Life-long love of Coronation Street star set to go to auction

A large collection of belongings owned by the late Coronation Street actor John Savident is to be sold at auction - and they reveal a life-long love the star cherished.

In 1966, he made his first TV appearance and the following year made his film debut in an uncredited role. Through the 70s and 80s, he made many appearances on our screens. Auctioneers Sworders in Henham, Essex, will auction the former Corrie star's collection in 70 separate lots on June 26, with estimates ranging from £100-£500. The actor began buying Georgian and Victorian theatre playbills, prints and ephemera promoting the sights and sounds of the theatres of Drury Lane and Covent Garden in London and others in Manchester, Bristol, Leeds and Birmingham in the 1960s.

Several lots in the sale reference the Victorian stage actor Sir Henry Irving . A watercolour caricature of Irving in his famous role as Dubosc in Charles Reade's play The Lyons Mail is estimated at £200-300.

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