Coronation Street is produced by ITV Granada Television under ITV Studios and shown in all ITV regions.

It has been filmed in Castlefield, Manchester at the Granada Studios since its inception.

Between 1989 and 1999 the Granada Studios Tour allowed members of the public to visit the set.

At age 11, he began his acting career, appearing on the British television soap opera Coronation Street, which was produced at Granada Studios by Granada Television in Manchester.

Previously it was held by Granada Television which was founded by Sidney Bernstein and based at Granada Studios since its inception, and which was the only surviving company out of the original four Independent Television Authority franchisees from 1954 before it merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004.

Granada Studios, designed by architect Ralph Tubbs, was built on a site on Quay Street in Manchester city centre belonging to Manchester City Council bought for £ 82, 000.

Plowright was the company's driving force producing programmes such as World in Action, Coronation Street and promoted the Granada Studios Tour.

Granada was in a poor financial state and closed the Granada Studios Tour in 2001 citing decreasing visitor figures and closed Granada Film.

In 2009, ITV removed the Granada brand from all departments including its international production arm, Granada America which became ITV Studios America.

ITV made cutbacks with the loss of 600 jobs in 2009 which effectively closed the Leeds Studios and more redundancies made in London left Granada relatively unscathed.

Granada Studios with the red logo and lattice broadcasting tower on the roof – both of which have been removed in recent years.

In September 2010, the 1950s red Granada TV sign on the roof of Granada Studios was removed for safety reasons after maintenance found it was badly corroded.

The Coronation Street set at the Granada Studios Tour

Over 50 years later, Granada Studios hosted the first General Election debate between the leaders of the three main political parties.

Entrance to Granada Studios Tour

The Granada Studios Tour opened in 1988 as an entertainment park at the Granada Studios themed around television productions.

In July 2006, the tomb of the king ( which is located in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra ) was to be opened for scientific purposes by researchers from the University of Coimbra ( Portugal ), and the University of Granada ( Spain ).

This is a history of Spain from the earliest times down to 1456, and was printed at Granada in 1545, and also in the Rerum Hispanicarum Scriptores aliquot, by R. Bel ( Frankfort, 1579 ).

The Abencerrages ( from the Arabic for " Saddler's Son "), were a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Moorish kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.

Little is known of the family with certainty ; the Chambers Biographical Dictionary records that they arrived in Spain in the 8th century but the name is familiar from the romance by Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.

In 1549, the institution of the Audiencia in Santa Fe de Bogotá gave that city the status of capital of New Granada, which comprised in large part what is now territory of Colombia.

The Granada backlot is situated in an area between Quay Street and Liverpool Road in Manchester.

" The origin of the name " Grenada " is obscure, but it is likely that Spanish sailors renamed the island for the city of Granada.

The BBC region is BBC North West and the ITV region is Granada.

Asturias ( Leyenda ) in particular is heard most often on the guitar, as are Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Cataluña, Cordoba and the Tango in D. Gordon Crosskey and Cuban-born guitarist Manuel Barrueco have both made solo guitar arrangements of six of the eight-movement Suite espanola.

Granada TV also featured the cab, which is now in its 4th vehicle and operates in Bolton, Greater Manchester as Clint's Karaoke Cab.

Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada or (, Lago Cocibolca, Mar Dulce, Gran Lago, Gran Lago Dulce, or Lago de Granada ) is a vast freshwater lake in Nicaragua of tectonic origin.

The lake drains to the Caribbean Sea via the San Juan River, historically making the lakeside city of Granada, Nicaragua, an Atlantic port although it is closer to the Pacific.

It is located in the northwest of the African continent, next to the Alboran Sea and off the coast of Granada and Almería.

Melilla is connected to the Spanish cities of Málaga, Madrid, Granada and Almería by air as well as to Málaga, Almería and Motril by ferry.

In The Girl of Your Dreams, Cruz portrayed Macarena Granada, a singer who is in an on-and-off relationship with Antonio Resines's character, Blas.

Most of the Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Granada, Foster City, Hillsborough, La Honda, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Montara, Pacifica, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Gregorio, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside.

, " the red fortress "), is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.

These are supplied through a conduit long, which is connected with the Darro at the monastery of Jesus del Valle, above Granada.

* Construction on the Alhambra palace, in Granada, Spain, is begun by the Nasrids.

Granada () is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalucia, Spain.

* December 8 – Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba founds the city of Granada, Nicaragua, the oldest Hispanic city in the mainland of the Western Hemisphere.

It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active ( Granada Television being the oldest ).

It remains one of the largest such facilities in the world and is the second oldest operating television studio in the United Kingdom after Granada Studios, where the largest ITV franchise, Granada Television was based for many decades.

The capital is the city of Granada, one of North America's oldest cities

Under the vaulted roof of the baths it bubbles up the oldest warm spring of Alhama de Granada.