Brookside has a lot to answer for…..without it we may have been spared the crooning of Ray Quinn! But in fairness, in it’s day Brookside was a great soap, daring to air storylines that other soaps only dreamt of (who remembers Anna Friels’ lesbian scenes?)

What I didn’t know was that unlike other soap operas, Brookside was not filmed on a set, but on a real life middle class cul-de-sac.

In 2003, after the show had gone down the pan, the houses were sold off to a property developer and although the houses have not been fully renovated as yet, some clever sod has taken their video camera down to the street and provided us with the eerie footage of the deserted close below………You see, this is where Sinbad belongs! Not on Coronation Street!