Coronation Street sets Club on Rosamund Street was revamped and reopened as a medical centre. A new road, Victoria Street, was built to house three shops and two houses. A builders' yard backing onto the betting shop was built. To obscure one of the Granada Television buildings a new viaduct was built on Rosamund Street. This sat behind the Rovers and parallel to Coronation Street and introduced an error, as it did not appear in the opening titles aerial shots of "Coronation Street". The "viaduct" was actually a façade with an optical illusion to make it look complete. A backdrop of some Salford
Storylines of Coronation Street was one of the men involved in the armed robbery, and that he had shot and killed her husband. Peter Adamson, who had played Len Fairclough since 1961, was sacked in 1983 for breach of contract. He had been warned by Granada Television for writing unauthorised newspaper articles criticising the show and cast. "Coronation Street" producer Bill Podmore sacked Adamson when it was revealed he had sold his memoirs "after" the previous warning. The sacking coincided with allegations of Adamson having indecently assaulted two young girls. In April 1983, a Sunday newspaper reported that Adamson had been arrested for indecently