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Liverpool Echo
|October 13, 2025
MARION McMULLEN looks at the finale of Open All Hours 40 years ago
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COMEDY classic Open All Hours ended with Ronnie Barker as shopkeeper Albert Arkwright coming up with a plan to get the love of his life rushing into his arms.
He reckoned if his nephew and shop errand boy Granville put ona stocking mask and pretended to be a burglar then his fiancée Nurse Gladys Emmanuel would flee to him for help and he could be her hero.
This story is from the October 13, 2025 edition of Liverpool Echo.
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