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Inside Coronation Street's Bill Roache's 1950s Cheshire home he calls his 'haven' as actor, 91, faces bankruptcy for a second time - despite £250k a year Ken Barlow role


As Coronation Street star Bill Roache faces bankruptcy, we take a look at the home he calls his 'haven'.

While the drawing room in ornate with sweeping curtains, a huge fireplace and gold decor, it is filled with sentimental touches 'It’s one of the few surviving items from that house, now sadly demolished, so it’s special to me,' Bill said of his father's pipe which sits proudly on his coffee table Other items include his Royal Welsh Fusiliers cap, a framed photo of Laurence Olivier outside the Strand Theatre in 1958 and his Guinness World Record, which he was awarded in 2010 for becoming the longest-serving actor in a serial drama.

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