The centre was built beside the Mark Brittain Warehouse (later Baldwin's Casuals), and had its main entrance on Viaduct Street. The building was owned by the council, and run by a committee with a Community Development Officer assigned as a full-time administrator. Ken Barlow filled this role from 1975 to 1983. Over the years, the centre was used for many wedding receptions, parties, meetings, a nursery, classes, flower shows, plays, youth clubs, pantomimes, and fetes. In 1989, the council sold the building to Maurice Jones, who demolished it as part of his re-development of the local area.
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| - The centre was built beside the Mark Brittain Warehouse (later Baldwin's Casuals), and had its main entrance on Viaduct Street. The building was owned by the council, and run by a committee with a Community Development Officer assigned as a full-time administrator. Ken Barlow filled this role from 1975 to 1983. Over the years, the centre was used for many wedding receptions, parties, meetings, a nursery, classes, flower shows, plays, youth clubs, pantomimes, and fetes. In 1989, the council sold the building to Maurice Jones, who demolished it as part of his re-development of the local area.
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| - The centre was built beside the Mark Brittain Warehouse (later Baldwin's Casuals), and had its main entrance on Viaduct Street. The building was owned by the council, and run by a committee with a Community Development Officer assigned as a full-time administrator. Ken Barlow filled this role from 1975 to 1983. Over the years, the centre was used for many wedding receptions, parties, meetings, a nursery, classes, flower shows, plays, youth clubs, pantomimes, and fetes. The Coronation Street side of the centre was attached to a one-bedroomed flat which housed the building caretaker. Ena Sharples was the centre's senior caretaker and lived in the flat from 1971 until she left Weatherfield in 1980. After a number of short-term replacements, Percy Sugden took over the job and flat in 1983 and remained there until his forced retirement in 1988. In 1989, the council sold the building to Maurice Jones, who demolished it as part of his re-development of the local area.
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