"Smile at the camera!" says Mrs Carol Ferguson to Mesdames C. Holden, I. McAuley and I. Harris in the corner shop.

From a Family Circle article by Ann Stevenson, pictures by Mark Lewis:
Meeting many of their Coronation Street Idols made Thursday night, 10th December 1970, one to remember for the 20 lucky winners of the Family Circle silhouette competition, who went to Granada TV studios in Manchester. Granada is the largest provincial TV centre in Europe, and the Family Circle party had hardly arrived when they saw Len Fairclough (Peter Adamson) and Billy Walker (Ken Farrington) who said that with his turned up nose he must have been one of the most obvious silhouettes to identify. The party watched Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich pop group pile into a taxi in front of the centre, and saw Dr Michael Winstanly leaving after his live show, "This is Your Right." There were also brief appearances by Lucille Hewitt (Jennifer Moss), and children's TV personalities Muriel Young and Wally Wayton. In the Granada canteen the party had coffee with Len and Billy, and to everyone's delight, were joined by Ray Langton (Neville Buswell).

The party was taken round the studios in two groups by TV engineers, Albert Evans and Keith Twort, who explained the working of various departments in relation to "Coronation Street" and other popular shows. Most visitors were amazed at the minute size of the sets, compared with what appears on TV, and they all took the opportunity of propping up the bar in the Rovers and sitting in the Barlow's living room. The visit had been planned to last one and a half hours but was so absorbing that it lasted nearly three.