The Retail Booklet comprises four 1st class NVI Definitives flanked by a pair of commemoratives from the main issue celebrating two of the street’s most popular and enduring couples including the actor William Roache, whose character appeared in the very first episode in December 1960. The booklet is printed in Gravure with self-adhesive stamps.
This cover carries a Gairsay, Scotland 1995 ‘Landmark in Television History’ commemorative issued for the programme’s 35th anniversary together with a characteristic exchange between one of the couples featured in the Booklet and a Quay Street, Manchester handstamp.