They may have left but Ramsay Street is still there and you can guarantee we’ll be back to visit our Neighbours… and other soap sets.
Everybody needs..
Neighbours: Yes, you can tour around Vermont South (that’s the Ramsay Street neighbourhood) in Melbourne. Austraylya..
And sink a cold one in The Waterhole or Lassiter’s, or a cup of tea in Harold’s Cafe.
Who knows if you’ll see an overalled Aussie tomboy mechanic too just waiting to burst out into hotpants?
Corrie on regardless
Coronation Street: If only the walls of England’s most famous pub, the Rovers Return could talk.
But the guides can, and do, and what they don’t know about the cobbled streets of Weatherfield ain’t worth knowing.
You’ll get everything you need to get you through the day in the Manchester suburb… a Weatherfield Recorder at The Kabin.
A fry-up at Roy’s Rolls before a night in the Rovers.
Dallas in wonderland
Dallas: Not all soap is the same and Texas’s most famous ranch is a world apart from Newton & Ridleys and Our Kid.
And while Corrie has hotpots it has hot plots too and that it does share with the Ewings and Barneses of Dallas in Stetson Country.
What is now Southfork was once Duncan Acres ranch (yes, that Joe Duncan) near Plano, Texas, and now fittingly belongs to a dude called Rex.
You’ll get to see the gun that shot JR, Lucy’s Wedding Dress, the ‘Dallas’ Family Tree, and Jock’s Lincoln Continental.
Kilcoole for cats
Glenroe: From the sublime to the agricultural and Holy God it’s Glenroe.
And for people of a certain age in Ireland then Glenroe, the everyday tale of farming folk in the Garden County of Co. Wicklow, conjures up nostalgia of a more innocent time.
It also has a special resonance for those of us for whom it was the next village (real name Kilcoole) down the train line from my old stomping ground in Greystones.
Glenroe has, of course, been replaced but certainly not upgraded by the grittier Fair City which is set in fictional Carrigstown in Dublin.
I’ll be in Scotland before you
Glendarroch: And as with everything Ireland and Scotland move pretty much in step, even with their soap names.
And so the Jocks had their Take the High Road set in Glendarroch, which is really picturesque Luss in Loch Lomond.
Before moving on to River City,set in Shieldinch in Glasgow.
And where Glenroe had the Biddy and Miley plotline Take the High Road had busybody Mrs Mack.
Much like Mrs Mangel to make a parallel with Neighbours.
And where the Aussie soap gave us Kylie, Russell, Guy and Margot, Take the High Road gave us James Cosmo.
So all you soap fans there’s something of everything to keep you going.
As we contemplate to visit our Neighbours… and other soap sets.
