Open all Hours

[Garmard]

I was watching the Roy Clarke comedy "Open all Hours" at the weekend and wondered whether the shop they used for outside shots is still there? Bearing in mind Open all Hours" ended nearly 30 years ago?

[Mr Veritas]

Having looked at it on Google street map,it is now the "Beautique" unisex hair stylists.
If you know to access/operate Google street map,just enter 32 lister avenue balby.This is in Doncaster,and you will see the shop as it is now!
In case you can't,here is a picture of the shop in 2007:~
http://www.openallhou...-listeravenueshop.jpg

[Garmard]

Thanks Mr Veritas, it hasn't changed at all has it?

[Mr Veritas]

No,maybe Nurse Gladys is doing hairdressing now,and as Arkwright is dead (given R Barkers death) has married Granville!?LOL

[Garmard]

It would be good to bring it back for a one off....a kind of trip down memory lane for Granville scenario.

[Mr Veritas]

You could be right.
Of course Linda Baron is stil quite good looking,but it would make Granville (given that David Jason HAS aged) look older than Nurse Gladys,but I have seen worse ideas actually get shown! LOL

[Garmard]

Yeah, they were going to bring back "Keeping Up Appearances" back in 2001 but Hyacinth wasn't available as she was preparing her candlelight supper.

[Androcles]

In my youth, (very young youth!) I remember a butcher's shop in Rusholme in Manchester run by a lady butcher who had a son Charley, who was an errand boy delivering meat orders. She was just like Arkwright in attitude and treated Charley just the same as Granville! I have never been able to watch "Open all hours" without being reminded of them. Plus my grandmother, with whom I lived, looking in their window and snorting "Best rump steak at 7/6d a pound - robbery!" just like Mrs Featherstone who used to terrorise Granville...

[Garmard]

Roy Clarke used to work in a shop in his youth and took ideas from his own experiences Androcles, all those old English shops had their eccentric attitudes did they not?...lol.

[Sandy-Wroe]

Open all hours and Sorry go together in my view. They're not really comedies, more tragedies of thwarted lives.

[Garmard]

But played out with comedic overtones in a way that only Roy Clarke could envisage sandy-Wroe.

[Androcles]

True, Garmard. In fact my first pair of football boots were fitted in the shop by the proprietor, who was none other than Nobby Clarke, the Manchester City winger at the time Couldn't see any of today's players being that involved in the community or even needing another job to make a living!. My grandfather used to drink down the pub with Bobby Johnstone, another Man City player and Scottish international....

[Garmard]

Those were the days Androcles.

[carlton23]

We ought to have a Topic section on AB called `Do You Remember When? for all us old`ns. I bet there`d be a few tears in our eyes thinking back, eh?

[deggers316]

the shop is still there at the top of my street its still a hairdresser as it was when it was used for the series