opening titles of Coronation Street, with a Metrolink tram going over the viaduct, the train was placed on the viaduct by Computer Generated Imagery. Ever since the viaduct was closed off no one knows what is on the other side of the viaduct, before the first exterior set was built you could see what was known as Jubilee Terrace, an almost identical replica of Coronation Street. The viaduct was closed off as early as the 1960's by the wall and railings, when the first exterior set was built in 1968, the wall and railings and Jubilee Terrace had by now vanished and a 'right of way' had allowed cars and pedestrians to go through the viaduct as they pleased, by this time it was rare to actually see a vehicle emerging from the viaduct, in the 1980's the right of way had been removed and gates had been placed on the Jubilee Terrace side of the arch to close the viaduct off. When Maurice Jones Purchased the viaduct arch and the land on which the community centre and Mike Baldwin's old factory the transformation to the now familiar set took place, the frontage of 'Turner's Joinery' has changed twice over the years, when the unit was first seen, it looked nothing more than a garage, sometime in the late 1990's, a large window was placed at the front of the unit and Turner's Joinery opened. When Maya Sharma blew up the corner shop, she attempted to run down Dev and Sunita as they survived the explosion, Maya crashed her car into Turner's Joinery damaging the unit, the window was replaced by a double glazed panel, the Joinery now looks like a shop.In 2010 Nick tilsley and Leanne battersby Joined together to build a new pub in the viaduct which was then a kitchen for the homeless and also someother buisnesses,then nick bought an arch of the viaduct which then created a pub.After a shaky re-opening they eventually pulled Cairan Mcarthy as head chef and cheryl gray as new barlady and leanne as mangeress and nick as owner.Nick decieded to call it 'The Joinery' due to 'Turner's Joinery'being there before it and decided to call it that. Also in the viaduct is the 'The Kitchen's' for the homeless to feed them,'Viaduct sporting club'a sport acivity centre 'Al`eanjdros' italian resturant.