The assorted children hung around Coronation Street in December 1961 at a time when Ivan and Linda Cheveski were emigrating to begin a new life in Canada with their baby son Paul.
One of the boys assisted the milkman and allowed another smaller boy, in turn, to be his assistant. Two of them later mangled Away in a Manger when they sang it to an amused Elsie Tanner in an attempt to earn Christmas money for caroling until chased away by Linda Cheveski who recognised one of them from collecting for bonfire night several weeks earlier. She relented and gave them a grudging sixpence upon condition that they thanked her.
On the day of the family's departure, four girls questioned Linda if she was the one going to Canada and she replied that their departure was that night. All the children then gathered with the neighbours that evening to wave them off as Len drove them away.
- In his 1981 autobiography "The Street Where I Live", H.V. Kershaw remembered that the production team employed children with speaking parts to circumvent the Equity actors' strike as they didn't need Equity cards to perform. He made specific reference to them playing milkmen and postmen, and in Episode 102 (4th December 1961) Peter Noone appears as a milkboy with one of his friends volunteering to help him (Noone would appear two episodes later as Stanley Fairclough and three years later he achieved international fame as the lead singer in the pop group Herman's Hermits). Equity complained forcibly about this tactic and, not wanting to make a bad situation even worse, Granada dropped the strategy. Of the children listed as guest cast in Episode 102, only one of the girls actually appears on screen, probably played by Myra Gage. All the children appear in Episode 103 (6th December 1961) and Jennifer Smet is the one who questions Linda about her imminent departure. Children did appear as extras throughout the remainder of the strike but were never given any lines.