Stone cladding was so much better than pebble dashing. So much more elegant. So much more modern. So much more aesthetically pleasing. ...

If only soaps were still like they were in Phyllis's day... Faced with entirely uninterested Mr Sugden, Phyllis was undaunted. ...

We've got the lovely Anita Dobson - Angie from EastEnd ers , Rear of the Year 1987, no less - to welcome you back to your pick of wh...

Much changed in the 1980s. Contemplating the decade on New Year's Eve 1989, I found it hard to visualise the way life had been in 1980...

CB radio was one of my favourite crazes of the 1980s. To be sure, it was a decade packed full of crazes, but CB stands out as one of my ...

What's goin' on 'ere, lovey? Well, it's October 1989... and the Street is undergoing a revolution. A whole new street is c...

From the TV Times , 27 September - 3 October 1986: Alf's got it right   Grumbling may be one of the characteristics of Coronation S...

A classic Coronation Street comment from Bettabuy supermarket employee Kimberley Taylor, played by Suzanne Hall, forms the title of this...

Eee , 1989 - what a year! The Berlin Wall came down, Tim Berners -Lee invented the World Wide Web , the Game Boy was released in America, a...

Renee (Madge Hindle): Beware of the lorries! A lovely e-mail from Wendy, who says: I've been watching episodes of Coronation Street from...

Coronation Street is celebrating its 50th anniversary - half a century on-screen - and as a salute to the show, we've been taking a look...

Alan Bradley (Mark Eden) was the most chilling Coronation Street character of the 1980s. Slowly but surely, we saw the facade of an ordinar...

Continuing our series of articles geared towards celebrating Corrie in the 1980s, as the show heads towards its 50th anniversary on 9 Decemb...

Coronation Street celebrates its 50th anniversary on 9 December, and here at '80s Actual we've been getting all dewy-eyed remembe...