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Watching Classic Corrie I’ve been struck by the generous number of extras and not just in the Rovers and the shop, but more of them in the actual street too. Nowadays we seem to get customers or extras in The Rovers, the Bistro, and in Audrey’s salon, sometimes Roy’s Rolls has a few, but the Kabin and kebab shop always seem devoid of customers.
Is it the shops themselves that are driving them away? To me the shops in Classic Corrie seem more realistic; Alf Roberts seems to have had a proper fully stocked shop whereas poor old Dev seems to have an emporium where minimalism has triumphed. Rita and Mavis ran a realistically small shop crammed with good, whereas the Kabin is larger nowadays but seems to sell less.
Surely they can afford to pay for some more extras and, as these are local businesses, it wouldn’t matter if we were seeing the same customers come and go?In the street, where are the postie, the milkman, the parcel delivery service, the bin men?
I love looking at the extras practising their much ender-estimated skills; I think it started in the 1960s when I was told the chap ( Burt somebody?) who produced our local town’s professional Christmas pantomime, and played the dame, was an extra to be seen drinking in the Rovers Return. After that, spotting him in The Rovers became a family game.
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