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First look at Coronation Street's new street - which has a tram stop and a tattoo parlour

The Coronation Street new set - Victoria Street will soon become a regular feature on Coronation Street. And it features a memorial to the Manchester Arena attack last May

Say hello to Victoria Street - where Coronation Street fans will see for the first time new shops, a police station and even a tram stop in the nations longest-running soap.

The huge set expansion has been unveiled today at Corries Trafford Park base by ITV bosses.

And by extending Victoria Street, TV viewers will soon see a wealth of new businesses and features of Weatherfield that have only ever been mentioned in conversation by soap characters before.

That includes Weatherfield Police Station, Weatherfield North tram stop, a Costa coffee shop, a new curry house, a tattoo shop and a community garden.

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Within the community garden is a specially-commissioned, mosaic-covered memorial bench where bosses have made their special tribute to Corrie superfan Martyn Hett and all those who lost their lives in the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017.

The bench was unveiled at a special commemoration event on the cobbles on Monday, with Martyns family the first to see the new set.

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The new wider Weatherfield will be on screen for the first time on Friday, April 20.

The expansion has been part of the masterplan for Corrie since bosses moved from the soaps original site at Granada Studios after 53 years to a new home on Trafford Wharf Road in 2013.

In a nod to the soaps 57 year history the road on the new set is made from cobbles reclaimed from the old Quay Street site.

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The Weatherfield North tram stop

Having already increased production to six episodes a week, the new set will allow for a host of new storylines and potentially new characters within its reaches.

There will be a Pakistani restaurant named Speed Daal, with curries from 8, as well as a tattoo shop called Tattooll Do Nicely.

We will also see the Weatherfield North tram station for the first time as well as a snooker hall, police station and a community garden.

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The new-look Victoria Street is a continuation of the street first added in 1999 which is home to the existing kebab shop, Roys Rolls, the community centre, Victoria Court and the infamous builders yard where Tina McIntyre famously fell to her death.

The entire area has been aged to look as though it has been there for as long as Coronation Street and Rosamund Street.

Product placement deals mean for the first time real retail outlets will be represented on the set in the shape of Costa Coffee and Co-Op.

The agreement allows both brands to use Coronation Street assets and extend the partnership off-air.

The first example of a commercial crossover within Coronation Street was when a Nationwide ATM was installed inside Dev Alahan's shop.

Round the corner from the main area is a modern two-storey police station which will eventually have a reception, cells, corridors and interview rooms.

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A Nuttalls brewery building houses a production construction workshop, utilising the large interior space.

Kate Oates, series producer, said: The Victoria Street extension represents an exciting chapter in Corrie history: an amazing new stage, full of dramatic potential.

"Our amazingly talented design team have created everything from scratch - but it still manages to have the feeling of always having been there, just around the corner.

Coronation Street bosses announced that after talks between ITV and The Peel Group, the show would move lock, stock and barrel to a new site as part of the MediaCity development at Trafford Park, and construction began in September 2011 on the new site.

The grand unveiling of the completed set to the worlds media, with a huge party along the sparkling new Coronation Street at the Trafford Park site, took place on November 29, 2013.

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The old Granada Studios set opened for the Coronation Street tour in 2014 - allowing visitors to walk the old cobbles for the first time since those Granada Studios Tours days.

Hundreds of thousands of visitors went on the tour, before it closed for good in December 2015.

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