The Co-op Reception Rooms were the setting for the wedding reception of two Coronation Street residents, 44 years apart. In 1925 Minnie Carlton and Armistead Caldwell had their reception there and the venue was also booked by Albert Tatlock and Alice Pickins for their wedding reception in September 1969. In the event, the latter wedding ceremony didn't take place as the car belonging to the Vicar, the Rev. Vernon Lingard, broke down between Eccleston and Weatherfield and another wedding was waiting to use St. Mary's Church.