A play, perhaps, or a comedy show, or a current affairs programme, brought to your screen ‘from the North’, by Granada.

How does it get there? How is it produced? Where does it come from?

This booklet tells you about Granada’s TV Centre: how it works; how Granada programmes are devised, produced, and transmitted; how they are developed from an idea to become the picture on your screen.

In 1955 Granada bought a derelict five acre site in the heart of Manchester. The bulldozers moved in, the builders followed, then came the electronic engineers. Between them they created what is today one of the most up-to-the-minute television centres in the world — the Granada TV Centre, Manchester.

It was designed by Ralph Tubbs, the architect who designed the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain in 1951.