Open All Hours

[Mark_Wilson]

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I read somewhere that the Scarth Avenue area, where the outside-of-shop scenes were filmed, was going to be redeveloped, which would make the area unrecognisable from how we saw it in the series, which would be a shame.


My favourite line:

I wanted to buy the new album by Engelber-ber-ber-bert Humper-per-per-per-der-der-der-dinck, and by the time I'd managed to say it, they'd sold out!

[Sly]

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"Lets get married before we both have a moustache".

[Richard1978]

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The shop was a salon on Lister Avenue in Balby. I did hear of plans to redevelop the area at one time.

[stuckinthe80's]

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The salon is still there I think. They've not redeveloped the area yet. Its very strange driving round there. There is a real sense of nostalgia.

[PxlBld]

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I keep meaning to visit it, but I prefer the fantasy that the corner shop is still there. I think it would burst my nostalgia bubble if I see the shop now.

[Richard1978]

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I did find a picture of the salon online, taken just a few years ago.

[PxlBld]

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I saw it on google street view a few months back. It was nice to see it, but I wish I hadnt looked.

[darren]

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I keep meaning to visit it, but I prefer the fantasy that the corner shop is still there. I think it would burst my nostalgia bubble if I see the shop now.

sometimes the fantasy is better.
hard to believe its just the same as it was back then as stuckinthe80's says.
you must live close to it stuckinthe80's

[stuckinthe80's]

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I lived near Doncaster for a while and went round to have a look. The area was pretty much the same. The woman who owns the salon that was used as the shop put it to auction to sell it a few years ago but it didn't sell. Not been round that area in a few years so it may well have changed now.

[spuggybridge]

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If it's were I think it is in Donny, it is now a corner shop called open all hours, passed it about 3 months ago.

[stuckinthe80's]

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If it's were I think it is in Donny, it is now a corner shop called open all hours, passed it about 3 months ago.

No mate thats not it. Its hidden away in an area that you wouldn't drive past unless you were going to that specific street. I know the shop you are talking about called 'open all hours'. Its near there but thats not it.

[Austin Maxi]

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It was one of the best days of the year for me when I visited the area in 2002. I must have used almost a whole roll of film in the half-an-hour or so I spent in Lister Avenue. The shop was called 'Beautique' - I don't know if it still is, and the windows and doors around and above the shop were still painted in the familiar maroon as seen in 'Open All Hours'. The room beyond the shop windows is probably no more than half the depth of the studio set used for the shop interior, and - being a hairdresser's - had mirrors all along the back wall. I also took a few photos of the houses opposite, two of which played Nurse Gladys's (the first was used in series 1, and then they moved her house to the one next door for the rest. I've read that it was because the owner of the original house made changes to it after the first series was filmed). There were one or two other streets in the Balby area I recognised from some of the filming of various outdoor scenes in some of the episodes.

[Richard1978]

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One or two episodes used locations further into Doncaster, once when Granville was clothes shopping.

I did wonder why Nurse Gladys's house was moved, though it's hard to tell without compairing different episodes.

[Sly]

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Here's the shop as it is now. You might have to spin the camera round to get it to view.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=list...125.88,,0,14.2

[80sChav]

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what can i say about this show.
well it starred 2 of the very best comedians ronnie barker and david jason

its a show i remember so well when growing up.
sadly comedies of today are no mach this one and others of its time.

it was a show i never missed and i was so sad when it finished.
here is a clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoP8hc8lZ5s

I like Open All Hours more I think Darren. I have always liked it but not 100% all the time if that makes any sense. Yeah you are correct it gave us 2 of the very best comedians in Ronnie Barker and david Jason and I rate them both very highly, even David Jason in his serious roles in Frost etc, but somehow I never liked Ronnie Barker and David Jason together in this one but give me Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett in "The 2 Ronnie's" and they are both completley hilarious together and bounce off each other amazingly!

People (and rightly so) though can say Morecambe & Wise, Ken Dodd (horrid guy who I can not not abide watching) etc are the best comedians but the 2 Ronnie's are simply amzing I think and no comedian/s will ever get close for many many years (if ever to them) I think.