15 Things Fans Were Never Supposed to Know About ‘Coronation Street’

4. But the beer won’t get you drunk

The beer that everyone is drinking in the Rover’s Return pub is a weak shandy that has more fizzy lemonade than beer in it. It is so sweet that sometimes you can see the actors react when they take a sip of it.

5. Seven different actors have played Peter Barlow

It’s common enough for an actor to be replaced while keeping the character unchanged, but longtimer Peter Barlow has been played by seven different people throughout the years. The character and his twin sister were actually born on “the street” back in 1965, and grew up on the small screen. John Heannau played him from 1965 to 1970, Christopher Dormer from 1970 to 1971, Mark Duncan in 1971, Linus Roache from 1973 to 1975, Joseph McKenna from 1977 to 1978), David Lonsdale in 1986, and Chris Gascoyne from 2000 to now.

6. Doris Speed could be snappy in real life

Doris Speed played pub landlady Annie Walker and she had a quick wit about her. When doing a scene with Roger Brierley she asked why he was moving his head around so much, to which he replied that he was trying not to cast a shadow on her face. She replied: “There’s a long dole queue of actors who have cast a shadow on the face of Doris Speed.”